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EXCLUSIVE: The in-demand Sydney Sweeney, coming off hit rom-com Anyone But You and horror pic Immaculate, is shifting gears again as she is set to portray trailblazing boxer Christy Martin in a new biopic which could be a knockout for buyers at the Cannes market where Black Bear will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Davidson, Franz Rogowski, Naomi Scott and Sean Harris are set to star in Wizards!, a new film from Australian writer-director David Michôd that reteams A24 and Plan B Entertainment. Michôd also penned the script, which is based on a story by Joel Edgerton and Michôd. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of…

A two-time Oscar nominee known for his collaborations with Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) and Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession), composer Nicholas Britell branched out recently with The King, collaborating for the first time with Australian director David Michôd, on what ended up…

"I was immediately drawn to the challenge of doing something that wasn't necessarily up my alley," director David Michôd said about The King during Deadline’s The Contenders London event earlier this month. "We made the decision early on to push Shakespeare right to the side and build our own thing." Timothee…

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…

David Michod likes an egg metaphor. Whether it's having had all of them "in one basket" over the past few years as he worked on The King — which received a royal eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last night — or looking at a project like a precious thing he's trying to stop from "getting…

While David Michod's The King owes a debt to Shakespeare's Henry The IV [Parts 1 And 2] and Henry V, the film's co-writer, co-star and producer Joel Edgerton says there's only "a pinch" of the Bard on screen. "We really do our own thing with it." Michod, who directs, co-wrote the script with Edgerton and also…

Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily-Rose Depp are joining Timothée Chalamet and Joel Edgerton in Netflix’s feature The King, which begins shoot in the UK tomorrow [June 1]. Director David Michôd’s (War Machine) drama is based on classic Shakespeare plays Henry The IV [Parts 1 and 2] and Henry V…

EXCLUSIVE: Timothee Chalamet is firming his first starring role since being Oscar nominated for his breakout turn in Call Me By Your Name. Chalamet will star as the title character in The King, a Plan B-produced drama helmed by David Michôd. Production will start in June. Joel Edgerton and Michôd  wrote the…

Netflix has unzipped the first teaser for its absurdist war story, War Machine. Brad Pitt stars in the David Michôd-directed satirical comedy that the streaming giant acquired in 2015. In what was considered a game-changer for the company at the time, Netflix made its then-biggest investment in a feature (around $30M)…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired distribution rights to War Machine, the David Michod-directed drama which will star Brad Pitt as a four-star rock star U.S. military general. The character is patterned after Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for a time the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The…

Specialties generally had a blasé weekend with newcomers mostly flat at best. A24 has had a streak of chart-topping opening weekends of late with last week’s Obvious Child and, earlier in the spring, Under The Skin. The company continued its roll this weekend with The Rover, though with more modest results. The crime…