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Netflix is offering some movies and series free to stream, no subscription required. The streaming service has set up a “watch free” site in an attempt to lure new subscribers. Movies currently available to stream for free are Bird Box, the sci-fi horror thriller starring Sandra Bullock, the Oscar-nominated The Two Pop…

Netflix continues to pull out all the stops on behalf of its bumper crop of Oscar-bait films. It has teamed with Dolby on an immersive exhibit in New York that will showcase Dolemite Is My Name, The Irishman, Marriage Story and The Two Popes. The exhibit will be held at Dolby Soho in Manhattan. The intention is to…

On Tuesday I presented the first part of my two-part series on Deadline’s Top 10 Best Films of 2019, and now today we complete the list, revealing my Top 5 and ending with my No. 1 choice: my favorite film of 2019. Of course as I wrote earlier this week this is all very arbitrary and extremely difficult to put very…

Jonathan Pryce had a leg up playing the leader of the world's Catholics in the Netflix film The Two Popes. Everyone tells him he and Pope Francis look identical. "The day he was created Pope, yeah, the Internet was full of images of the two of us together, Pope Francis and me…Even one of my sons called me and, just to…

Screenwriter Anthony McCarten has become a bit of a Best Picture creator of late. Three of his previous films — The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour and Bohemian Rhapsody — not only all won multiple Oscars, they were all nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. It seems hardly an awards season goes by without a…

Dear God, how does one even begin to rebuild a 536 year old structure like the Sistine Chapel? For Two Popes filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and his production designer Mark Tildesley, they certainly couldn’t fully paint one, because the film production would’ve wrapped before the set’s completion. But there was a clever…

EXCLUSIVE: Having opened for a limited run on the big screen last month, The Two Popes debuts December 20 on Netflix. But you can read the Anthony McCarten’s screenplay for the Critics’ Choice- and Golden Globes-nominated film right now. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Popes Benedict XVI and…

EXCLUSIVE: Heavyweight Oscar contenders Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar are among those who will not be going to the WGA Awards this year. And get your knives out, FilmTwitter, because one of the high-profile female directors ignored by the Golden Globes’ directing category, Lulu Wang for The Farewell, won’t…

Netflix explored complex relationships and gave a nod to the 1970s at Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday with a look at The Two Popes, Marriage Story and Dolomite is My Name. Actor Jonathan Pryce said he so resembles Pope Francis, "That the day he was named Pope, the Internet was full of images of Pope…

"We have two living Popes for the first time in 500 years, and they don't agree on anything and both are meant to be infallible, and I thought, that's an interesting kind of situation," said screenwriter Anthony McCarten of the inspiration behind The Two Popes, a behind-the-scenes imagined drama about the now resigned…

When Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was first offered the opportunity to direct what would become The Two Popes, he was intrigued by what was presented to him. It was initially a project focused squarely on Pope Francis, an intriguing and divisive figure in South America. But he was caught up directing the…

"You do realize," a man who approached Anthony McCarten at a screening of The Two Popes told him, "this is a Jewish movie." McCarten was bemused as the man explained: "The sheer fact that you have two people discuss scriptural debating is very Tom Mulligan. It's part of the Judaic tradition to debate in such a way…