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EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe is in discussions to co-star in Searchlight and Film4’s Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel. Emma Stone is in talks to star with Lanthimos on board to direct. Tony McNamara will adapt the script. Element Pictures will produce along with Stone, who will produce…

Sometimes controversial director Abel Ferrara addressed the idea of cancel culture in today's world and whether it had become more difficult to make the kinds of films he once did. "It's on the artist to uncancel himself, to come clean with himself," he said. "If you're paranoid about reactions, you shouldn't be…

In its first-ever chance to be part of Deadline's Contenders Television event, Disney+ chose its original movie Togo to highlight in its panel session, with director-cinematographer Ericson Core, writer Tom Flynn and star Willem Dafoe joining a virtual panel to discuss the imposing logistics of mounting this true-life…

EXCLUSIVE: Hector Babenco’s final film, My Hindu Friend was originally released in Brazil (where it is known as Meu Amigo Hindu)  in 2015 and made its international premiere at the Montréal World Film Festival the following year where the film’s star Willem Dafoe was honored with a Best Actor award. After Babenco died…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe had never worked together before they found themselves in a remote part of Nova Scotia being battered by wind, rain and sea on the shoot for Robert Eggers' Lovecraftian horror The Lighthouse. They came from different worlds to create the movie's only two characters; Pattinson, a…

It took 20 years on and off for Edward Norton to get to the stage of the ninth annual Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles all day event at the DGA Theatre earlier this month in Hollywood. In front of a packed house of Oscar and key guild voters, Norton, who wrote directed, produced and starred in his latest film Moth…

According to star Jamie Foxx, the upcoming movie Just Mercy has the scent of authenticity. Let us explain. Foxx portrays real-life character Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, AL. He was released in 1993 after spending six years on…

Edward Norton has wanted to bring Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn to the screen for the better part of two decades. It has taken that long, with a complex makeover of the book, for the resulting movie finally to come to fruition, but it is all well worth the wait. For Norton, who not only stars but…

There will be few more original and zany movies on the awards circuit this year than Robert Eggers' gothic horror The Lighthouse, the hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in the monochrome Cannes…

With just two feature films to his credit as a director, Robert Eggers proves himself to be a master of mood, atmosphere and psychological horror. First came 2015’s acclaimed 17th century-set gothic tale The Witch, and now get ready for The Lighthouse, yet another brooding period thriller unlike anything anyone else…

BREAKING: Robert Eggers, the director behind the critically acclaimed horror film, The Witch, has potentially assembled a starry cast for his latest project, The Northman, set up at New Regency. Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, The Witch’s Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsgård, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe…

“I was in the third year of trying to finance The Witch and no one wanted to make a movie about Puritans,” said Lighthouse director and co-writer Robert Eggers about how he came to the ghost story about two lighthouse keepers on a remote New England island in the 1890s. Actually, Eggers has his brother Max to thank…