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Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation have dropped the first teaser trailer for Luck, which reps the first feature film from Skydance Animation. Luck is debuting on Apple TV+ globally Friday, August 5. It was one of two Skydance Animation pics, the other being Spellbound, that Apple picked up from their original…

Apple Original Films has landed an untitled feature film about the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. The film is currently in production in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver. The film, directed by Guggenheim, which will incorporate documentary, archival…

EXCLUSIVE: West Side Story star Rachel Zegler is set to provide the voice of Princess Ellian, the lead role in Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation’s new animated musical feature Spellbound. Ellian is the tenacious princess who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell…

Three-time Oscar winner CODA is returning to theaters this Friday for a limited run in over 600 locations. The film will be available with open captions to be accessible to the Deaf and hard of hearing. How The ‘CODA’ Family Delivered The Year’s Most Meaningful Best Picture Contender Apple Original Films made history…

After sweeping the awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, capped by a fest-record $25 million sale to Apple, CODA has proven to be the little engine that could. Financed independently after Lionsgate insisted on stars — writer-director Siân Heder and star Marlee Matlin dug in and refused to make the film unless…

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry follows the young singer-songwriter's rise from unknown to worldwide fame. But in a deleted scene from the R.J. Cutler film, Eilish rises to even greater heights – about five stories up inside Radio City Music Hall. The scene finds…

Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation's Luck will debut on AppleTV+ around the world on Friday, Aug. 5. Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Flula Borg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O'Donoghue, John Ratzenberger and Adelynn Spoon join the cast, starring alongside Jane Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg Luck centers around the story of…

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. After writer-director Siân Heder scored raves for her debut feature film Tallulah, she came to the attention of the producers who held rights to the acclaimed 2014…

The Oscar-contending documentary The Velvet Underground, about the influential 1960s avant-garde rock band fronted by Lou Reed, has been praised as a "superb testament to a lost world that helped make our own." Those words come from New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who listed The Velvet Underground as number…

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…

For her film CODA, filmmaker Siân Heder found that delving deep into the cultural differences between the deaf and hearing communities to be wildly informative in creating a fresh cinematic experience. "I was very excited kind of by the specificity and yet the universality of the story," Heder said during the Apple Ori…

"It started with Ben, with the script being so well written, the characters having the same essence but needing different things," said Swan Song star and producer Mahershala Ali said of playing two roles in the Apple Original Film. "It was always clear to me whose shoes I was in," he added about the characters of…