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Persistence is everything. It only took writer-director Andrew Heckler two decades and producer Robbie Brenner 15 years to get the strange but true story of reformed KKK member Mike Burden to the screen. But here, even another two years after taking the audience prize for dramatic feature at the 2018 Sundance Film…

“Can’t get rid of hate,” the preacher says, “unless you replace it with something else.” Here’s the trailer for Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler’s film that was inspired by true events and premiered in competition at Sundance this year. Garret Hedlund stars as Mike Burden, a taciturn repo man raised as an orphan…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Lee Daniels is set to go into production next month in Montreal on The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a project he will direct and produce about the legendary jazz singer. The pic follows Holiday (played by multi Grammy and NAACP nominee singer-songwriter Andra Day) during her…

EXCLUSIVE: The romantic intensity between Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund in this new clip from the Gregor Jordan’s drama Dirt Music is front and center — but there is also a hint that this is an illicit affair. Based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton and adapted by Jack Throne, the Jordan-directed…

Masters of Sex alumna Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins (Here and Now), Garrett Hedlund (Mosaic) and Eighth Grade star Elsie Fisher are set to lead the Season 2 cast of Hulu’s psychological horror series Castle Rock, from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Also set as series regulars are Yusra Warsama (Assassin’s Creed: Origins), B…

“Do we finally get to use our skills for our own benefit?” is the question that resonates through the new trailer for the forthcoming Netflix action-drama Triple Frontier. J.C. Chandor directs the feature co-written by him and Mark Boal about a group of former Special Forces operatives played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaa…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a racy first look at Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Kelly Macdonald (No Country For Old Men) in Oz-UK drama Dirt Music. Shoot began last month on director Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). Producers are Finola Dwyer and Amanda…

Principal photography commences this week in Australia on Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie Dirt Music, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). As we previously revealed, Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men) and Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) will star in the film. They will be joined by…

EXCLUSIVE: Mudbound star Garrett Hedlund and Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald are in final negotiations to lead cast in long-awaited movie Dirt Music, I can reveal. The anticipated drama, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s Booker Prize-nominated novel about simmering passion and revenge in the Australian outback, is…

Even though it needs a new title, the drama known as Triple Frontier finally gets underway next week at Netflix. Perhaps the most apt title would be The Movie That Refused to Die. Ben Affleck is back, heading the ensemble, along with Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona. The J.C…

In recent years, the majority of hot titles premiering at the Sundance Film Festival either find distribution deals in Park City, or shortly after when buyers and sellers return to Los Angeles before heading off to Berlin. The lack of bidding by Amazon Studios, Netflix and Fox Searchlight because each had few slate…

“This story is so deep and so meaningful that you just couldn’t resist telling it” said Burden writer/director Andrew Heckler on why he chose this project as his feature directorial debut. “It’s a story of hope and it’s a universal story that I felt really needed to be told.” Accompanying Heckler at Deadline’s Sundance…