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If the jury press conference for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is anything to go by, we're in for a pretty punchy ride on the Croisette the next few weeks. Iranian director Asghar Fahradi spoke for the first time of a plagiarism suit that was filed against him from his former film student Azadeh…

The Cannes Film Festival has set Vincent Lindon as its jury president for the 75th edition, which kicks off next month. The Frenchman, who won the 2015 Best Actor award at Cannes for The Measure of a Man, starred in last year's Palme d'Or winner Titane. Joining jury this year are: actor-director-writer Rebecca Hall…

IFC Films and Shudder have taken North American rights to Andrew Semans’ psychological thriller Resurrection starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper. The movie made its debut in the Premieres section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and currently is 87% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. IFC Films…

"You know I think I have a slightly self-flagellating instinct when it comes to acting," admits Resurrection star Rebecca Hall "I don't particular enjoy it unless there's a lot to do," the Sundance Film Festival vet adds. "This was one of those scripts where there just was an enormous journey to go on, and the…

Resurrection is a tedious, one-note paranoiac thriller that never shifts gears to get out of its rut. With classy production values and a tony cast led by Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth, writer-director Andrew Semans' first feature in a decade, since the similarly plotted Nancy, Please, grinds on trying to build suspense…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with the Netflix film Passing, which also marked her first produced screenplay. She adapted Nella Larsen's novel about a Black…

Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall's directorial debut, Passing, liberated her family, as Hall's grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit. Hall and stars Ruth Negga and Andre Holland spoke during the panel for the Netflix drama at Deadline's Contenders Film: New York…

Rebecca Hall revealed a personal link to her directorial debut Passing at Deadline’s Contenders Film: London this morning. Joined on stage by stars Ruth Negga and André Holland, she explained why she adapted Nella Larsen's 1929 novel. "My mother's from Detroit and her father was African American and passed for white…

Deadline Contenders Film: London, our annual awards-season kickoff that is gearing up for its hybrid in-person/virtual edition this weekend, has finalized its lineup of panelists for this year’s showcase, which will put the spotlight on 19 of the year’s buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line…

Netflix made a splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival when it acquired Rebecca Hall’s Passing, the drama starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Hall, making her directorial debut, adapted the film from the 1929 novel by Nella Larson. Now the streamer is prepping for the film’s New York Film Festival slot…

"Don't go into the woods," altogether too many characters have been warned through the annals of spooky literature and cinema, only to do so anyway, but Rebecca Hall has no choice because she already lives there in The Night House. Director David Bruckner clearly relishes the tropes of the horror genre and everything…

This is apparently the heavyweight match fans have been waiting for, and Warner Bros and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong comes at the right time for global moviegoers beaten down by a worldwide pandemic that has forced studios to hold back their big blockbusters for hopeful eventual theatrical play. Yes, this fourth…