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The cast of luminaries that first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz assembles in documentary The Automat have one thing in common – extreme adoration for the famed Horn & Hardart eateries, whose soaring ceilings, famed coffee and wholesome vending-machine meals for a nickel dominated the food scene in Philadelphia and NYC…

SUNDAY AM Writethru: after Saturday post Before a big tentpole comes into the marketplace, there’s typically a lull at the box office. But it’s an even bigger lull when the major studios don’t have any new wide entries. Everyone is waiting for Warner Bros. The Batman next weekend, and many sources tell me it’s bound…

Joe Wright's Cyrano twirls onto 797 screens, the highest-profile specialty release in weeks (as the market awaits Focus Features The Outfit with Mark Rylance and Sony Pictures Classics Mothering Sunday). But the well reviewed period musical romance from UAR starring Peter Dinklage is landing in a tough place. Industry…

So what does esteemed director Joe Wright have in common with Steven Spielberg? After a long career behind the camera they both finally made their first musical this year, Spielberg of course with his West Side Story remake, and Wright taking on a stage musical version of the evergreen story of Cyrano…

While Peter Dinklage has recently come to star in both stage and screen adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, and notched a Golden Globe nomination for the latter, the actor freely admits that the original 1897 play penned by Edmond Rostand was not what drew him in. “It didn’t connect with me and who I am. At its time…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Cyrano filmmaker Joe Wright had long mused about tackling a fresh screen interpretation of Edmond Rostand's classic century-plus-old play Cyrano de Bergerac, the tale of…

There’s a fascinating rhythm, and most definitely visually, to Joe Wright’s filmography, and a lot of that has to do with the filmmaker’s longstanding working relationship with DP Seamus McGarvey. The duo met doing music videos together and went on to work on six movies, starting with 2007’s Atonement, on which…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Joe Wright's musical drama Cyrano has had its UK release delayed, with the country experiencing a continued wave of Covid infections propelled by the Omicron variant. Universal has moved the Peter Dinklage-starring film from its planned January 14 bow and has rescheduled it for February 25. The studio confirmed the…

This has been something we hear that the Cyrano PR team has been wrestling in recent days as a person in the film’s circle was potentially exposed to Covid, several sources tell Deadline. For the time being all live appearances for the cast of the United Artists Releasing/MGM movie have been postponed, which includes…

In recent years, composers Aaron and Bryce Dessner have found a unique challenge in Cyrano, scoring musical adaptations of the classic 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac first for the stage, and then for the screen. Bryce says that when Erica Schmidt first approached him and his brother to work on her stage…

MGM today unveiled a new behind-the-scenes featurette for Joe Wright’s musical drama Cyrano, as well as “Somebody Desperate,” a single penned and performed for the film by acclaimed indie rock band The National. Wright’s first musical adapts Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name, which was itself based…