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So what does esteemed director Joe Wright have in common with Steven Spielberg? After a long career behind the camera they both finally made their first musical this year, Spielberg of course with his West Side Story remake, and Wright taking on a stage musical version of the evergreen story of Cyrano…

There can be no question that Aaron Sorkin is one the most prolific screenwriters out there, if not the most prolific. I would say he is right up there with the late great Paddy Chayefsky in terms of consistently turning out brilliant movies on the page, and that of course includes Sorkin’s Oscar-winning script for The…

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival gets underway later this week, but it will be hard to imagine any movie in the current lineup making quite the impact CODA did in 2021, when it landed an unprecedented and historic four major awards there to dominate the festival, and also made a huge sale to Apple for $25 million. Siân…

Even for Lin-Manuel Miranda, you have to admit he had a hell of a 2021 — moviewise at least. Part of all that has to do with timing, as the film adaptation of his Tony-winning musical In the Heights had been delayed a year to Covid delays in its release, but nevertheless it kicked off a remarkable year when it finally…

After first winning a prize in Cannes in July and then successfully hitting the fall festival circuit, Iranian-born director Asghar Farhadi’s latest critically acclaimed film A Hero opens today through Amazon in theaters before streaming starting January 21. The wait is well worth it for fans of the filmmaker, whose…

Ridley Scott just turned 84 years old on November 30 and he must be slowing down. He only had two, count ’em, two major, star-laden, big-scale movies he directed that were released this fall: House of Gucci and The Last Duel. Oh, and he has already prepped, storyboarded and cast his next massive epic about Napoleon…

Edgar Wright has carved out his own identifiable place in cinema as he is well known for smash cult hits like Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Baby Driver. All of these play with genre in some unexpected ways from zombies to horror to cop movies to aliens to crime, and all…

Maggie Gyllenhaal returns to our Deadline studios today for my video series, Behind The Lens to discuss her feature film writing and directing debut The Lost Daughter which has already won her awards from Venice where it had its World Premiere, the Gothams which it swept, the New York Film Critics Circle and many more…

With a filmography that includes Il Divo, Loro, This Must Be the Place, Youth and his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino has shot to the top of list of international superstar directors. Throw in television limited series like The Young Pope and The New Pope, plus a litany of shorts and documentaries…

Pablo Larraín joins me on the premiere of our new Oscar-season edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens as we explore and dissect the ever-growing fascinating film career of this Chilean-born international auteur. His latest movie, Spencer, has been drawing Oscar buzz ever since its debut earlier in the…

A total of 15 Emmy nominations including for Outstanding Comedy Series would be an impressive achievement for any first-season series, but in the case of HBO Max’s Hacks it is particularly noteworthy as the show didn’t even premiere until the end of the season and was still unveiling new episodes even after the Emmys…

Seven Emmy nominations in seven seasons as the father Andre “Dre” Johnson in ABC’s stalwart comedy series Black-ish and Anthony Anderson still doesn’t have an actual statuette on his mantelpiece. Anderson reminds me in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens that his mother Doris tried to steal…