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Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on the key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we're talking with James and Soleta Rogan, the founders of prolific UK documentary indie Rogan Productions, with past…

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. Today's subject is Anthony…

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor this weekend confirmed to the BBC that the band would be releasing a new song featuring the band’s late, legendary frontman Freddie Mercury called “Face It Alone.” Taylor called it, “a little gem from Freddie,” culled from the sessions for their 13th studio album, The Miracle, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten has filed a breach of contract suit against Graham King and his GK Films for money owed on the 2018 Best Picture-nominated film about Queen and its iconic singer Freddie Mercury. The lawsuit hit today and shows a fascinating peek behind the curtain into what…

Freddie Mercury BBC Doc In The Works The final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s extraordinary life is to be told in a BBC2 doc from Putin: A Russian Spy Story producer Rogan Productions. Freddie Mercury: The Final Act comes 30 years after the Queen superstar died from complications of AIDS. The film follows the story from…

Universal Music Group has unearthed a brand new video from Queen singer Freddie Mercury and released it on Thursday. “Time Waits For No One” sees Mercury on stage at the Dominion Theatre in London, accompanied by keyboardist Mike Moran on piano. The song was originally recorded in April 1986 as part of a concept album…

The drums of “We Will Rock You” had Hollywood’s well-dressed elite on its feet from the opening beat, and “We Are the Champions” kept them smiling and head-bopping. Finally, a giant image of the late Freddie Mercury hovering over the stage got the crowd back to standing. The Oscars steered clear of topicality, snark…

Bohemian Rhapsody soars on the strength of a performance by Rami Malek, who got under the skin of iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a way that has made him the prohibitive favorite in the Oscar Best Actor race. The film chronicles the formation, rise, and adversity weathered by the band before its titanic 1985 L…

Adam Lambert finally confirmed his much-rumored, hiding-in-plain-sight cameo appearance in the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. If the bearded dude hanging out at a truck stop men’s room looked familiar, bingo. The former American Idol breakout and sometime Queen singer tweeted a photo of himself from the…

Controversy has swirled around the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody since before it went into production. Sacha Baron Cohen (who was attached to play Freddie Mercury at one time) griped about the authenticity of the script; director Bryan Singer was fired well into the filming; the first trailer was vilified on social…

"It goes on forever,” says an unamused record exec after listening to “six bloody minutes” of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the operatic, over-the-top tour de force that would become Freddie Mercury’s signature tune (and the name of the new biopic teased in this clip). “I pity your wife if you think six minutes is…

Fox has replaced Bryan Singer on Bohemian Rhapsody with Dexter Fletcher, the director of the films Eddie the Eagle and Wild Bill. Fletcher will resume production next week. There are about two weeks left on the film, unless Fletcher decides to reshoot scenes. The filmmaker will then oversee postproduction as Fox hopes…