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Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper joined Deadline’s Contenders: LA3C awards-season event to discuss The Pale Blue Eye, his adaptation of the Louis Bayard novel about a gruesome West Point murder committed while none other than Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet in the military academy. Cooper teams…

Netflix on Wednesday released the trailer for The Pale Blue Eye, the new film from Scott Cooper that reunites him with star Christian Bale. The pic hits select theaters December 23 before landing on the streamer beginning January 6. Cooper adapted Louis Bayard’s novel that acts as an origin story of…

Scott Cooper’s Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye has fleshed out its cast, with two-time Emmy winner Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Toby Jones (First Cow), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), five-time…

The first look clip for Searchlight Pictures' Antlers is out, featuring some creepy creature action from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass and Hostiles) and horror maestro Guillermo del Toro. In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher (Keri Russell) and her sheriff brother…

Mess with imposing figures in the mythical lore of the ancient Native American tribes at your great peril —that would seem to be the message of Antlers, a classy horror outing that's perceptively cast and particularly attentive to the dead-end realities of a once-prosperous Oregon mining town. Searchlight no doubt…

Searchlight Pictures has set the world premiere of Scott Cooper's new horror thriller Antlers on Oct. 11, Closing Night selection of the 2021 Beyond Fest. The premiere will launch a series of events leading up to the Oct. 29 domestic theatrical release of the film, that includes a "Fantastic Fest Presents" Special…

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Bale and director Scott Cooper are set to make their third film together. Bale will star in Cooper’s scripted adaptation of the Louis Bayard novel The Pale Blue Eye. Cross Creek, coming off the Golden Globe-nominated The Trial of the Chicago 7, is financing and producing. CAA Media Finance and…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear Televison has partnered with Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper to develop a limited dramatic series Angels & Demons. Making his television debut, Cooper will write and direct all the episodes. The drama is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning St. Petersburg Times article by Thomas French, a…

During the Comic-Con@Home panel for the upcoming Searchlight movie Antlers, two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro shared some of the seismic COVID-19 safety protocols impacting his next Searchlight movie Nightmare Alley, which is readying for a restart after Disney’s mid-March pause. Nightmare Alley…

Today Scott Cooper issued an open letter, applauding the Senate’s passage of the $2.2 trillion relief bill as a “much-need positive news to an industry I cherish”, particularly in regards to how it’s primed to help movie theaters during this time when they have fixed costs to maintain over several months, and zero…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms is closing a high seven-figure multi-territory pre-buy for the Scott Cooper-directed psychological horror A Head Full of Ghosts, which will star Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). STX will distribute in the U.S. and UK and, like it did on Gunpowder Milkshake last month, teamed with…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Cooper is set to direct Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘s Margaret Qualley in the psychological horror A Head Full of Ghosts. The film is backed by Cross Creek, Team Downey and The Allegiance Theater. Cross Creek is financing, with CAA Media Finance representing U.S. rights and Mad River International…