"The year has been in some ways just extraordinary in a beautiful way and it's been in some ways extraordinary in a really challenging way," proclaims Mapplethorpe producer Eliza Dushku. From almost any perspective, that seems like an understatement from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Married last summer and…

Just shy of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Neon's Apollo 11 is taking one giant leap into well over a hundred Imax theaters this weekend. The feature film, by Todd Douglas Miller and compiled from extensive very rarely seen large format footage of the mission, is one of the first big 2019 Sundance…

The official trailer for director Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe biopic is out, portraying the controversial artist as he ascends from nowhere to become one of the most talked-about media creators of the 20th Century. Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is Robert Mapplethorpe, with Marianne Rendon as punk poet/rocker Patti…

EXCLUSIVE: Ondi Timoner, the documentary filmmaker who is making her narrative feature debut with the Matt Smith-starring biopic Mapplethorpe, has signed with APA and Dialed-in Entertainment. Timoner has won a pair of Sundance Film Festival grand jury prizes — first in 2004 for her feature documentary debut Dig!, then…

NewFest, the New York-set LGBTQ film festival that is celebrating its 30th year, has unveiled its full linuep of movies ahead of its run October 24-30. As previously announced, the fest opens with Yen Tan’s AIDS drama 1985 starring Gotham‘s Cory Michael Smith, The Gifted‘s Jamie Chung, Aidan Langford, Virginia Madsen…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Mapplethorpe, Ondi Timoner's biopic that stars Matt Smith as artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The company is eyeing a late fall release date. The film, which bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival, explores Mapplethorpe's life from moments before he and Patti Smith…

Nathaniel Kahn’s art world documentary The Price of Everything is set as the opening-night film at the fourth annual Greenwich Film Festival, which runs May 31-June 3 in Greenwich, CT. The film about the intersection of art and commerce will kick off a lineup of narrative, documentary and short films announced today…

For the last 15 years, Bring It On and Dollhouse actress Eliza Dushku and her brother Nate Dushku have been trying to mount a biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. “It’s not the easiest thing to get an art film financed, we’re not a Marvel comic,” she told Deadline at our Tribeca studio. In…

Newcomer Karlee Perez has joined Ondi Timoner’s written and directed biopic Mapplethorpe, starring Doctor Who and The Crown star Matt Smith as avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The film, which is scheduled to begin shooting this month, follows Mapplethorpe from his 1970s rise to fame to his untimely death…

The Exchange has boarded international sales on Mapplethorpe, a biopic of the controversial photographer that's helmed by Ondi Timoner. Doctor Who's Matt Smith and Girls' Zosia Mamet star. Timoner, a two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner for documentaries Dig! and We Live In Public, wrote the script which follows…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith, best known for playing Doctor Who in that iconic BBC series, is taking on another larger-than-life figure. He has landed the lead role as avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic titled Mapplethorpe in the works from writer-director Ondi Timoner, the two-time Sundance-winning…