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Ben Kingsley shows a different side to his screen persona with his performance in Dalíland, in which he plays the mercurial Surrealist artist in the last decade or so of his life. When he came to Deadline's TIFF studio, the actor praised his young co-star Christopher Briney, who plays James, a young Manhattan gallery…

Director Mary Harron brought first-time actor Christopher Briney into Deadline's TIFF Studio to discuss Dalíland, a film that explores the final stretch of the Surrealist art superstar Salvador Dalí's life, leading up to his death in 1984. As Harron explained, "It shows the last years of Dalí and his wife Gala's crazy…

For all the noise out there about The Flash star Ezra Miller, from questionable altercations and actions in Hawaii and Iceland to a burglary charge in Vermont, we continually hear from various insiders that the actor holds a great sense of professional decorum, not just on film sets but with studio press tours as…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Ben Kinglsey is no stranger to inhabiting larger-than-life characters. From Gandhi to Schindler's List and Sexy Beast, the actor's career has spanned a wide variety of roles with presence and gravitas. Despite his comfort with such parts, Kingsley says that approaching the enigmatic and iconic…

Amid frustration over the small number of women directors in Venice's Competition (two), the festival held a gender seminar yesterday to reveal stats on gender diversity at the event and in the European industry. Venice reiterated that around 22-23% of submissions to the festival came from women, and the percentage of…

Over the years since that fateful summer of 1969, when Charles Manson and his followers killed seven innocents in cold blood, there have been no shortage of films made about the subject. Nestled deep within the American psyche, the infamous cult leader passed away in 2017, though he will undoubtedly endure as a figure…

IFC Films has released the first trailer to Charlie Says, the film which focuses on the females who fell prey to the manipulation of the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson. American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron directed the film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year. The Crown‘s Matt Smith…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer and director Kevin Shulman (Her Dark Past) has filed a fraud and breach of agreement lawsuit against the producers of Mary Harron-directed Manson Family drama Charlie Says, which recently debuted at the Venice Film Festival. In the complaint, filed in L.A. Superior Court earlier this month, Shulman…

EXCLUSIVE: Justice League and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Ezra Miller will play the young Salvador Dali in Mary Harron’s upcoming biopic Dali Land. Miller, also well known for starring in Cannes Film Festival dramas We Need To Talk About Kevin and Afterschool, will play the young Dalí through a series…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kingsley is to star as Salvador Dali in Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) feature biopic Dali Land, I can reveal. The movie will chart the unusual marriage of the surrealist artist and his domineering wife and muse, Gala. Oscar-winner Kingsley will star alongside Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) who will…

Netflix and Canadian broadcaster CBC have teamed up to greenlight Alias Grace, a six-hour miniseries from Sarah Polley (Away from Her) and Noreen Halpern’s Halfire Entertainment. The mini is inspired by the historical true story of convicted murderer Grace Marks and based on Margaret Atwood’s novel. Polley, who…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind the 2000 cult classic American Psycho is reuniting for look at real-life American psycho Charles Manson. Director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner are set for The Family, an examination of the infamous Manson Family murders through the eyes of graduate student Karlene Faith as…