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"There's always a learning curve with any film," says The Survivor's Ben Foster of his process in the Barry Levinson-directed movie about the life and loves of Holocaust survivor and boxer Harry Haft. "My first step was working with the Shoah Foundation," Foster states of his exploration into the character and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has picked up Before, a limited series starring Billy Crystal, who also will serve as executive producer, Deadline has learned. I hear details on the project, including the size of the order, are being finalized. Written by Sarah Thorp (The Bounty Hunter) and to be directed by Barry Levinson, Befor…

Comedy is the subject today for this week’s edition of Deadline’s podcast, TV Talk. Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond take on the Emmy Awards race for Best Comedy Series, where Apple TV+’s juggernaut Ted Lasso is looking for a two-peat after taking the category…

For their HBO Max film The Survivor, which chronicles the real-life journey of Harry Haft, a concentration camp prisoner forced to box to survive his internment, both director Barry Levinson and star Ben Foster found compelling connections to the story through their own families, as well as disturbing parallels to…

HBO today unveiled a trailer for its Barry Levinson feature, The Survivor, starring Ben Foster, which is slated to premiere on the premium cabler on April 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—subsequently becoming available for streaming on HBO Max. Pic is based on Alan Haft’s book, H…

Oscar and Emmy winner Barry Levinson has been tapped to direct David E. Kelley’s The Missing, Peacock's eight-episode series based on Israeli crime writer Dror A. Mishani's international bestselling novel The Missing File. Levinson will direct multiple episodes, including the first, and executive produce the series…

HBO announced today that Academy Award winner Barry Levinson’s latest film, The Survivor, starring Ben Foster, will premiere on the premium cabler on April 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, in honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—subsequently becoming available for streaming on HBO Max. The HBO Original is based on Alan…

Following its world premiere at Toronto, HBO Films has taken exclusive North American rights to Barry Levinson’s The Survivor about Holocaust survivor and U.S. boxer Harry Haft. Ben Foster plays Haft in the movie, which marks a reteam with his Liberty Heights writer-director Levinson. Deal was 8-figures, making it the…

Harry Haft was a boxer, who rose to fight such legends as Rocky Marciano post World War II, here in the states. But outside of the ring, he lived with the torment of his life in a concentration camp, yearning and hoping to find the woman he once loved, who disappeared from him during wartime. Vicky Krieps of Paul…

The remarkable true story of Harry Haft is made even more pertinent by the simple fact that his story has not been the subject of a large-scale feature film — until now. It took a script from a young Australian, Justine Juel Gillmer (who also boxes), to generate interest for Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (Rainm…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage of Oscar winner Barry Levinson’s anticipated boxing drama The Survivor [previously known as Harry Haft], starring Ben Foster, Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky and Saro Emirze. Unspooling at the Toronto Film Festival, the…