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Stephen Karam's 2016 Tony-winning play The Humans has been hailed by critics for holding a great mirror to New York City’s hard-scrabble inhabitants in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. However, the A24 film version, Karam’s feature directorial debut, arrives in theaters and on Showtime at an intriguing time…

The heroine of Zola – the unique, Twitter-chain inspired film about a hastily arranged raunchy road trip – was drawn in part from The Wizard of Oz, director Janicza Bravo said during a panel at Deadline's Contenders Film: New York event Saturday. The pic is about a girl who craves adventure, leaves a boring pale life…

The Coen brothers' longtime composer Carter Burwell said Saturday that scoring Joel Coen's Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth was much different from their other movies. Usually the siblings' scripts have room for music. "They write the script with space left for me to work with — Shakespeare didn't do…

Oscar winner Joel Coen’s latest film The Tragedy of Macbeth will screen at Imax theaters worldwide on December 5 as part of a special one-day event, ahead of its release in select theaters on December 25, and its global debut on Apple TV+ on January 14, Apple announced today. Screenings at select theaters in North…

The Icelandic mountains loom, the mists swirl between the peaks to where horses suddenly skitter in the snow. The only sound is stertorous breathing as the camera, clearly asserting something's point of view, approaches the herd. Away they run. Then a barn emerges from the white fog. The sheep within become restless…

Simon Rex arrived at the Cannes film festival this year as an outsider: it's pretty unlikely that any other actors in this year's heavyweight competition line-up could boast a recurring role in the Scary Movie franchise, a hip-hop career as Dirt Nasty, and a successful transition from adult film. But after the…

Every actor knows where they were when the pandemic hit in 2020. Some were lucky enough to finish up before the hammer came down, some were in the middle of production, but it's unlikely that many, like Richard Jenkins, were about to shoot their last scene. Jenkins was in Toronto at the time, preparing to wrap his…

The Gotham Awards named Netflix’s The Lost Daughter its Best Feature during a Monday night ceremony in lower Manhattan honoring the best independent films of 2021 with a vaccinated, Covid-tested, in-person fest at its longtime Cipriani Wall Street home. The drama written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal swept to a…

Making films based on single-set stage plays has always posed the dilemma of whether to remain faithful to the text at the risk of visual tedium or "open it up" but perhaps lose intensity and focus in the process. Florian Zeller recently conquered the problem, and then some, with his bold visual approach to the film…

It took eight years and a very enticing look book before Lamb co-writer and director Valdimar Jóhannsson got Iceland’s current Oscar entry off the ground. The A24 theatrical release follows a childless couple, Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who are desolate sheep farmers in the cold…

A24 announced today that it has acquired North American rights to Marcell the Shell with Shoes On, a stop-motion feature from Dean Fleischer Camp, which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. Deadline hears that the company nabbed rights in a competitive situation involving at least three…

As air travel continues to rebound from the depths of Covid, a longtime corner of show business — in-flight entertainment — is also being reimagined for the streaming era. Approaches vary widely. All carriers strike deals for licensed content but many, including major carriers like American and Southwest, have shifted…