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"I believe that a big reason why this ambitious idea of throwing a music festival in Harlem in which somewhere between 70,000 to 90,000 people every weekend would see performances was so that there was something joyous and hopeful for people at that point were kind of at the end of their rope," Summer of Soul (Or When…

The Eyes of Tammy Faye star Jessica Chastain joined makeup department head Linda Dowds and prosthetics designer Justin Raleigh for a virtual panel at Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees event. Chastain stars as Tammy Faye Bakker in the biographical drama directed by Michael Showalter. The Searchlight Pictures…

Guillermo del Toro joined Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees event this weekend to discuss his latest movie Nightmare Alley, nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture. The film is based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, which had been previously adapted for the screen in 1947 in a noir classic…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has begun principal photography on the south coast of England for his upcoming feature, Empire Of Light. From Searchlight Pictures, the drama is written by Mendes — his first solo screenplay — and stars Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke and Tanya Moodie. Joining…

In their latest collaboration on The Eyes of Tammy Faye, actor-producer Jessica Chastain and makeup department head Linda Dowds looked to bring authenticity to both the story and the assorted looks of the televangelist of the same name, pulling this off by digging deep into research materials spanning nearly four…

Aziz Ansari (Master of None, Parks and Recreation) is making his feature directorial debut with an untitled dramedy for Searchlight, based on the 2014 non-fiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by surgeon Atul Gawande, in which he’ll star alongside Oscar nominee Bill Murray (The French…

Searchlight Pictures has unveiled the official trailer for its thriller Fresh, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy), which premieres on Hulu in the U.S. on March 4, ahead of a Latin American premiere on Star+ and a Disney+ unveiling in all other territories slated for later this…

Academy Award-nominated documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is getting a remarkable boost for its Oscar chances – a premiere on network television. Disney-owned ABC announced it will air the film directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in primetime on Sunday, February 20. The…

Fresh director Mimi Cave joined stars of the film Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, and Dayo Okeniyi at Deadline’s virtual studio at Sundance to discuss their new film. “[Fresh] is really kind of a classic boy meets girl thriller, with a twist and it comments on the perils of contemporary dating,” says…

SPOILER ALERT: This review may contain details you might want to avoid if you want see Fresh with completely fresh eyes. Take a bite out of Sweeney Todd, a bit of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, throw in a little torture porn, some 50 Shades of Grey, and top it all off with some delicious Hannibal Lecter…

The night before his breakfast meeting with Guillermo del Toro for his Searchlight Pictures noir Nightmare Alley, composer Nathan Johnson had the opportunity to take in a “completely dry” cut of the feature—finding that he connected strongly with the “bold filmmaking” in front of him. “I was just taken aback because…

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. The French Dispatch isn't even half the full title of the movie. On screen, it's The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun. Wes Anderson's latest film is a…