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EXCLUSIVE: Kaya Scodelario (The Gentlemen) and Billie Lourd (Booksmart) have signed on to star alongside Josh Gad, Anthony Carrigan and Alex Winter in Winter’s darkly comic modern noir Adulthood. Details as to their roles are under wraps. Related Stories …

As the Hollywood strikes stretched to Week 23, optimism is high that a deal between signatories and SAG-AFTRA is close and the town can go back to work. That enthusiasm could be felt with all the deal stories that Deadline broke this week, a clear signal of hope. Not so fast, says Deadline Strike…

EXCLUSIVE: Moviegoers who catch Alex Winter's new documentary The YouTube Effect can expect a cinematic bonus: We can reveal the film is preceded by a short documentary for the National Courtwatch Network narrated by Fiona Apple, with original music by the singer-songwriter. The four-and-a-half…

Actor-turned-filmmaker Alex Winter (Showbiz Kids) has set the murder mystery The Adults, starring Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld), Josh Gad (Avenue 5) and Anthony Carrigan (Barry), as his next project behind the camera, with plans to also act in the pic. The film penned by novelist Michael M.B. Galvin…

Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Alok Vaid-Menon (Random Acts of Flyness), Andy Allo (Chicago Fire), Désiré Mia, Jennifer Jajeh (Transparent), Juliana Joel (American Gigolo), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul), June Carryl (Y: The Last Man), Junes Zahdi (Counterpart), Laith Ashley (Pose), Mario D’Leon (Power)…

Here’s a first teaser trailer for The YouTube Effect, the documentary by Alex Winter will premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 11 in the Spotlight Documentary section. The film, an acquisition title with CAA Media Finance handling sales, takes viewers on a timely and gripping journey inside the cloistered world of…

Refresh for updates… After the death of Olympia Dukakis was announced on Saturday, social media reactions from former collaborators and Hollywood admirers began pouring in. “So, so sad to hear of #OlympiaDukakis's passing,” tweeted actor Paul Reiser, who had “the great joy of playing her son” in two films, Paul…

Valhalla Entertainment, Trouper Productions and Zipper Bros. Films have kicked off production on upcoming documentary Mass Effect: The Story of YouTube, Deadline hears. Directed and produced by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted Face The Music, Showbiz Kids), with Gale Anne Hurd and Glen Zipper also on board as producers, Mass Ef…

To go all retro on you and quote the little girl in Poltergeist: “They’re baaaaaack.” But have no fear. In this case it is only Bill and Ted via Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, back on the big (and small) screen three decades after their last outing and now older and wiser. NOT. Older yes. Wiser? Uh, that would be a…

EXCLUSIVE: It won’t be absolutely free, but a new Frank Zappa movie is coming to North America. Magnolia Pictures has acquired rights to Zappa, a documentary directed by Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter that will hit theaters and VOD on Thanksgiving weekend. Billed as an intimate and expansive look into the innovative life of…

During a Comic-Con@Home virtual panel Saturday, Bill & Ted franchise star Alex Winter spoke on the 10-year journey of putting together the sequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music, which, at one point, wasn’t in the plans. Winter, reprising his role as Bill in the forthcoming sequel, divulged that the conversations to bring…

Dude, it’s been totally forever since we saw Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter time-traveling together. Like, three decades or something. Whoa, that’s almost 30 years! Your wait is almost over. Here is the new trailer for Bill & Ted Face the Music, in which our heroes hit the screen for their first adventure since Bill & Te…