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Armageddon Time director James Gray's got a tip for aspiring filmmakers: If you want to look good as a director, work with gifted actors, like Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong. "I’m a big fan of great actors because what they do is tend to make you look considerably more capable than…

Succession’s Jeremy Strong says he was very nearly cast as Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny body anyway. The ideas was that it would be Chris Evans’ head audiences saw, digitally plopped onto Strong’s body. “They told me there was a top-secret film about Captain America,&#8221…

Focus Features has unveiled the trailer for James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama Armageddon Time, starring Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father), which is set for a limited release on October 28th, opening wide on November 11. Watch it above. Specifics…

EXCLUSIVE: Director James Gray has revealed to Deadline that Johnny, a pivotal character portrayed by Jaylin Webb (The Wonder Years) in Gray's autobiographical film Armageddon Time, was killed during a drug deal in the mid-1980s, some six years after we last see him in the movie. "I loved that kid!” Gray said…

Kieran Culkin has just started shooting Succession Season 4, and already he sees the story evolving and changing. Speaking on our podcast 20 Questions on Deadline, Culkin says, “It's going in a direction I didn’t anticipate," and the show isn't "resting on its laurels". Some of those laurels are a record 14 acting…

The Roy siblings are plotting again. Production has begun on the fourth season of HBO’s Succession in New York City. The Jesse Armstrong series follows media giant Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Siobhan (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Connor (Alan Ruck). Here’s…

For any actor playing a true-life character, there’s always a commitment to get it exactly right, however, there’s perhaps no greater challenge for any performer than playing one of the director’s parents. Such was the situation for Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong who respectively portrayed filmmaker James Gray’s mom…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Strong (Succession) has revealed to Deadline at the Cannes Film Festival that he's determined to build time into his schedule so that he can perform on the London stage. "I missed an opportunity to do The Shining for Ivo van Hove, and so next time I have to be ready," he declared. Deadline broke the…

Writer-director James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival in competition on four previous occasions with We Own the Night, The Yards, The Immigrant and Two Lovers but has yet to walk away with a prize. Maybe the fifth time will be the charm? It certainly would be deserving as Gray comes back to his beloved New…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning Succession star Jeremy Strong is set to headline and executive produce a limited series about Boeing’s controversial 737 Max planes. The untitled project, which is now in early development at Amazon Studios, hails from Oscar-winning Argo screenwriter Chris Terrio and Plan B. Written by Terrio…

"What I have an opinion about 25 years ago, it's not necessarily the opinion I have now," admits Brian Cox as response to the viewpoint the Succession star offers on the likes of Johnny Depp, Michael Caine, Ed Norton, Game of Thrones and others in his new memoir Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. "I don't really dismiss…

UPDATED Saturday (Originally published Friday): Aaron Sorkin posted an open letter Friday disputing what he calls the “distorted picture” of actor Jeremy Strong created by a recent New Yorker profile. Late Friday, the New Yorker responded with a statement to Deadline, which is below. Strong is currently receiving…