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Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton-founded production company Dirty Films has entered into a first-look feature production deal with a production and financing company New Republic Pictures, led by founder Brian Oliver and president Bradley Fischer. Dirty Film is the executive producer of the new FX series, Mrs. America…

In the biggest panel of all 44 shows in Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, all seven key female stars of FX’s Mrs. America gathered in different locations to talk about the limited series, which centers on the fight for the ERA as well as the women's liberation movement centering on those who fought hard…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland, and Anne Hathaway are set to join previously announced Cate Blanchett in Armageddon Time, the period drama that James Gray will next direct for RT Features. Wild Bunch International will introduce the film to buyers at the virtual Cannes market and represent…

A group of over 200 high-profile artists and scientists from around the world has signed an editorial published in today's Le Monde, calling on world leaders and citizens "to undertake a profound overhaul of our goals, values, and economies," in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, “if we want to avoid ecological…

Two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is in talks to board the Eli Roth-directed Borderlands, the film adaptation to 2K first-person shooter PC-console game. If the deal goes through, Blanchett will take on the role of Lilith, one of the main protagonists in the game series who is part of the Siren class, a…

Debuting tomorrow on FX on Hulu, Mrs. America is good, but the crafted saga of the rise and fall of the Equal Rights Amendment could have used a lot more runway to truly take off. Though I often bemoan the indulgent length of a new series in this Peak TV era, when it comes to the Cate Blanchett-led nine-episode Mrs…

When Stateless gets its world premiere at Berlinale on Wednesday, it will be the culmination of a seven-year journey for Cate Blanchett. The two-time Oscar winner first conceived of the drama in her kitchen in 2013. A conversation about immigration with writer Elise McCredie sparked an ambition to thread together…

Cate Blanchett is to be jury president at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (September 2 – 12, 2020). The international jury will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards. The appointment was made on Friday January 10 by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia chaired…

On Tuesday, during the Amazon executive session at TCA, Jennifer Salke gave updates and teases on the slate of projects at the streaming platform. One of them was the Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett as the Hollywood icon. Salke said the feature is “very much…

FX on Thursday as part of its day at the TCA winter press tour released the trailer for Mrs. America, the nine-episode limited series that will air on Hulu as part of the network’s new digital hub in the spring. The true-story series recounts the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and the unexpected…

EXCLUSIVE: Holt McCallany's Christmas looks like it's coming a little early this year The Mindhunter star is already before the cameras on the other side of the Atlantic for Guy Ritchie's Cash Truck with Jason Statham, as Deadline revealed last month. Now I hear that the actor is joining Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara…

Five years after the vast expansion of California's film and television tax incentive program was inked into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown, big budgets, Oscar winners, remakes and rock bios dominated the 13 films that today were announced as the latest round of allocations. Led by the $17.5 million awarded to the…