Justin joined Deadline in July 2020 and covers all aspects of the film industry. Before Deadline, he had been with Variety since early 2008, starting as an intern before being upped to editorial assistant in 2009, and joining the film team in 2010. Before Variety, Kroll worked as a freelancer for Reuters in Los Angeles. He’s a graduate of Michigan State University.
Universal Pictures’ upcoming Miami Vice movie officially has its Tubbs and Crockett as well a title, as Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler are set to star in Miami Vice ’85 with Joseph Kosinski directing. The film will be shot for Imax and is set to bow on August 6, 2027.
The film explores the…
EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK looks to have emerged victorious among more than a dozen suitors to option rights to Nick Brucker’s upcoming novel White Smoke, with plans to adapt it into a TV series. A24 will produce alongside Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and his SunnyMarch production company. Cumberbatch…
EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones are on board to star in the Teton Ridge pic Outside Man from Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland. Helgeland will write and direct the film. Jillian Share and Jen Gorton will produce via their Teton Ridge Entertainment banner with Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz producing…
A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment will release a feature adaptation of the hit video game Elden Ring on March 3, 2028. Alex Garland is writing and directing with Kit Connor and Ben Whishaw starring. The film will be shot in Imax and is currently in production.
Connor and Whishaw new castmembers…
EXCLUSIVE: After playing Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Charles Dance has found a new family patriarch to portray, as sources tell Deadline that the Game of Thrones actor is in talks to join DC Studios’ The Batman Part II. If a deal closes, he would join Robert Pattinson, who is set to reprise…
First We Feast has set the premiere of its latest original series, Slice Joint, hosted by Speedy Morman, debuting Monday, April 20 at 2 p.m. ET. The series has Morman interview celebrity guests while sharing conversation and a good slice. Over the course of the interview, Speedy and his guest will…
A sequel to the 2022 Paramount Pictures tentpole Top Gun: Maverick officially is in development. The studio confirmed during its CinemaCon presentation Thursday in Las Vegas that a script is being written. Tom Cruise is expected to reprise his role of Pete Mitchell, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer is…
EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Gallner and Raul Castillo are set to join Alexandra Daddario in the horror thriller Inground. Filming is underway in Atlanta.
Aaron Katz is directing from a screenplay by Dan Dworkin. Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss and Sam Roston will produce for Scott Free Productions. Nathan…
Paramount on Thursday released the official trailer for Street Fighter, the Kitao Sakurai-directed adaptation of the classic Capcom video game.
The studio and producer Legendary rolled out the ambitious-looking footage ahead of its presentation at CinemaCon, where it will show off the pic to…
Searchlight Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Matt Black and Ryan Polly's feature debut Monitor, the horror film that made its world premiere in the Mignighter section at SXSW. The film, one of the festival's buzziest, stars Brittany O’Grady, Viveik Karla, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Gunner Willis…
EXCLUSIVE: Albrecht Schuch, Douglas Hodge, Gwilym Lee and Vinette Robinson have joined the cast of TriStar Pictures' The Nightingale, starring Dakota and Elle Fanning, marking the first time the sisters star in a film together. The film, based on Kristin Hannah’s bestselling novel, also stars Mark…
Theaters have quite the slate of films arriving in 2026, with stars like Anne Hathaway appearing in at least five films and Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in three together. Jeremy Allen White, meanwhile, will appear in two of the most anticipated movies of the year.
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