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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. Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with the Netflix film Passing, which also marked her first produced screenplay. She adapted Nella Larsen's novel about a Black…

Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall's directorial debut, Passing, liberated her family, as Hall's grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit. Hall and stars Ruth Negga and Andre Holland spoke during the panel for the Netflix drama at Deadline's Contenders Film: New York…

Netflix’s $200M Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds feature Red Notice was a sensation in U.S. Samba TV measured households, pulling in an awesome 4.2M in its Friday-Sunday debut. The Rawson Marshall Thurber written and directed movie decimated the first weekend viewership of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend o…

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter and Rebecca Hall’s Passing, both from Netflix, swept the top nominations for the Gotham Awards this year as the independent film honors and awards-season portal unveiled its noms list Thursday morning ahead of an in-person ceremony next month. The Lost Daughter was nominated in…

EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi is launching a U.S. in-theater offering this month letting members see one film a week that it selects at participating cinemas starting in New York City. It said Mubi Go will roll out nationwide in selected markets with LA next in early 2022. Mubi Go (available in the…

Rebecca Hall revealed a personal link to her directorial debut Passing at Deadline’s Contenders Film: London this morning. Joined on stage by stars Ruth Negga and André Holland, she explained why she adapted Nella Larsen's 1929 novel. "My mother's from Detroit and her father was African American and passed for white…

Netflix made a splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival when it acquired Rebecca Hall’s Passing, the drama starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Hall, making her directorial debut, adapted the film from the 1929 novel by Nella Larson. Now the streamer is prepping for the film’s New York Film Festival slot…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is nearing a deal to acquire worldwide rights to Passing, the Rebecca Hall-directed and -scripted drama that stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland and Alexander Skarsgard. Sources said the deal will land at around a $15.75 million. The drama is about two African-American women who can…

The presumed dead-and-buried practice of racial passing by light-skinned blacks in the United States decades ago is returned to center-stage in Passing, a delicate, sensitive, intentionally claustrophobic and not entirely limber directorial debut from the protean British stage performer Rebecca Hall. Based on the…

One of the most talked-about titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, an adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel. Making its world premiere today in the Dramatic Competition section, Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) has joined Tessa Thompson (Avengers: Endgame), Ruth Negga (Loving) and André Holland (Moonlight) in Rebecca Hall’s (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) directorial debut Passing. Shoot is underway in New York on the anticipated drama based on a screenplay Hall adapted from the…

EXCLUSIVE: André Holland, best known for his standout performance in Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning film Moonlight, has signed on to co-star in Passing, the film adaptation based on the Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen. Rebecca Hall is set to make her feature directorial debut with the project that has…