Joe oversees Deadline’s print magazine for the Oscar and Emmy seasons, as well as its special “Disruptors” edition for the Cannes Film Festival. He has been with Deadline since 2012 and serves as emcee for Deadline’s The Contenders events. Prior to joining, his work regularly appeared in his native UK, for outlets including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He has also worked extensively in film and television, producing EPK and production notes and serving as a unit publicist. He is a member of BAFTA and has sat on multiple juries for the BAFTA Film Awards.
After writing the book of his life story, Born To Run, and producing his own theatre show, Springsteen on Broadway, it seemed that rock'n'roll legend Bruce Springsteen might have been ready to slip out of the media limelight for a little while. Not so: Springsteen came to TIFF this year with a brand new concert film…
Jason Lei Howden's Guns Akimbo drags the gladiator fight into the modern world, with an anonymous hacker group abducting civilians and forcing them to fight to the death in a live-streamed action game. The film is, "about a normal guy that gets thrust into this world of social media, televised violence," says…
When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…
Since its debut in Cannes, where it claimed a prize in Un Certain Regard, The Climb has been on an unexpected and steady ascent. Making its way to Telluride before landing at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sony Pictures Classics pic has generated a raft of reviews so good, it's like they'd been written…
Writer Anthony McCarten became so fascinated by the idea of two popes living simultaneously that he devoted himself to the research to realize a movie that would imagine a conversation between both men before the first, Pope Benedict, resigned his post. With Pope Francis now the Bishop of Rome, we are living through…
A veritable army of cast joined writer/director Rian Johnson in Deadline's TIFF studio this week in support of the uproarious Knives Out, which got its world premiere at the festival. A modern twist on the classic whodunit, the film stars Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Christopher Plummer, Jamie…
The Panama Papers, and what they revealed about complex financial systems designed to protect the uber-rich, organized crime and the fiscally immoral, are the subject of Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, written by Scott Z Burns. Burns was joined in Deadline's TIFF studio by Jake Bernstein, who wrote the book, Secre…
One of the first images to appear for Daniel Radcliffe's TIFF pic Guns Akimbofeatured the actor in a bathrobe, with giant, furry monster slippers on his feet, being held at gunpoint by police on the sidewalk of some major urban area. In his hands, two guns appeared to have been strapped in place, and the look on his…
When Robert Eggers and his cast and crew decamped to Nova Scotia to shoot his black-and-white 1.19:1 aspect ratio The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, they might nearly have contributed a permanent marker for the landscape of Yarmouth County. That's according to Pattinson, who says the locals…
As this year's TIFF continues to spotlight stories of individuals taking on systemic injustice, Scott Z. Burns' The Report, which first premiered at Sundance, celebrates the indefatigability of Senate Select Committee investigator Daniel J. Jones as he struggled to pull together a 7,000-page report on the use of…
Kristen Stewart counted her blessings yesterday in Deadline's TIFF studio, as she reflected on the rougher road traveled by Jean Seberg, who raised her voice to fight for racial equality and endured years of surveillance by the U.S. government as a result. "I've been lucky because I've never functioned in a way that…
Justin Kurzel had set the indie film world alight with his debut feature Snowtown, and its follow-up, Macbeth, seemed to confirm the arrival of a director whose vision was unique and stunning. That director returns to his brand of cinema this year with True History of the Kelly Gang, which adapts Peter Carey's novel…
