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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale) has been set to play Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower in Working Title and Studiocanal’s upcoming D-Day movie Pressure. Fraser joins BAFTA winner Andrew Scott, who as we revealed Friday will star in the ticking-clock drama about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault and Brendan Fraser will star in Sacrifice, a film co-written and to be directed by Romain Gavras. Like his last film Athena that premiered last Venice and was released on Netflix, Sacrifice has a similar combustible and propulsive anarchy…

EXCLUSIVE:  BAFTA Award nominee Takehiro Hira (Shōgun, Gran Turismo) and Japanese Academy Award winner Akira Emoto have rounded out the cast of Searchlight’s Rental Family directed by Hikari (Beef) and starring The Whale Best Actor Oscar winner Brendan Fraser and Mari Yamamoto (Pachinko). Cameras are…

EXCLUSIVE: After taking his time in finding his next big role after winning this year’s Best Actor Oscar, Brendan Fraser looks to have zeroed in on that role as sources tell Deadline he is set to star in Searchlight’s Rental Family. Beef helmer Hikari will direct from a script she co-wrote with Stephen…

EXCLUSIVE: JoAnne Colonna has joined Linden Entertainment as a partner alongside founders Nicole King and Stacy O'Neil. She ends a 20-year run at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, where she was a manager and partner. Colonna will operate between Linden's LA and NY offices. "JoAnne is someone we have…

It's Day 12 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 85 of the WGA strike. With enough famous actors to populate an awards show all gathered on one stage, the labor union representing them in an "existential battle" against film and television studios held a star-studded strike rally in the middle of New…

The Tribeca Festival, which gets under way Wednesday in New York, has announced members of the jury who will decide winners in 15 award categories. The jury roster of several dozen includes Brendan Fraser, Stephanie Hsu, Zoey Deutch, Dianna Agron, Zazie Beetz, Kate Siegel, Mark Duplass, Stephen Kay…

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson shared video yesterday of his “full circle” moment backstage at the Oscars Sunday when he reunited with Brendan Fraser, his cast mate in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. Watch the video below. Though we can’t hear what the two old friends are saying – the music is too loud…

As far as this year’s Oscars goes, it was undoubtedly the year of the comeback. It was a huge comeback for Best Actor and Supporting Actor winners Brendan Fraser and former child actor Ke Huy Quan (who co-starred way back in in 1991’s Encino Man) who…

Brendan Fraser won at the Oscars on Sunday, where he took home the award for Best Actor for his role in The Whale. In the A24 film, Fraser makes a heart-wrenching turn as Charlie, a 600-pound English teacher who lives a secluded life in his humble apartment. Upon learning that his weight is causing major…

An emotional Brendan Fraser won his first Oscar for The Whale, thanking director Darren Aronofsky “for throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale.” Fighting back tears, Fraser credited the other actors in the category by saying “gentlemen, you laid your whale-size…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 52nd 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…