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The Wonder director Sebastián Lelio and star Florence Pugh joined Deadline's Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event to talk about their Netflix film and the power and fanaticism of faith.  The film is a psychological period drama that follows an English nurse's immaculate investigation in…

Netflix on Tuesday released the official trailer for The Wonder, the Florence Pugh-starring adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel directed by Sebastián Lelio. The pic had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and is gearing for a November 2 theatrical release. It hits Netflix on November 16.Set…

Toronto regular Sebastián Lelio returned to the festival with his latest female-fronted drama The Wonder, a period piece starring woman-of-the moment Florence Pugh. Stopping by Deadline's TIFF Studio with screenwriter Emma Donoghue — author of the Oscar-nominated Room (2015) — Lelio explained what drew him to his…

The Wonder is Gothic without the architecture. Set in rural central Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-1800s, director Sebastian Lelio's adaptation of Emma Donoghue's 2016 novel methodically moves the chess pieces around in telling the tale of an 11-year-old girl who has locals mystified as to what God…

The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the line-up for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 16-24. The festival, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary, will be the European premiere of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio's highly-anticipated latest feature The Wonder…

EXCLUSIVE: Even with Black Widow set to make its world premiere this July, Florence Pugh is continuing to add to that ever-growing dance card as she is set to star in the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder. A Fantastic Woman director Sebastián Lelio will helm the pic. The film is a co-production between House…

Christmas came a little professionally early and well deserved this year for Elizabeth Moody and Jamie Slade. The legal duo has been named Senior Partner and Partner respectively at bicoastal boutique law firm Granderson Des Rochers, LLP, I've learned. "Elizabeth and Jamie are fantastic lawyers, and we are thrilled to…

Scarlett Johansson will produce and and is set to star in Bride, a “genre-bending” film from Apple and A24. Sebastián Lelio, who has helmed female-fronted films like the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience and Gloria, has been tapped to direct the feature, which he’s writing with Lauren Schuker Blum and…

Oscar winner Juliette Binoche made her first appearance as jury president at the Berlin Film Festival today, fielding questions at a press conference that began with her thoughts on women's representation, segued to politics and Netflix, and then closed on Harvey Weinstein. Of the latter, Binoche, who worked on…

Acclaimed foreign movies usually go on from TIFF to be remade by American studios—they rarely arrive as English-language indie remakes. Yet in the case of Gloria Bell, an intimate study of a middle-aged divorcee, not only is the film a Los Angeles-set retelling of a 2013 arthouse hit—Berlin Jury Prize winner Gloria—it…

Coming off a Foreign Language Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, writer/director Sebastián Lelio is already back on the festival circuit in support of his latest project, Disobedience. Starring Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola and premiering in TIFF before moving on to other festivals, including…

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Lelio's A Fantastic Woman scored a first win for Chile with the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar last week. It was also the first win for Participant Media within its relationship with the talent behind the multi-layered pic. And, it ticks yet another box in Participant's bid to make entertainment…