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It’s been 20 years since Emily Watson was at Cannes with Punch Drunk Love, and speaking at Deadline’s Cannes studio, she reported feeling “quite emotional” about her return to the festival. “My career started here with Breaking the Waves, so it feels quite special to me to be back here.” Part of the reason for her…

Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells lights up Cannes Critics' Week with Aftersun, the absorbing story of an 11-year-old going on holiday with her father. Paul Mescal (Normal People, The Lost Daughter) stars alongside Francesca Corio in a terrific two-hander with engaging supporting performances. Shot on location…

Early in Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer's dark and stately God's Creatures, screening in Directors' Fortnight here at Cannes, one of the younger women at a wake in an old Irish fishing village declares that her new baby will definitely be learning to swim. The dead man drowned, a professional risk on the surging…

Margaret Qualley (Maid, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood) will exec produce and star in The End of Getting Lost, an Amazon Studios thriller from Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, which also has Paul Mescal (The Lost Daughter, Normal People) in talks to co-star, Deadline has confirmed. The film is based on a novel of…

The Crown Emmy winner Josh O'Connor and Normal People star Paul Mescal have been set to star in The History of Sound, a World War I love story adapted from Ben Shattuck’s Pushcart Prize-winning short story. Oliver Hermanus (Beauty, Moffie) is aboard to direct the pic, which hails from Cop Car producer End Cue…

It comes as no surprise that for her feature directorial debut Maggie Gyllenhaal would choose the challenging job of adapting Italian author Elena Ferrante’s searingly compact novel The Lost Daughter. The film just made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and next heads to Telluride this weekend. The Last Da…

EXCLUSIVE: On one of the hot Cannes Virtual Market packages, Amazon Studios has moved into exclusive talks on a worldwide rights deal for Foe, source said. Bidding was ferocious all weekend. This is the Garth Davis-directed thriller that stars Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and LaKeith Stanfield in an adaptation of Iain Re…

Winners have been announced for the 2021 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, which took place virtually this year. Scroll down for the full list. Hit TV series Normal People dominated the small screen awards, winning nine from its 15 nominations. The show took prizes including Best Drama, Best Director Drama for…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and LaKeith Stanfield will star in Foe, an adaptation of the Iain Reid bestselling science fiction novel. Lion helmer Garth Davis will direct a script he wrote with the author and filming will get underway in January in Australia. Pic takes shape as a hot title in the upcoming Cann…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Watson and Paul Mescal are set to star in the A24 psychological drama God’s Creatures, with Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer directing. This will mark the directing debut as a duo, after working together on the award-winning feature The Fits.  God’s Creatures, currently in production, also stars…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's some hot casting news for this week's European Film Market – I can reveal that Paul Mescal, who broke out in last year's hit series Normal People, and Mank actor Tom Burke have been set to lead Irish thriller Bring Them Down. Set in the wild landscape of the West of Ireland, the film follows an Irish…

Lenny Abrahamson was nominated a few years ago for the Best Director Oscar for helming Room, which opened up several cinematic opportunities for him. Yet for his latest project, Hulu’s Normal People, he says there was no question he wanted to work in television. During Deadline's virtual Contenders Television: The…