As a best-selling author, a leading advocate in the transgender community, a much honored person not only in the LGBTQ world but also for people of color and now as a trailblazer in movies and television, Janet Mock is making history. As writer, producer and director on the FX series Pose, she became the first trans…
Leslie Iwerks has Disney in her DNA, so it should not be a surprise that the documentarian and Disney+ would find themselves joined at the hip for the remarkable six-hour, six-part docuseries The Imagineering Story, which chronicles the building and history of Disneyland and all that has come since in the world of…
Mark Bomback is a screenwriter who has been one of the go-to people in town, with credit or without, on some of the best-known franchises in recent years. His work includes scripts for both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War of the Planet of the Apes, as well as uncredited work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Li…
Launching our new Emmy-season edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens is Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson, who joins me direct from Ireland on the occasion of the debut of his new Hulu series Normal People. The intimate 12-episode drama is a deep dive into the relationship between two young people…
Jay Roach may have started out as a feature film director with a series of wildly successful comedies — including both the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises — but in recent years his focus has been bringing to the screen hotly political and socially relevant topics including his latest film Bombshell…
Normally Olivia Wilde would more likely be a part of my other Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side, but when she recently visited our studios it was instead to tape today’s edition of Behind The Lens. That’s right. Wilde is the latest actor to move to the other side of the camera in directing her first major…
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…
Noah Baumbach has made a number of films inspired by his own life, or others’ lives he has known. But don’t necessarily categorize his movies as strictly autobiographical, as I learned when we sat down in our Deadline studios for this week’s edition of my video series Behind the Lens.
Baumbach’s latest, Marriage Story…
Although she was one of many deserving women NOT nominated for the suddenly controversial all-male lineup of Best Director Golden Globe contenders Monday, Lulu Wang is continuing to ride a wave of praise from critics groups and other awards entities for her much acclaimed hit indie film The Farewell, which DID win her…
Marielle Heller, an actor-turned-director, has been behind the camera so far on only three films: Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) and now this year’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. In each case there has been awards recognition, critical acclaim and Rotten Tomatoes scores all in…
Last week director Todd Phillips saw his DC comic book villain origin movie, Joker surpass the $1 billion mark at the box office and become the highest grossing ‘R’ rated movie of all time , among other records. And after an earlier Venice Golden Lion win , it has now also won the prestigious Camerimage Golden Frog…
It has been 20 years since Edward Norton last directed a movie, and that was the comedy Keeping The Faith. It has also been 20 years since Norton discovered Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn and has had it in his head ever since, with the idea that someday it would make a great film.
That day is here now…
