Author: Deadline

Taiwan has chosen Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture announced the news on their website on Thursday. The film, directed, co-written, and produced by Tsou and co-written and edited by Oscar-winning director Sean Baker, follows a single mother and her two daughters as they relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall.  Left-Handed Girl received a buzzy world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week, with Netflix then most of the global rights in June. Netflix will release the film in theaters in on November 14 before launching it on…

With the curtain about to go up on the 82nd Venice Film Festival, a press conference was held this morning in front of the event’s main venue to promote a march that will take place on the Lido this Saturday denouncing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. In the foreground of the Sala Grande, a dozen or so supporters waving Palestinian flags chanted, “Free, free Palestine” and “Stop, stop genocide” before a spokeswoman, Martina Vergnano, addressed members of the media. The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is set to take center stage at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe and Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic Barack Obama ‘OBEY’ posters, will be guests on First Timers, a docuseries from multimedia artist, writer, director and producer Yi Zhou. Billed as an exploration of what it means to take a first step in high pressure creative and professional worlds, the series can be bought or rented via Apple. Alongside Oscar winner Crowe and artist Fairey, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Simon Ourian rounds out the guest list.“ This series is really about the social and emotional labor of showing up for the first time,” said Zhou. “These participants are stepping…

Danish filmmaker-producer Per Holst, who worked with fellow auteurs and countrymen Lars von Trier, Nils Malmros and Bille August, has died at the age of 86. The Hollywood Reporter cited one of his four sons, actor Morten Holst. A cause of death was not given. According to Denmark’s government-owned broadcast channel TV 2, son Anders Holst explained his father died peacefully in his sleep Saturday morning. “He leaves behind a cultural legacy that we are proud of on his behalf,” Anders Holst told the outlet, adding, “He has been active until the end. Of course not like in his youth,…

Though John Turturro has led a storied career, there’s one director he regrets not being able to work with. During a recent interview on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Emmy winner revealed he inadvertently passed on working with Stanley Kubrick, who had penned a role for him for the twisty erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, which was released posthumously in 1999. “I didn’t turn down Stanley Kubrick, but Stanley Kubrick called me up for Eyes Wide Shut, and I was, like, shocked that he knew all about me,” the actor said, explaining that at the time he had…

A day after his younger brother was denied parole at the conclusion of a grueling 10-hour hearing, Lyle Menendez saw his own hopes of freedom after nearly 30 years behind bars evaporate. “The panel has found today that there are still signs” Menendez is a potential risk to the public, declared Parole Commissioner Julie Garland and Deputy Parole Commissioner Patrick Reardon to the older Menendez brother as he participated via video feed from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego. After going through the reasoning behind the denial and the violations that Menendez has been cited for while…

Amid a busy few years for Austin Butler, the actor went straight to work on a leading role the day he suffered a bizarre medical episode. The Oscar nominee revealed that he experienced temporary blindness for a few minutes after he was awaken by a terrible migraine on a flight to film The Bikeriders, just as he was landing in Cincinnati, Ohio to begin production on the Jeff Nichols film. “It felt like the life was being sucked from my body,” recalled Butler to Men’s Health. “I suddenly felt a euphoric sensation, and I actually genuinely thought I was dying.”…

After A Minecraft Movie broke multiple records on its way to $995M globally, Kirsten Dunst wants to join the franchise. The Oscar nominee recently threw her hat in the ring for a part in Warner Bros sequel, noting that her kids loved the original big screen adaptation of the video game, and she wants to be part of a financially successful movie. “Maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?” said Dunst to Town & Country. Director Jared Hess previously told Deadline a Minecraft Movie sequel “would be so much fun” after the first movie’s record-breaking…

Jason Momoa and David Leitch are coming on to produce The Pirate, from writer Will Dunn, whose hot spec script was just acquired by Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline has confirmed. Leitch and Kelly McCormick are in negotiations to produce under their 87North banner, while Momoa is in negotiations to produce under his On the Roam banner. If deals close, the project would be developed as a potential starring vehicle for Momoa. Plot details are vague other then it being described as The Raid set on a pirate ship Momoa recently starred in WB’s hit Minecraft movie, and he can currently…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock has added four to the cast of his new untitled directorial effort for A24: Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Anthony Anderson (G20), Kelli Garner (Lars and the Real Girl), Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Rich Sommer (Clipped). Character details are under wraps. As previously announced, Rosalind Eleazar plays the lead role, with Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Rock also set to star. Currently untitled, the film follows Misty Green (Eleazar), a gifted actress with a derailed career until someone from her past offers her a chance at a comeback Rock is directing from his…