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Bringing a distinctly Chilean flavor last month to Deadline’s big annual awards-season event The Contenders Presented by Deadline, screenwriter Guillermo Calderon discussed his and director Pablo Larrain’s approach to making a film that does justice to the life of  Chile’s legendary poet Pablo Neruda for the movie Neru…

Ahead of a wide roll-out for Christmas, Paramount opened Denzel Washington's Fences in four New York and Los Angeles locations to $128K, easily outpacing its fellow limited release newcomers, though the top per theater average, of course, went to the weekend's number one film Rogue One. The Orchard bowed Golden Globes…

Denzel Washington directed and stars in Fences, which Paramount will tease in New York and Los Angeles this weekend in just four locations ahead of a Christmas national rollout. Washington tapped a number of his fellow performers from the Tony-winning 2010 Broadway revival of Fences for the big-screen awards…

Updated with more detail: Today’s reveal of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar shortlist is particularly notable for the films it does not include. Shockingly omitted is France’s submission, Elle. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Isabelle Huppert, this has been one of the most talked- and raved-about movies…

Chilean director Pablo Larrain has been to the Oscar party before; his 2012 political satire No was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Last year, The Club was nominated for a Golden Globe after winning the Grand Jury Prize in Berlin. Now, he's got the distinction of having two films in the Oscar…

As it turns out, no video exists of the final moments of Christine Chubbuck’s life. The Florida TV news reporter infamously killed herself live on-air in 1974, but, according to Antonio Campos, director of the biopic based on her story, all copies of the tape have been destroyed — despite urban legend to the…

Best known here in the U.S. as the author of some of the greatest — if not the greatest — poetry of the 20th century, Chile’s Pablo Neruda was considered in his country one of the most dangerous men alive. His romantic and erotic poems scandalized conservatives which was bad enough, but Neruda was also a communist…

Fox Searchlight’s decision to place the Natalie Portman starrer Jackie in the Oscar race with a December 9 release date creates a rare situation. The Orchard long ago dated another Toronto title, Neruda, for December 16, and the picture was just announced by Chile as its selection for Best Foreign Language Film. Both…

Gael García Bernal is perhaps still best known for his film work (Y Tu Mamá También, Motorcycle Diaries), but his first foray into television with Amazon's comedy Mozart in the Jungle has certainly garnered him plenty of acclaim, since he won a Globe this year for his portrayal of Rodrigo, conductor of the New York…

Oscar-nominated Chilean director Pablo Larrain was in Cannes this month with his Directors’ Fortnight entry, Neruda. The Orchard quickly picked up U.S. rights to the film which stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a government inspector on the hunt for the Nobel Prize-winning poet of the title, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a…

The Orchard has nabbed U.S. rights to Cannes Director’s Fortnight entry Neruda. Pablo Larraín directs with Gael Garcia Bernal starring as a government inspector on the hunt for famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during a crackdown on Communist sympathisers. Participant co-financed the film, with CAA repping the domestic…