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Scott Pilgrim will be back, and in computer-generated living color: Netflix has picked up an anime series about the beloved slacker-musician from the classic graphic novels, which was made into a 2010 film that starred Michael Cera. In fact, Cera will lend his voice to the new series as Scott, a…

Quentin Tarantino turns 60 today, and to celebrate the fact he was ambushed with cake by Jamie Foxx in front of 2,000 people at the London Palladium last night. Don't go looking online for photographs of the occasion, though: the surprise came at the end of a two-night event promoting the director's…

Tributes to Jean-Luc Godard, a pioneering and iconic leader of French cinema, began to flood in immediately after it was reported that the director died today, aged 91, with figures from the world of cinema, politics and beyond remembering the filmmaker for his powerful, singular work. French President Emmanuel Macron…

Actress Blake Lively (A Simple Favor) is mounting an adaptation of the graphic novel Seconds for Searchlight Pictures, in her feature directorial debut, Deadline can confirm. The title from Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley was published by Random House imprint Ballantine Books in 2014. It centers on Katie…

The British Film Institute (BFI) has added five experienced executives to its Board of Governors. Joining BFI chair Tim Richards, the CEO of cinema chain Vue, are: Monica Chadha, Board advisor and consultant; Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol), producer and co-founder of Number 9 Films; Laura Miele, Executive Vice-President…

We’ve all seen our great share of streaming while in isolation during Covid, but nothing was a better reminder of the power of the big screen than the Edgar Wright-directed, produced and co-penned fantasy-horror-romance Last Night in Soho, from its visceral re-creation of the 1960s London to Anya Taylor-Joy’s sublime…

In his latest collaboration with writer, director and producer Edgar Wright on Last Night in Soho, production designer Marcus Rowland would look to tap into the glamour and seediness of London’s West End, both in the past and in the present day. Historically, productions featuring period scenes in Soho had opted out…

Edgar Wright has carved out his own identifiable place in cinema as he is well known for smash cult hits like Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Baby Driver. All of these play with genre in some unexpected ways from zombies to horror to cop movies to aliens to crime, and all…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. 1960s Soho, London comes back to life in Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. You can't visit without paying a price though, as Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) finds out in the…

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were 'meta' before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name. They're meta in the way some of their songs comment on songwriting itself (a bit like how Monty Python would sometimes stop in the middle…

Edgar Wright has been directing scripted films, music videos and episodic television for over 25 years, but he had yet to make a documentary feature—until now. In The Sparks Brothers, he explores two of the most talented men in popular music: brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who have been performing together since the…

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel. Last Night, a time-bending genre tale, unspools on just over…