EXCLUSIVE: A day after 89-year old iconic South Boston mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger was beaten to death — his face reportedly pummeled beyond recognition by prisoners with mob ties and a grudge — in a West Virginia prison, I asked Scott Cooper how he would script Bulger’s headstone. While several major movies and TV…

Graham Greene, Amy Madigan, Scott Haze and young Lore actor Jeremy T. Thomas have come aboard Antlers, Fox Searchlight’s horror thriller starring Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons that is being directed by Scott Cooper. Principal photography is now underway on the pic in Vancouver, BC. In Antlers, a small-town Oregon…

Shortly before winning his first Oscar and an ACE Eddie award for La La Land, absorbed in the limelight of one of the year’s most highly acclaimed films, editor Tom Cross was in a very different headspace as he cut Scott Cooper’s dark, often brutal Western Hostiles, attempting to bring a depth and a psychological…

Shooting Scott Cooper’s last two films—pitch-black backwoods thriller Out of the Furnace and gangster picture Black Mass—cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi shifted visual gears once again with the director’s latest, the Christian Bale-starring Western, Hostiles, shooting out in the wilderness, with much of the film’s…

Today, Entertainment Studios has broadened its awards season release of Hostiles, the Scott Cooper-directed Western that stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. It is the biggest prestige film play so far for Entertainment Studios, the company owned by Byron Allen, who is moving aggressively into the movie…

After a decade spent trying to make it as an actor, Scott Cooper found his niche as an actor’s director. Distributor Entertainment Studios tomorrow broadens the release of his fourth film, Hostiles, in the teeth of awards season. Cooper guided Jeff Bridges to the Best Actor Oscar in his directing debut Crazy Heart…

It is not easy to get a Western made these days, particularly one that has serious ideas. Fortunately, writer-director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well-worn, currently not-often-attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial…

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures became the latest new distributor to join Deadline’s annual The Contenders event when it brought Hostiles to our seventh edition of the awards-season kickoff last month. Joining director-writer Scott Cooper and me in conversation about the Western were co-stars Wes St…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has finished its first trailer for the Scott Cooper-directed Hostiles, and you can watch it right here. The Western, which Allen acquired after its premiere at Telluride and Toronto, stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. It will be platformed…

"I recall Robert Duvall telling me, 'The English have Shakespeare; the French have Molière; we, as Americans, have Westerns,” Hostiles writer-director Scott Cooper told Deadline’s Pete Hammond at The Contenders today, appearing with stars Wes Studi and Q’orianka Kilcher. “I’m really pleased to have been able to work…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has won U.S. rights to Hostiles, the Western from writer-director Scott Cooper that stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster and Adam Beach. Since its premiere in Telluride and Toronto, the film was expected to put Christian Bale squarely…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is an exclusive first peek at footage for Hostiles, the Scott Cooper-directed Western acquisition title that became the talk of Telluride for the quality of the picture and the strong performance by Christian Bale as well as Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. The film played Telluride instead of Venice…