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We’ve all seen our great share of streaming while in isolation during Covid, but nothing was a better reminder of the power of the big screen than the Edgar Wright-directed, produced and co-penned fantasy-horror-romance Last Night in Soho, from its visceral re-creation of the 1960s London to Anya Taylor-Joy’s sublime…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. 1960s Soho, London comes back to life in Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. You can't visit without paying a price though, as Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) finds out in the…

In the days leading up to the opening of Last Night in Soho, a movie she co-wrote with Edgar Wright, Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ Great Company, which she runs with Jack Ivins, has pacted with Universal Pictures in a two-year overall deal. The agreement bolsters the working relationship between Wilson-Cairns and Universal…

Director Edgar Wright and writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns told the audience at Contenders London today that bringing their own experiences of living in London was integral to the making of their upcoming Focus Features pic Last Night In Soho. "In the 27 years I lived in London, I spent more time in Soho than any sofa or…

For anyone questioning the viability of original content on the big screen, there’s a moment in Edgar Wright’s 1960s fantasy-horror feature Last Night in Soho which could reduce the most stone-cold hearted streaming proponent to water. Anya Taylor-Joy, playing the aspiring singer, Sandy, (who Thomasin McKenzie’s…

Taika Waititi is sticking around in the Star Wars universe, with Disney confirming Monday that he will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release. He will co-write the movie with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who co-wrote Oscar Best Picture nominee 1917 with Sam Mendes. Waititi, who won an Oscar…

As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike. Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has put in development Mastermind, a crime drama series based on Evan Ratliff’s critically praised book The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal., with the Russo brothers’ AGBO Films, Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys and Skybound Entertainment producing. Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) is set…

Sam Mendes' World War I movie 1917 was filmed using one continuous, shot but the team behind the epic said it was not a "gimmick.” The film tells the story of two young British soldiers who are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop their own men from walking straight…

EXCLUSIVE: London-based lit agent Marnie Podos has left United Agents after eight years to form new management company Under New Mgmt. She will retain her client list including in-demand screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, whose 1917 script with Sam Mendes is due to shoot next year, playwright Chris Urch (Lee), whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has won a pitched spec package battle and will finance Oscar winning director Sam Mendes’ World War I film 1917. The film will begin production next April, for U.S. release December 2019 through Amblin’s distribution partner Universal.  Mendes wrote the original script with Krysty Wilson-Cair…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is setting Tobias Lindholm to make his English-language feature directing debut on The Good Nurse, a thriller based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing. The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie…