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By any yardstick, Paolo Sorrentino has had a lot of good luck in his directing career. His first film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the next six competed at Cannes, a residency that brought an Oscar nomination for 2013's The Great Beauty. But Sorrentino does not take his good fortune for granted…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Thomas Savage's 1967 novel The Power of the Dog had been percolating for some time in the back of the brain of filmmaker Jane Campion, previously an Academy Award winner…

"I really wanted to know what happened, who was responsible, and ultimately to make a film where we could learn some lessons from that to ensure that this kid of tragedy doesn't happen again," director Rory Kennedy says of the motivation behind Downfall: The Case Against Boeing. Debuting at the virtual Sundance Film…

Reggaeton stars Rauw Alejandro and Yandel are among the artists helping Netflix in their search for the next Latin urban music star in the reality competition series, La Firma. The duo will be joined by Nicki Nicole, and Lex Borrero as judges of the competition and super-producer Tainy will serve as mentor and music…

UPDATED with closing price: Netflix stock, which went into Friday’s Nasdaq session already down 16% in 2022 to date, plunged 22% today alone on waves of selling and disenchantment. After crawling up from an intraday low of $380 in the opening hour, it finished today at $397.50, its worst closing price since April…

Every year the same question is asked about the Best Animated Feature category: can anyone beat Disney? Walt Disney Studios, along with subsidiary Pixar, has won 14 Oscars in the Best Animated Feature category since the category began two decades ago, followed in a distant second by DreamWorks Animation's two wins. 26…

EXCLUSIVE: Christina P. is returning to Netflix with her third comedy special for the streamer. The stand-up comedian and podcaster will shoot the as-yet untitled one-hour special Saturday, January 22, at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City. It’s slated to premiere on Netflix later this year. The special will be…

Where better than Washington Heights to meet local hero Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Manhattan neighborhood's most vociferous supporter? How about at the United Palace Theater, an old movie palace Miranda has been supporting for years, and in whose rehearsal rooms the cast of his debut feature Tick, Tick… BOOM! assembled…

“I'm going to say this kindly for the last time,” began the 22-Grammy winner Kanye West in an Instagram rant today, “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.” West was referring to the three-part documentary Jeen-Yuhs which is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on…

The Netflix team played it cool Thursday as CFO Spencer Neumann attempted to reassure Wall Street that "there's no structural change in the business that we see." The company’s shares had plunged 20% in after-hours trading earlier Thursday, pulling media stocker down. Execs speaking on a post-earnings video Q&A…

Marvel’s Daredevil appears to be making a comeback, three years after its cancellation by Netflix, ranking at No. 8 on Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart of originals for the period of Dec. 20-26. The series has sparked new interest following the recent cameo of Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox…

"The Squid Game universe has just begun." Those are the words of Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who confirmed during Netflix’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday that there will "absolutely" be a second season of the surprise smash-hit Korean drama. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has talked about making a second season of…