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EXCLUSIVE: Mud director Jeff Nichols’ next project looks to be coming together with quite the A-list cast as Deadline is hearing Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy are set to lead the ensemble of The Bikeriders for New Regency. Nichols will direct the pic, which is a fictional story inspired by the photography…

If the jury press conference for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is anything to go by, we're in for a pretty punchy ride on the Croisette the next few weeks. Iranian director Asghar Fahradi spoke for the first time of a plagiarism suit that was filed against him from his former film student Azadeh…

The Cannes Film Festival has set Vincent Lindon as its jury president for the 75th edition, which kicks off next month. The Frenchman, who won the 2015 Best Actor award at Cannes for The Measure of a Man, starred in last year's Palme d'Or winner Titane. Joining jury this year are: actor-director-writer Rebecca Hall…

EXCLUSIVE: The next film in the A Quiet Place universe will be looking for someone to take over directing reins as sources tell Deadline that Paramount Pictures and Jeff Nichols are amicably parting ways on the franchise’s untitled next movie. Sources add that the director is pivoting to focus on the sci-fi project he…

EXCLUSIVE: After recently dating his upcoming untitled A Quiet Place project, Paramount Pictures is looking to stay in the Jeff Nichols business as sources tell Deadline they are in development on a new untitled project from the filmmaker that he will write and direct. Like with so many things related to Nichols…

Paramount has just put an untitled A Quiet Place movie on the calendar for March 31, 2023. This is the one that Jeff Nichols is writing and directing, and which Deadline first told you about. It’s not a threequel, but rather based on an idea from John Krasinski. The pic is very early in development and simply being…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is broadening its A Quiet Place franchise. The studio has set Jeff Nichols to write and direct the third film, which is based on an original idea by John Kraskinski. Studio has set a 2022 release date. Krasinski co-wrote and directed the original, and wrote and directed the sequel, which…

Matthew McConaughey has been set to voice the podcast adaptation of John R. Erickson’s Hank The Cowdog children’s books. From Tri-State Pictures, HTC Productions and QCode, the series is written, directed and executive produced by Jeff Nichols (Loving) and stars McConaughey – who is also an exec – as Hank. Nichols and…

Adam Driver will reunite with his Loving and Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols for Yankee Comandante, Deadline has confirmed. The film will be an adaptation of a New Yorker article by David Grann that follows two men who rose to the rank of Comandante during the Cuban Revolution. The article is about William…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 22, 2016. A reminder to everyone in town: Michael Shannon has graced us with his towering, square-jawed presence for quite some time. Sure, his profile has risen exponentially in the last eight years following his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as John Givings, the…

Loving hair stylist Kenneth Walker boasts an accomplished resume, working closely with Denzel Washington from Ricochet to American Gangster. But in speaking with Walker about Jeff Nichols' latest, depicting the beautiful and historic love story between Richard and Mildred Loving, it's clear that his connection to the…

Usually when you are saying you are just trying to make a “truthful, quiet” movie, studio marketers will run the other way. But Jeff Nichols, writer-director of Focus Features’ Loving, came to the DGA theater earlier this month for the all-day The Contenders Presented By Deadline to tell a packed audience of Oscar and…