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Although the Holocaust is a well-visited subject for Hollywood, Geoffrey Rush says he was struck by how The Book Thief — based on the 2007 novel by Marcus Zusak — offers "another different perspective on everything." Rush, who has an Oscar for 1996's Shine and three subsequent nominations, plays Hans, an adoptive…

Listen to (and share) episode 49 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Deadline's awards columnist talks with host David Bloom about last weekend's big Deadline event, The Contenders, including behind-the-scenes conversations with T-Bone Burnett and Oscar Isaac on Inside Llewyn Davis; the…

Listen to (and share) Episode 48 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Deadline's awards columnist and host David Bloom preview this weekend's big Deadline event The Contenders; ponder whether the Motion Picture Academy will have better luck with its “simplified and upgraded” online…

Here’s the official international trailer for The Book Thief, the Fox 2000 film that’s stealthily entering awards season. When it bowed at Mill Valley, my colleague Pete Hammond wrote it played to a “huge standing ovation.” The movie is based on Markus Zusak's No. 1 best-selling novel and follows a young girl in Nazi…

It wasn’t a printing error, or sabotage by the Koch brothers, that left pages 9 and 10 largely blank in the Gray Lady this morning. It was part of Fox‘s marketing campaign for its upcoming film The Book Thief. The New York Times says that this is the first time it has run “two consecutive, seemingly blank…

Listen to (and share) episode 45 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Deadline's awards columnist and host David Bloom wrap up the latest news out of the New York Film Festival, led by the premiere of Ben Stiller's remake of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty; a winning film adaptation of the…

Could The Book Thief come out of nowhere to pull off a heist in this year’s Oscar race? While distributor 20th Century Fox seems to be putting most of its marbles on this weekend’s New York Film Festival launch of its big Christmas Day release, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, the studio has concurrently picked…

Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) directs Michael Petroni’s adaptation of Markus Zusak’s NYT bestseller, about a young girl with a voracious appetite for books living in Nazi Germany as the war escalates around her. Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, and Ben Schnetzer star. Fox 2000 will release the pic…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has set Downton Abbey helmer Brian Percival to direct The Book Thief, the Michael Petroni-scripted adaptation of the Marcus Zusak novel that has been on the Children’s Chapter Paperback New York Times bestseller list for 228 weeks. Twilight Saga‘s Karen Rosenfelt is producing, and a summer…