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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Reichard’s First Cow, based on her frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond’s 2004 novel The Half Life, brings new life to pre-statehood Oregon and the early Americans seeking to stake their claim in the burgeoning Pacific Northwest. The A24 film, which is up for three Film Independent Spirit Awards…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is turning into quite a successful partnership, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt look to have found their next project together.  A24 has come on to Reichardt's next film Showing Up with Williams attaching herself to star. The news was confirmed via a new episode of The A24 Podcast, which drops…

Kelly Reichardt's First Cow, which won the New York Film Critics' Association award for best picture of 2020, significantly centers on food and food preparation two centuries ago in the Pacific Northwest region we now call Oregon, four decades before the area became an American state. Fish, game and vegetation were in…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s well-reviewed indie First Cow becomes the first physical 2020 DVD screener sent to all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and now holds that singular distinction that I chronicle every year here on Deadline. Distributor A24 had the Academy put them all in…

Oscar nominee Laura Dern, last competing for her role as Reese Witherspoon’s mother in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild, had a productive and politically charged 2016, finding roles in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and John Lee Hancock’s Ray Kroc biopic, The Founder. In Reichardt’s film, Dern portrays a beat down, small town…

Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women came up trumps at the 60th edition of the London Film Festival on Saturday night, with the Michelle Williams, Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart starrer picking up the best film award. The award was announced by the President of the Official Competition jury Athina Rachel Tsangari at…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has closed a worldwide rights deal for the untitled film that Kelly Reichardt just wrapped in Montana. Starring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Rosanna Arquette, James LeGros, Jared Harris and Lily Gladstone, the film is a series of vignettes that revolve…

Here’s an unusual use of Kickstarter: Oscilloscope Laboratories launched a campaign to digitally restore River Of Grass, the debut of indie darling Kelly Reichardt. Pic won the Best Debut Prize at Sundance in 1994, but not a lot of people have seen it and it is in rough shape. They’re trying to raise $20,000 for the…

Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to the Kelly Reichardt-directed Night Moves, which just played Toronto, Venice and Deauville. The film, about environmentalists trying to blow up a hydroelectric dam, stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. Cinedigm is eyeing a spring release. UTA repped…

Night Moves might be stopped before it is even started. In a copyright infringement civil suit (read it here) filed Thursday, Edward R. Pressman Film and Clarke Abbey, widow of author Edward Abbey, are asking federal court to shut down the film because of its similarity to Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.…

BREAKING: The Match Factory is selling foreign at Toronto for the Kelly Reichardt-directed Night Moves, which stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard as three radical environmentalists who come together to execute the most spectacular direct action event of their lives: the explosion of a…