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One of the most influential musicians of the last 30 years, Thom Yorke has always had a crisis of confidence, when it comes to scoring films. Approached to score David Fincher's Fight Club back in 1999, the Radiohead frontman wouldn't come around to film for another 19 years, making his debut as a composer this year…

Before diving into one of her latest screen roles, in Desiree Akhavan's Sundance hit The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Chloë Grace Moretz needed to take a break. Squaring off with herself, the actress reflected on the decisions she was making in her career, and how they did or did not align with her initial reasons…

Approached for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria—an homage to Dario Argento's giallo classic—makeup designer Mark Coulier was put to one specific test. Could he transform Tilda Swinton, one of the industry's most notable shapeshifters, into a man? A prosthetics wizard, Coulier had, over the years, taken on the vast…

It’s a bold move when another auteur remakes another auteur’s movie. Martin Scorsese did it with J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 Cape Fear in 1992. Jonathan Demme had a revisionist take on John Frankenheimer’s 1962 political-thriller classic The Manchurian Candidate, casting Denzel Washington in the Frank Sinatra role of Ben…

On Suspiria, her first project with Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino, production designer Inbal Weinberg faced challenges that were almost insurmountable, on creative and practical levels. An homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, rather than a straight remake, Guadagnino's film demanded boundless…

After last year’s stateside success with Call Me By Your Name, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is back with a "re-imagining" of Dario Argento's 1970s classic Suspiria. The update, which stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth and Chloë Grace Moretz, heads to theaters this weekend via Amazon Studios. Legendary…

Amazon stopped by Deadline’s Contenders London conference today with not one, but three pics in potential contention: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, and Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy. And if there’s a thruline running throughout the trio, it’s how human pain becomes poetic, though all…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free has set David Kajganich to adapt Australian author Tim Winton’s Booker Prize finalist novel The Riders.  In the book, an expatriate Australian eagerly awaits the return of his family in Ireland, but discovers that his wife has mysteriously vanished, and goes on a frantic search for her with his…

Amazon is being sued for copyright infringement by the estate of artist Ana Mendieta, which claims the film Suspiria borrowed too liberally from the Cuban-American’s work. The suit, filed in Seattle, alleges the film and a trailer used images taken from Mendieta’s works including Rape Scene and Untitled: Silueta Series…

From Roma to Suspiria and A Star Is Born to The Favourite, female actors and characters have shone through on the big screen during the first half of the Venice Film Festival. The phenomenon is notable given the concurrent lament over the lack of women directors on the Lido. Jacques Audiard today became the…

‘Suspiria’ received an eight-minute ovation following its world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival tonight. As expected, the wild and wonderful movie is sharply dividing critics. Indiewire calls it a ‘grim and glorious work of madness’ and the UK’s Daily Telegraph gives it five stars, hailing it as ‘better…

It was standing room only at the packed and generally light-hearted Venice press conference for Luca Guadagnino’s anticipated update of 70’s Italian horror classic Suspiria. Guadagnino, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper, Thom Yorke and writer David Kagjanich were greeted with…