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James Newton Howard is no stranger to the Western. He composed the scores for Wyatt Earp and Hidalgo, but the music for News of the World required a different touch. "This may be a big Western, with big characters and landscapes," Newton Howard says, "but it's a much more introspective movie." The story follows…

Two cheers for movie billboards. They are BIG—as big as Gary Oldman's second chin on the Mank sign at Wilshire Blvd. and Wellesley Ave. in West Los Angeles. They are blustery. "Electrifying . . . A Dazzling Powerhouse Drama" boasts the promo for Judas And The Black Messiah, just down the street. Okay, in keeping with…

The American Society of Cinematographers on Wednesday set its nominees for the 35th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards, recognizing the best in feature film, documentary and television cinematography over the past 14 months. Winners will be revealed April 18 in a virtual ceremony from the ASC Clubhouse in…

Marking his third collaboration with director Paul Greengrass, News of the World offered costume designer Mark Bridges the chance to tackle his first Western, and an earlier period than he'd ever before done on film. The Universal Pictures title centers on Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks), a Civil War veteran who journeys…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

With News of the World, composer James Newton Howard returned to the Western genre for the first time in many years. In concert with director Paul Greengrass, he'd craft a more somber, inward-looking score than is often heard in the genre—"broken" music for a broken nation. The Universal Pictures title centers on…

Talking with Paul Greengrass for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens was almost like going to the church of cinema. We talked about his first foray into the Western genre with News of the World, the weird and startling timeliness of the story set five years after the Civil War but pertinent…

“I think often what can happen with period pieces, as well as Westerns, is they just get kind of fancy—and sometimes, it works for the story. But when you look at pictures from the time period of towns all over the U.S., on the edge of things, things were rough. No one was worrying about having the perfect colored…

This morning, 12-year-old German actress Helena Zengel earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her turn opposite Tom Hanks in Western, News of the World. With this recognition for her American film debut, she becomes one of the youngest actors ever nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and finds…

EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass began working on News of the World, he said he set out to create a family movie with purpose and edge. However, he didn’t expect the film’s touching on pandemics and a politically divided country to strike such a chord with current events. “It was sort of eerie…

Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal. Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a beaten-down Confederate soldier who…

Director Paul Greengrass has said he expects people to be back in cinemas in six months. “I think we'll be back in cinemas sooner than we think, in six months I think we'll start to go back”, said the Brit filmmaker, who was speaking about his Tom Hanks drama News Of The World on the BBC’s Today Programme on Radio…