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EXCLUSIVE: United Artists Releasing is pivoting its awards season release of MGM’s Joe Wright feature musical Cyrano. Instead of the Peter Dinklage-Haley Bennett movie going limited on Dec. 31, UAR will qualify the movie for Oscars with a one week run in Los Angeles on Dec. 17. The pic, which already counts 86% fresh…

The Red Sea International Film Festival has set the lineup for its inaugural edition which runs from December 6-15 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The roster includes 138 titles from 67 countries and will open with MGM's Joe Wright-directed musical romance Cyrano. The film previously played Telluride and Rome among others…

Cyrano star Haley Bennett joined production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer on stage at Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event to discuss the film. In discussing director Joe Wright, Bennett said, “this is the kind of material that Joe really excels at. I've always been interested in Joe's…

MGM on Wednesday released the trailer for Cyrano, Joe Wright’s musical adaptation of the classic tale that stars Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. The pic, which world premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, is gearing up for its December 31 release in select theaters via United Artists…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit.  As the long-delayed Tony Awards signal the return of Broadway Sunday night, the reinvigorated musical invasion of Hollywood continues with the Stephen Chbosky screen adaptation of the multiple Tony Award-winning hit Dear Evan Hansen, the sole new…

Pandemic? What pandemic? For all of us at the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival, which wraps up today, it was pretty much business as usual as long as we all wore masks during the movies and had proof of vaccination, plus a negative Covid test result, within 72 hours before ever hitting the Colorado Rockies…

There was something moving and even poignant in watching the MGM Lion logo roaring once again at the opening of director Joe Wright’s new musical adaptation of Cyrano last night at the Telluride Film Festival, where this lovely new telling of the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac had its world premiere. Both MGM and…

Keeping its lineup as secret as possible until the eve of its opening on Thursday, the Telluride Film Festival just announced an eclectic, varied and in some cases likely Oscar-contending group of movies, most of which will have their U.S. debuts, and some world premieres, even though the fest doesn’t use labels like…

“Thank God for each and every one of you,” MGM Motion Picture Group chairman Michael De Luca told theater owners and managers in the crowd at CinemaCon on Tuesday. “There is no industry without all of you. There is no Hollywood without all of you.” Today’s kickoff to the MGM reel presentation repped the studio’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr., who will soon be seen in the Aaron Sorkin-helmed Netflix drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7, will play Christian in Cyrano, the musical film adaptation of the Off-Broadway play, which was picked up by MGM. Harrison Jr. is joining a starry cast that includes Peter Dinklage, in the title…