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EXCLUSIVE: NEON has teamed with Topic Studios to win a pitched bidding battle and will pay north of $4 million for U.S. rights to Spencer, with Pablo Larraín is set to direct and Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana. The drama has been one of the most hotly contested packages at the virtual Cannes Market. The Steven…

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larraín is set to direct and Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in Spencer, a drama that shapes up to be a hot package for the virtual Cannes Market. The Steven Knight-scripted film covers a critical weekend in the early '90s, when Diana decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn't working, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Following news last week that Mubi is opting to release Pablo Larrain's latest movie Ema directly online due to cinema closures in the UK, Ireland and India, we can reveal that the streamer has expanded its territories on the title. The streamer has entered a deal with Nordic releaser NonStop Entertainment…

Ema, the latest feature from Jackie filmmaker Pablo Larraín, will skip theatrical and head online on streaming service Mubi from May 2 in the UK, Ireland and India. The pic had been planned to have a cinema rollout in the UK and Ireland but the closure of theaters due to coronavirus has made that impossible. Instead…

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Pablo Larraín’s (Jackie) Venice Film Festival drama Ema, starring newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal (Mozart In The Jungle), and Santiago Cabrera (Big Little Lies). Music Box plans to theatrically release the Sundance-bound drama in…

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…