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This is Q&A season in Hollywood, but the rules of the game are changing. To wit: I am onstage with Meryl Streep. Her new movie titled The Laundromat has just been screened and I am posing questions. Why did she decide to star in a very political movie? Why does she depict a victim — a woman who is put upon by two evil…

Netflix’s The Laundromat began streaming online first thing Friday as planned after a ruling by a Connecticut judge moved the case to California, stopping an injunction that would have kept Steven Soderbergh’s award-season satire off the streaming service. Judge Janet Bond Arterton in her ruling late Thursday…

Netflix's lawyers have moved swiftly to oppose the lawsuit filed yesterday against movie The Laundromat. Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, the two partners behind now-dissolved Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co, filed a claim to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut seeking damages and to stop…

UPDATED with Netflix filing motion to dismiss: The two partners behind now-dissolved Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co have filed a libel and trademark infringement lawsuit against Netflix over The Laundromat, the streamer’s Panama Papers movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. They also filed a temporary…

There can be no doubt the new satirical take on the 2015 Panama Papers scandal, The Laundromat, offers a story well worth telling. It points out the obvious in today’s America: the little guy is screwed, while the top 1% make all the money, know how to “launder” it, and pay no taxes.  The light approach by director…

The Panama Papers, and what they revealed about complex financial systems designed to protect the uber-rich, organized crime and the fiscally immoral, are the subject of Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, written by Scott Z Burns. Burns was joined in Deadline's TIFF studio by Jake Bernstein, who wrote the book, Secre…

Scott Z. Burns has tackled some of the weightiest subject matter in a series of movies made in concert with Steven Soderbergh—movies like The Informant!, Contagion and Side Effects—in ways that are equal parts in-depth and accessible. But this year's double bill might represent his most comprehensive, and ever so…

Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman took to the dais this afternoon at the Venice Film Festival to talk with the press about The Laundromat. The film is a dark comedy that centers on the uncovering of the Panama Papers. Streep is a widow who investigates an insurance fraud which leads to Panama City law…

“Bad is such a big word for being such a small word.” So says Gary Oldman’s Jürgen Mossack in the first trailer for Netflix’s The Laundromat, the new Steven Soderbergh movie that is having its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival which kicks off today. As Netflix revealed Tuesday, its…

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…

UPDATE: Much of the Venice Film Festival’s 2019 competition field, which was announced this morning in Rome, lines up as expected with Warner Bros/DC origns story Joker; Fox/Disney’s Brad Pitt space drama Ad Astra; Steven Soderbergh’s starry Netflix dark comedy, The Laundromat; and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story from…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has hired 20th Century Fox distribution vet Spencer Klein as their Director of Theatrical Distribution. Klein will report to Netflix Film boss Scott Stuber. One of the first big assignments here for Klein is overseeing the theatrical rollout of Netflix’s upcoming awards season slate which includes…