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Alex Wolff (The Line, Hereditary, A Quiet Place: Day One) has been cast as legendary singer Leonard Cohen in So Long, Marianne, the NRK drama series we first revealed last year. Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom, Delete Me, A Storm For Christmas) will play Canadian musician Cohen’s muse Marianne…

Alex Wolff (Hereditary) will reteam with Pig filmmaker Michael Sarnoski on Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place: Day One, Deadline can confirm. He’s set to star alongside Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and Stranger Things breakout Joseph Quinn. Day One is the third film in the blockbuster franchise…

Sophie Kargman’s goal for Susie Searches was to explore societies obsession with “insta-celebrity” through a wry satire on the subject. “On the surface, Susie is a darkly comedic mystery, but its really a cautionary tale about how our sort of need for insta-fame can lead people with positive intentions astray,” she…

EXCLUSIVE: Next Productions, a subsidiary of sales agency The Exchange, has boarded production, financing and sales of concentration camp survival and escape drama Untold, with Oscar-winning director Aaron Schneider attached to direct. Untold is based on the autobiography I Escaped From Auschwitz by Holocaust survivor…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Wolff (Pig, Hereditary) has signed on to star opposite the previously announced Kiersey Clemons in Sophie Kargman’s thriller, Susie Searches. Kargman’s feature directorial debut is based on her 2020 short of the same name, in which she starred alongside Delon de Metz, Sam Lerner, Gabriel Notarangelo…

Don’t get me wrong, I admire M. Night Shyamalan for the guiding spirit of his filmography. It doesn’t rely on sequels, focuses on stories with no IP, and generally follows the Hitchcock model of everyday humans caught up in challenging situations. He burst onto the scene with his Oscar-nominated The Sixth Sense…

In show business, some child actors don’t make the jump, with the industry stalling their careers by adulthood. But not Alex Wolff. Having enjoyed early success by the time he was 10 with his brother Nat on the 2007-09 Nickelodeon mockumentary series The Naked Brothers Band, which revolved around them and their band…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage and Hereditary‘s Alex Wolff have boarded Michael Sarnoski’s Pig. The feature project, which began production today, follows a truffle hunter, played by Cage, who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness. When his beloved foraging pig is kidnapped, he must journey into Portland – and…

“I got to work with the Wolverine,” Ray Romano told Deadline at TIFF of his latest film Bad Education. “It was fun. He tap-dances, by the way. He was in the trailer next to me, and I would hear.” Romano is, of course, talking about Hugh Jackman. Based on true events, Bad Education follows the story of Long Island…

When director Marc Meyers set out to make Human Capital—which follows the story of two families interlinked by an ill-fated business deal and a tragic car accident—he wanted to explore themes of “American class, and the struggles that each of these characters went through on a personal basis” he said at Deadline’s…

Deadline wrapped its panel series Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with Human Capital, the Marc Meyers-directed drama written by Oren Moverman and starring Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke and Alex Wolff. The film is having its world…

In Castle in the Ground, Joey Klein’s examination of the opoid crisis, Alex Wolff is Henry, a troubled young man facing addiction in the wake of his mother (Neve Campbell)’s death. He becomes entangled with Ana (Imogen Poots), who is battling her own opioid dependency. For Klein, this topic felt incredibly timely…