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"I was taken by all of the themes that Alex and Jenny had put into this story," says Chiwetel Ejiofor of Showtime's The Man Who Fell To Earth series from Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. "Themes that really are relevant today. I'm mean are right up to the minute really, in how we engage with each other in our human…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

During her Comic-Con@Home appearance Friday, Charlize Theron reflected on the evolution of the modern female action star.”The good news now is that we’ve changed the genre for women,” she said. “We now know you we can’t hide behind ignorance anymore. Audiences love these films. They love how were now telling these…

Following massive viewership numbers and an end-credit scene suggesting the story isn’t finished being told, it would seem a sequel to the Netflix and Skydance action pic The Old Guard is a foregone conclusion. As the studio figures out next steps on where to take its team of immortals, it also appears to be true that…

Netflix has posted on social media that the Charlize Theron Gina Prince-Bythewood Skydance movie The Old Guard could easily become one of the streamer’s top 10 original movies. With no small amount of fortune-telling, the streamer is estimating that the pic will be seen by 72M households withing four weeks. Should…

Coming off a coronavirus pandemic dominated second quarter, Netflix today revealed not just strong subscriber and revenue growth, but also a lot of eyeballs for some key series and films. “In Q2, we notched successes in many of our key content verticals,” the the now Ted Sarandos co-CEO'd streamer circumspectly noted…

To rework an exchange William Wyler and Billy Wilder had at Ernst Lubitsch's funeral 73 years ago: "'No more Telluride. 'Worse than that, no more Telluride films.'" That's the way I, and I know many others, feel with the announcement that the best-curated and, due to its small size and remote setting, most rarified…

In the wake of Netflix recently streaming Skydance’s Old Guard, that pic’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood is looking to direct The Woman King at TriStar for Oscar winner Viola Davis. The movie is set in The Kingdom of Dahomey, which was a powerful state of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. Davis will play…

Gina Prince-Bythewood is very intentional about her projects, which explains why she’s only directed five films in a 20 year-career that began with her helming debut, 2000’s Love & Basketball. “I don't ever want to put something out that is not good, so that's my internal drive,” she told Deadline. That intentionally…

Smartly diverse casting in front of and behind the scenes adds a whiff of freshness to the comic book genre with The Old Guard, an action entry likely to kick off a smart genre franchise for Netflix, which starts streaming it Friday. Charlize Theron is the veteran leader of a pack of immortal mercenaries, a ragtag…

Netflix has released the first official trailer for The Old Guard, the Gina Prince-Bythewood-directed film adaption based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Greg Rucka. Charlize Theron stars as Andy, a warrior who leads a covert group of mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die and have committed to protect the…

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Harry Melling (The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs) and Veronica Ngo (Bright) have joined the cast of Netflix’s action-fantasy film The Old Guard, the streamer has confirmed. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s (Beyond The Lights) directs the film which is now shooting at the UK’s Pinewood Studios…