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Updated with Saturday AM B.O.: There’s a great axiom when it comes to success in Hollywood; a saying which remains true through good times and bad, even at a moment when streaming is stepping on theatrical’s feet, and that is, “Talent rules.” Such talent is Russian filmmaker Ilya Naishuller, whose Universal action…

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains details about the ending for Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman.  On today’s Crew Call before Oscar nominations drop on Monday, March 15, we speak with Promising Young Woman director/writer/producer Emerald Fennell and the pic’s production designer Michael Perry on how they…

It is truly unfortunate that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Branford Marsalis’ riveting original score for the Netflix feature adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.  AMPAS’ current rule is that a movie’s music needs to be comprised of 60% of original score…

The Academy Awards’ shortlists are a blessing and a curse. Blessing in that it truly helps awards strategists and publicists hone their efforts and marketing dollars toward a sampling of candidates in the final run-up to nominations. In the case of the Music Branch and the Original Score category, film scores…

Netflix’s drama Mank led all Golden Globe feature nominations this morning with a count of six, and one of those belonged to composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for the David Fincher film. Mank reps the fourth feature between the filmmaker and the composers, the latter who immediately took home the Oscar…

The HBO limited series inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ DC graphic novel thrusts us into the 1921 Tulsa massacre, which is known as the single worst incident of racial violence in U.S history. It is the moment from which series creator Damon Lindelof builds his expansion of the Watchmen universe, in which we…

Cast & Crew, one of Hollywood's leading payroll companies, said tonight that it's furloughing "a significant percentage” of its employees, and is implementing salary reductions of 50% for executive management and 25% for vice presidents and other senior employees. It's also decreasing work hours "for a portion of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Musical Anatomy of a Superhero panel is making its way down to San Diego Comic-Con for the seventh year in a row, and the film composer symposium is not only upgrading from the Hilton Indigo Ballroom to Ballroom 20, but Up Oscar winner and composer of The Incredibles and the latest Spider-Man franchise M…

“The truth was being held in a bottle too tight, for too long,” says I Am the Night director and EP Patty Jenkins about the enigmatic story of teenager Fauna Hodel, whose search for her real mother in 1960s Los Angeles plunged her into the city’s underbelly. Fauna Hodel was a white girl raised by her adoptive black…

Jóhann Jóhannsson, revered for such film scores as The Theory of Everything and Sicario, died in Berlin on Friday. As tributes arrive from friends, colleagues and admirers, Deadline presents this feature on the composer from October 2014. Jóhannsson, still then a newcomer to Hollywood, was nominated for a best…

In quite a short time, Nicholas Britell has quickly established his voice as a film composer, breaking out with the score to the 2012 South by Southwest and Cannes film festival premiere Gimme the Loot, and landing his first Oscar nomination earlier this year for the emotionally affecting, poetic music heard in Barry J…

Thirty-five years later the Oscar-nominated production design by Lawrence G. Paull, David L. Snyder and Linda DeScenna in 1982’s Blade Runner is still considered marvelous, so how do you top that in the film’s sequel? Oscar-winning cinematic architect Dennis Gassner was entrusted with that responsibility of jumping…