Fox Searchlight has obtained the worldwide rights to Nomadland, the third feature from director Chloé Zhao, who made a splash with her most recent film, the South Dakota-set western drama The Rider. Oscar-winner Frances McDormand stars in the film along with David Strathairn. As she did with her last film, Zhao also…

The Rider helmer Chloe Zhao is attached to helm Marvel’s Jack Kirby-created The Eternals, Deadline has confirmed. She will helm off Matthew and Ryan Firpo’s screenplay. Kevin Feige is producing. The comic centered around the super power near-god beings The Celestials and their villainous adversaries the Deviants in…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios will be the studio behind Chloé Zhao’s untitled Bass Reeves biopic, a historical Western about the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal. Zhao is writing and will direct the pic, which will follow Reeves’ journey as a young man born into slavery in 1838 who fled to the Indian Territory in search of…

Chloé Zhao was one of Deadline’s Ones To Watch out of the Cannes Film Festival this year, where her sophomore feature, The Rider, premiered. Its journey since then has been remarkable, playing film festivals around the world, including a slot at Toronto, before its Sundance premiere this week. And Zhao stopped by…

Amid a parade of A-listers, one of the most memorable visitors to the Deadline studio was Brady Jandreau, who stars in Chloé Zhao's hybrid docu-drama The Rider, in which a professional rodeo rider finds his life thrown into disarray after a life-threatening accident. The film came about after Zhao began researching…

Chloe Zhao’s The Rider has taken the Art Cinema Award in the Directors’ Fortnight section here at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the Fortnight is a non-competitive sidebar, partners of the Société des Réalisateurs Français, the French directors' guild that organizes the event, do attribute honors. This is a big…

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao is making her second trip to the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors' Fortnight this year, with sophomore feature The Rider. Born in Beijing, Zhao went to school in the UK and college in the U.S. before settling in Denver, basing her first two feature films on South Dakota's Pine…

UK-based outfit Protagonist Pictures has boarded worldwide sales for upcoming Cannes Directors' Fortnight title The Rider, written and directed by Chloe Zhao. It's Zhao's second feature and second film selected for Directors' Fortnight. The film stars Brady Jandreau along with Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott…