For Willem Dafoe, star of Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, performing is akin to painting. Studying the latter craft under the painter-director, for his portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, Dafoe recognized that each art form is "an accumulation of marks," coalescing over time to produce a remarkable effect. "They start…
On Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, cinematographer Benoît Delhomme came to a powerful realization, that will forever impact the way he approaches his craft: "Sometimes, something you don't control can be better." Accustomed to a certain way of working—to the notion that cinema is ruled by laws, which shouldn't…
EXCLUSIVE: The film At Eternity’s Gate isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor is it a forensic biographer of legendary artist Vincent van Gogh. Instead it’s a collection of scenes based on van Gogh's letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are just plain…
Universal is going limited with Peter Farrelly’s Green Book this weekend. The film, starring Oscar-nominee Viggo Mortensen and Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, is based on the true story of a racist bouncer hired by jazz pianist and composer Don Shirley to drive him through the South during the Jim Crow era. Julian…
The CBS Films presentation at Deadline’s The Contenders was the most intimate of the day — and perhaps the most enlightening. The allotted time for CBS was devoted to a single film, At Eternity’s Gate, and the list of panel guests limited to one name: Willem Dafoe, the three-time Academy Award nominee who looks to be…
EXCLUSIVE:Oscar Isaac, who most recently starred in and produced Chris Weitz’s MGM movie Operation Finale and is reprising the role of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode IX, has signed with WME for representation in all areas.
Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016 for HBO’s Show Me a Hero, has several film projects in…
Willem Dafoe, who just won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for playing Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, and 22 July writer-director Paul Greengrass will be feted at the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards next month in New York.
Dafoe will will receive the Actor Tribute and Greengrass the…
Fresh off of its premiere in Venice, the first trailer for Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe as the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh has been released.
With Schnabel’s distinct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly style, At Eternity’s Gate follows the life of van Gogh, but is not a traditional…
The New York Film Festival will close with the Julian Schnabel-directed At Eternity's Gate. The film will make its North American premiere on the fest’s closing night on Friday, October 12. CBS Films releases the picture in November.
A famous American painter himself, Schnabel tackles a subject right in his…
EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to At Eternity’s Gate, a drama about Vincent Van Gogh’s ambition to be accepted as a great painter, and his plunge into depression when he was rejected. Introduced for the Cannes Market by CAA Media Finance, the film is directed by The Diving Bell and The B…
Willem Dafoe is set to play Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's upcoming project At Eternity's Gate. Schnabel, who nabbed the Best Director prize in Cannes in 2007 for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, writes the script with Jean-Claude Carriere. Rocket Science is handling international sales and CAA is repping…
