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“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…

EXCLUSIVE: Eclipse Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights to Tropico, a noirish thriller set in Brazil being directed by Giada Colagrande from a screenplay by Barry Gifford. Willem Dafoe, Morena Baccarin and Pedro Pascal will star. Colagrande previously directed Padre and her debut pic Open My Heart played at…

Julie Huntsinger, who is co-director of the Telluride Film Festival , opened Friday night’s World Premiere screening of Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn by saying that she and her co-director Tom Luddy thought it was like something they hadn’t seen in a long while and labeled it flatly a “masterpiece”. That’s a lot…

A24 has debuted a new trailer for The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ drama starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Watch it above. The horror-fantasy film, which was shot on black-and-white 35mm film, is co-written by Eggers and his brother, Max. It will open in the U.S. on October 18. The Lighthouse was named best…

The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers and stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio ahead of the premiere of the film that bowed to raves in Directors’ Fortnight here. This was after Focus had acquired international on Eggers’ sophomore effort early in the festival. A24 is releasing…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. label Rock Salt Releasing is re-launching acclaimed Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco’s (Kiss Of The Spider Woman) final film My Last Friend in the international and U.S markets. Willem Dafoe stars in the 2015 feature about a film director who learns he is on the brink of death. Rock Salt…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Abel Ferrara’s drama Pasolini, nearly five years after its world premiere at Venice and subsequent festival slots that year in Toronto and New York. The film, which stars Willem Dafoe, will have its theatrical premiere in New York at The Metrograph on May 10. Leading…

They woke up early, they ordered breakfast in, and they’re very grateful. Here’s a round-up of key Oscar nominee reactions from this morning: “It’s momentous, it’s something you dream of when you get into this business; it’s the ultimate accolade,” said Rami Malek scoring his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor as…

For Willem Dafoe, star of Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, performing is akin to painting. Studying the latter craft under the painter-director, for his portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, Dafoe recognized that each art form is "an accumulation of marks," coalescing over time to produce a remarkable effect. "They start…

On Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, cinematographer Benoît Delhomme came to a powerful realization, that will forever impact the way he approaches his craft: "Sometimes, something you don't control can be better." Accustomed to a certain way of working—to the notion that cinema is ruled by laws, which shouldn't…

Hugh Grant, Jodie Whittaker and Letitia Wright are among 386 new BAFTA members. The 2018 intake span the film, games and TV industries across eleven countries. Scroll down for the full list of new members. Among new members are BAFTA-winner Grant, Doctor Who star Whittaker, BAFTA-nominee Willem Dafoe, Black Panther…

EXCLUSIVE: The film At Eternity’s Gate isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor is it a forensic biographer of legendary artist Vincent van Gogh. Instead it’s a collection of scenes based on van Gogh's letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are just plain…