Filmmakers behind the slate of Sony's awards hopefuls this year took unique and fascinating paths to creating a sense of meaning in complicated worlds. Those messages were central to their films covered Saturday afternoon at Deadline’s The Contenders New York event at the DGA Theater.
For Quentin Tarantino and Once Upo…
The last wide entries of 2019 hit tracking today with projections for the 5-day Christmas holiday as follows: 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky’s animated feature Spies in Disguise($23M-$30M), Sony’s Greta Gerwig directed Little Women($19M-$35M), and A24’s Adam Sandler crime thriller Uncut Gems($15M).
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From her Lynchian beginnings in Blue Velvetto escaping an errant T-Rex in Jurassic Park, to becoming the superpower that is Renata Klein in Big Little Lies, Laura Dern has perhaps one of the broadest ranges of any actress in our time. And this season once again showcases her dynamism, as she digs into two vastly…
2019 will go down as the year of Florence Pugh, for in quite a short time, the Oxfordshire, UK native has blown us away with quite a range. Some have called a Florenaissance. It's a breakout year reminiscent to when Edward Norton strode into the 1996 award season with Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flyn…
Netflix’s Martin Scorsese mob drama The Irishman, which already has picked up Best Picture wins from critics groups, is one of the 10 films named to the American Film Institute’s AFI Motion Pictures of the Year list.
The diverse group for 2019 includes ranges from indies like Lulu Wang’s A24 pic The Farewell to a…
With seven feature film versions the need for another is questionable, but Greta Gerwig had a distinct vision for a new circa 2019 take on Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen novel, Little Women and so, exactly 25 Christmas seasons since the last version in 1994 that starred Winona Ryder, we have a beautifully gift-wrapped…
The Oscar show this year will be led by two women with strong producing credentials, sending us this message: There's a new generation of self-styled “badass” women filmmakers out there, ready to leave their mark on the film culture.
The arrival of awards season, however, may carry a different portent: The possibility…
There's a scene in James Mangold's Ford v Ferrarithat had TIFF audiences almost rolling in the aisles. Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II is persuaded by Matt Damon's Caroll Shelby to take Ford's latest racecar for a spin, but the bossman is vastly underprepared for the reality of 100mph. When the car finally stops, all…
What do you think of the idea of the beloved Little Women — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — as material girls?
On today's Sony Pictures panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig said she wanted to bring out the power of money over women's choices in Little Women's Victorian…
Skipping the festival circuit just as Bombshell did, Sony’s holiday-season gift, Little Women, was unveiled Wednesday night at a DGA Theater screening for SAG and select media, putting another piece of the Oscar puzzle into clearer focus. Greta Gerwig wrote and directed and, if you wondered after seven — count ’em…
What’s old is entirely rejuvenated and new for Sony this awards season whether it’s Quentin Tarantino’s 1969 ode to Tinseltown Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Greta Gerwig’s groovy spin on Louisa May Alcott’s 1860s novel Little Women, and Marielle Heller’s look at Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the…
The PGA on Wednesday unveiled its first batch of speakers for masterclass sessions at Produced By: New York, with producers and creatives set for the likes of awards-season films Little Women, Harriet, American Factory, Marriage Story and more.
The group is added to the slate of the annual conference, to run November…
