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Can a non-English language film win Best Picture on the American industry's grandest night of the year? It is a question Oscar prognosticators have been chewing over for months, with increasing intensity, as Bong Joon Ho's Parasite has been making history at every turn. Parasite's life began at the Cannes Film…

In a Parisian hotel suite in late November, Quentin Tarantino is hard at work. He is in town to launch the theatrical re-release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, with a new cut that adds additional grace notes to the version released over the summer, and he's on a mini European tour in support of the movie's home…

It took two and-a-half hours, every day of Bombshell's shoot, for Charlize Theron to transform into Megyn Kelly; but deciding to take on the role in the first place took much longer. "I loved this script so much, and I didn't want to fuck the movie up," she says. The project came to her Denver and Delilah company for…

What is cinema? It's a question Alfonso Cuarón has been compelled to answer for as long as he has been making films. Is it a grand theatrical presentation, carefully calibrated and shielded from a home entertainment audience for the longest time possible, or is it much more democratic than that; accessible and open…

Guillermo del Toro is taking a breath. It probably feels like his first in 12 months. It is a hot summer's day on the Lido in Venice, and his latest film, The Shape of Water, is tonight's film festival premiere. From the outside, this past year for the Mexican writer and director has looked pretty good. The animated…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re still six weeks from the start of the America Film Market, but so far there are 32 films from female directors that will be screened, sold or premiering at the market. Only four of those films — or 13% — were produced in the U.S.: Lynne Southerland's Cinderella and The Secret Prince, Elizabeth…

When The Americans stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell arrived for Deadline's shoot at a quaint upstate NY inn near where they were on holiday, they brought the latest member of their entourage. That would be Sam, a two-month-old who seems right out of central casting for cutest baby ever. In a fourth season of the…

From anthology master Ryan Murphy, American Crime Story examines the dark underbelly of America's passions and prejudices. Beginning with The People V. O.J. Simpson, which made the nation reevaluate the O.J. Simpson murder trial, stars Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Courtney B. Vance, and producers Nina Jacobson…

How many shows lose their showrunner after they finally strike Emmy gold in one of the top categories? That's what happened with Veep, which took home the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy last year (to add to a plethora of Emmys including four Best Actress trophies for Julia Louis-Dreyfus), offering a sweet swansong to…

Matthew Modine's daughter Ruby asked her father if she could play the prostitute in his latest short film Super Sex, which played the Tribeca Film Festival. Modine wrote the script based on a joke fellow actor Eli Wallach told. "I wrote up a screenplay expanding the idea a bit," explained Modine at the Deadline Photo…

After 20 years of stalled development, and plenty of spirited naysaying from armchair doubters as director George Miller wrangled a complex production past the finish line, Mad Max: Fury Road was released in May to become a commercial triumph, a critical darling and the surprise recipient of 10 Oscar nominations…

Months after The Martian launched at the Toronto Film Festival and grossed $589 million worldwide to become the biggest film in 78-year-old director Ridley Scott's career, Matt Damon still hasn't tired of talking about the film. For Damon—who shared the 1998 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Good Will Hunting with…