When Nicole Kidman first met Per Saari back in 2004, theirs would become the collaboration that spawned a brave new wave of television and film production. From their first film Rabbit Hole in 2010, to this year's second season of smash hit limited series Big Little Lies, Kidman and Saari's company Blossom Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight's Sundance kickoff film, After The Wedding, fits a festival emphasis on inclusion and diversity. Even though director Bart Freundlich didn’t set out to do that when he made a film inspired by the 2006 Danish film by Susanne Bier, his decision to swap the gender of the two principal characters opened…

EXCLUSIVE: Just over a week before the 2019 Sundance Film Festival starts and After the Wedding writer-director Bart Freundlich has already notched one big deal. Set to have the Opening Night film slot at the Robert Redford founded shindig, the Mozart in the Jungle helmer has signed with WME for representation in all…

A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

This is a major coup for HBO — Susanne Bier has signed on to direct all six episodes of The Undoing, the network’s high-profile upcoming limited series starring Nicole Kidman and written by David E. Kelley. Bier, who also will serve as an executive producer, has been at the top of every network’s list of director…

While Sandra Bullock would eventually fall in love with Bird Box—a Netflix horror-thriller based on a novel by Josh Malerman and directed by Susanne Bier—the Oscar winner had quite a different reaction to the material in her first interaction with it some years ago. "I thought it was intriguing, but there was…

In a seismic move that Deadline earlier this week revealed was coming, Netflix will boost the awards chances of several contending films by setting exclusive limited theatrical releases prior to the streaming service releases of the Alfonso Cuaron-directed Roma, the Joel & Ethan Coen-directed The Ballad of Buster Scrug…

EXCLUSIVE: Susanne Bier's baby snatching drama A Second Chance is finally coming to the United States after Rock Salt Releasing picked up the feature film, which stars Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The film, which is produced by Zentropa, FilmFyn and Film I Vast, initially premiered at the Toronto Film…

UPDATED, 4:15 PM: Oscarcast producer Jennifer Todd has won the Producers Branch runoff election for 2018-19 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors. She beat Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum for the seat. She begins her three-year term on July 1, serving alongside Producers Branch incumbents…

Husband and wife team Bart Freundlich and Julianne Moore are to find out what happens After The Wedding after setting up a U.S. remake of Susanne Bier's Danish drama. The Hunger Games star Moore is set to star in the feature, which will be written and directed by Wolves director Freundlich. It will be produced by Joel…

Netflix has added another star-driven film to its lineup. Bird Box, the Eric Heisserer-scripted thriller that will star Sandra Bullock, will begin production September in Los Angeles with Susanne Bier directing. In Bird Box, a woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic…

Following a misleading report in a British trade this week, questions have arisen as to the status of a second season of BBC/AMC hit event series The Night Manager. The partners, along with producer The Ink Factory, have sought to quell the hullabaloo that story caused, and are clearly stating that nothing is set. In…