Deadline’s marquee Contenders Film event has resumed, continuing its showcase of 49 films from 16 studios and distributors that are in the hunt this kudos season, with today’s panel lineup including the likes of Sofia Coppola, Anthony Hopkins, Justin Timberlake, Sacha Baron Cohen and Kate Winslet to name just a few. Click above to access the livestream, and stay up on the day on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram via @Deadline and #DeadlineContenders.
After years of helping deliver some of the more legendary Disney animated characters like Aladdin and The Beast,Over the Moondirector Glen Keane knew early on he had found his next great animated character to help bring to life.
“Fei Fei was a character that immediately, I was drawn to,” Keane says during the Netflix…
When director Ryan Murphy saw the musical The Prom on Broadway a couple of years ago right after it opened, he quickly scooped up the rights, took it to Netflix where he has a deal, and got a film version in motion in record time with an all-star cast including Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Kerry Washington. It is…
One has been attacking movie screens since Franklin Roosevelt took office, and the other has terrorized Tokyo since before rock ‘n’ roll took hold. It seemed inevitable that one day they would meet in the ultimate clash of the titans, and now, ladies and gentlemen, we have the first trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong.…
“When I thought of Billie Holiday, I just thought of her as a jazz singer, maybe a troubled artist, you hear about drugs, a little bit of trouble with the law,” says Lee Daniels, director of the upcoming biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday. With all that Holiday accomplished during her storied career, rarely…
Irish outfit Cartoon Saloon has established itself as one of the world’s most consistently excellent animation studios, having received Oscar nominations across projects including Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner.
Their latest project Wolfwalkers, which sold in a glossy deal to Apple TV+, is a…
Following the tension heavy-2017 drama The Beguiled, writer-director Sofia Coppola said she was ready to shift the tone with her latest feature, Apple TV+’s On the Rocks. “I do find that after I’d done a film that I like to change,” says the Oscar-winning filmmaker, speaking about the choice to go with a “fun and…
If there is one thing that has continually distinguished Universal Pictures it is its monster legacy, a genre of films the studio has done since its beginnings with classics featuring Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and The Invisible Man. The latter is the latest to attempt a reboot as Universal continues efforts to…
EXCLUSIVE: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist.
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as…
Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal.
Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a beaten-down Confederate soldier who…
Land represents the directorial debut of actress Robin Wright and could be poised to shake up the awards scene. Ahead of world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in a week or so and coming out next month just time for Oscar consideration is this new film that pits one woman against the elements as she runs away…
It didn’t take long for history to repeat itself.
We’re not just talking about the second 2nd weekend No. 1 hold for a Liam Neeson Open Road release during the pandemic, specifically The Marksmanwhich earned $2.03M, -35% for a running total of $6.09M. But how the major studios ran for the hills again, just like they…
The second day of Deadline’s Contenders Film kicks off Sunday at 8 a.m. PT, returning after a big Day 1 on Saturday to complete a slate of 49 films from 16 studios and distributors, one that features a hugely impressive lineup of talent numbering 150 speakers over the course of the weekend for our annual awards-season…
