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EXCLUSIVE: The Card Counter, Paul Schrader's revenge thriller which wrapped shooting today, has sold out globally. HanWay Films, which repped international rights, has closed deals in: Canada (VVS Films), Benelux (Belga Films), Germany and Austria (Weltkino), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (NOS Lusomundo), Scandinavia…

That's a wrap on Paul Schrader's The Card Counter, which saw Oscar Isaac and co recently return to film the last few remaining days on the movie after a virus-related delay. Deadline was the first to tell you that the pic was heading back on set this month after being forced to shutdown back in March when a cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline sat down (virtually) today with Paul Schrader and Oscar Isaac to chat about their new movie The Card Counter, which is aiming to head back into production soon after a five-month delay. As we revealed today, the movie is aiming to resume shooting in Mississippi from July 6 after being on hiatus…

Here's the first look at Oscar Isaac in Paul Schrader's upcoming pic The Card Counter, in which he plays William Tell, a former serviceman who lives a spartan existence playing cards before he moves into the world of high-stakes poker. As Deadline first revealed, the movie has been on production hiatus since March…

EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus scare has claimed another indie movie. The Card Counter, the film written and directed by Paul Schrader, has had to postpone its shoot in Biloxi, MS, just five days from being completed. Source said everyone was sent home after an actor who’d flown in from Los Angeles for a few scenes tested…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is set to re-team with Paul Schrader on the First Reformed director's next movie The Card Counter. Fresh off his latest Oscar nominations for The Irishman, Scorsese will executive-produce the revenge thriller pic, marking his fifth collaboration with Schrader after Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, T…

EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Bredeweg, best known as the co-creator of popular Freeform shows The Fosters and its spin-off, Good Trouble, has obtained the rights to Life From the Other Side, a feature script from Oscar-nominated First Reformed helmer Paul Schrader. Bredeweg is directing the film, which will be produced under…

There is probably nothing that defines movies —or cinema—better or more purely for cineastes than Cannes. And as we embark on the 72nd edition of this iconic film festival, the definition of what really is a movie has never been a hotter topic of discussion, from Hollywood to the French Riviera and all points in…

A four-time Oscar nominee with nods for both acting and screenplays, Ethan Hawke is certainly on a roll this awards season, having already racked up a leading 20-plus best actor wins from critics groups for his acclaimed role as a  minister in the midst of a spiritual crisis in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Hawke is…

Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke did not expect to be here. The writer/director and his actor are still talking about First Reformed, 18 months on from its premiere at Venice, as they receive nominations and awards to add to the mountains of critical praise the film has drawn. Its examination of a crisis of faith for a…

Three film luminaries — Paul Schrader, Christine Vachon and Ethan Hawke — shared the stage recently at Deadline’s The Contenders New York to ruminate on a subject often left on the cutting-room floor: religion. A24’s First Reformed, written and directed by Schrader, who grew up in a strict Calvinist household, depicts…

Religion and skateboarding may provide contrasting spiritual homes to its adherents, but as revealed by veteran director Paul Schrader, writer/director of First Reformed and first-time filmmaker, Jonah Hill, writer/director of mid90s, both found inspiration for their stories rooted in their upbringing. Released…