In what has become an anxious holiday ritual for Hollywood, pirated copies of DVD screeners of Oscar-contending films have leaked online.

The group calling itself Hive-CM8 announced that it released copies of four films — a “gift” for the Christmas holiday, according to Torrent Freak.

On Christmas Eve, it release the d…

Richard Linklater’s last film to appear at Deadline’s The Contenders event was three years ago with Boyhood, which was filmed over the course of 12 years and went to be a major player during awards season. He returned last month year for our 7th annual kickoff event at the DGA Theater, and in front of a packed…

Actor Greta Gerwig has added 'director' to her resume in a big way. Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, grossed $375,612 in four theaters, giving the A24 release a sizzling $93,903 per theater average, the best of 2017. Lady Bird had plenty of competition from veteran filmmakers with well-known…

“I don't think in terms of what I have or haven't done. You just get obsessed with characters or a story, or why you are moved by something,” writer-director Richard Linklater told the packed house at Deadline’s recent The Contenders London event, reflecting on the preoccupations that led him to take on his first war…

Two films by veteran filmmakers as well as a directorial debut are among the headlining Specialty newcomers rolling out in yet another packed weekend of new releases. New York Film Festival debut Last Flag Flying by Richard Linklater and starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne opens via Amazon…

Don’t believe everything you read, Richard Linklater said today at Deadline’s inaugural Contenders London event, sitting down opposite Bryan Cranston to discuss his New York Film Festival-premiering drama, Last Flag Flying. Based on Darryl Ponicsan’s novel of the same name, which is itself a sequel to his 1973 novel, T…

Most war movies offer lots of action, explosions and perilous life-and-death situations, but not Last Flag Flying from director and co-writer Richard Linklater. As he has proven in the past, Linklater is one of the rare filmmakers who loves words and lets them breathe onscreen — think his Before Sunset trilogy in…

Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne could well have teamed up for a convention on-the-road, mismatched buddy comedy – moments in this official trailer from Amazon Studios certainly suggest the trio has the right stuff for it. But judging from what we see here, Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying aims…

Lionsgate will now release Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying on Nov. 3, moving up from the previously scheduled date of Nov. 17. Amazon Studios financed the film and was due to release it initially. The drama will open in limited release only days after it premieres at the New York Film Festival on Sept. 28. Amazon…

At a time when the feet of most New Yorkers haven’t yet touched beach sand, the town’s preeminent movie festival is already steeped in lining up Oscar-season launches for the fall.  The Film Society of Lincoln Center has set as the opening-night film of the 55th New York Film Festival to be the Richard…

Rockmond Dunbar has joined the cast of Brad Furman's LAbyrinth that stars Johnny Depp as Russell Poole, a disgraced L.A.P.D. detective who is unable to solve his biggest case: The murders of rap impresarios Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.  He teams with Jack Jackson, a reporter determined to crack the case in…