Editor’s Note: On April 13, Deadline broke the story that Frank Langella had been fired as the lead of the Netflix limited series The Fall of the House of Usher after an investigation into an alleged unacceptable conduct on set, including sexual harassment toward an actress. At the time, we reached out to the Oscar-nom…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actor Frank Langella is out as the lead of The Fall of the House of Usher, Netflix’s eight-episode limited series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Langella was the subject of an investigation, which has been completed, sources tell Deadline. It determined that Langella had been…
While Nomadland picked up Best Picture at the Critics Choice a couple of weeks back—a pretty reliable Oscar top prize indicator—at Sunday night’s SAG, it wasn’t even nominated in that category. Instead, that prize went to Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, possibly bolstering its chances at the Academy show on…
The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists.
Every installment asks the same five questions…
When Netflix suggested I might like to preside over a conversation between Sophia Loren and Frank Langella, two titans of the screen and stage, it felt churlish to turn the opportunity down. They both appear in films handled by the streamer this year; Loren makes her return to screens after more than a decade away in T…
Frank Langella almost literally exploded onto the scene in 1970 with two movie roles that immediately brought him to prominence in Hollywood, Diary of a Mad Housewife and The Twelve Chairs — the latter being the movie Mel Brooks often cites as being his favorite of all he has made. What a start to a film career, and…
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
Will this now-eight-month awards season ever end?
In a normal year, the way it was originally planned, we’d be spending this Valentine's Day weekend checking out the BAFTA Awards and prepping for the Oscars just two weeks from now. Instead Monday…
EXCLUSIVE: The Trial of Chicago 7 writer-director Aaron Sorkin takes us behind the scenes of his Oscar-buzzed Netflix drama to spotlight the impressive roster of actors that brought this film to life.
In the video above, Sorkin is joined by stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Joseph Gordon…
Protesters line the streets shouting about injustice, instigators cross state lines accused of inciting violence, National Guard and police take charge and clash with peaceful protesters, a Republican president touting law and order sends his attorney general to put what he calls radical elements of the left on trial…
Although he attached to the film a year ago, Frank Langella now finally is firmed to star in the Charlie Kessler-directed Lapham Rising, an adaptation of the Roger Rosenblatt novel. The film was going to shoot last year in the Hamptons, but funding fell into disarray. Now it has come back together with funding from Win…