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EXCLUSIVE: While there have been questions about big movies holding their theatrical release dates around the holidays in this COVID-19 moment, Universal’s News of the World is solidifying a plan to release theatrically in the U.S., while getting its international release through Netflix. Deadline hears that the Paul G…

Universal has released the first trailer for News of the World, the film that reunites Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass for the first time since 2013’s Best Picture Oscar nominees Captain Phillips. The pic is scheduled for a December 25 theatrical release. Set five years after the end of the Civil War, Hanks’ Captain…

ITV is to follow-up Paul Greengrass’ BAFTA-winning 1999 drama The Murder of Stephen Lawrence with a sequel series following the pursuit of justice for the murdered teenager. The UK commercial broadcaster has commissioned three-part series Stephen, which will be made by Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham is among a set of British writers enjoying something of a moment. Fresh from making waves with his Benedict Cumberbatch drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, he wrote a standout episode on Prince Charles for Season 3 of The Crown. He is currently on the publicity trail for his AMC/ITV drama Quiz…

EXCLUSIVE: In the first project that has come unglued from Fox since the Disney acquisition, Universal Pictures has picked up rights to The News of The World, an adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel that is re-teaming Captain Phillips’ director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks. Scripted by Lion's Luke Davies, the…

The two who previously worked together on 2013’s Captain Phillips are looking to reunite for Fox 2000’s News of the World, based on the Paulette Jiles Civil War novel. Luke Davies adapted the book for the big screen. Story takes place days after Civil War and follows the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson…

Director Paul Greengrass started his career over 30 years ago working on cutting-edge documentaries, so it should probably come as no surprise that when he moved over to making narrative features the real world would definitely merge with his reel world. Films like Bloody Sunday, Captain Phillips, Green Zone, and Unite…

It’s a grim sign of the times that dramas about contemporary acts of terrorism have become a specialized sub-genre of cinema. The list of films includes 15:17 to Paris, Patriots Day, World Trade Center and Flight 93 — and, now, 22 July, which chronicles the events on the date in 2011 when a right-wing extremist…

In tackling the real-life horror of a 2011 terrorist mass-shooting in Norway, Paul Greengrass' Netflix film 22 July bravely approaches a topic most would be afraid to handle, considering 77 teenagers were murdered that day. Speaking at Deadline's The Contenders LA, 22 July's editor William Goldenberg (Argo, The Imitati…

In a seismic move that Deadline earlier this week revealed was coming, Netflix will boost the awards chances of several contending films by setting exclusive limited theatrical releases prior to the streaming service releases of the Alfonso Cuaron-directed Roma, the Joel & Ethan Coen-directed The Ballad of Buster Scrug…

Willem Dafoe, who just won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for playing Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, and 22 July writer-director Paul Greengrass will be feted at the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards next month in New York. Dafoe will will receive the Actor Tribute and Greengrass the…

Paul Greengrass first came to prominence as a director with 2002's Bloody Sunday, a forensically factual account of the shooting of unarmed Irish citizens by British soldiers in 1972. Since then, the pursuit of truth and reality has become Greengrass's calling card, even in his fiction films, and his latest, the Netfli…