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Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studios' respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that brink, the studios have…

Welcome to another episode of the Scene 2 Scene podcast! It’s Valerie Complex with an exciting new episode where I chat with Devotion director JD Dillard. Dillard has established himself as a director and writer to watch, with authentic yet innovative storytelling. On November 23, Sony Pictures…

The Woman King headlined the African American Film Critics Association's annual list of the top 10 films of the year. The film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, boasts an ensemble cast led by Viola Davis which includes Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, and Thuso Mbedu as the Agojie, an all-female army of…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Today's subject is JD Dillard. It…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 41st episode of its video series Take Two, in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films just opening in theaters every weekend. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past an…

There can be no question that the shining moment for Jonathan Majors has come. He is everywhere, most notably in Sony’s Devotion, opening today, where he plays Jesse Brown, the first Black Navy fighter pilot, who became a hero during the Korean War. Then get…

Call it a holiday tradition as common as sweet potatoes on the Thanksgiving table, but Disney is going to rule the five-day holiday stretch again after wins in 2016 (Moana), 2017 (Coco), 2018 (Ralph Breaks the Internet), 2019 (Frozen 2) and last year (Encanto), as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s third…

Marcus, the fourth largest U.S. movie chain, said a trickle of films for the three months ended in September impacted earnings but were offset by the recovered Marcus Hotel & Resorts, which surpassed pre-pandemic revenues. Both businesses were up from last year but theaters saw a slowdown from Q2 to Q3…

As soon as executive producer and star Glen Powell finished reading Devotion by Adam Makos, he immediately knew he needed to turn it into a film. “This is why you move to Hollywood,” says Powell, “to tell stories that really impact the world and stories that people need to hear.” Devotion tells the story or two US…

Director JD Dillard says he grew up hearing all about his own father’s experiences as the second African American Blue Angels pilot, so naturally when Adam Makos’ book Devotion came out he was instantly intrigued about adapting it to the screen. The book tells the story of the friendship and, yes, devotion (where the…

Sony has decided to push Devotion to Wednesday, Nov. 23, as a wide release. The Culver City studio previously planned an October rollout that included going limited on Oct. 14, an Oct. 21 expansion and wide break on Oct. 28. On its new date, Devotion joins Disney’s animated Strange World, Universal/Amblin’s Steven…

EXCLUSIVE: Serinda Swan is set to play a young Elizabeth Taylor in Black Label Media’s war movie Devotion, which also stars Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell and Christina Jackson. Joe Jonas and Thomas Sadoski were also recently set to join the cast. Sleight director J.D. Dillard will direct. The aerial epic will chart the…