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Claudia Llosa, director of Oscar-nominated drama The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) will be the first Peruvian director of a Netflix film. Spanish-language drama Distancia de Rescate, based on the novel Fever Dream by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, is due to begin production in Chile in early 2019 from a…

After holding a story about the construction of a package for Pablo Larrain’s The True American, I am dubious about a story I just read that Annapurna is making this film, which does have Amy Adams and Mark Ruffalo poised to star. My sources say that Annapurna exited the financing scenario, but that doesn’t mean the…

Sebastian Lelio is making a return to Foreign Language Oscar consideration as the representative from Chile, this year with A Fantastic Woman. The film stars Daniela Vega as Marina, a young transgender waitress and singer who has just moved in with Orlando (Francisco Reyes), an older man who suddenly falls ill and…

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larraín, the Oscar-nominated Chilean director behind such titles as Jackie and Neruda, is attached to direct Tom Hardy-starrer The True American for Annapurna Pictures. The project is based on Anand Giridharadas' nonfiction book of the same name, which is set in Texas in the days following 9/11. It…

Oscar nominated for 2000's Vatel, starring Uma Thurman and Gérard Depardieu, French production designer Jean Rabasse was thrilled to be brought on board for Pablo Larrain's Jackie, a shoot which allowed him to immerse himself in American history and lore, and to visit Washington D.C. for the first time. Certainly, Jack…

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…

Deadline co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr sat down last month at our big annual awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline with Sebastian Sepulveda, film editor of Fox Searchlight’s Jackie, to discuss the challenges of telling a well-known chapter in American life. The Chilean-born editor worked with…

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…

Re-watching Jackie with post-election eyes, it's hard to miss a shift in the film's Oscar status. Along with those already acknowledged performance points for Natalie Portman, who portrays Jacqueline Kennedy in the days surrounding her husband's assassination, and widespread regard for director Pablo Larrain, Jackie …

Six years ago, the news broke about a potential Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy movie with Rachel Weisz in the title role, and her then fiancé Darren Aronofsky directing from Noah Oppenheim’s script. At last year’s Berlin, Pablo Larrain was approached by Aronofsky about directing Jackie after the Black Swan director, then…

EXCLUSIVE: As much as any film that played the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, Jackie emerges with real momentum as a genuine Oscar contender. The Pablo Larrain-directed film with Natalie Portman in a career performance as Jackie Kennedy locked a Fox Searchlight deal and a December 9 release date here. I was having lunch…

Celebrated Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, whose 2012 film No received an Academy Award nomination, was among a group of select artists who made waves at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, securing one of the festival’s few big deals—in the eight-figure range—when Fox Searchlight came on to distribute the…