The Netflix drama 22 July chronicles the 2011 Norway massacre hat left 77 dead when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a teen leadership camp on the nearby island of Utoya. During Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles recently, editor William Goldenberg discussed…
Director Paul Greengrass started his career over 30 years ago working on cutting-edge documentaries, so it should probably come as no surprise that when he moved over to making narrative features the real world would definitely merge with his reel world. Films like Bloody Sunday, Captain Phillips, Green Zone, and Unite…
It’s a grim sign of the times that dramas about contemporary acts of terrorism have become a specialized sub-genre of cinema. The list of films includes 15:17 to Paris, Patriots Day, World Trade Center and Flight 93 — and, now, 22 July, which chronicles the events on the date in 2011 when a right-wing extremist…
In tackling the real-life horror of a 2011 terrorist mass-shooting in Norway, Paul Greengrass' Netflix film 22 Julybravely approaches a topic most would be afraid to handle, considering 77 teenagers were murdered that day.
Speaking at Deadline's The Contenders LA, 22 July's editor William Goldenberg (Argo, The Imitati…
Showcasing just three movies, today's Netflix panel was a fascinating insight into the wide-ranging tastes of a company fast changing the landscape of the film industry.
First up was the Coen brothers' portmanteau western, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, which was represented by an all-actor line-up comprising Zoe…
I was chatting with industry colleagues at an event this week when it struck me that virtually everyone around me was either working on a Netflix project or had a consulting link of some kind. It was an instant reminder of the formidable ubiquity of this secretive young company — one that seems to be undergoing…
Willem Dafoe, who just won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for playing Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, and 22 July writer-director Paul Greengrass will be feted at the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards next month in New York.
Dafoe will will receive the Actor Tribute and Greengrass the…
Paul Greengrass first came to prominence as a director with 2002's Bloody Sunday, a forensically factual account of the shooting of unarmed Irish citizens by British soldiers in 1972. Since then, the pursuit of truth and reality has become Greengrass's calling card, even in his fiction films, and his latest, the Netfli…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass is known for his urgent cinematic style — from the Jason Bourne movies to the real-life issues he has tackled in films like United 93 that mix his documentary roots with topics that represent world-altering events. His latest film, 22 July, which screens in…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix giving their awards season features a qualifying theatrical release isn’t new; the streaming service has practiced this annually going back to 2015’s Beasts of No Nation.
This year the streaming service will be giving awards qualifying runs to the following titles, and Deadline has learned…
When Cannes refused to show Netflix movies in Competition earlier this year many rolled their eyes. 'Only in France', they said. Not so fast, it turns out.
While Venice's line-up has got most of us salivating, the festival's warm embrace of Netflix – the streaming giant has a record six movies on the Lido, including…
