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EXCLUSIVE:  Actress Millicent Simmonds has signed with WME for representation in all areas. The 18-year old actress broke out in Todd Haynes's feature Wonderstruck opposite Julianne Moore, which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. She continued on to star in Paramount and John Krasinski’s…

After a 14-month delay due to the pandemic, Paramount finally gets to release its much-anticipated sequel A Quiet Place Part II in theaters on May 28, and box office prognosticators are virtually staking the future of exhibition on it. Maybe that is because, unlike so many other films (some from the very same studio)…

EXCLUSIVE: A Quiet Place star Millicent Simmonds is making her way to Freeform for the upcoming pilot Close Up. The deaf actress will be one of the leads of the one-hour drama where she will be communicating in American Sign Language. Set in a seemingly normal suburban town in Centreville, New Jersey, Close Up…

Though they started dating a decade ago, John Krasinski & Emily Blunt had never worked together before this year, when the Krasinski-directed A Quiet Place cast them as husband and wife and tapped into the unspoken language they've come to share. Krasinski was nervous to approach Blunt to star, but on screen, as they…

Even the surest of Oscar bets are open to last-minute surprises. But can anything come close to unseating the front-runner status that A Quiet Place‘s sound design team has held since the film’s April debut? The Platinum Dunes-produced Paramount film rewrote the rule book as it presented a world dominated by…

“We had just had our second daughter — she was 3 weeks old when I read the script, A Quiet Place director-writer-star John Krasinski said Saturday during a panel at Deadline’s annual The Contenders awards-season event. “The idea was perfect. I saw the entire movie within 30 minutes of finishing the script because I…

The last time Todd Haynes was here at the Cannes Film Festival with Carol two years ago, he delivered a best actress win to Rooney Mara for playing a precocious girl who has a forbidden lesbian affair during the 1950s. So, is it possible that Millicent Simmonds,who makes her cinematic debut in Haynes’ <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/wonderstruck/" id="auto-tag_wonderstruck"…

EXCLUSIVE: After an extensive casting search, newcomer Millicent Simmonds has landed a primary role in Todd Haynes’ next film Wonderstruck. Based on the novel by Brian Selznick, the Amazon Studios pic will chart the intertwined stories of two deaf children: Ben, who lives with his family in Minnesota in 1977 and runs…