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Benicio del Toro paid tribute to James Caan at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday. "I call him The Dream," he said of his The Way of the Gun co-star, who died this week at age 82. "When I met him, I walked up to him and I said 'Mr Caan, it's an honor to be here working with you.' He said, 'You can…

For two decades Taylor Sheridan made a living as a sixth-on-the-call-sheet actor, and his cowboy Marlboro Man look kept him busy, if not satisfied. But he quit cold turkey, determined to take charge of his own destiny, and reshape himself into a writer and director. His scripts for Sicario and Hell or High Water…

Jóhann Jóhannsson, revered for such film scores as The Theory of Everything and Sicario, died in Berlin yesterday. As tributes arrive from friends, colleagues and admirers, Deadline presents this Q&A with the composer from 2015. Jóhannsson spoke with our Matt Grobar about his inspirations, collaborating with director D…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media and Lionsgate are heading toward a divorce on the upcoming high-profile pictures Granite Mountain and Soldado, the latter a sequel to Sicario. It has come down to an inability to see eye to eye over marketing and distribution plans for the two films. Short of some miracle save, they will…

Editor’s Note: This story originally ran on Dec. 23. Hell or High Water currently counts four Oscar nominations including best picture and an original screenplay nod for Taylor Sheridan. After drug war noir Sicario made enormous waves at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival into last year's awards season, you could feel that…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Sheridan, the writer who followed Sicario with Hell Or High Water, has just been set by Sony Pictures and Escape Artists to script Disorder. Pic is a remake of the 2015 French film, which starred Matthias Schoenaerts as an ex-soldier with PTSD hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese…

The Revenant”, Sicario, Game of Thrones, Bosch and Sense8 all took home honors tonight from the third annual Location Managers Guild Awards at the Alex Theater in Glendale, CA. The awards honor outstanding and creative international contributions of location professionals and film commissions in seven categories under…

When Alan Robert Murray took on the job of Supervising Sound Editor for Sicario, it was with Bub Asman–Murray's working partner for some 40 years–and with a wealth of awards and noms between them. The duo won the Oscar last year for American Sniper, and in 2007 for Letters From Iwo Jima. Now Sicario's nom brings them…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen have been set to star in Wind River, a drama written by Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan, who also is on board to make his feature directorial debut. Sicario producer Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road is producing this one with Peter Berg and Matthew George. The pic, which begins…

Even for a master cinematographer like Roger Deakins, Sicario was a tricky project to pull off—a logistical puzzle with many moving pieces, including aerial and night-vision footage and highly choreographed action sequences. For the most part, Deakins weathered the demanding shoot by being extremely methodical, as is…

The Writers Guild of America has announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting for 2015. The 2016 WGA Awards are set for February 13 at ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles. The Original Screenplay category includes awards-season buzz titles like Bridge Of Spies, Sicario, Spotlight and Straight O…

Although much has been made of Emily Blunt being in what is traditionally thought of as a 'male' role in Sicario–she is uber-tough FBI agent Kate Macer–Blunt is not offended. "This is a transitional moment. I think that those conversations are happening now, but my hope is that they will become fewer and further…