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UPDATE: Deadline is hearing from multiple sources that the shocking death of filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée resulted from a heart attack, while at his cabin on the river outside of Quebec City, where he was preparing to receive guests the following  day. So it is considered likely he passed December 25 and was found the…

At Deadline’s Sharp Objects screening event on Sunday, Patricia Clarkson had the entire audience laughing loudly. The reason? Her impromptu impression of Vallée and his specific directing style, which eschews traditional marks, lighting and shot planning. After her comedic bit though, Clarkson got serious about…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a lot of anecdotes about what a global sensation Chernobyl has become for HBO, but like the fallout from the horrific nuclear plant eruption of 1986, it is the numbers that tell the real story. And unlike the initially suppressed devastation that still leaves parts of Ukraine soaked in radiation…

Bodyguard, Barry and Sharp Objects were among the award winners at Banff's Rockie Awards International Program Competition. The BBC terror thriller Bodyguard, written by Jed Mercurio, who appeared as part of a Deadline-moderated panel session at the event, won for best English-language drama series. HBO's Bill…

Amy Adams, who does double duty as actor and an executive producer on the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, struggled on today’s panel to talk about the challenges of portraying the story’s main character, emotionally troubled (to put it mildly) newspaper reporter Camille Preaker. Patricia Clarkson portrays Adams…

Producer, writer and director Marti Noxon took the dais for the first keynote at SXSW, and she shared her very personal journey of sobriety and how it was translated in a trio of projects in what she likes to call her “Self-Harm Trilogy.” This includes the eating disorder pic To the Bone (her directorial debut), the…

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) has announced nominations for the 23rd Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in film, TV, commercials, videos and animation features. Among the candidates: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite and Roma, and, on the TV side, Sharp Objects and Glow. Winners…

With her Sharp Objects co-star, Amy Adams, wiping away tears in the audience, Patricia Clarkson delivered a characteristically classy acceptance speech after her Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series Or Movie Made for Television. Showing her southern Gothic roots (at least…

Amy Adams had a good morning with the Golden Globes nominations, one of only two people this year nominated three times. The other is Alfonso Cuarón, nominated in Best Foreign Film and in the writing and directing categories for Roma. Adams is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lynne Cheney…

The Sunday night finale of HBO’s high profile new drama series Sharp Objects drew 1.8 million viewers (at 9 PM), and 2.6 million viewers including replays and viewing on Go/Now, both numbers a series high. The finale was within 6% of the finale of HBO's Emmy-winning Big Little Lies’ 1.9 million in April 2017 — a…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season finale of Sharp Objects. HBO’s Sharp Objects finale Sunday night answered the lingering question: Who killed all these young girls in Wind Gap? Based on the creepiness and overall shadiness of this small town, anyone could have been responsible for these…

Sharp Objects is three episodes into its run as an HBO limited series, and it will stay that way, with no plans for a followup. “Unlike Big Little Lies where all of the stars wanted to come back, Sharp Objects, it’s a very dark character, very dark material. Amy doesn’t want to live in this character again and I can’t…