It could be the least surprising movie news in years, but a sequel to Frozen is “in the works,” says Idina Menzel, the voice of Elsa in the Oscar-winning and highest-grossing animated film of all time and singer of the film’s insanely popular theme song, Let It Go. Before the news of a Frozen sequel gets you all…

Each week, Deadline's Hot Reads presents what Hollywood's power players are reading now and what they think is special about each book. If your record-breaking blockbuster show is based on a comic-book series like AMC's The Walking Dead, which has its fall finale tonight, is, it makes sense that books are both a…

With The Imitation Game debuting in spectacular fashion this weekend, other new specialty films were left picking through Thanksgiving leftovers, though Oscar-contending holdovers Birdman and The Theory Of Everything were in the overall box office Top 10, and Foxcatcher held solid as it added locations. The Imitat…

The Weinstein Company’s The Imitation Game proved it’s the real thing, winning the specialty box office this weekend with a spectacular opening. Taking the same Thanksgiving weekend slot as previous TWC Oscar winners The King’s Speech and The Artist, the title bowed with the year’s second-best per-theater…

Sony’s hacking woes continue: Over the holiday weekend a number of the studio’s watermarked awards DVD screeners leaked online, including WWII actioner Fury and the upcoming Annie, Still Alice, and Mr. Turner. The leaks come just days after an online attack crippled the company’s computers. A fifth film, the…

“This Jesus cult grows stronger by the hour with the sole aim of challenging us all,” exclaims one of the Roman dignitaries in the first trailer for NBC’s 12-episode series A.D.,  premiering April 5, Easter Sunday next year. Executive produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, A.D. is the follow-up to their…

Contrary to how some pundits have framed it, Michael Keaton never left show business. His 1980s hits, such as Mr. Mom and Beetlejuice, were a boom at the boxoffice, whereas the actor's dramas, which included My Life and Desperate Measures in the '90s, arguably were busts. Keaton couches his trajectory, which…

Darren Wilson, the 28-year old Ferguson, MO police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year old Michael Brown, has resigned five days after a grand jury opted not to indict Wilson. The decision set off protests and demonstrations around the globe. Even after a quiet Thanksgiving, protesters returned Friday…

It's hard to believe, but Jake Gyllenhaal has been working in front of the cameras for nearly a quarter century—since debuting as Billy Crystal's son in 1991's City Slickers. In the ensuing time, he has had an increasingly remarkable filmography, including such edgy and groundbreaking films as Brokeback Mountain…

On a relatively quite post-Thanksgiving Friday there were some mixed holiday messages on primetime. On NBC, 10 PM's Constantine (0.9/3) aired the Halloween themed episode that was supposed to be its second show after its October 24 debut. The result was certainly not a treat for the uncertain show. Compared to…

Amid criticism that Fox’s new Moses sword and sandal epic Exodus: Gods and Kings is too white, 21st Century Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to put cynics in their place. The film, directed by Ridley Scott, stars British actor Christian Bale as Moses, Australian thesp Joel Edgerton as Rhamses, Emmy winner…

Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network has opted not to move forward with a second season of its original action drama series Matador. Launched in July, following the World Cup, Matador starred Gabriel Luna as a DEA agent recruited by the CIA to go undercover as a professional soccer player. The series, whose…