In a touching panel at Deadline’s recent The Contenders London awards-season event that went beyond the subtext of Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf held court with director Alma Ha’rel, and his co-stars Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe, on the subject of being a child actor and finding balance in your life.
The film was written by…
Ray Liotta, who co-stars as a bulldog divorce lawyer in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, praised the director for creating a calm set, joking that he's previously worked with some "maniac" directors. "Noah is great to work with and he's very calm because I've worked with some maniacs," Liotta said recently at…
Getting the band back together for the big-screen debut of Downton Abbey made the Brexit negotiations look like a "walk in the park,” according to producer Liz Trubridge.
Trubridge was speaking at Deadline's recent The Contenders London alongside actor Michael C Fox, who plays footman Andy Parker, and costume designer…
Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the second feature film by writer and producer Scott Z. Burns brings a stellar cast headed by Adam Driver. Driver stars as FBI agent Daniel J. Jones, a U.S. Senate investigator who questioned the CIA’s use of psychological torture on suspected terrorists after the…
Sam Mendes' World War I movie 1917 was filmed using one continuous, shot but the team behind the epic said it was not a "gimmick.”
The film tells the story of two young British soldiers who are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop their own men from walking straight…
Louisa May Alcott's 19th century novel Little Women has proven as enduring as cinema itself: as well as two silent-movie adaptations, the story has been filmed four times since George Cukor's 1933 version, making Greta Gerwig's the fifth in less than 100 years.
To discuss the film, Gerwig came to Deadline's The…
While another Netflix release, The Irishman, has been dominating the awards conversation, Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes — another story drawn from real life — has enjoyed a healthy life on the festival circuit after making its debut at Telluride. Starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, the film eavesdrops on…
Marielle Heller's new film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, about the mild-mannered TV host Mister Rogers, seems set to receive awards recognition for its sensitive portrayal of a
national hero and the real-life connection he formed with a journalist who interviewed him.
Appearing at Deadline's The Contenders…
For casting director Sarah Halley Finn, Avengers: Endgame was the coming together of years of work — and she told the packed house at Deadline’s The Contenders London recently that it was “very emotional” to see all of her acting picks on screen together, culminating in the Avengers’ final showdown with…
After the surprise success last year of Bohemian Rhapsody, when he stepped up as a last-minute stand-in for exiting director Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher is getting go-round with Rocketman. A musical fantasy based on the tempestuous life and times of Elton John, the Paramount film stars Taron Egerton as the rock…
Made by CNN Films and Statement Pictures, with Neon looking after worldwide theatrical rights, Apollo 11 lovingly retells the story of mankind's mission to the moon in 1969. Director, producer and editor Todd Douglas Miller painstakingly wrestled thousands of hours of archive audio and footage, much of it unseen, into…
Jean Seberg's life was made hell by the U.S. government after it became known in the late 1960s that she was bankrolling African American political groups — most notoriously, the Black Panthers. And this is the story behind Benedict Andrews' drama Seberg, starring Kristen Stewart in the lead role, with Jack O'Connell…
