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He is a TV news star: His views are populist, his subtext racist. His advocacy is passionate and his TV audience is vast, despite suspicion that he pursues an agenda above and beyond his own. Some may rush to identify this character – images of Fox News flash before us – but the TV anchor was, in fact, a creation of Pa…

Ethan Hawke is to direct and Martin Scorsese exec produce a celebration of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman’s lives for CNN+ and HBO Max. Featuring transcribed readings of interviews read by the likes of George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Laura Linney and Zoe Kazan, The Last Movie Stars will celebrate the enigmatic personas…

Bob Bondurant, a racecar driver-turned-instructor who taught and guided such actors as Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage for racing movies and other fast-car films, died Nov. 12 at an assisted living facility in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 88. His death was announced by the Bondurant Racing…

A memoir written by actor Paul Newman but left unfinished in his lifetime will be published by Alfred A. Knopf next fall, the publishing house announced today. Newman started writing the book in the 1980s with screenwriter Stewart Stern, but the memoir remained unfinished and unpublished when the Cool Hand Luke actor…

EXCLUSIVE: Nook House Productions has tapped Ethan Hawke to direct a documentary project about the lives and careers of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, authorized by the family. The producers include Emily Wachtel and Lisa Long Adler of Nook House Productions and Adam Gibbs, and Ryan Hawke of Under the Influence…

David Sheehan, a fixture on the movie and TV star interview circuit for decades at CBS and NBC, has poured the best of his work into The Winners Are!, a docuvideo that features interviews with 33 Oscar winners, many of whom aren't here anymore. The video is now available on Amazon for just a $3 rental or $10 purchase…

Will there ever be another great journalism film? Given the chaos in both movies and the news media—audiences polarized, anonymous sourcing resurgent, Twitter rampant, prevailing narratives debunked (or not)—the temptation is to say, no, probably not. But common sense says the next great media movie is bound to…

Final Oscar voting begins today, and Deadline is providing a last call to consider the films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. The hope is that these will remind voters how they felt when they saw these great films, and pull the focus away from the toxic narratives that have marred this long awards season. This sta…

James Stewart decided to retire from acting in 1978 at age 70 when The Magic of Lassie flopped ("I can't even open a dog movie.") Paul Newman said he considered calling it quits after shooting a dim 1998 movie called Twilight ("You start to deliberately lose your memory.") Robert Redford didn't specify his reasons…

As Netflix starts production on the John Lee Hancock-directed The Highwaymen with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson playing the legendary lawmen who brought bank robbers Bonnie & Clyde to their bloody end, Deadline asked the film’s original screenwriter John Fusco to detail the twists and turns of a project whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Highwayman, the drama that once had Paul Newman and Robert Redford poised to play the veteran Texas Rangers who put an end to the violent robbery spree of Bonnie & Clyde, might finally find its way into production. Sources said Netflix is in early discussions to team Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner as the…

In 2006, Disney and Pixar launched Cars, a funny, poignant and winning animated film that for whatever reason never became the critical darling most Pixar movies become. A 2011 sequel really got on the bad side of some critics, and now it is back for a third go-round. The only Pixar franchise that can match it in…