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The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Today's subject is Melissa George…

Juno Temple (Ted Lasso), Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Atypical) are set as leads in the upcoming fifth installment of Fargo, FX’s acclaimed limited series created and executive produced by Noah Hawley. As usual, Hawley is not revealing much about the plot of the new season, which the series’ most…

Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose and Jennifer Jason Leigh have joined the cast of Chris Pine's directorial debut Poolman. They join the previously announced cast of Pine, Annette Bening and Danny DeVito. Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is fully financing the project, which it launched at EFM earlier this year, and will continue…

Netflix got a huge taste of commercial success when its 2018 Sandra Bullock sci-fi thriller Bird Box shot through the roof as a global smash. Of course, it starred an Oscar-winning actress and was helmed by an Oscar-winning director, Susanne Bier. It perhaps also inspired some copycats, or so it seems, by the arrival…

Atypical, starring Keir Gilchrist, will return to Netflix for its fourth and final season this summer. The Peabody-nominated Netflix dramedy’s fourth season will premiere Friday, July 9. From Sony Pictures TV, Atypical is a coming-of-age story that follows Sam (Gilchrist), a 19-year-old on the autism spectrum, as he…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Jason Leigh has been tapped as a lead in Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s conspiracy thriller drama series Hunters, created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele. Leigh, a 2016 Oscar nominee for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, will play the plum new role of Chava, a top Nazi…

Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2) have joined Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott in Brandon Cronenberg's (Antiviral) sophomore feature Possessor. The film is slated to begin production in April 2019 and will shoot on location in…

Showtime broke some casting news during its presentation Thursday at TCA. Jennifer Jason Leigh is set for a recurring role in the fifth and final season of Showtime’s The Affair, and Michael Raymond-James has booked a recurring on Billions. Details on Leigh’s role were not revealed, only that she’ll appear in a…

Yann Demange’s English-language debut film, White Boy Rick, is compelling stuff indeed. Coming off the Telluride and Toronto film festival debut circuit, this true story of a 14-year-old Detroit kid, Rick Wershe Jr., recruited in 1984 to be part of an undercover police operation to ferret out lowlife drug-dealing…

From The Fly to Scanners to A History of Violence, cult auteur David Cronenberg has brought some amazing — and sometimes mind-bending — work to Hollywood. Beyond Fest is set to honor the legendary filmmaker’s distinct vision this year with “Cronenberg with Cronenberg: A Retrospective of the New Flesh,” an exhaustive…

From Last Exit to Brooklyn and Single White Female to her Oscar-nominated turn in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, there can be no doubt Jennifer Jason Leigh is one of the most interesting, and certainly most prominent, risk-taking actors around. Since bursting on the scene as a teen — most notably in Fast Times…

Just as Paramount/Skydance’s sci-fi adventure Annihilation was heating up in its word of mouth before its February 23 release, two advocacy groups this week — MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian Americans) and American Indians in Film and Television — took aim at the film for whitewashing its two leading characters…