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Apple Original Films on Thursday morning unveiled the first trailer for The Instigators, a heist thriller marking the latest project to team Casey Affleck and Matt Damon, on the heels of Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer. Directed by Doug Liman (Road House), from a script by…

Doug Liman’s reboot of the 1980s cult title Road House has clocked 50 million-plus viewers on Prime Video over its first two weekends. Amazon reports that it’s a record — beating the eyeballs of any original movie they’ve ever produced for Prime Video. The Amazon MGM Studios feature, shot with Imax…

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman is moving into podcasts via his 30 Ninjas studio. The Swingers and Road House director's company has teamed up with podcast network Realm to launch thriller Chinook starring Sanaa Lathan, who played Kendall Roy's lawyer Lisa Arthur in Succession, and Kelly Marie Tran, who played…

EXCLUSIVE: After declaring in a Deadline guest column that he would boycott the SXSW Opening Night debut of Road House, director Doug Liman has changed his mind, and is in the Paramount Theatre right at this moment. I’m told that Liman won’t take the stage to introduce the movie, he’ll just be in the…

"I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice," Patrick Swayze's James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989. That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new…

The first trailer dropped Thursday for Road House, the reimagining of the ’80s Patrick Swayze tough-guy classic that sees Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role and Doug Liman directing. The reveal comes the day after Liman revealed on Deadline that he was boycotting the film’s world premiere at SXSW– it…

Editors note: From his breakout in Swingers to The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Edge of Tomorrow, American Made and his upcoming film with Tom Cruise they plan to shoot in outer space, Doug Liman’s films have a kinetic energy. That made the director perfect for Road House, an edgier version of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s highly-anticipated The Saint reimagining is gaining some serious momentum as sources tell Deadline Doug Liman is attached to direct. Regé-Jean Page will exec produce and star in the pic. Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce, with the late Robert Evans also credited…

Director Doug Liman says his self-funded Brett Kavanaugh documentary Justice, which premiered at Sundance Friday night, might be far from finished as new tips started pouring within a half hour of the highly-secretive project being announced on Thursday. “I thought the film was done… I thought I was…

EXCLUSIVE: After planning plenty of robberies in the Ocean’s Eleven movies, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are ready to plan another heist as two thieves in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Apple recently landed the coveted package, which has Doug Liman on board to direct. Damon and Ben…

Doug Liman, the Bourne franchise producer and director of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, among others, is in Ukraine to help document the war with Russia, he told GMA this morning. “I make movies about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances,” Liman told GMA‘s Michael Strahan, “and there’s 40 million stories like that…

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman has found his next TV project, and it's pretty timely. The Edge of Tomorrow director has signed on to helm a series adaptation of Bill Browder's book Red Notice, which explores the author's real-life fight against a corrupt Russian government under Vladimir Putin. Browder is an American hedge…