As part of the Netflix presentation at our ninth annual Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles all day event at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood earlier this month, Marriage Story was a big part of it. Speaking to a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, writer/director Noah Baumbach talked about his desire to find…
Ray Liotta, who co-stars as a bulldog divorce lawyer in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, praised the director for creating a calm set, joking that he's previously worked with some "maniac" directors. "Noah is great to work with and he's very calm because I've worked with some maniacs," Liotta said recently at…
Even for super-producer David Heyman, known for the Harry Potter franchise, Gravity and Paddington, getting a call about a Quentin Tarantino movie was special.
"When I got the call to come out to meet Quentin, I leapt at the chance," Heyman said at Deadline’s The Contenders London event earlier this month. "The dream…
Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions.
In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…
Netflix is teaming with The Slap and Glitch's Tony Ayres and super-producer David Heyman on thriller Clickbait. The eight-episode series is created by Ayres and is an NBCUniversal International Studios production. Shooting will take place in Melbourne.
Ayres will also showrun and executive produce the character-based…
Nickelodeon, Studiocanal and producer David Heyman are teaming up on Paddington, a pre-schooler TV series based on the iconic bear. Ben Whishaw (Paddington 1 & 2) will lend his voice to the CG-animated series, which will follow the adventures of a younger Paddington.
The show will see the bear writing to Aunt Lucy…
EXCLUSIVE: All aboard! Paddington duo Paul King and David Heyman are teaming up on “magical love story” Time’s Fool for Fox Searchlight.
King is developing and will direct the feature, which is an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale In Verse, about a young man who is cursed to ride a…
Chris Pratt, with Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Universal’s Cowboy Ninja Viking both in limbo, is in negotiations to star in a the next move from Wind River and Yellowstone writer-director Taylor Sheridan, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is being produced by David Heyman and is set up at Warner Bros.
The plot…
Working Title, Harry Potter producer David Heyman, Bond producers EON and The Last King of Scotland producer Lisa Bryer officially launched the London Screen Academy, their government-backed film and TV-oriented free school for 16-19 year-olds, at an event in North London this morning.
The Islington-based school…
Agent Carter star Hayley Atwell and King Charles III's Tamara Lawrance are to lead the cast of David Heyman's BBC drama The Long Song.
The pair are to front the three-part series, which tells the story of dying days of slavery in Jamaica, alongside a supporting cast, which includes British comedy legend Lenny Henry.
Th…
Principal photography is getting underway Monday on Studiocanal and Heyday Films’ The Secret Garden with Colin Firth and Julie Walters starring. As Deadline revealed in January, Marc Munden is directing the new take on the classic children's novel.
Jack Thorne adapted the book for the big screen and has moved the…
