A ship-to-shore invasion with fleets of Roman battleships fighting with trebuchets and thousands of archers. A naval duel to the death inside a flooded, shark-infested coliseum. A fight against a rampaging rhino, and hand-to-hand combat with a pissed-off hairless, snarling, possibly rabid baboon. Nobody…

Twenty-four years after Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator reinvented the swords and sandals genre, its sequel, Gladiator II, is finally entering the arena. Paramount began overseas rollout Wednesday on the continuation of Ridley Scott's Roman Empire action saga. Through Friday, 63 international box…

EXCLUSIVE: Every interview Ridley Scott has done with Deadline has turned into a master class on his cinematic exercises in world creation, ranging from Alien, to Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Blackhawk Down, Napoleon, Prometheus, The Martian and Gladiator to name just a few. He’s back 25 years after Glad…

Sir Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature film (1977’s The Duellists) until he was 40 years old. The director, turning 87 at the end of this month, has not wasted any time making up for that late start with a remarkable array of landmark films including Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma and Louise, The Mart…

EXCLUSIVE: The highly-anticipated Gladiator sequel continues to add to its already impressive cast as sources tell Deadline Connie Nielsen has closed her deal to return, while Joseph Quinn is in negotiations to play Emperor Caracalla in the untitled pic for Paramount. They join Paul Mescal, who will star…

Ava DuVernay’s feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents has just added Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Connie Nielsen to the movie, which is shooting in Georgia. The group joins King Rich…

EXCLUSIVE: Wonder Woman franchise actress Connie Nielsen is joining Role Play opposite Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo and Bill Nighy. The details of Nielsen’s role in the pic from Studiocanal, Picture Company and Amazon Prime Video are under wraps. The Thomas Vincent-directed pic revolves around a married couple (Cuoco…

The 72nd Berlin Film Festival begins in physical form today with M. Night Shyamalan leading the main competition jury. Also notable among panelists is Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi whose Drive My Car this week became the first Japanese movie ever nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Hamaguchi was actually…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to A Week in Paradise, a Caribbean-set romantic comedy starring Malin Akerman (The Final Girls), Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman), Philip Winchester (Flyboys) and Jack Donnelly (Atlantis), with plans for a day-and-date release early next year. The film directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Malin Åkerman (Watchmen), Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman), Philip Winchester (Strike Back) and Jack Donnelly (Atlantis) have been cast in romantic comedy feature film A Week in Paradise that will start shooting this week on Caribbean island Nevis. The film is the first film to start production under the…

OK, following in the footsteps of Clint, Bronson, Sly, Arnie, Bruce, The Rock and who knows who else comes the movies’ latest kickass action superstar. And it is — wait for it — Bob Odenkirk? Don’t be fooled by the initial concept or the title of the Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad actor’s first starring macho…

EXCLUSIVE: While he has been eyeing other projects that include a coming of age Merlin movie at Disney, Ridley Scott has begun forward progress on a sequel to Gladiator, the 2000 film which garnered 11 Oscar nominations and five wins including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. While Crowe’s Maximus…