An adaptation of the 2009 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells a tale of a bond between a white and black family forged by the hardships of farm life in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era. That bond takes a fateful turn when the eldest sons of each family return from the horrors of WWII. The Netflix film…
“To the chagrin of my agent, usually I hate everything I read," Dee Rees told the audience at Deadline’s The Contenders event, which might explain why the director has maintained a relatively low profile since her 2011 Sundance hit Pariah. All that changed when indie producer Cassian Elwes sent her a script by Virgil…
“It exposes race as an economic construct and exposes the fact that we're all interconnected not just to each other but to our history,” said Mudbound director Dee Rees, speaking on the contemporary message of the period film at Deadline’s The Contenders. “There is no ‘then’ or ‘will be,’ there's only now. Everything…
Onstage at the third annual Women In Entertainment Summit, Mudbound and Bessie director Dee Rees admitted she had mostly men to thank for elevating her career. “Ironically, it was mostly men that took me on,” she shared mentioning people like Spike Lee, who helped on her first feature Pariah, Michael Lombardo and Len…
“I was automatically attracted to it because in order to tell these sorts of stories, you have to tell them right,” Jason Mitchell told Deadline’s Joe Utichi recently at the inaugural The Contenders London, regarding writer-director Dee Rees’ Netflix period drama Mudbound. “They always have something missing — they…
EXCLUSIVE: Two late entries are on their way to the Austin Film Festival: Dan Gilroy’s Roman J. Israel which stars Denzel Washington and Netflix’s Mudbound from Dee Rees. Gilroy will be on hand at the festival after the film this coming Sunday. Both are getting the Centerpiece selections this weekend.
Roman J. Israel…
During the Q&A portion of the closing keynote conversation with Dee Rees at the Film Independent Forum, an aspiring filmmaker stepped up to the microphone and, through tears, expressed gratitude to the acclaimed director for being a black lesbian director that others can look up to. After pouring her heart out to the…
Blumhouse/Universal’s feature Get Out from filmmaker Jordan Peele fired up awards season this morning with its first set of nominations at the 27th annual IFP Gotham Awards.
The $4.5 million-budgeted movie that made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival as a secret screening received four nominations — more than any…
The 21st annual Hollywood Film Awards will honor the Dee Rees-directed Mudbound and Pixar’s Coco at this year’s ceremony which takes place on November 5 at the Beverly Hilton. James Corden is set to host the event for the third consecutive year.
Dick clark productions announced today that the Netflix period drama Mudbo…
Netflix’s $12.5M Sundance Film Festival acquisition Mudbound will open AFI Fest on Thursday, Nov. 9, the festival announced today.
Directed by Dee Rees, and co-written by Virgil Williams and Rees, the historical period drama features cinematography by AFI Conservatory alumna Rachel Morrison (Class of 2006). …
Premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Dee Rees' Mudbound was met with a rapturous response from critics and the public alike, acquired by Netflix in one of the biggest deals of the festival. On Friday, at Deadline’s Contenders London event, the filmmaker sat down with several members of her cast — including Ja…
Dee Rees, whose much buzzed-about film Mudbound will be available to stream on Netflix in November, has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 best-selling political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. Cassian Elwes of Elevated, a producer on Mudbound, optioned the book last year to develop it in…
