Bob Mackie, the celebrated fashion designer known for the eye-popping gowns and costumes worn by Cher, Carol Burnett and many other stars, sustained an injury in a fall just days before he died on September 14 in a Palm Springs hospital. According to an exclusive new report in US magazine, Mackie’s immediate cause of death […]
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It’s been a good year for Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo; after directing the first Rwandan feature to be accepted into the official selection by the Cannes film festival, where she was awarded the Camera d’Or, her film Ben’Imana was recently nominated as the country’s first ever Oscar submission. Set in 2012, 18 years after the genocide against […]
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Oscar-winning DoP Greig Fraser knows a thing or two about working on challenging movies, from Dune to The Batman, Rogue One to Zero Dark Thirty. At Deadline’s Contenders London event today, the in-demand cinematographer revealed that none were as challenging as Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s space hit Project Hail Mary: “This was the most […]
“Under Siege” (“Palacio”) the fictional series inspired by the storming of Colombia’s Palace of Justice by an M-19 guerrilla commando and its subsequent retaking by the Colombian army, bows Nov. 6 on Netflix. The events, which unfolded in the capital of Bogotá on Nov. 6 and 7, 1985, is recounted in the eight-part series directed […]
Florian Zeller and Penélope Cruz stepped into Deadline’s Contenders event in London where the duo discussed their upcoming psychological thriller, Bunker. The film, which Zeller wrote, produced and directed, sees Cruz star as the wife of her real-life husband Javier Bardem as their characters face emotional and moral challenges in an increasingly uncertain world. Bardem […]
Sombr details ‘highs and lows of fame’: ‘I don’t go out anymore’Sombr doesn't go out in public much anymore because he suffers from "anxiety attacks" amid his rise to fame.In an interview with ELLE magazine, the Back to Friends star, whose real name is Shane Boose,...
'Love Untangled' director gushes about creative freedom Netflix providedTraditional filmmakers often worry about securing funds, distribution, and theatre slots. But Namkoong Sun, director of Love Untangle, had no worries about any of them.“Once we went into production, it was a system where...
Gentle Monster writer-director Marie Kreutzer and star Léa Seydoux took to the stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to discuss the journey behind their Cannes drama. Seydoux plays Lucy, an experimental pianist who moves with her beloved but panic attack-liable husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and young son to a rural farmhouse in Bavaria. Life seems […]
The Rolling Stones return to studio for new music post latest album successThe Rolling Stones are back in the studio again, according to saxophonist Courtney Pine.The jazz musician has revealed that he recorded with Mick Jagger just weeks ago, only three months after the Stones released their 25th...
Episode four saw another contestant killed off, a ghoulish mission near a graveyard and a spooky twist.
Writer-director Guy Nattiv and actress Carrie Coon joined Deadline’s Contenders London event today where the pair discussed making The Liberation, a very personal story inspired by real events from Nattiv’s own grandmother. The film, which Bleecker Street is releasing in in the U.S. in January, is set in the early 1980s where Rita, a depressed […]