EXCLUSIVE: After Ford v Ferrari landed an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, Matt Damon and James Mangold are teaming again. Damon is attached to an adaptation of the 2017 Don Winslow bestseller The Force, which Mangold has been developing to direct for 20th Century Studios.
There is potential here for the kind of New…
If there’s a division and an autonomy between your below-the-line departments on a film, that’s not necessarily a good thing. And what has made James Mangold excel as he has traversed cinematic genres is essentially keeping the same gang together on most of his productions.
Ford v. Ferrari reps the director’s seventh…
EXCLUSIVE: Twentieth Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment's Ford V Ferrari has revved its engines past the $200M mark globally, accelerating to $200.6M through Monday. The split is $106.6M domestic and $94M at the international box office. Disney is handling the awards-season contender that reps the sort of movies Fox…
“We're all used to stunt movies. But to really keep your main character and his emotions as the center of the story, that's what keeps the audience connected. If it's just action, you tune out. It's all spectacular and great, but if you're not in the guy's head… then it just becomes boring, no matter how good the…
Since the release of his debut film Heavy in 1995, James Mangold has been impossible to predict, moving between romcoms, Westerns and comic-book movies, garnering an Oscar nomination for his script for Marvel's 2017 Wolverine movie Logan. Ford V Ferrari, known overseas as Le Mans '66, is his most awards-friendly…
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders threw themselves entirely into the 1960s to create their Ford v Ferrari score. Centered on two mavericks who built a revolutionary race car in ’66, to challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the drama appealed to the pair as an opportunity to depart from their typical musical…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Ford v Ferrarifilmmaker James Mangold will be bestowed with the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at its 56th Annual CAS Awards on Jan. 25.
Mangold will be the 15th CAS Filmmaker Honoree. Past honorees have been: Steven Spielberg, Joe Wright, Jon Favreau, Jay Roach, Richard…
The latest film from Oscar nominee James Mangold, Ford v Ferrari isn't just a spectacular visual experience, or a remarkable technical achievement. It's a film that you feel viscerally in your gut—and that's thanks, in no small part, to Don Sylvester and David Giammarco, sound artists who have worked with the director…
There's a scene in James Mangold's Ford v Ferrarithat had TIFF audiences almost rolling in the aisles. Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II is persuaded by Matt Damon's Caroll Shelby to take Ford's latest racecar for a spin, but the bossman is vastly underprepared for the reality of 100mph. When the car finally stops, all…
Put all of Hollywood’s classic racing dramas on the track, including Grand Prix, Le Mans, Days of Thunder and Rush, and they all come up short of the checkered flag against James Mangold’s smashing Ford v Ferrari, a truly exciting movie in the genre that never forgets it isn’t as much about as the cars as it is about…
There’s a very good chance that an original movie, 20th Century’s Ford v Ferrari, is poised to best a rival studio franchise reboot, Sony’s Charlie’s Angels at the box office this weekend, $20M-$30M+ to $10M-$12M. That’s great for these types of adult titles in a year when most major studios have flooded the…
