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It’s been a while since we had an update on Scarface and Carrie director Brian De Palma’s Harvey Weinstein-themed project. Today the director gave one at the Venice Film Festival. In an interview with Reuters, the veteran director said of the project, which is inspired by the Weinstein scandal, "Because of my years…

Brian De Palma’s horror project that takes inspiration from the Harvey Weinstein scandal now has a title, producers and a planned setting. Saïd Ben Saïd, producer of Paul Verhoeven’s award-winning Elle, tells Deadline the script De Palma is writing is called Predator. Ben Saïd, who produced De Palma’s 2012 Passion…

A new horror film inspired by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein’s actions is in the works from director Brian De Palma. The director of Carrie, Blow Out and Dressed To Kill told Le Parisien that he’s working on a screenplay for an unnamed French producer. "My character won't be named Harvey Weinstein, but it will be…

Reprising some familiar stories but filling in plenty of fond nuance, the lead actors and director of Scarface marked the film's 35th anniversary with a crowd-pleasing Q&A session Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival. After a screening of the 1983 film, director Brian De Palma joined Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer…

EXCLUSIVE: Carice van Houten is teaming with fellow Game Of Thrones regular Nicolaj Coster-Waldau to star in Domino, the suspense thriller from Brian De Palma penned by Kon-Tiki scribe Petter Skavlan. Production got underway this month and will travel to locations in Belgium, Spain, Denmark and The Netherlands…

EXCLUSIVE: Brian De Palma has come attached to direct The Truth and Other Lies, the black comedy based on the award-winning Sascha Arango novel optioned by Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions. Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Wechsler are producing, and Roger Schwartz is a co-producer. Arango wrote…

Brian De Palma’s largely forgotten rock musical Phantom of the Paradise quickly disappeared from theaters, a near-universal flop, when it was released in 1974. Except, for some reason, in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, where it was a blockbuster and developed an intensely devoted following that continues to this day…

Momentum Pictures has acquired rights in multiple territories including the U.S. to Outlaws & Angels, the revenge Western starring Luke Wilson, Chad Michael Murray, Teri Polo and Francesca Eastwood. The pic, written and directed by J.T. Mollner, centers on an outlaw whose gang of killers and bandits kill a U.S…

Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way) will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2015 Award. The award, to be presented September 9, is dedicated to filmmakers who have made an outstanding contribution to cinema over the years. Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s…

It’s been 20 months since Deadline broke the story of the Scarface duo of director Brian De Palma and Al Pacino’s re-teaming for Happy Valley. The film chronicles the fall of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, whose legend was undone by revelations he and others in the football program were aware that former…

Got blood? For its upcoming production of Carrie: The Musical, Southeast L.A.’s La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts plans to convert its space on La Mirada Boulevard into Ewan High School. The “immersive theater” event will put audience members at the center of the action. Producers Bruce Robert Harris and Jack…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. UPDATE, 11:50 AM: Lionsgate/Pantelion’s Instructions Not Included scored a Spanish-language first, shattering the Specialty Box Office with a $10 million gross in 347 theaters. The comedy-drama directed by Eugenio Derbez handily won the holiday weekend’s numbers among limited…