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Daniela Melchior is set to join the ensemble of mystery thriller American Sweatshop, starring Lili Reinhart. Producers include Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Uta Briesewitz will direct. In a device driven world, American Sweatshop will take a look at the toll of social media through the eyes of…

The copyright battle over Road House and this year's remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor has turned into a full-on bare-knuckle legal brawl. If R. Lance Hill, who penned the original 1986 script under the moniker David Lee Henry, thought in his February filing that he was going to bop…

Amazon MGM Studios has closed a three-year first-look film deal with Jake Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories following the rousing success of his movie Road House on Prime Video, which was the most watched original movie for the studio ever with 50 million global viewers in the pic’s first two weeks. Under…

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…

UPDATE, 9:16PM: Several sources have informed Deadline tonight that it was actually Conor McGregor’s manager who became dehydrated and passed out in the Paramount Theatre after the SXSW premiere of Amazon MGM’s Road House. That explains why McGregor was so upset in the moment as we witnessed…

After the rolling laughs, hoots, hollers, whistling and clapping at tonight’s world premiere of Road House at SXSW on Friday, Amazon MGM Studios may want to think again before putting this Jake Gyllenhaal-Conor McGregor rock ’em sock ’em beefcakes pugilist movie on Prime Video. It doesn’t take an elbow to…

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…

Forget Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch and Ben Gazzara (for now), there are new bouncers, proprietors and such in Road House, and here's a look at the character posters for Doug Liman's reboot of the 1989 camp classic. Click through the gallery above. Amazon MGM Studios today revealed that Post Malone is in…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can tell you that the opening night movie for SXSW on March 8 is Doug Liman’s Amazon MGM feature, Road House. SXSW had no comment. So far the other big studio movie to play SXSW is Universal’s Ryan Gosling action title, The Fall Guy. Road House is an edgier reboot of the 1989…

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…