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Ewan McGregor didn't know a whole lot about 1960s and ’70s fashion icon Halston before he signed on to play the role in Netflix's five-part limited series, except maybe that he was best friends with Liza Minnelli. That would be because Halston not only made a huge impact on the fashion world, but also in the social…

In the 1950s, LGBTQ people in America ran the risk of being ostracized from their communities, fired from their jobs, harassed or arrested. The Lavender Scare in that decade purged countless gay men and lesbians from employment in the federal government. And yet, the new FX series Pride reveals many LGBTQ Americans…

MGM has inked a two-year first-look film and TV development deal with Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler’s Killer Films. "I had one of the best experiences of my career with Christine Vachon and Killer Films on Hedwig and the Angry Inch," said MGM Film Group Chairman Michael De Luca. "All of us at MGM are excited to…

Mark Ruffalo's dramatic true story Dark Waters began as a 2016 New York Times article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare." As the title suggests, the piece focused on a high-powered attorney, Rob Bilott, who took on one of the biggest companies in the world over the lethal contamination of ground water in…

Hollywood has been slow in reacting against Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, legislation known as the “heartbeat bill” that prohibits most abortions in the state once doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat. Signed into law this week, the bill – now one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws…

When Brady Corbet took his debut film The Childhood of a Leader to the Venice Film Festival in 2015, it was immediately embraced. Winning two prizes—the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film, and the Venice Horizons Award—its reception at this prestigious festival seemed to herald the emergence of a startling and…

Three film luminaries — Paul Schrader, Christine Vachon and Ethan Hawke — shared the stage recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York to ruminate on a subject often left on the cutting-room floor: religion. A24’s First Reformed, written and directed by Schrader, who grew up in a strict Calvinist household, depicts…

At the “The Power of Story: Culture of Shift” panel at the Sundance Film Festival this morning, Octavia Spencer reminded the crowd that the current female empowerment revolution of #MeToo and Time’s Up “can’t be about women versus men.” Rather, she said, we need to make sure “it’s about the people being abused, and…

Following up his Oscar-nominated Carol, Todd Haynes couldn’t have chosen a more ambitious project than Wonderstruck, a tale of two deaf teenagers growing up 50 years apart in New York City, trying to unravel mysteries of their family lives. Adapted by Brian Selznick from his own novel, the raw materials came to Killer…

The topic was “The Power of Creative Collaboration,” and it seemed inevitable that the long shadow of Harvey Weinstein would be cast over the panels during today’s “Produced By New York” annual confab thrown today by the Producers Guild of America. During the first of two “Master Class” discussions with eight film…

After yesterday’s massive marches across the nation and the around world — and even in Park City, where an estimated 8,000 took to the streets — to support women’s issues in the face of a Donald Trump presidency, its fitting that today’s Deadline Sundance Series topic is the power of women in film. Deadline senior…

Veteran indie producer Christine Vachon, whose credits include Carol, Still Alice and Boys Don't Cry, is heading to the 13th annual Glasgow Film Festival for its Industry Focus strand. The Killer Films founder will discuss her career and the art of producing in a special In Conversation event. The four-day industry…