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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon took the acquisitions market at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by storm, making eight-figure deals for Late Night, Brittany Runs a Marathon and The Report, with another $5 million for Honey Boy. All of them were fine films, but the collective box office gross of around $26 million on films acquired…

How do you turn a 6,700-page government report into a gripping cinematic drama? That was the formidable challenge facing writer-director Scott Z. Burns for Amazon’s The Report, his true-life film on the investigation into the CIA's use of torture on terrorism suspects after the 9/11 attacks. "The story of the…

Director Scott Z. Burns is challenging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain what parts of The Report are “fiction,” after Pompeo slammed the film on Twitter. The Amazon Studios drama centers on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation or torture. On Friday Pompeo tweeted: “I watched The Report. Fiction. To be…

EXCLUSIVE: It took more than five years and 20 drafts for Scott Z Burns to complete his screenplay for The Report, the Amazon Studios movie based on real events that centers on Daniel J Jones, a staffer of Sen. Dianne Feinstein who investigated the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program created post-9/11. Adam Drive…

Amazon Studios brought three striking iterations of true grit to Deadline’s Contenders New York with a look at The Aeronauts, The Report and Honey Boy that kicked off Saturday’s event. Tom Harper, director and producer of The Aeronauts, said the set was kept below freezing and actors plunged their hands in ice water…

In case you haven't noticed, Adam Driver delivered memorable performances this year as a newly divorced husband, a government whistleblower, a zombie fighter and a Star Wars warrior (in a Kylo Ren mask). I missed his Broadway opening (Burn This). Indeed, at 36, Driver has appeared in 25 movies in the seven years since…

Between her celebrated performances as the unraveling Nic in The Kids Are Alright, dying legend Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and one-third of the devious Grifters, Annette Bening has created a highly-respected filmography of complex female characters over three decades. But in the political…

At Deadline’s recent The Contenders Los Angeles all-day event at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, a main focus for the Amazon Studios portion of the day was its new drama The Report, which while still in theaters just began streaming on Amazon Prime. In front of a packed audience of Academy and key guild members…

Vice Media Group has all-but ruled out buying more production companies to bolster Vice Studios, as it focuses on achieving “organic” double-digit revenue growth at the content division in 2020. In a wide-ranging breakfast discussion with journalists from the UK’s Broadcasting Press Guild on Thursday, Vice’s…

The family drama Waves made its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival before going to Toronto, where it became the talk of the town. Critics were raving about it while the Twitterverse gave it the seal of before the A24 released it today — a choice spot for awards season. Directed and written by Trey Edward Shults…

Whistleblowers are quite the topic du jour, not only in the nation’s capital but also in the movies. Upcoming next week is Dark Waters, about one lone lawyer’s battle against DuPont Chemical, but this week brings The Report, which chronicles one man’s dogged five-year journey to shine a light on the U.S. government’s…

According to a recent survey, only 17 percent of Americans say they can trust the government to do the right thing. That figure is unlikely to increase once audiences get a look at some buzz worthy films coming soon from Amazon Studios, The Report and Seberg. Both films, based on true stories, focus on shocking…