EXCLUSIVE: When he made the stylishly violent noir film Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn set himself and Ryan Gosling on a fast track to mainstream studio stardom. Trouble is, it’s a road neither seems to particularly like. They prefer to play in sandboxes filled with broken glass and sharp edges, the kind studios varnish…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor UPDATED: Documentaries lead the way with sizzling debuts among the Specialties over the weekend.  Drafthouse Films clearly won bragging rights with critically lauded Danish-produced feature The Act Of Killing. The film re-tells the story of the little-known massacre of leftists…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. Roadside/Lionsgate’s Girl Most Likely and RADiUS-TWC’s Only God Forgives will be among this summer’s largest weekend rollouts among the Specialties. Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon and Darren Criss starrer Girl Most Likely will continue Roadside’s strategy of opening…

They killed his brother. But “it’s a little more complicated than that.” A month after it screened in Competition at Cannes, Only God Forgives has a new trailer out today. Writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn reteams with his Drive star Ryan Gosling for the violent tale of a drug-running family’s thirst for revenge…

Whichever way the mistral wind blows on Sunday when Steven Spielberg's jury hands out its awards, it's fair to say that, for critics, the Competition has been divisive. While a number of films received huzzahs in the Palais, several met with mixed reactions. Among the best received were the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn…

An HBO film? A VOD movie? Competing for the Palme d’Or, all seriously in one of the last bastions of pure cinema, the Cannes Film Festival‘s main competition? Oui! With HBO’s Behind The Candelabra and Radius-TWC‘s Ryan Gosling-starrer Only God Forgives from Cannes darling Nicolas Winding Refn, a new day — and date…

The second trailer for Nicolas Winding-Refn's Only God Forgives dropped today, just hours after the film made the Cannes competition roster. The Bangkok-set crime pic stars Ryan Gosling as the scion of a drug-smuggling family who runs a Thai boxing club and is sent on a quest for vengeance by his mother (Kristin Scott…

Ryan Gosling reteams with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn in the Bangkok-set crime pic, which RADiUS-TWC will release July 19. Gosling plays the scion of a drug-smuggling family who runs a Thai boxing club and is sent on a quest for vengeance by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). Here’s the newly unveiled red band…

I've learned more about the special screening addition to the Cannes Film Festival that I wrote about a few days ago. Just today, the team behind Juan Antonio Bayona's The Impossible decided to pull out. The reason as I understand it is they were keen not to be lumped in with the program of footage and promo reels and…

EXCLUSIVE: Radius-TWC, the upstart distribution company that The Weinstein Company started with Tom Quinn and Jason Janego at the helm, is in negotiations to acquire U.S. distribution rights to Only God Forgives, the re-team of Drive helmer Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling that is getting underway in Thailand…