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A two-time Oscar nominee known for his collaborations with Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) and Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession), composer Nicholas Britell branched out recently with The King, collaborating for the first time with Australian director David Michôd, on what ended up…

"I was immediately drawn to the challenge of doing something that wasn't necessarily up my alley," director David Michôd said about The King during Deadline’s The Contenders London event earlier this month. "We made the decision early on to push Shakespeare right to the side and build our own thing." Timothee…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

David Michod likes an egg metaphor. Whether it's having had all of them "in one basket" over the past few years as he worked on The King — which received a royal eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last night — or looking at a project like a precious thing he's trying to stop from "getting…

While David Michod's The King owes a debt to Shakespeare's Henry The IV [Parts 1 And 2] and Henry V, the film's co-writer, co-star and producer Joel Edgerton says there's only "a pinch" of the Bard on screen. "We really do our own thing with it." Michod, who directs, co-wrote the script with Edgerton and also…

After announcing their U.S. and UK limited theatrical-streaming release plans for Martin Scorsese’s $160M mob opus The Irishman this morning, Netflix has unveiled the release dates for its entire awards-season slate including Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat, the Eddie Murphy pic Dolemite Is My Name, David Michod’s T…

Here’s a moody, good-looking first teaser for David Michôd’s (Animal Kingdom) Netflix period-drama The King, starring Timothée Chalamet in the title role. Also starring in the anticipated feature are Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily-Rose Depp and Joel Edgerton. The pic is based on classic…

Timothée Chalamet had a meteoric rise last year, co-starring in two of last season’s most buzzed-about awards movies— Hostiles and Lady Bird—and landing an Oscar nomination for his lead in a third, Call Me by Your Name. But when he first met Nic Sheff, the journalist and recovering addict whose story he tells in Beauti…

 WHO Thomasin McKenzie Age: 18 Hometown: Wellington, New Zealand  WHAT In Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, McKenzie is Tom, daughter to Ben Foster's PTSD-affected Will. Unable to cope with society, Will has carved out a subsistence off-grid life with Tom in wooded parkland outside of Portland, Oregon, until authorities…

EXCLUSIVE: In the last sizzling film package of the summer, Warner Bros and New Line have won an auction for The King, an epic-sized film that will star Dwayne Johnson as Hawaiian king Kamehameha. Robert Zemeckis is set to direct a film that could be compared to Braveheart, and only partly because King is based on a…

With summer tentpoles in full thrust, specialty distributors are maintaining their seasonal role offering up alternative programming for moviegoers not dazzled by the latest studio blitz. The final full weekend of June included at least a half dozen new limited titles, headlined by Sundance's The King by Eugene…

If you think Eugene Jarecki’s fascinating and provocative new documentary, The King, is just another biopic on Elvis Presley, you should think again. Jarecki also appears as a casual guide in the film, which has much more on its mind as it uses the superstar’s life as a starting point to examine America in the age of…