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Alma Har'el is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis' seminal science fiction novel Mockingbird, for Searchlight Pictures. Nightmare Alley producer J. Miles Dale and Iron Will producer Robert Schwartz are producing along with Har'el and her partner Christopher…

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the season finale of FXX's Dave. In the Season 2 finale of Dave, our titular character faces a make-or-break moment not only in his rapping career, but also in his relationship with one of his best friends. As the episode opens, Dave (Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky)…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a first-look television deal with award-winning director Alma Har'el (Honey Boy) and her newly formed production company, Zusa. Under the pact, Har'el will work with the studio to develop and create new television series to run exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The pact formalizes…

Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong'o are to star in a limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman's book Lady In The Lake for Apple TV+. The series will be directed by Honey Boy director Alma Har'el, who co-created and will co-write with Colony and The Man In The High Castle writer Dre Ryan. Lady In The Lake is produced…

EXCLUSIVE: The Time 100 Women of the Year initiative is getting a scripted anthology series treatment. Amazon Studios is developing Women Of the Year, a TV adaptation of the Time 100 Women of the Year project and special issue, conceived by filmmaker Alma Har'el, which launched for International Women’s Day 2020 to…

Amazon Prime Video and SXSW have set a 39-film launch on April 27-May 6 for Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection. That is the virtual version of the Austin-Texas festival that got canceled in the pandemic. As Deadline reported, filmmakers accepted to SXSW were given the option to have their…

When the Oscar nominations were unveiled on January 15, there was a glaring omission of female filmmakers in the category for best director and it still has been top of mind as the awards season has seen a severe drought when it comes to representation of women. In order to put more light on this issue “Give Her a Brea…

Alma Har'el used her DGA Awards win on Saturday night to draw attention to a rising issue among the female directing community. Accepting her award in the First-Time Feature category for her Amazon film Honey Boy, Har'el thanked director Jessica Dimmock for drawing attention to the plight of women directors, who, like…

With the Directors Guild prepping for Saturday’s DGA Awards, more than 50 female helmers and actors including Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Wilde, Reed Morano, Brie Larson, Jill Soloway, Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon have signed a letter calling for a change to guild rules so parents can take more time…

On Honey Boy, cinematographer Natasha Braier found herself seeking two quite difficult forms of balance. On a visual level, the film needed to be both naturalistic and highly cinematic. In practical terms, the DP needed to capture performance with the utmost intimacy, while giving her actors as much space and freedom…

On Honey Boy, director Alma Har'el waded through "a burning mist of pain" to hit upon the raw truth she says she values most. Coming to her via Shia LaBeouf—who began writing the script in court-ordered therapy—the film examines the turbulent coming of age of an actor estranged from his father. From the beginning…

EXCLUSIVE: The screenplay for Honey Boy wasn't originally written for a movie screen. When Shia LaBeouf was ordered by a judge to write about the childhood trauma that seeded a fiery transition to adulthood punctuated by angry outbursts, car crashes and curious creative choices that transformed him from golden boy to…