Joe Utichi

As musical biopics like Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody grab headlines, TIFF provides a fertile launching ground for I Am Woman, the story of Helen Reddy’s road from Australia to the titular anthem…

When Robert Eggers and his cast and crew decamped to Nova Scotia to shoot his black-and-white 1.19:1 aspect ratio The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, they might nearly have …

A veritable army of cast joined writer/director Rian Johnson in Deadline’s TIFF studio this week in support of the uproarious Knives Out, which got its world premiere at the festival. A modern twis…

Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo drags the gladiator fight into the modern world, with an anonymous hacker group abducting civilians and forcing them to fight to the death in a live-streamed action g…

At last night’s AwardsLine Screening Series event for The Report, Annette Bening, who plays Senator Dianne Feinstein in Scott Z. Burns’ movie, pointed to recent headlines about the whistleblower wh…

Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, a coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany featuring Waititi himself in the role of Hitler, is the director’s follow-up to surprise hit Thor: Ragnarok. It began…

After the surprise success last year of Bohemian Rhapsody, when he stepped up as a last-minute stand-in for exiting director Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher is getting go-round with Rocketman. A musi…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe had never worked together before they found themselves in a remote part of Nova Scotia being battered by wind, rain and sea on the shoot for Robert Eggers’ Lovecra…

Just as Taika Waititi’s low-budget New Zealand-based horror comedy What We Do in the Shadows became a worldwide word-of-mouth favorite in 2014, FX’s small-screen spinoff has found its audience grow…

Of all the challenges inherent in taking on the role of a divisive figure like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown, Gillian Anderson sa…

Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault among the frontru…

Anyone preparing to work with David Fincher knows the legendarily fastidious director doesn’t do anything by halves, and those who signed up for his 10-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood homage Mank we…

This is how the 93rd Oscars ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. So it was, as the Academy Awards reached its climax—having delivered the Best Picture winner to Nomadland two categories earli…

For The Crown’s fourth season, Peter Morgan brought his decades-spanning royal drama into more familiar territory for many of its viewers. Starting with the election of famously abrasive Cons…

Many of us have been itching to dip our toes into the water of real life ever since the vaccine rollout hinted at an end to the pandemic lockdown. For Léa Seydoux, the next 11 days will be a plunge…

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline, we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like t…

Against all the odds, Denis Villeneuve has delivered the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 classic novel Dune. But a complex narrative and the difficulty of shooting a blockbuster in th…

After a charged premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer has become one of this season’s hottest contenders. A haunting study of one particular Christmas at Sandringham for Dia…

Michael Mann‘s Ferrari received a 7 1/2-minute standing ovation Thursday night after the lights went up on the film’s world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The pic, which is screening in Competition in Venice, was the primetime premiere screening tonight on the Lido, with the film’s stars Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and Daniela […]

After sitting it out last year, Deadline’s Contenders film series returns to London today with a strong lineup featuring Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the panelists attending the awards-season event. Contenders London gets underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard Hotel and will feature panels on 13 of the year’s […]