EXCLUSIVE: One of the more highly sought open directing jobs may have just been filled. Sources tell Deadline that Leigh Whannell is in negotiations to direct The Green Hornet and Kato for Universal. Execs have been meeting with directors over the past couple of weeks, but insiders close to the meetings felt as soon…

Longtime Marvel Entertainment marketing and publicity executive Mike Pasciullo has died, according to a remembrance posted Wednesday on Marvel.com. Born in 1972, Pasciullo worked at Marvel for 25 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of Marvel Television & Entertainment, Marketing & Publicity. He was…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo is in talks to direct and rewrite Paramount Pictures' Harbinger, stepping in for Wes Ball. Ball was forced to step down to focus on the next Planet of the Apes pic, on which he is deep in pre-production. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing Harbinger for Original Film. Dan Mintz is…

“As we're nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film. “I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is going. But we'll be a little more direct about that…

Even though it isn’t on the Warner Bros release calendar until June 23, 2023, The Flash is becoming Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s first movie crisis, because of the escalating coverage of incidents of volatile and odd behavior involving the film’s star, Ezra Miller. Zaslav has made clear his desire to grow…

Venom franchise star Tom Hardy took to Instagram on Thursday and shared the cover page of what appears to be a script for Venom 3. While the image does not reveal the sequel’s name, where the title should be is a black box containing a crude illustration of the Symbiote with a long, red tongue sticking out of its…

Legendary Eisner Award-winning comic book artist Tim Sale, who influenced generations of creatives in that medium as well as many in film and television, died Thursday according to his official Twitter account. He was 66. The post on Sale’s account — which has changed its name to “Remembering Tim Sale” — indicated he…

Don’t expect director Taika Waititi’s planned Star Wars film to be about Chewbacca’s grandmother. The director warned as much in a recent interview with Total Film saying, “Look, I think for the Star Wars universe to expand, it has to expand. I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe making a film where…

Frequent visitors to Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure are by now accustomed to Peter Parker's helpful but otherwise buggy Spider-Bots going haywire during the Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure attraction. But this afternoon, an unplanned malfunction just outside that attraction added a taste of Westwor…

"If you enjoyed Season 1, Season 2 takes it to a whole other level," Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Christina Chong said of the trajectory of the Paramount+ series. “I mean, we're getting scripts in and completely in awe of everything Henry and Akiva have created," the actor who portrays USS Enterprise security…

The cascade of legal troubles continued today for 29-year-old Flash star Ezra Miller as parents of an 18-year-old named Tokata Iron Eyes filed paperwork asking a judge to issue an order of protection against the actor on behalf of their child. “Ezra uses violence, intimidation, threat of violence, fear, paranoia…

Similar to how Black Panther made the Marvel Cinematic Universe more inclusive, Ms. Marvel is another breakthrough for the superhero brand in regards to representation and depiction on screen, specifically those of the Muslim faith. You can listen to our great conversation with series head writer and executive…