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What is so refreshing about the new film Blackbird and sets it apart from other movies about euthanasia is that the debate about the morality of that act is already over before the first frame of the film. In other words, it has already been decided, and agreed to, by all the family members who now are gathering for a…

Screen Media has acquired all North American rights and select foreign territories to Roger Michell’s Blackbird ensemble movie which made its world premiere at TIFF last year. A September release is planned. The pic, which Screen Media picked up from Millennium Media, stars Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia…

“What would you do if you knew that at a certain point, you'd become so dependent, and would have to watch this incredible deterioration?” In discussing playing Lily, a terminally ill woman with ALS in Roger Michell’s Blackbird, Susan Sarandon pondered her mortality at Deadline’s TIFF studio. Sarandon was joined in…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has pacted with Russian businessman Andrey Georgiev on its upcoming slate of films as an investor and executive producer, including The Outpost, a film about American military valor based on CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper’s best-selling book about one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has joined Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska in the Roger Michell-directed English-language remake (formally titled Blackbird) to the 2014 Danish film, Silent Heart, directed by Bille August. Sarandon will take over for Diane Keaton, who was previously attached to the project…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s…

UPDATE  8:45: Adds more comment regarding Broadway book writers. EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: It’s starting to feel like the only people who really get what a…

Patrons are finding the new Sara Bareilles musical Waitress tasty enough to recommend, and Broadway’s cloudy dramas saw some welcome sunshine during Week 49 of the 2015-2016 season. Both trends reinforce the one unchanging truth of the business, which is that enthusiastic word of mouth trumps your social media, your…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: My box office report this week turned a spotlight on the bleak outlook for the serious plays on Broadway this season even when a…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: I’ve been having the most exhilarating play-going experiences lately, most recently the opening night of Eclipsed, an astounding new…

Broadway loves a fine romance and nowhere are the sparks showering down more heat and crackle than the ones being thrown off by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in Blackbird, which opened tonight at the Belasco Theatre. Their rapture is murderous. They want to annihilate each other. This is the electrifying…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry (and whatever else might be on their minds), the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: This week saw the debut of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, after a campaign that I thou…