“Something truly goddamn strange in going on” in Netflix’s first trailer for Velvet Buzzsaw, the art horror film which reteams its stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo with Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy. Its features an all-star cast including Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed…

Stranger Things‘ Natalia Dyer, Tom Sturridge, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Toni Collette, John Malkovich, Billy Magnussen and Zawe Ashton have been added to the cast of Netflix’s new movie that reunites the Nightcrawler team of writer-director Dan Gilroy and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. The pic, which began…

Sony Pictures devoted its entire session at Deadline’s 7th annual The Contenders all-day awards-season kickoff event to the new drama Roman J. Israel, Esq. which opens wide this weekend. Star Denzel Washington and writer-director Dan Gilroy joined me onstage at the DGA Theater in front of a packed crowd of Academy and…

For his second film as a director, Roman J. Israel, Esq. helmer Dan Gilroy has written another drama that hinges on a star coming out of his comfort zone. Just as Jake Gyllenhaal inhabited a sociopath in Nightcrawler, so Denzel Washington is '70s activist throwback Israel–an attorney whose strong morals are threatened…

In Dan Gilroy’s Roman J. Israel, Esq., Denzel Washington steps into the role of the title character, a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is upended when a turbulent series of events challenge the activism-of-a-different-era that has defined his career. When Gilroy wrote the script on spec, he was vying…

EXCLUSIVE: Two late entries are on their way to the Austin Film Festival: Dan Gilroy’s Roman J. Israel which stars Denzel Washington and Netflix’s Mudbound from Dee Rees. Gilroy will be on hand at the festival after the film this coming Sunday. Both are getting the Centerpiece selections this weekend. Roman J. Israel…

EXCLUSIVE: The creative team behind the legal thriller Roman J. Israel, Esq is appealing for a retrial. After a Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the drama has been substantially reconfigured by writer/director Dan Gilroy and star Denzel Washington, to become what they feel is a much leaner, tighter and…

Dan Gilroy is back with his second pic and writer and director after 2014’s Nightcrawler, and this time he’s got Denzel Washington with him. Like Nightcrawler that shined a light on the darker side of the TV news business, Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a dramatic thriller set in the underbelly of the overburdened Los…

Dan Gilroy’s legal thriller Roman J. Israel, Esq. starring Denzel Washington will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, completing the event’s Special Presentation lineup. Gilroy made waves at TIFF three years ago with the world premiere of his gritty crime thriller Nightcrawler, a film that ultimately…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has won a heated auction of a package for the next film by writer-director Dan Gilroy. The untitled genre pic is set in the art world and will reteam Gilroy with his Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo and producer Jennifer Fox.  Deadline revealed the project last week as a hot…

EXCLUSIVE: After the compelling team-up in Nightcrawler, writer-director Dan Gilroy is plotting a new untitled film set in the art world that will reunite his stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. Sources said Gilroy’s CAA reps are shopping the untitled film and that multiple buyers are swirling. Gilroy went from vet…

First Look Media’s entertainment studio arm Topic has come aboard to co-produce and co-finance Sony Pictures’ untitled movie teaming Denzel Washington and writer-director Dan Gilroy. It joins a co-fi group that includes Sony, Cross Creek, Macro, Image Nation and Bron. Production has wrapped, and Sony is eyeing a late…