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"I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing,” Nicole Kidman says in the first teaser for Being the Ricardos, released today by Amazon, along with the film’s December 21 release date. “I work side by side with my husband who is genuinely impressed by me, and all I have to do to keep it is kill for 36 weeks in…

EXCLUSIVE: Lyric Hurd is set to join the cast of Will Speck & Josh Gordon's Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Javier Bardem, Constance Wu and Winslow Fegley are also on board. Speck & Gordon will direct, with the script being adapted by Will Davies. The film is based on the bestselling children's book by…

Long ago, Javier Bardem told me he could never play a romantic hero. "Look at this face!," he said in what then was halting English. "This is the face of a bad boy!" Of course, he was so wrong: Bardem's face turned out to be almost infinitely adaptable. In Fernando Leon de Aranoa's The Good Boss (El Buen Patron)…

Fernando León de Aranoa's Spanish-language dark comedy The Good Boss had its world premiere last night at the San Sebastian Film Festival in front of a raucous local crowd (albeit at half-capacity due to Covid measures). The audience-friendly film sees Javier Bardem play Blanco, a charismatic but controlling factory…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu is set to co-star opposite Javier Bardem and Winslow Fegley in Will Speck & Josh Gordon's Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Speck & Gordon will direct, with the script being adapted by Will Davies. The film is based on the bestselling…

San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the Spanish titles that will comprise its official selection this year. On the roster is Fernando León de Aranoa's latest pic The Good Boss, a tragicomedy starring Javier Bardem. Aranoa has been in San Seb's competition three times before, winning the Golden Shell for best film…

EXCLUSIVE: Winslow Fegley is set to join Javier Bardem in Will Speck & Josh Gordon's Lyle, Lyle Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Sources also tell Deadline that Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the Oscar winning songwriting team behind the music of La La Land and upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie, will write original songs for the…

Warner Bros on Monday released a series of character posters from Dune, its upcoming sci-fi tentpole directed by Denis Villeneuve. The pic, an update of Frank Herbert’s novel which was turned in into a 1984 movie by David Lynch, is set to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September before it hits…

Spanish actress and activist Pilar Bardem—mother of actors Monica, Carlos and Javier Bardem — died Saturday at the Ruber Hospital in Madrid because of complications from lung disease not related to Covid-19. She was 82. The Goya Award-winning actress (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) appeared in a variety of film…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem is set to star in Will Speck & Josh Gordon's Lyle, Lyle Crocodile for Sony Pictures. Sources also tell Deadline that Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the Oscar winning songwriting team behind the music of La La Land and upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie, will write original songs…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in negotiations to play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Amazon and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, the film about the relationship between the I Love Lucy stars. Having penned the screenplay, Academy Award winner Sorkin also will direct the film from Amazon Studios and…

The release of the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s iteration of Dune is too big for just a regular debut. The scope, scale and significance to culture of Frank Herbert's bestseller means that the first look at its big-screen adaptation has to be a moment. In order to make this a benchmark in cinematic history and…