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In the wake of Regina King’s feature directorial debut “One Night in Miami” making this year’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere list, Amazon Studios has scooped up the movie’s global rights for a release later this year in time for awards season. The “If Beale Street Could Talk” Oscar-winning actress’ movie based on Olivier-nominated Kemp …

GLAAD released its 2020 Studio Responsibility Index (SRI) which examines and reports the quantity, quality, and diversity of LGBTQ characters in the highest theatrical grossing films released in 2019. This year’s report has some highs to celebrate as well as some lows that studios should address. The study took a look at eight studios and …

Character actor Peggy Pope, who played the alcoholic office secretary in the hit comedy movie “9 to 5,” died on May 27 in Fort Collins, Colo. She was 91. Pope’s family announced her passing and plans for a June 27 celebration of life. Pope was born as Florence Margaret Pope in Montclair, N.J., and graduated …

Months after Universal successfully relaunched its monster universe with Elisabeth Moss’s “The Invisible Man,” the studio is pushing ahead for “Wolfman” — which is being developed as a starring vehicle for Ryan Gosling — to be the next movie based on its catalog of iconic creatures. Sources tell Variety that executives at Universal have been …

Anthony James, an actor best known for his work in the Oscar-winning films “In The Heat of the Night” and “Unforgiven,” died on May 26 of cancer in Massachusetts. He was 77. Born Jimmy Anthony, he discovered there was already an actor with that name and created his stage persona of Anthony James, according to …

Pixar Animation Studios’ short animated film “Out” — which features the first gay lead character for the company — is melting hearts on the Disney+ channel. The 9-minute mini movie mixes fantasy, drama and comedy to tell the story of Greg, who is moving in with his boyfriend, Manuel. But there’s a catch: Greg isn’t …

A new outfit has real power. Clothes can rejuvenate our spirit, change our walk into a strut or send us, sobbing, to Peloton.com, in hopes they might one day fit. Rarely, however, does something from the closet turn us into a full-blown serial killer. But that’s what a jacket manages to do, bitingly, in the …

Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. For a third year in a row, we decided to look at the ones that amounted to a big swing and a miss. Here are the movies our experts said posted the worst losses of 2019. X-Men: Dark Phoenix 20th …

Fraser Heston can’t even remember his first — and only — acting role, but that’s because he was only 3 months old at the time. Fraser, now 65, portrayed the baby Moses — who, in the Bible, escapes death when he is set afloat down the Nile River in a basket — in the 1956 …

The “Cats” derrières could still be there. A rumored “butthole cut” of the 2019 flop movie musical may actually exist, according to a visual effects worker who confirmed that kitty butts were first discovered about halfway through production while watching video playbacks. “We went to call our supervisor, and we’re like, ‘There’s a f - - king a - - hole …