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Kristen Stewart became a major star in blockbuster like films like the series of Twilight films that put here career into orbit as Bella Swan. There were other big major studio movies such as Snow White and the Huntsman, but Stewart, who started in movies at a very young age — notably opposite Jodie Foster in Panic Roo…

For Neon and Topic Studios’ film Spencer, screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo Larraín used elements from various genres to craft a not-so-biographical drama about Princess Diana.  Starring the Oscar-nominated Kristen Stewart as the Princess, Larraín’s reimagining of a Royal Christmas at Sandringham journeys…

Kristen Stewart, who reached global fame with the $3.35 billion-grossing Twilight franchise a decade-plus ago, has landed her first Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal as Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer.  Oscar buzz for Stewart’s sublime turn as the late British royal was immediate…

Perhaps the most glaring omission from Thursday morning’s BAFTA nominations was the Princess Diana biopic Spencer. While Kristen Stewart had not been nominated at the recent SAG Awards, the actress garnered raves at the Venice Film Festival late last year where many critics swooned over the movie. As of this morning…

As Pablo Larraín’s production designer on Spencer, Guy Hendrix Dyas relished the chance to put standard biopic storytelling aside, tapping deeply into the psychology of an iconic royal. “What he presented, and what I knew one of his brilliant talents was, was exploring somebody’s personality, and seeing the world from…

Composers Hans Zimmer and Jonny Greenwood came in strong on the Academy’s shortlist for Best Original Score, securing two slots apiece from a total of 15. Zimmer enters the next phase of Oscars competition with his scores for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Cary Fukunaga’s Bond film No Time to Die. Greenwood, meanwhile…

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. For Neon's not-precisely-biographical Spencer, screenwriter Steven Knight and filmmaker Pablo Larraín assiduously wanted to avoid anything resembling a conventional…

After a charged premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín's Spencer has become one of this season's hottest contenders. A haunting study of one particular Christmas at Sandringham for Diana, Princess of Wales, as her marriage falters and the Royal fairytale turns grim, Spencer features a landmark performance …

Spencer director Pablo Larraín said Saturday that while he and screenwriter Steven Knight took different immersive paths when developing the film’s screenplay, the result was unlike any other he'd worked on: the finished script matched the final edit scene for scene. "The movie right now has the same order – exactly…

Pablo Larraín joins me on the premiere of our new Oscar-season edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens as we explore and dissect the ever-growing fascinating film career of this Chilean-born international auteur. His latest movie, Spencer, has been drawing Oscar buzz ever since its debut earlier in the…

Belfast, Kenneth Branagh's intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood in tumultuous late 1960s Northern Ireland, earned an estimated $1.8M in 580 locations this weekend for a PTA of $3,111 – a solid showing for a black-and-white film in a specialty market that’s waging what one distribution exec calls an "an…

At Sunday's Contenders Film: Los Angeles event, Spencer star Kristen Stewart talked about her connection to her real-life character, Princess Diana. "I'm not somebody who had a super developed relationship with her as a figure, or the royal family as a whole thing, but I wouldn’t have played this part unless I loved…