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…

Spotlight has been in the Oscar hunt since Toronto Film Festival audiences gave it a long, thunderous standing ovation. At the heart of the film is a team of dogged journalists whose exposé of the shameful Boston Archdiocese cover-up of pedophile priests led to the forced resignation of the all-powerful Cardinal…

"You can imagine the crass studio executive reaction to the pitch for Room: 'Forget it,' " says director Lenny Abrahamson of his film that has commanded so much Oscar buzz since its September unveiling at the Telluride Film Festival. Yes, Room is a hard sell when boiled down: A young woman is trapped in a garden shed…

When a show captures the zeitgeist as Jill Soloway's Transparent and John Ridley's American Crime have this year, TV suddenly finds itself balancing on the border between truth and fiction. Targeting social issues can be a perilous place in or out of primetime. Yet, for the Amazon series and the ABC anthology and…