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EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles’ Dances with Films has announced the lineup for its 2021 film festival, setting Oscar nominees Paul Greengrass and Michael London as the speakers for its inaugural First Films series. The Dances With Films festival, which had to go virtual in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is returning…

Paul Greengrass is teaming again with his News of the World and United 93 studio Universal for a feature adaptation of the Fletcher Knebel novel Night of Camp David.  Greengrass will direct and produce alongside Gregory Goodman (22 July, Jason Bourne). Jed Mercurio (Bodyguard) is adapting. Book’s logline: Senator Jim…

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Talking with Paul Greengrass for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens was almost like going to the church of cinema. We talked about his first foray into the Western genre with News of the World, the weird and startling timeliness of the story set five years after the Civil War but pertinent…

EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass began working on News of the World, he said he set out to create a family movie with purpose and edge. However, he didn’t expect the film’s touching on pandemics and a politically divided country to strike such a chord with current events. “It was sort of eerie…

Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal. Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a beaten-down Confederate soldier who…

Director Paul Greengrass has said he expects people to be back in cinemas in six months. “I think we'll be back in cinemas sooner than we think, in six months I think we'll start to go back”, said the Brit filmmaker, who was speaking about his Tom Hanks drama News Of The World on the BBC’s Today Programme on Radio…

The United States is anything but united. The country has gone through a disastrous event that has left 600,000 dead. Half of America has lost the battle and still does not want to accept the outcome. America is more divided that it has ever been, and fake news — or what people want to believe — is rampant. Distrust…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures this week began showing to taste makers News of the World, the Paul Greengrass-directed 1870s-set adaptation of Paulette Jiles’ novel about broken-down war veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd — Tom Hanks — who crosses Texas towns and reads breathtaking newspaper stories to lift the…

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…