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On Swan Song, production designer Annie Beauchamp was presented with the “terribly exciting” opportunity to shape a near future world, throwing herself into research on everything from quantum computing to Augmented Reality and self-driving cars. She at the same time recognized that the film’s science-fiction setting…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. The sci-fi concept behind Apple Original Films’ Swan Song was both novel and fantastical: terminally ill Cameron Turner (Mahershala Ali) undergoes an experimental…

Much-lauded The Lost Daughter, Tribeca Fest winner The Novice, George Clooney's The Tender Bar plus Swan Song with Mahershala Ali and the doc President dip a toe in the specialty market this Spidey-centric weekend amid gathering Covid clouds. The question: how will a surging infection rate (that just closed down…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive tracks from Jay Wadley’s Swan Song score, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on December 17—the same day that the Apple Original Film premieres  in theaters and globally on Apple TV+. Nine instant grat tracks will be available with every preorder. The…

"It started with Ben, with the script being so well written, the characters having the same essence but needing different things," said Swan Song star and producer Mahershala Ali said of playing two roles in the Apple Original Film. "It was always clear to me whose shoes I was in," he added about the characters of…

Benjamin Cleary said his upcoming film Swan Song originated from his experience of losing three friends and his own existential questions about grief. “When something like that happens, you see the grief emanate out and affect everyone else around you,” Cleary said Sunday during Deadline's Contenders Film: Los Angeles…

Death is the natural order of things, but what if you could prevent your families and friends from feeling sadness and grief due to your death. Would you take that opportunity? If you’ve ever lost someone, you may identify with the moral struggle at the heart of writer/director Benjamin Cleary’s Apple TV+ sci-fi drama…

The first trailer for Oscar-winning director Benjamin Cleary’s film Swan Song dropped today. It stars two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali as Cameron Turner, a husband and soon-to-be father who is presented with a shot at surviving a terminal illness, but the proposition turns out to be more complicated than he…

The American Film Institute said Tuesday that it has added the world premieres of Apple Original Films’ Swan Song, starring two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, and Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised from Netflix to this year’s AFI Fest lineup. When Netflix picked up Bruised at the Toronto Film Festival last…

Documentaries about a da Vinci and a dictator, a Pablo Larraín drama with Gael Garcia Bernal, a Donnie Yen martial arts thriller by the late Benny Chan, and CODA — Apple's record-busting Sundance acquisition — make specialty bows this weekend as the arthouse sector fights through a slow reopening. "The market is still…

With Swan Song, Todd Stephens paid tribute to a muse from his childhood in Sandusky, Ohio who continues to inspire him to this day. In conversation with the film's stars Udo Kier and Linda Evans at Deadline's virtual South by Southwest Studio, the writer/director offered insights into the life of one-time hairdresser…

EXCLUSIVE:  Magnolia Pictures has acquired global rights to the Udo Kier and Jennifer Coolidge comedy Swan Song.  The movie, which premieres today at SXSW, is the the fifth movie from filmmaker Todd Stephens, writer of Edge of Seventeen and director of cult titles Gypsy 83 and Another Gay Movie. Magnolia Pictures is…