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When Sofia Coppola first read Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, she immediately connected with the “beautiful and unique story” before her, optioning it for her longtime friend Andrew Durham to direct. “We share a similar sensibility,” Coppola shared in a Friday appearance at Deadline…

Emilia Jones earned a lot of attention as the star of 2021’s big Sundance winner and eventual Best Picture Oscar winner CODA, and the praise should be continuing this year as she not only stars in Cat People but also Fairyland, which had its world premiere in Park City on…

It has taken quite a while for a major studio to discover the cinematic possibilities of a movie about a singing crocodile, but Sony’s Columbia Pictures has finally gotten the message and thus we finally have the film adaptation of Bernard Waber’s 1965…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five…

Narcos: Mexico has picked up two nominations at the International Emmy Awards 2022 and will battle with Lupin, Vigil and South Africa’s Reyka for the coveted Drama Series prize. The Netflix spin-off smash hit also picked up a nod for Scoot McNairy in the Best Performance By an Actor category, a hot contest that will…

EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy (Narcos: Mexico), Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Emily Browning  (American Gods) are set to lead cast in psychological thriller Brightwater, which James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain) is aboard as executive producer. Bankside Films is launching the package ahead of the impending Cannes market…

EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy (C’mon C’mon, Narcos: Mexico) is the latest addition to the cast of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Will Speck and Josh Gordon’s film for Sony Pictures, based on the bestselling children’s book by Bernard Waber. He’ll star alongside the previously announced Javier Bardem, Constance Wu, Winslow Fegley…

EXCLUSIVE: Rivulet Media’s Colson Baker music saga feature Taurus has added Maddie Hasson (Malignant, God Bless America), Scoot McNairy (C’mon C’mon, The Quiet Place Part II, Argo), Ruby Rose (Orange Is the New Black, John Wick: Chapter 2), Demetrius ‘Lil Meech’ Flenory (Euphoria), recording artist Lil Tjay, Megan Fox…

Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico returns with season 3 on Nov. 5 — its final season in Mexico. It is as yet unknown if the franchise will continue with another installment after the original series, set in Colombia, and the Mexico offshoot, both of which ran for three seasons. Executive producers previously have said their…

EXCLUSIVE: Scoot McNairy, star of Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, has signed with UTA. The agency has signed the actor in all areas of representation. He was previously with WME. McNairy is currently filming the third season of the Narcos spin-off, in which he plays Walt Breslin, the American DEA agent sent to Mexico to…

"We always thought of it as one movie — it was just going to be a three-and-a-half-hour movie," director Billy Ray admits of Showtime's limited series The Comey Rule. "To be honest the structure that we stole was …Jaws," he added of the political drama based on fired FBI boss James Comey’s memoir A Higher Loyalty. "I…

“Useful idiot” is a pretty self-explanatory term the Kremlin has long used to describe expendable assets that they develop and deploy but never respect. It is also a pretty applicable phrase to sum up the current President of the United States, at least according to Showtime’s excellent and deeply unsettling The Comey…