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At a time in which film and television production was on lockdown due to the emerging Coronavirus pandemic, Malcolm & Marie was the rare project heading into production. The $2.5 million indie about a late-night debate between a young couple got made because writer/director Sam Levinson answered Zendaya's call to…

“Chadwick Bosman was an amazing artist. We’ve all been thrilled, and excited, and overwhelmed by the depth of his work,” said Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe who presented the late actor Chadwick Bosman with Performance of the Year Award at Critics' Choice Association’s virtual annual celebration Of…

The Netflix drama Malcolm & Marie, from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, was one of the first — if not the first — movie that was shot during the coronavirus pandemic. The idea for the movie surfaced after Euphoria shut down production, and Levinson had a conversation with his Emmy-winning star Zendaya about the…

Many actors are known to count how many lines they have before signing on for a gig. In the case of Sam Levinson’s pandemic-created insta-movie Malcolm & Marie, I would imagine its two stars were counting monologues instead. This two-hour argument between John David Washington’s Malcolm, a self-absorbed hotshot film…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the final unseen films with awards season potential presents itself tonight as Netflix unveils the Sam Levinson-directed Malcolm & Marie in its first industry screening before a February 5 release. John David Washington plays a writer/director who returns home with his girlfriend after the triumphant…

Netflix is out with the first trailer for its $30 million Toronto pickup Malcolm & Marie, starring Euphoria Emmy winner Zendaya and Tenet and BlacKKKlansman star John David Washington. Check it out above. The romantic drama comes from writer-director Sam Levinson, who broke out with 2018’s Assassination Nation and…

EXCLUSIVE: John David Washington has been set to star with Christian Bale and Margot Robbie in David O. Russell's new film for New Regency. The pic doesn’t have a title or a logline, but Deadline can reveal it will shoot in Los Angeles in January. Three-time Oscar winning cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to set the tone for the 2020 Toronto Film Festival Market. Deadline hears that the streamer is wrapping up a deal near $30 million for worldwide rights to Malcolm & Marie, a Sam Levinson-directed romantic drama that stars Zendaya and John David Washington. This follows the around $20…

“Does your head hurt yet?” asks Robert Pattinson's debonair British agent Neil at one point in Tenet. The answer is, inevitably: yes. This movie revels in its whirlwind of complications, daring its audience to get their heads around its high concept, while simultaneously delivering a massive big-screen wallop. Yes…

Ahead of its international rollout starting August 26, the reviews are in for Christoper Nolan's time-travel thriller Tenet, and fair to say it's a mixed bag of opinions. You can read Deadline‘s verdict here. Anna Smith writes that it’s “chiefly one for those numerous and ardent Nolan fans”, and that “there's a…

Editors Note: Deadline's Reopening Hollywood series focuses on the complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide a forum for leaders in Hollywood who have a vision for how production could safely …

Christopher Nolan took the Hollywood heist film into dreamland with the cerebral thriller Inception. Now, with Tenet, he might be introducing an espionage thriller where time itself is the ticking bomb. That’s one way to interpret the just-arrived trailer for the sleek Warner Bros film that hits theaters worldwide on…