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20th Century Studios has unveiled a trailer and first-look photos for its upcoming thriller No Exit, featuring the first leading film role of Havana Rose Liu (Mayday), which will debut on February 25 exclusively as a Hulu Original in the U.S., on Star+ in Latin America and as an Original on Disney+ under the Star…

For editor Michelle Tesoro, the greatest challenge of The Queen's Gambit was trying to figure out how to turn a game of chess into a cinematic event. "How do we make it exciting? How do we make people understand it?" Tesoro says in the latest installment of Deadline’s Production Value video series. "And how [do] you…

After a mysterious opening scene that tracks the fallout of a decadent Paris night and an almost neglected chess match, the first episode of The Queen's Gambit masterfully explores the forlorn early life of the orphaned Elizabeth Harmon and her rise to international fame. And there are a lot of those green pills in…

EXCLUSIVE: After a year of virtual festivals and Zoom-centric events, the Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference is ready to bring things into the new normal this fall with an in-person festival — one of the first since the pandemic. The eight-day festival is now set to take place October 21–28 in Austin…

The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank is heading back to the 1960s. Clive Owen is set to star in Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama series from Frank and City On a Hill showrunner Tom Fontana, which is currently being pitched, generating a lot of interest from buyers, Deadline has learned. The predominantly French…

Chloé Zhao won top honors Saturday night at the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Nomadland, her adaptation of Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. “This is so beautiful,” Zhao said, holding up the trophy, and thanking Bruder for her book and for her…

Scott Frank, co-creator, writer and director of breakout Netflix hit The Queen's Gambit, is swapping chess for Jesuit priests and extraterrestrial life in his next project. Frank is developing an adaptation of Mary Doria Russell's 1996 novel The Sparrow for FX with Chernobyl director Johan Renck on board as…

EXCLUSIVE: After Ford v Ferrari landed an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, Matt Damon and James Mangold are teaming again. Damon is attached to an adaptation of the 2017 Don Winslow bestseller The Force, which Mangold has been developing to direct for 20th Century Studios. There is potential here for the kind of New…

Netflix has ordered six episodes of The Queen’s Gambit, a limited series based on Walter Tevis' novel from two-time Oscar nominee Scott Frank (Godless, Logan), with Anya Taylor-Joy (Split, Glass, The Witch) set to star. Co-written by Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don't Look Now, The Preacher's Wife), The Qu…

EXCLUSIVE: There are dozens of dialogue lines that made William Goldman an iconic screenwriter — "Follow the money" from All the President's Men, and "Is it safe?" from Marathon Man among them — but to a legion of top screenwriters whom Goldman helped find their voices, here's a lesser-known signature line just as…

Godless marks Scott Frank’s first foray into the western genre. One could argue that his screenplay for Logan was western-adjacent, but Godless is a tried and true western complete with outlaws, gunfights, a town tragedy, a drifter and horses — an animal that executive producer Steven Soderbergh fears. Created and…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on May 14. With one Emmy and five nominations to date, Jeff Daniels will compete this year in both Lead and Supporting Categories with roles in two acclaimed series, Hulu’s The Looming Tower and Netflix original Western Godless. Jeff Daniels could be taking it easy. The Emmy…