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Daria Nicolodi, the Italian actress and screenwriter, has died at the age of 70. Her daughter Asia Argento confirmed the news in an Instagram post, writing in Italian: "Rest in peace beloved mother. Now you can fly free with your great spirit and you won’t have to suffer anymore. I will try to go on for your beloved…

Dave Kajganich (AMC’s The Terror, Amazon’s Suspiria) has signed an overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to create, develop and produce series for network, cable and streaming platforms. "Dave Kajganich has been one of our favorite writers for some time now and one of the people we are most often asked about by…

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…

Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria is a wild ride. The Italian filmmaker’s re-imagining of Dario Argento's 1977 cult classic stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper (of the original) and Chloe Grace Moretz. Johnson leads cast as the American newcomer to the prestigious Tanz school who comes to realize it…

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…

I am not sure the world was itching for a remake of Italian director Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic Suspiria, but apparently it haunted another Italian helmer so much over the past 40 years that he just had to try. Ironically, in the same gap of decades between original and reboot as last week’s smash Hallowe…

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…