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A federal judge has ruled that Syria is responsible for the 2012 death of A Private War subject Marie Colvin and ordered Bashar al-Assad’s regime to pay more than $300 million in a civil judgment today. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed a $302 million judgment…

If there's a takeaway from this awards season, it's that true stories are back with a vengeance. For proof, look no further than Rosamund Pike as war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush in Vice, Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley in Green Book, Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee…

With A Private War, Oscar-nominated documentarian Matthew Heineman took on the story of real-life war correspondent Marie Colvin for his narrative feature debut. Onstage at Deadline's first The Contenders New York, Heineman discussed how, with Rosamund Pike giving what he calls an “unbelievable” performance as Colvin…

During a recent conversation promoting his awards season contender, A Private War, Jamie Dornan talked about the importance of being timely, especially with this pertinent story (the first narrative film from documentarian Matthew Heineman) of journalists on the front lines of reporting and photographing major…

Director Matthew Heineman said his film A Private War pays tribute to journalists and journalism — both of which are under assault. The film chronicles the life of Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike), an American-born expat working in London as a war correspondent for The Sunday Times, who covered some of the deadliest…

Rosamund Pike knew when she met Matthew Heineman that the director-producer of A Private War would not create “the sort of adrenaline junkie version” of war correspondent Marie Colvin. Pike stars in the film as famous war correspondent Colvin, who was killed while covering the siege of Homs in Syria while working for T…

Growing up with a journalist for a mother and making his name as an Oscar-nominated documentarian — behind the likes of Cartel Land and City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman makes his narrative feature debut with Aviron Pictures' A Private War. As an artist with a journalist's eye for meaningful, real-world stories and a…

Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK and Irish distribution rights to A Private War, the Matthew Heineman film about American-born war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed on assignment in Syria while working for the Sunday Times. The film will be released in the territories in February 2019, which follows…

A Private War is shedding light on the truth of war reporting according to Jamie Dornan and Rosamund Pike. The film tells the story of war correspondent Marie Colvin, played by Pike, who was killed in 2012 after crossing the Syrian border into the city of Homs with photographer Paul Conroy, played by Dornan. Speaking…

November's first weekend is usually a crowded one at the Specialty box office, and this year is no different. Lucas Hedges stars with Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and director Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased from Focus Features. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman's A Private War from Aviron Pictures is the first narrative feature…

Although flawed and fraught with demons and PTSD of her own, Marie Colvin was unquestionably a fearless and great war correspondent whose story serves as an antidote to all those currently trying to denigrate journalists and their profession with cries of “fake news.” She consistently risked her life, and finally lost…

After premiering A Private War at the Toronto Film Festival, Aviron brought stars Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan together for a panel to discuss the legacy of famous war correspondent Marie Colvin (played by Pike in the film), who was killed in 2012 after illegally crossing the Syrian border into the city of Homs with…