The American Society of Cinematographers said Thursday that Jeff Bridges will receive the group’s 2019 Board of Governors Award. The honor will be bestowed February 9 at the 33rd annual ASC Awards at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby Ballroom. The award, the only one the society doesn’t give to a cinematographer, is…

It may not spark an industry revolution like Frances McDormand’s Oscar-night call for inclusion riders, but Jeff Bridges managed to introduce Hollywood to a new term — “trim tab” — while accepting the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award. The term, which became a main theme of the latter part of the speech, sent…

Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges is set to receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony, which will be hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, will air live on NBC at 5 pm PT on January 6, 2019. “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is delighted to bestow…

The ads for the noirish new thriller Bad Times at the El Royale suggest that the plot revolves around seven strangers with a “secret to bury.” That certainly is truth in advertising as it seems to be exactly what writer-director Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) has in mind in a pic that recalls movies like Bogart…

The world premiere of Drew Goddard’s starry mystery-thriller Bad Times At The El Royale will close the San Sebastian Film Festival (September 21-29), out of competition. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Dakota Johnson and Jon Hamm are among cast for the pic about seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, who meet at…

There’s a lot going on the in first trailer for Bad Times at the El Royale, Fox’s period crime thriller set in majestic Lake Tahoe. Like the city, the lodging in question straddles two state lines, so its guests have the option of staying in California or Nevada. Judging from this first look, some choose…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is in the early stages of mounting a remake of the 1985 thriller Jagged Edge, as a star vehicle for Halle Berry. The effort is being led by Steven Bersch, the Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group head who took over the genre arm Screen Gems. This one could very well be a standard Sony release…

After a decade spent trying to make it as an actor, Scott Cooper found his niche as an actor’s director. Distributor Entertainment Studios tomorrow broadens the release of his fourth film, Hostiles, in the teeth of awards season. Cooper guided Jeff Bridges to the Best Actor Oscar in his directing debut Crazy Heart…

Sometimes a movie comes along at exactly the time it is needed, and that couldn’t be more true than in the case of Only The Brave, which tells the true and tragic story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite group of 20 Arizona-based firefighters who fought against all odds to contain the Yarnell Mountain fire in…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline caught up with Matthew Vaughn this week, right after he premiered Kingsman: The Golden Circle in London and endured a numbing onslaught of repetitive junket interviews. The follow-up to an audacious spy film he and writing partner Jane Goldman adapted from the Mark Millar comic book, Kingsman: The G…

In 2015 director Matthew Vaughn with the help of longtime screenwriting partner Jane Goldman turned the movie spy conceit on its head with the twisty and welcomely frenetic Kingsman: The Secret Service. It became an instant smash, grossing more than $400 million worldwide and creating a star in the making with Taron Eg…

This smart, sexy and sophisticated entertainment for grownups sick of typical summer Hollywood fare verges on melodrama in parts but delivers some sensational fun thanks to a uniformly superb cast. Although The Only Living Boy in New York (a title taken from the Simon and Garfunkel song) has stars including Jeff Bridge…