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“People been trying to take me down for years,” the pop star tells an adoring audience. “But I won’t stay down.” Black Swan Oscar winner Natalie Portman segues to playing a very different kind of entertainer in Vox Lux, whose first trailer streets today. Check it out above, and have a look at the key art below. Here…

The Austin Film Festival Writers Conference has selected Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux as its opening-night film. The fest, which runs October 25-November 1, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Corbet, who wrote and directed the music drama, will attend and participate in the annual AFF's Writers…

EXCLUSIVE: After acquiring the Natalie Portman-Jude Law music drama Vox Lux out of TIFF, NEON is giving the Brady Corbet-directed movie an awards season push with a limited release on Dec. 7. This will be followed by an expansion on Dec. 14 and another wide break on Dec. 21, playing into Christmas and New Year’s. The…

What might appear to be an homage to David Bowie glitz on its cover, is actually much deeper in Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux which follows the unconventional metamorphosis of a young teenager from school shooting survivor to tortured pop idol. Similar to how Natalie Portman pulled out all the stops and transformed into a…

UPDATED with NEON confirmation: NEON has confirmed Deadline’s earlier scoop that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Vox Lux, the Natalie Portman movie directed by Brady Corbet that world premiered at Venice and made its North American debut last week at the Toronto Film Festival. See the official release…

Vox Lux, one of the buzziest acquisition titles here at Toronto, is close to a splashy distribution deal. NEON is in the lead, sources said, for the Brady Corbet-directed film stars Natalie Portman as a female pop star who survives a school shooting and becomes famous writing and performing a tribute song to the…

Vox Lux director Brady Corbet has set period drama The Brutalist as his next project following the world premiere of the Natalie Portman-fronted music drama. The Brutalist will be Corbet's third feature following Vox Lux and The Childhood of a Leader. He will reteam with Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP) on the…

Natalie Portman has played down claims that her character in Brady Corbet's music drama Vox Lux is a "monster," but that the film, which follows the rise of her pop star Celeste from the ashes of a major national tragedy, is a "reflection of our society.” The Black Swan star plays Celeste, a pop star in 2017 trying to…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lauren and producing partner DJ Gugenheim are behind two of this autumn’s most anticipated movies: Natalie Portman starrer Vox Lux, which debuts in Venice next week, and Claire Denis’ Toronto-bound sci-fi High Life, starring Robert Pattinson. In writer-director Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, Portman plays a…

EXCLUSIVE: Vox Lux and The Spectacular Now outfit Andrew Lauren Productions is lining up R-rated comedy movie Lucky Strikes, based on the racially charged 1945 G.I. World Series which took place in Germany just after the fall of the Nazis. Chuck MacLean, writer of Showtime’s upcoming City On A Hill series, is writing…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity has come aboard Vox Lux, the sophomore feature directing effort from Brady Corbet. The company will introduce the project to international buyers at next week’s EFM in Berlin. Rooney Mara heads the cast that also includes Stacy Martin. Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling…

Rooney Mara has signed on to star in Vox Lux, director Brady Corbet's pop-star drama that follows up his 2015 historical mystery drama The Childhood of a Leader. Set between 1999 and the present day, Vox Lux follows the rise of Celeste from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. This 15-year…