Does the giant box office business but poor reviews of films like Bohemian Rhapsody suggest film critics are underrating fare that offer pure entertainment values? We discuss that question and other issues in our latest edition Deadline’s The Bart & Fleming Podcast. Also on the docket: Is the public ready to embrace…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. The fact that the town basically has shut down for the four-day Thanksgiving holiday doesn’t mean the Oscar race is slowing. In fact, campaigners discovered a few years ago that Thanksgiving Day itself is a good time to tout their movies and hold…

Since hanging up his claws as Wolverine in spectacular fashion with Logan, Hugh Jackman has been exploring. He returned to his first love, musical theatre, last year for the blockbusting The Greatest Showman, and now tackles perhaps the meatiest role of his career to date as 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Gary…

Awards season is in swing, and we are back in podcast mode. Today, we weigh in on a plethora of fact-based films, and the question of how authentic they really are. The main topics: Green Book, a road trip through the Jim Crow-era deep South that unites two unlikely partners in a brilliant black classical pianist…

There's a certain perversity in the decision to open “fact-based” movies at the close of an election season. After months of political noise, facts have become something like black holes in our public conversation – rhetoric in search of truth. Still, having been trained as a newsman, I habitually welcome films like Gr…

In an original effort to launch a movie about disgraced 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart on Election Day, Bron Studios/Sony’s The Front Runner didn’t win many votes at the box office, fizzling with a combined $6,8K from two theaters in New York (AMC Lincoln Square and Regal Union Square) and two in Los Angeles…

Sony Pictures brought two awards-worthy gems to Deadline’s The Contenders LA on Saturday: political biopic The Front Runner and the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. A retelling of the 1988 scandal that saw Democratic Sen. Gary Hart and presidential hopeful caught in an extramarital affair, The Front…

“It’s not a biopic, it’s not a movie about a person, it’s a movie about a moment,” says filmmaker Jason Reitman about his latest film The Front Runner which opens on Election Day. In the film, Hugh Jackman plays embattled U.S. Presidential Democratic candidate Gary Hart. Though the Hart scandal occurred when Reitman…

Hugh Jackman will be the recipient of this year’s Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film, presented for the 13th year by the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The black-tie awards gala will be held November 19 at the Ritz Carlton Bacara hotel. Jackman, riding high off the global box office success of 2017’s surprise hit…

The Austin Film Festival has unveiled its second wave of films for the 25th anniversary lineup which includes closing-night pic The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman. The fest kicks off Oct. 25 and continues through Nov. 1. Based on the real-life story, The Front Runner follows charismatic politician Gary Hart, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Take about stellar timing. Sony’s Jason Reitman-directed Gary Hart movie The Front Runner is now opening on Tuesday, Nov. 6, becoming the first movie ever to open on Election Day. The move from the pic’s original release date of Wednesday Nov. 7  is in an effort to capitalize on the energy, momentum and…

With the 45th Telluride Film Festival now history after wrapping last night, it’s a good time to see who came out of it with Oscar prospects still intact. Though this festival is a far reaching one with something for every serious cinema lover, it has in recent years also become a major Oscar harbinger (eight of the…