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EXCLUSIVE: Shamier Anderson has inked with CAA for representation. Anderson currently stars in Annapurna/30WEST/Automatik’s critically acclaimed LA cop noir Destroyer opposite Nicole Kidman, and he will next appear in Brad Furman’s City of Lies for FilmNation alongside Johnny Depp. Anderson recently wrapped shooting…

Kudos to Vice, The Favourite, Greenbook, A Star Is Born, BlaKkKlansman, etc. for the many Golden Globe noms. But the specialty box office headlines this weekend go to Destroyer on the specialty side. The Annapurna's release, directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Globe nominee Nicole Kidman, grossed $110K in…

Nicole Kidman is barefoot in a floor-length gown, ice-blue like her eyes. When she curls into a corner of the sofa, she looks relaxed and regal, a woman whose earned the right to stretch after a frantically busy fall. At this moment, her blockbuster Aquaman is topping the box office. You might not expect to see Kidman…

A singular detective story and genre-defying showcase for star Nicole Kidman, Destroyer weaves its tangled web with confidence. With its immaculate structure and an array of finely drawn characters, the film pursues a fresh, uniquely shadowed corner of a familiar screen world, reflecting with great clarity the values…

In the golden renaissance of television, the prevailing wisdom is that HBO's The Sopranos and AMC's Breaking Bad put the crime noir genre out of business on the big screen. But with Destroyer, director Karyn Kusama and screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi prove that there are still a few 180-degree tales left…

It was an all-woman panel — actress, director, film editor — as the Destroyer team of Nicole Kidman, Karyn Kusama and Plummy Tucker joined me on the DGA stage last month for Deadline’s eighth annual The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event. The subject was the very intense Annapurna film opening Christmas Day…

Today Nicole Kidman received her 14th Golden Globe nomination, and rightfully so, for her portrayal of a haggard, undercover LAPD detective who won’t let the past settle until she’s has had justice. At a time when you might think that such movies as Chinatown, L.A. Confidential and Training Day have put the LA crime…

With the Woolsey Fire still burning after a recent flare-up this morning and evacuations reissued in the Lake Sherwood and Hidden Valley areas, Hollywood continues to turn down the volume on its celebration factor out of respect for the victims, those who’ve lost their homes and the first responders who continue to…

Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer places Nicole Kidman into the grisly underbelly of Los Angeles, playing an undercover detective struggling to come to grips with an assignment that went sour some 20 years previous. Evoking a modern-day film noir, Kusama’s film is an intense ride, with a gift of a part for Kidman, who leaped…

Earlier this month, Nicole Kidman told Deadline what drew her to her latest film project, Destroyer. “I was interested in the doing the kind of film that's usually centered around a man," she said, specifically mentioning ’70s-era noir crime thrillers. With this new trailer for Destroyer, we see what she means. “I…

A hardboiled LA neo-noir with a tough female lead and a cool female director is hardly par for the course in today's Hollywood. Which is why Karyn Kusama was full of praise for distributor Annapurna at the company's panel today while discussing her new film Destroyer with her star Nicole Kidman. "They're mavericks,"…

AFI Fest said Tuesday that it has added “An Evening With Nicole Kidman” to its 2018 lineup of events next month, which will be followed by a gala screening of the gritty Kidman-starring cop drama Destroyer directed by Karyn Kusama. The tribute and event and screening are set for November 13 at the TCL Chinese Theatre…