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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor spoilers about “Weapons,” now playing in theaters. Director Zach Cregger‘s sophomore feature, “Weapons,” is a story about a small town overtaken by a malevolent force. One night, all of the kids from a specific classroom run away, and the townspeople become increasingly furious that the police have no leads. The narrative follows several locals — including …

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is back out looking for a director for Fast and Loose, after Michael Bay and Will Smith were unable to bridge creative differences and Bay shook loose of the film Wednesday. Fast and Loose will star Smith as a man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces together his past, he learns he’s been …

Warner Bros. Discovery’s earnings got a boost from its film studios after a handful of box-office hits during the second quarter. The period from April though June saw the releases of “A Minecraft Movie,” “Sinners,” “Final Destination: Bloodlines” and “F1,” which together generated $2 billion in the global box office to date, the company said Thursday. WBD reported total revenue …

Jane Pitt, a schoolteacher, philanthropist and the mother of film star Brad Pitt, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. The Pitt family shared her obituary with KY3, an NBC-affiliated station in Springfield, Mo., where Jane and her husband, Bill, raised their three children — Brad, Doug Pitt and Julie Neal. The cause of Pitt’s death was not revealed …

Eminem hits the big screen again this week — but not as the star, or the sole star, of the movie. Stans, directed by Steven Leckart (The Day Sports Stood Still, Challenger: The Final Flight) and produced by Eminem, his manager Paul Rosenberg, Antoine Fuqua and others, is a documentary about Marshall Mathers’ career and life but using his fans …

Being a kid is hard enough without adding the loss of a parent to your already overstretched emotional bandwidth. This is something writer-director Seth Worley knows well and explores in his wondrous family film “Sketch.”  When I wrote about the film after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, I praised it for being a “big, warm-hearted …

Kelley Mack, who recurred on The Walking Dead and had roles in several films, TV series and commercials, died August 2 of glioma in Cincinnati, her family said. She was 33. Mack played Addy in five Season 9 episodes of AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2018-19. In that season’s finale, she and 10 other characters are abducted by the Whisperers, …

An enduring image from the new movie “Weapons” comes early: The sight of elementary school students running out of their homes and onto the suburban grass, moving like flying birds with their arms out, to a song by George Harrison. Except this is happening at night — at 2:17 a.m., to be precise — and there’s no glee from the …

EXCLUSIVE: With the Skydance merger expected to close on Thursday, the exec shuffle continues at Paramount Studios as sources tell Deadline that Motion Picture Group Chief Mike Ireland is exiting the studio. Insiders say Ireland will stay on in a consulting role to help with the transition and is considering an offer for a producing deal with the studio. Related …

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Don Granger, Skydance President of Features and Skydance Sports, is making the jump to the new Paramount after the merger goes through August 7. The three-decade production veteran will lead film under Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, the new co-Chairs of Paramount Pictures. Granger has worked on Skydance co-productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Tom …