Oscar nominated for 2000's Vatel, starring Uma Thurman and Gérard Depardieu, French production designer Jean Rabasse was thrilled to be brought on board for Pablo Larrain's Jackie, a shoot which allowed him to immerse himself in American history and lore, and to visit Washington D.C. for the first time. Certainly, Jack…

She won an Oscar for Black Swan, she’s buzzed for a second in Jackie, she’s a fanboy favorite in movies like Thor and the Star Wars franchises, she made an acclaimed directorial debut with A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and she has been a star since bursting on to the screen at age 12 in The Professional. But as Natalie…

Deadline co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr sat down last month at our big annual awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline with Sebastian Sepulveda, film editor of Fox Searchlight’s Jackie, to discuss the challenges of telling a well-known chapter in American life. The Chilean-born editor worked with…

Chilean director Pablo Larrain has been to the Oscar party before; his 2012 political satire No was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Last year, The Club was nominated for a Golden Globe after winning the Grand Jury Prize in Berlin. Now, he's got the distinction of having two films in the Oscar…

La La Land sat atop the Specialty box office chart with the year's best per theater average (read more about that here). Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, the Lionsgate release opened in five locations averaging $171K, outpacing the year's previous PTA star Moonlight, which had an average of over $100K in its…

Costume design, like editing and sound, is one of the many "invisible arts" of moviemaking: if it's done well, then you don't notice it. It is, though, perhaps a little more front and center than the others, hiding its many clever tricks in plain sight. Indeed, often when you meet a character, it's their wardrobe that…

Fox Searchlight's Jackie launched with a solid start over the weekend, claiming the fifth best per theater average of the year. The Oscar-hopeful starring Natalie Portman as the iconic First Lady in the waning days of her reign in the White House grossed $275K in five locations in New York and Los Angeles. Sundance…

4th Writethru, Sunday AM: Disney’s Moana estimated weekend outlook has slowed from $30M at the onset of the weekend to $28.4M, but that’s not her fault, it’s just the nature of the post Thanksgiving weekend which is always beaten down by the start of the holiday season. Still, Moana‘s coin collection was enough to…

There have been so many movies, miniseries, books and who knows what else on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis over the decades that it’s hard to imagine there is anything new or original left to say. But in the movie Jackie, director Pablo Larrain, writer Noah Oppenheim and star Natalie Portman pull off…

Fox Searchlight's Jackie enters the Awards fray this weekend, with Oscar-winner Natalie Portman as Camelot matriarch Jacqueline Kennedy in the period surrounding the assassination of husband John F. Kennedy. The feature headlines a weekend that will have a fair number of Specialty releases vying for attention at the…

It’s going to be quiet for a couple of weekends before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens and gets moviegoers excited again, and while the post Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend frame is certainly one of the lowest in a given year, overall we should see stronger ticket sales than previous years for…

Natalie Portman will received the 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Desert Palm Achievement Award for her performance as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie. The actress award will be presented at the festival’s Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, on Monday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention…