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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds) has signed on to star alongside Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope in the upcoming Warhol-Basquiat film The Collaboration, based on the acclaimed play by four-time Oscar nominee Anthony McCarten, which heads into production in Boston in September. The Collaboration revolves…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody scribe Anthony McCarten has scripted his stage play The Collaboration into a feature that will mark the film directorial debut of Kwame Kwei-Armah, with Paul Bettany playing the artist Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope playing Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film will go into production later this…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten has filed a breach of contract suit against Graham King and his GK Films for money owed on the 2018 Best Picture-nominated film about Queen and its iconic singer Freddie Mercury. The lawsuit hit today and shows a fascinating peek behind the curtain into what…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Anthony McCarten and his Muse Of Fire Productions has teamed with Scooter Braun's SB Projects and producer/financier Compelling Pictures’ Denis O’Sullivan & Jeff Kalligheri for Phantom. That is the working title of a music-filled big scale contemporary psychological thriller film loosely…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody and The Theory Of Everything scribe Anthony McCarten has made a deal for his Muse of Fire Productions banner to reteam with financier/producer Compelling Pictures for a feature adaptation of McCarten's upcoming play The Collaboration. McCarten has already begun writing the script for a…

More than two and a half years after Gary Oldman took home the Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the Joe Wright-directed and Anthony McCarten-penned Darkest Hour, a History Channel writer is suing the actor, NBCUniversal and others connect to the movie for allegedly ripping off parts of his script. “[Ben…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s TriStar Pictures has won a hot and heavy auction for I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the feature film on the life and music of iconic songstress Whitney Houston. The studio has already staked out a Thanksgiving 2022 release date for the film. Deadline revealed the project’s formation back in April, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony McCarten and his Muse of Fire Productions struck a deal with newly formed producer/financier Compelling Pictures, to produce the big screen adaptation of his forthcoming non-fiction book Wednesday at Warren's, Friday at Bill's. The book is both a rigorous examination of the 30-year friendship…

EXCLUSIVE: A feature film on the life of iconic songstress Whitney Houston is fast forming. The Whitney Houston Estate, Primary Wave and Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis have teamed up for I Wanna Dance With Somebody. They are negotiating with The Photograph helmer Stella Meghie to direct. Scripting and…

As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike. Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red…

Jonathan Pryce had a leg up playing the leader of the world's Catholics in the Netflix film The Two Popes. Everyone tells him he and Pope Francis look identical. "The day he was created Pope, yeah, the Internet was full of images of the two of us together, Pope Francis and me…Even one of my sons called me and, just to…

Screenwriter Anthony McCarten has become a bit of a Best Picture creator of late. Three of his previous films — The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour and Bohemian Rhapsody — not only all won multiple Oscars, they were all nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. It seems hardly an awards season goes by without a…