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…

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…

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]…

“For one night let’s make America great Britain again,”  said BAFTA -LA CEO Chantal Rickards in coming closest to any political statement in the opening to Friday night’s annual Britannia Awards, put on by the British Academy of Arts & Sciences , Los Angeles branch.  That is until Jim Carrey was awarded the Charlie…

John Krasinski, Steve McQueen and Won't You Be My Neighbor? director and producer Morgan Neville are among the directors, writers and producers taking part in “masterclass” presentations at the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By: New York 2018 even in November, the PGA announced today. The daylong event is set…

History seems to be repeating itself this year as awards season launches at Toronto with two sets of directors facing off yet again, their projects colliding just as their Oscar bound films did the last time they faced off. Of course they say there is no real competition in art, but these remarkably similar…

Steve McQueen's Widows has been set as the opening night gala of the BFI London Film Festival which kicks off October 10 in the British capital. From 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises and See-Saw Films, the modern-day thriller is co-written by the Oscar-winning director with Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn and unites a…

Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox have dropped the first, explosive trailer for Steve McQueen’s Widows. The modern-day thriller is co-written by the Oscar-winning director with Gone Girl‘s Gillian Flynn and unites a group of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has signed a multi-year overall deal with Steve McQueen. The Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave director will develop feature films to be produced and financed by New Regency. The deal extends a relationship with the director/writer/producer, who followed the New Regency-backed Best Picture winner 12…

EXCLUSIVE: 12 Years A Slave helmer Steve McQueen will direct a full length feature documentary on the life of iconic hip hop star Tupac Shakur. A deal has come together between Estate trustee Tom Whalley and Amaru Entertainment, the company created by Afeni Shakur to release her son's posthumous projects. They are…

BREAKING: Oscar winner Robert Duvall is the latest to join New Regency’s Steve McQueen-helmed heist thriller Widows. The acting legend’s addition bolsters an already-strong cast that includes Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Debicki and Daniel Kaluuya. Scripted by…