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EXCLUSIVE:  WME has inked Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary, whose short film Stutterer won the Oscar in 2016. The Irish writer, director and producer from Dublin most recently wrote and directed the Apple thriller Swan Song, based on his own original idea. Anonymous Content, Know Wonder, and Concordia produced the film…

Glimpse, an interactive animated film from Swan Song writer-director Benjamin Cleary and Michael O’Connor and featuring the voices of Taron Egerton and Lucy Boynton, and a VR project following Alex Honnold, the subject of the Oscar-winning climbing documentary Free Solo, have won the prizes of the Cannes XR program…

On Swan Song, production designer Annie Beauchamp was presented with the “terribly exciting” opportunity to shape a near future world, throwing herself into research on everything from quantum computing to Augmented Reality and self-driving cars. She at the same time recognized that the film’s science-fiction setting…

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. The sci-fi concept behind Apple Original Films’ Swan Song was both novel and fantastical: terminally ill Cameron Turner (Mahershala Ali) undergoes an experimental…

"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…

Benjamin Cleary said his upcoming film Swan Song originated from his experience of losing three friends and his own existential questions about grief. “When something like that happens, you see the grief emanate out and affect everyone else around you,” Cleary said Sunday during Deadline's Contenders Film: Los Angeles…

Death is the natural order of things, but what if you could prevent your families and friends from feeling sadness and grief due to your death. Would you take that opportunity? If you’ve ever lost someone, you may identify with the moral struggle at the heart of writer/director Benjamin Cleary’s Apple TV+ sci-fi drama…

EXCLUSIVE: The fall festivals are fleshing out the awards season picture, but Apple Studios wasn’t ready to unveil Swan Song. Deadline can reveal it has staked out December 17 as release date in limited theatrical and Apple TV+  for the futuristic drama that stars Mahershala Ali as husband and father who is presented…

AppleTV+ will be adding Swan Song to its original film slate. The pic, directed and written by Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary, is a genre-bending drama that is set in the near future, exploring how far someone will go, and how much they'll sacrifice, to make a happier life for the people they love. Two-time Oscar…