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Carey Mulligan is not afraid to go to the dark side and play characters with which the audience may not be all that comfortable. That is the takeaway I got when she visited our Deadline studio to discuss her awards contender Wildlife for my video series The Actor’s Side. In the film directed by actor Paul Dano, whom…

Few actors are gifted the opportunity of a one-two punch quite like Carey Mulligan's this year. At Sundance in January she premiered Wildlife, Paul Dano's directorial debut adapted from Richard Ford's novel by Dano and Zoe Kazan. As Jeanette, the frustrated small-town housewife who makes her own 14-year-old son…

Paul Dano is set to receive the Breakthrough Director honor at the 10th annual Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards for his first directorial feature, Wildlife, starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp, and Ed Oxenbould. The pic, which he co-wrote with Zoe Kazan, premiered at this year’s Sundance fest and is…

The opening weekend of Jonah Hill's feature directorial debut Mid90s has given distributor A24 two of the year's three best opening-frame per-theater averages to date. Fresh off premiere screenings at the Toronto and New York film festivals, the coming-of-age pic grossed $249,500 during the weekend for a robust…

Following a nearly ten-year journey, Can You Ever Forgive Me? hits theaters this weekend via Fox Searchlight. Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and based on the true story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel, the film will have a platform start this weekend en route to several hundred runs. The feature is…

Since it premiered at Sundance, Paul Dano's directorial debut Wildlife has been one of the more resilient titles on the festival circuit, stopping off at Cannes' Critics Week in May before pausing in Toronto on its way to the London Film Festival next month. Set in 1960s Montana, the film stars Ed Oxenbould as Joe…

In Paul Dano’s Wildlife, which premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week last night after a debut in Sundance, Carey Mulligan plays Jeanette, a woman who responds to her husband’s desertion to fight a fire raging outside their small town by carrying on an affair with an older businessman while her 15-year-old son looks on…

Based on Richard Ford's 1990 novel, Wildlife marks Paul Dano's first feature film as a writer and director. The call of Ford's book was undeniable for Dano, who worked with Zoe Kazan to adapt it for the screen. Its tale of a family in turmoil in 1960s Montana is seen through the eyes of the 16-year-old son, Joe (Ed…

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s 71st edition of the famed Cannes Film Festival  is heavily focused on international cinema , but in terms of American filmmaking it appears to be slim pickings. This year has one of the smallest collections of American-bred movies in a while, although that has been the trend in recent years. …

The Critics’ Week sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival has announced its lineup with Paul Dano’s feature directorial debut Wildlife as the opening night film. Billed as a Special Screening, the Sundance premiere will run out of competition and stars Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Alex Lutz’s Guy has been set to…

Paul Dano’s directorial debt Wildlife, the family drama that had its world premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, has sold to IFC Films for North American rights. Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould and Bill Camp star in the pic Dano and Zoe Kazan adapted from Richard Ford's novel. IFC says it is…

Paul Dano has been a Sundance fixture since his first trip to the festival when he was 16. He returns this year for the first time as a director, with his adaptation of Richard Ford’s Wildlife, co-written by Zoe Kazan. At Deadline’s Sundance Studio he expounded on his love of Ford’s work. When he picked up Wildlife…