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The New York Film Festival wrapped tonight, and its closing-night film, French Exit, is a winner that firmly places Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time past nominee, back in the heart of the Best Actress Oscar race. She tops an aces cast that is sublime in every way in an absurdist comedy that is surreal, dark, witty…

The names have been changed in Honey Boy, but Shia LaBeouf, as not only a co-star in the film but also its writer, is not trying to hide the fact that this is the story of his life, no matter what poetic license may be taken it its telling. And what a story it is, a raw and revealing movie in which two actors in…

In a touching panel at Deadline’s recent The Contenders London awards-season event that went beyond the subtext of Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf held court with director Alma Ha’rel, and his co-stars Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe, on the subject of being a child actor and finding balance in your life. The film was written by…

Honey Boy might be Shia LaBeouf’s fictionalized version of his troubled, young child-star life, but anyone who followed the actor back in his Even Stevens days will know exactly who this film is about after watching the new trailer. In a scene that could have been lifted entirely from LaBeouf’s old Disney Channel kid…

EXCLUSIVE: FX Networks has given a pilot green light to Platform, a half-hour anthology pilot, written, directed and executive produced by B.J. Novak (The Office). Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Kaitlyn Dever, Boyd Holbrook, O'Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace and Ed Asner are among the actors set to star in the pilot…

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will headline French Exit, a surrealist comedy that Azazel Jacobs is directing. The pic, which will be presented at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, is based on the international bestselling book of the same name by Patrick deWitt, who also adapted the screenplay…

When Shia LaBeouf was ordered by a judge to write about the childhood trauma that seeded a fiery transition to adulthood punctuated by angry outbursts, car crashes, and curious creative choices that transformed him from golden boy to pariah, his decision to bare his pain in the screenplay format he was so familiar…

For Peter Hedges, casting his Oscar-nominated son Lucas Hedges in his latest movie Ben Is Back wasn’t about opportunity, rather catharsis. The 56-year old filmmaker’s reasons for tackling a teenage drug addiction drama extend back to his mother, Carol Hedges, a former alcoholic who quit drinking when he was 15 years…

Nicole Kidman is barefoot in a floor-length gown, ice-blue like her eyes. When she curls into a corner of the sofa, she looks relaxed and regal, a woman whose earned the right to stretch after a frantically busy fall. At this moment, her blockbuster Aquaman is topping the box office. You might not expect to see Kidman…

It was a father-and-son moment when Ben Is Back writer-director Peter Hedges was joined on Deadline’s The Contenders New York stage by son Lucas Hedges, who plays the title role in dad’s film about a drug-addicted son who leaves rehab to spend the holidays with his family, among them his mother played beautifully by…

A family drama is not unusual fodder for a holiday big screen story, but add elements of a suspense thriller by way of drug addiction, then the ante rises for a holiday release. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Peter Hedges took on the challenge, tapping his son, Lucas Hedges, as the son struggling with addiction, while…

With each passing year, Lucas Hedges multiplies his awards season filmography. First there was Manchester by the Sea, for which he was Oscar nominated. Then, last year, much-garlanded turns in Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. This year he's back with no fewer than three films: Joel Edgerton's Bo…