EXCLUSIVE: The director isn’t giving anything away about his next film “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton and shoots in March. But he has plenty to say about not being done with Mad Max, how there is value in blockbuster franchises (“I watch all of them”), and his ongoing search for depth in storytelling.
Once again, the fans at CCXP proved that they are the world’s most passionate fans as they erupted with off-the-charts applause when Free Guydirector Shawn Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds and Joe Keery took the stage to talk about the 20th Century Fox action-comedy about bank teller who realizes he is a background…
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o was just named Best Actress of the year by New York Film Critics Circle for her performance in Jordan Peele’s Us. But despite her much-acclaimed performance as matriarch Adelaide Wilson and her tethered counterpart Red, as well as the film’s overall commercial and critical success…
Two high-profile entries vying for Best International Feature Oscar nods were the jewels of Neon's slate covered at The Contenders NY event at the DGA Theater in New York City.
Alejandro Landes' war dramaMonos, Colombia's official entry for the 92nd Oscars, looks at a group of teenage terrorists (known as the Monos)…
Refresh for latest…: The European Film Academy is handing out its top European Film Awards tonight in Berlin. Nominations for the final 32nd EFAs are tied in the main categories by three films with four mentions each: Roman Polanski's An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar's Pain And Glory and Marco Bellocchio's The Tra…
UPDATE: This just in: “Peloton Girl” has been identifed as Monica Ruiz, and has issued a statement on her hostage situation through her agency, LA Talent:
"I was happy to accept a job opportunity earlier this year from Peloton and the team was lovely to work with. Although I'm an actress, I am not quite comfortable…
Pacific Gas & Electric will settle lawsuits brought by California families affected by wildfires with a settlement estimated at more than $13 billion.
The settlement covers families affected by wildfires and other blazes started by the company's power lines in 2017 and 2018, the company said.
PG&Eannounced the settl…
The determined struggles of true-life heroes, whose tales look to resonate loudly this awards season, were at the heart of Focus Features' Contenders NY presentation Saturday at the DGA Theater in New York City.
For Harrietwriter/director Kasi Lemmons (who helmed both Eve's Bayou and Talk To Me) the task was to offer…
Partisan politics was put aside this morning, at least for the moment, as the nation paused to remember the events of Dec. 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
President Donald Trump posted one retweet from the official White House Twitter account this morning, then went silent. He did issue a statement through…
Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the…
When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day.Â
The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its…
After London in October and Los Angeles in November, New York City is now ready for Deadline’s The Contenders. The all-day event is now underway at the DGA Theater in Manhattan, and like its London and L.A. counterparts features an impressive slate, with 27 films from 13 participating studios in the thick of…
2nd writethru Saturday AMfollowing Friday midday post: The doldrums of December are here and as remains standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil. That movie is very close…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
