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EXCLUSIVE: Micheal Ward, the Top Boy and Blue Story actor who has been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award, has secured a major role in Steve McQueen’s BBC and Amazon drama Small Axe. Ward will play one of the two leads in the third episode of the anthology drama, which tells five stories from within London's…

Amazon has struck an overall deal with 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen and has put a sci-fi series into development. This comes as the streaming service preps McQueen's upcoming drama Small Axe, a co-production between Amazon and the BBC, which is launching later this year. Separately, it is developing Last Day…

12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen has said that the BAFTA Awards are in danger of becoming "irrelevant, redundant and of no interest or importance" unless the organization addresses the lack of diversity in its nominations. Last week, BAFTA received criticism for nominating no women in the Best Director…

The BBC has unveiled the first images of Small Axe, its period drama from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. Amazon is co-producing in the U.S. The series, which is set in London's West Indian community between the 1960s-’80s, stars Black Panther's Letitia Wright and Star Wars' John Boyega Malachi Kirby (Roots)…

Amazon has boarded the forthcoming BBC drama from 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. The revelation emerged as Georgia Brown, Director of European Originals at the SVOD service, was speaking at the House of Lords' Communications Committee debate on the future of public service broadcasting in the UK. She also…

UK funding stalwart Film4 held its annual pre-Cannes bash last night in London where it teased footage of projects in production and whetted industry appetite for films in development. Film4 is a perennial presence during the awards season and at major festivals. The Favourite and Cold War scored 13 nominations with…

“Editing is kind of a compulsion,” two-time Oscar nominee Joe Walker says. “I'm happy when I'm working.”  Certainly, looking at the work the editor has put in over the past 10 years, it’s easy to understand why that is. Of all the industry’s craftsmen and women, Walker has had one of the most admirable track records…

Don't call Steve McQueen predictable. The British artist and director may have made three previous films that steered closer to the arthouse end of the market—Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave—but Widows, an expansive heist movie he co-wrote with Gillian Flynn based on the 1980s TV show created by Lynda La Plante…

Steve McQueen's female-centric heist movie Widows might be packed with familiar and accomplished women like Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez, but magnetic breakout Cynthia Erivo still jumped off the screen in her first ever feature. Erivo is a storied stage actress, and has already won an Emmy, a…

Oscar-winning producer, director and writer Steve McQueen joined me recently at our Deadline studios for the latest edition of my video series Behind the Lens, which explores the story behind the making of current awards contenders. McQueen certainly knows his way around awards, having won the Best Picture Oscar for…

In 1983 director Steve McQueen, eventual Best Picture Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave, became obsessed with a British miniseries called Widows about a group of women who decide to finish a robbery that their criminal husbands died trying to pull off. In a collaboration with Gone Girl screenwriter Gillian Flynn…

12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen is eyeing a musical as one of his next projects. The director, who is promoting Viola Davis-fronted crime drama Widows, which opens this month, told British current affairs series The Andrew Marr Show, "I want to do a musical. I want to make myself happy. Right now, [the world]…