There have been many film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, but writer-director Greta Gerwig's new version makes one crucial change: a nonlinear timeline. She told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York why it was important to focus the film on Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Amy…
Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name tells the true story of the efforts in the 1970s by Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) to make a movie based on his stage persona Dolemite. Murphy's co-stars and collaborators told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York how they filled in Moore's crazy ensemble.
Wesley Snipes…
Ford v Ferrari tells the true story of how Ford built a race car that defeated Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans. The film's cinematographer, Phedon Papamichael, during 20th Century Fox’s panel for the film at Deadline’s The Contenders New York, discussed some of the real race venues they used in the movie, and how speed…
When director Olivia Wilde found out that Delta Airlines had removed the LGBTQ elements from her movie Booksmart in October, she demanded they be reinstated. By November, Delta committed to showing both Booksmart and Rocketman with LGBTQ scenes intact. Wilde told the crowd recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New…
As Netflix viewers discover Marriage Story, one of the standout scenes is Laura Dern's monologue. She plays Scarlett Johansson's cutthroat divorce lawyer in the Noah Baumbach film, which recently received the most nominations at the Golden Globes.
Near the end of the divorce, Dern's character unleashes her true…
DreamWorks Animation’s films have taken families to the fairy tale worlds of Shrek and the fantasy worlds of How to Train Your Dragon. Abominable takes its young heroes on an adventure through real landmarks of China, with a lovable yeti named Everest in tow.
Abominable director Jill Culton told the crowd recently at…
Writer-director Rian Johnson took inspiration from his favorite Agatha Christie mysteries for Knives Out, which has has been holding its own with adult audiences at the fall box office. But he told the crowd at Deadline’s recent The Contenders New York that he also wanted to write a modern-day original.
In the…
After Idina Menzel’s Elsa "Let It Go," Frozen 2 took her "Into the Unknown," the signature song in Disney’s animated sequel.
In Frozen 2, which has grossed $1.038 billion worldwide since its release less than a month ago, Elsa has been hearing voices calling her back to the Enchanted Forest. When the voices become too…
Bombshell tells the story of the sexual harassment claims Fox News anchors Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and other newsroom reporters filed against Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). Screenwriter Charles Randolph and producer Margaret Riley spoke about the film recently with Deadline's Mike…
The Paley Center for Media awarded Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett and Norman Lear at The Paley Honors: A Special Tribute to Television's Comedy Legends on Thursday Night in Beverly Hills.
In the sixth annual Paley Honors for achievements in television, Conan O'Brien introduced Newhart, who shared…
Neon brought the films Parasite and Clemency to The Contenders Los Angeles on Saturday. Parasite is a Korean con artist film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. Clemency is an American drama about a death row warden that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. The connection is that both filmmakers…
Paramount presented the Elton John biopic Rocketman at The Contenders Los Angeles today. Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton were there to speak about representing the singer's life as a musical set to his catalog. Sir Elton was involved in developing the film and throughout the making of it. Egerton felt…
