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EXCLUSIVE:  Deadline has learned that Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale actress Ann Dowd has joined the Amy Rice-directed political thriller The Independent, which Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures have also acquired North American rights on.

Ryan Seacrest is adjusting to a new habit after suffering a health scare during the finale in 2020. In a new interview with , the Live With Kelly and Ryan host shared that the doctor ordered him to “do less" after the televised incident.

Matthew McConaughey’s determined koala character “Buster Moon” is ready to show the world all he’s got in the animated film Sing 2. The adorable sequel to Sing starring the voices of McConaughey, Bono, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Tori Kelly, Halsey and more hits theaters on December 22 and it will have you laughing and singing along the entire time.

EXCLUSIVE: The horror thriller Your Lucky Day, from writer and director Daniel Brown, has cast Angus Cloud (Euphoria), Jessica Garza (The Purge, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels), Elliot Knight (Color Out of Space), and Jason O’Mara (The Man in the High Castle) in leading roles.

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MasterChef reboot – nobody knows where he came from or why they chose him for that, because he often treats gourmet food as if it’s someone he’s shouting at through a car window – and now he’s sort of a national treasure, I guess. He lost a significant amount of weight and now he poses topless a lot on Instagram.

Oppenheimer.The pair will appear in the film opposite Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in the film.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGreg Tate, an American music and culture writer and musician, has died, a rep for Tate’s publisher Duke University Press confirmed to Variety. He was 64; a cause of death was not provided.While his writing touched on many aspects of  African-American culture, he is probably best known as a vital early hip-hop writer, particularly in his many years at the Village Voice.

Stillwater director/co-writer Tom McCarthy and Matt Damon joined Deadline’s Contenders New York event today to discuss the film and what they were looking for in the Bill Baker character.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA new documentary is in the works exploring the mysterious founder of Bitcoin and the larger state of cryptocurrency.Director Matthew Miele (“Always at The Carlyle,” “Quixotic Endeavors”) will helm the project, titled “Finding Satoshi.” The film will investigate the origins of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, whose identity and invention remains secret.Tucker Tooley, the veteran filmmaker behind movies like “The United States vs.

splats) that harken back to the CBS version. But that’s OK in the context of a reunion movie.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentHot off the heels of a major victory for pop star Britney Spears, Hollywood litigator Mathew Rosengart is stepping into yet another guardianship case for a high-profile individual: iconic artist Peter Max, whose family is fighting to get him out of the court-ordered arrangement.Max, the German American artist known for his use of bright colors, psychedelic style and pop art that often includes American symbolism, is under a guardianship that his family

Tiger King star Jeff Johnson has died after tragically committing suicide.