In a special three-part series — including All the Presidents’ Men and Taxi Driver — Deadline is looking back a half-century at 1976, an incredible year for movies. Things could have gone very differently for Sylvester Stallone in the year he broke out; by 1976, he was just a jobbing actor with seven years of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rose Leslie (Game Of Thrones), Andreas Pietschmann (Nuremberg), and Daniel Zovatto (Don’t Breathe) are joining Oscar winner Russell Crowe in action-drama The Last Druid, which will begin production on June 8 in Barcelona and the Canary Islands, Spain. A quarter century after Crowe waged war on the Roman Empire in Gladiator, the actor is once again set […]
A German leg of the refreshed Dogma filmmaking movement has been established by Tom Tykwer, Ilker Catak, Nora Fingscheidt, Helene Hegemann, and Kurdwin Ayub. The five filmmakers announced their intention to produce feature projects under the new Dogma rules during a press conference this afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival. The group is backed by […]
EXCLUSIVE: The actor chosen to play the next James Bond has got “to ooze sex appeal,” as well as the obvious stuff, like well, actually being able to act, says 007 casting director Nina Gold. Plus, as this column noted way back, the successful applicant picked to take on Ian Fleming’s Commander Bond should be young enough […]
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a few years since we heard about writer-director Michael Winterbottom’s A Farewell to Arms adaptation, but it now has fresh impetus with producer-financier Tribune Pictures and UK sales firm Embankment Films, which is bringing it to the Cannes market. Fremantle is among the original partners who are no longer aboard the film, […]
Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard happily reflected on what they described as the close and collaborative experience they underwent to develop their Cannes Competition title Karma this afternoon during a press conference. Canet directed the film from a screenplay he also wrote. But the veteran filmmaker told the press room that he began the project […]
