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Paul Mescal freely admits that Stanley Kowalski is a wife beater and a rapist. The star of indie favorite Aftersun says he has “a lot of sympathy for him because that's my job” — Mescal is playing the brutal antagonist in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at London's Almeida…

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning actor Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Manville have joined the ensemble cast of Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, starring Marisa Abela as the Grammy-winning singer who died in 2011 at 27. Sam Taylor-Johnson is on board to direct…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal’s coveted Amy Winehouse package Back to Black looks to have found a home as sources tell Deadline that Focus Features and Monumental Pictures are partnering with Studiocanal on the new biopic about the Grammy-winning singer who tragically passed away in 2011. Industry breakout…

Studiocanal is zeroing on the actress who will play Amy Winehouse in its upcoming biopic Back In Black as sources tell Deadline Marisa Abela is the top choice to play the Grammy-winning singer who passed away in 2011. Insiders say Abela was in the front-runner seat for some time after auditioning for…

EXCLUSIVE: Following years of Hollywood working on getting a biopic of Amy Winehouse off the ground, Sources tell Deadline Studiocanal is gearing up to make Back to Black, a new film about the life of the Grammy wining singer who tragically passed in 2011 with Fifty Shades of Director Sam Taylor-Johnson directing. The…

Lotus Entertainment has come aboard to finance, executive produce and handle international sales on Kirsten Sheridan's Amy Winehouse biopic that has Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) in talks to star as the tragic singer. Sheridan, daughter of Jim and an Academy Award nominee for In America, has penned…

The Amy Winehouse story Amy has become the second-highest-grossing documentary of all time in the UK. Released by Altitude Film Distribution, it recently was crowned the top-grossing British documentary ever. The UK box office is now £3.44M ($5.39M). Asif Kapadia's look at the late Grammy winner previously had the…

Asif Kapadia’s ecstatically-reviewed Amy, a powerful tribute to tragic singer Amy Winehouse, has scored the largest ever opening for a British docu at the UK box office with $808,000, making it the second biggest opening weekend ever for a docu in the country after Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.  Kapadia’s film…

Late multi-Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse gets the spotlight in a new film by BAFTA-winner Asif Kapadia, simply titled Amy, which A24 will open in New York followed by a national rollout beginning Friday. The title uses never-before-seen footage of the artist and features previously unheard tracks. The doc…

Without question one of the best movies I saw at May’s Cannes Film Festival was one I resisted at first. I really wasn’t all that interested in seeing Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary on the life of singer Amy Winehouse. Her unnecessary death at age 27 after a life played out in front of the prying cameras of the…

Asif Kapadia’s Amy had an Out of Competition Midnight Screening here in Cannes last week and is easily one of the films receiving the most praise across the Official Selection. The documentary about Amy Winehouse stunned in its premiere and is gearing up for a July 3 release in both the U.S. and the UK, via A24 and…

The first Saturday of Cannes, usually the busiest day in terms of just about everything, belonged to Gus, Carol and Amy. First up, Gus Van Sant and total revenge against booing critics’ negative reaction Friday night to the press screening of his moving new film Sea Of Trees, which they just didn’t seem to get…