Deadline’s marquee Contenders Film event has wrapped the first of two days that by the end will showcase 49 films from 16 studios and distributors. Click above for complete coverage of Day 1, and we’ll keep your seat warm for Sunday’s Day 2, which begins at 8 a.m. PT. In the meantime, keep up on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram via @Deadline and #DeadlineContenders.
This week, a very old recording industry tradition took center stage. We’re talking, of course, about the answer song.
Answer records are songs that “answer” a previous recording by a different artist, sometimes directly addressing a specific incident, other times playing off its themes. The novelty has been around…
Another week during the coronavirus pandemic, another grim milestone for Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles has exceeded 15,000 total coronavirus-related deaths, Public Health officials announced on Saturday. The county has counted a total of 15,162 deaths and 1,064,887 confirmed Covid-19 cases. Saturday’s stats show 269…
After setting the original Wonder Woman during the sober period of World War I, Patty Jenkins made a left turn for the sequel,Wonder Woman 1984, putting the action in the gaudy, greed-is-good era of the 1980s.
Speaking during Warner Bros’ panel for the film during Deadline's Contenders Film awards-season event, the…
During Deadline’s Contenders Film panel for Warner Bros’ The Way Back, Ben Affleck addressed just how close to his own life the role of alcoholic basketball coach Jack Cunningham actually comes.
"I knew as a recovering alcoholic myself that people would make a conclusion about similarities to my life and the movie, so…
For Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event Netflix brought Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee and the cast that joined him in Vietnam and Thailand.
The group had lost none of the rapport that distinguishes Da 5 Boods, about a group of vets returning for the first time since the Vietnam War. They are there…
The Netflix drama Malcolm & Marie, from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, was one of the first — if not the first — movie that was shot during the coronavirus pandemic. The idea for the movie surfaced after Euphoria shut down production, and Levinson had a conversation with his Emmy-winning star Zendaya about the…
With Mank, director David Fincher realized a long-held dream to shoot a screenplay by his father Jack Fincher, who died in 2003. It’s story set in the Hollywood's Golden Age and against the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, a movie many consider still the greatest ever made. But as members of the…
Oscar-winning director Pete Docter shared that the idea behind Soul, his latest Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar animated film, came from his own self-reflection.
“I was at a point in my life where I started to question, OK I’ve always been taught — everybody I think has — to follow your passion, do what you love and…
True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and…
"From my point of view, the design was a great technical challenge, because a lot of what is there is based on history, [and you] really have to kind of work within that world," Greyhound production designer David Crank says about finding the perfect balance in the Tom Hanks starrer from Apple TV+. "We certainly took…
Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s but returned to writing on many films, including the Oscar-nominated script for The Front, has died at 101.
Bernstein died Friday night, according to WGA West president and Howard Rodman, who reported it on Twitter.
Bernstein’s credits included the films F…
