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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…

In his latest collaboration with writer, director and producer Edgar Wright on Last Night in Soho, production designer Marcus Rowland would look to tap into the glamour and seediness of London’s West End, both in the past and in the present day. Historically, productions featuring period scenes in Soho had opted out…

Edgar Wright has carved out his own identifiable place in cinema as he is well known for smash cult hits like Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Baby Driver. All of these play with genre in some unexpected ways from zombies to horror to cop movies to aliens to crime, and all…

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…

Sunday AM: Disney was able to keep Eternals intact throughout the weekend hitting a $71M opening amid mediocre audience exits, and the worst reviews of all-time for an MCU title. But know that when this film first landed on tracking four weeks ago, many had it in the $80M-$85M three-day range. Of those attending in…

Edgar Wright's Last Night In Soho is an arthouse film that opened on 3,000 screens — a gamble in a theatrical market where multiplex-goers have been mostly turning out for big-budget, high-octane studio franchises. (Dune, Halloween Kills and No Time To Die took top spots this weekend, a soft one overall where…

Sunday AM Writethru after Saturday AM update: The first full Halloween celebration in two years is taking its toll on the domestic box office, a grey cloud which many saw coming, with many trick-or-treating or attending parties last night. Essentially, whenever the holiday falls on a Sunday, it’s poised to gut the…

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel. Last Night, a time-bending genre tale, unspools on just over…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The new Academy Museum in Los Angeles will be holding its first inaugural red-carpet film premiere on Monday, Oct. 25 with Focus Features’ Edgar Wright psychological thriller Last Night in Soho.  Expected at the premiere are director/producer/co-writer Wright, stars Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy…

When a studio is looking to get traction on their awards season contender, there’s no better start at this early point in the fall than the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award. The top prize at the Great White North cinema fest has often been a predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, or…