It was an all-woman panel — actress, director, film editor — as the Destroyer team of Nicole Kidman, Karyn Kusama and Plummy Tucker joined me on the DGA stage last month for Deadline’s eighth annual The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event.
The subject was the very intense Annapurna film opening Christmas Day, in which Kidman plays a flawed, beaten and determined Los Angeles cop trying to come back from some very big mistakes. Kidman discusses how she and Kusama had…
Nicole Kidman & Karyn Kusama On Being Creatively Linked For ‘Destroyer’– The Contenders L.A. Video
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Barry Jenkins’ Artful And Moving Follow-Up To Oscar Winner ‘Moonlight’
It has taken awhile, but finally, James Baldwin is getting an English-language movie that is worthy of this great writer. It took a leap of faith by director Barry Jenkins, who went to Europe in the summer of 2013 and not only wrote Moonlight, which went on to win the Oscar Best Picture, as well as Adapted Screenplay Oscar, but he also wrote an adaptation of Baldwin’s 1974 work If Beale Street Could Talk on a wing and a prayer, as it were.
He had no permission from…
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‘Vice’s Amy Adams & Adam McKay On Plugging In To Dick Cheney’s Pursuit Of Power – The Contenders L.A. Video
"What we were most surprised about was how likeable he was and Lynne was from the beginning," Vice director Adam McKay said of Dick Cheney and the ex-Vice President's wife. "But the big thing was how much Lynne was driving all of this, that really surprised us."
"For me, finding my way into Lynne, it actually felt like I knew her," added Amy Adams, who plays the driven former National Endowment for the Humanities chair in the just-opened Christian Bale co-starring satire…
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What’s The Secret Sauce To ‘Vice’? For Adam McKay, It’s Lynne Cheney
When it came to constructing a biopic about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, “the lynchpin of the entire movie is Lynne Cheney” asserts Vice filmmaker Adam McKay.
“One of the tricks we ran up against in this film was according to the Syd Field-McKee kind of model of storytelling, Dick Cheney doesn’t have a first act. There’s no inciting incident that launches him,” explained the The Big Short Oscar winner at last Thursday’s Deadline screening for Vice at the…
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Barry Jenkins On ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’: “To Me It Meant Everything”– The Contenders NY Video
When Barry Jenkins brought his If Beale Street Could Talk team to Deadline's The Contenders New York, it was something of an emotional reunion, according to Colman Domingo, who plays the story's patriarch Joseph Rivers. "Barry, thank you," he told director Barry Jenkins, "because you really did create a family. Every time we see each other, there's so much love and generosity with this cast."
It makes sense that the feeling behind this production would be intensely…
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Sue Naegle Upped To Chief Content Officer At Annapurna
Annapurna has promoted Sue Naegle to chief content officer of Annapurna, where she will expand her role as president of the Megan Ellison company’s television division to oversee development and production the film slate. She will also have the company's Theatre division in here purview and will manage the cross-platform pollination of Annapurna Interactive's IP.
Naegle will report to Ellison. Annapurna said it plans to produce and acquire between 3-5 features a year for…
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Annapurna & Plan B Developing New York Times Bestseller ‘The Silent Patient’ For Big Screen
Annapurna and Plan B have optioned Alex Michaelides’ debut novel The Silent Patient which they will develop as a feature film.
Sue Naegle and Ivana Lombardi will oversee the project for Annapurna.
The Silent Patient centers around Alicia Berenson, a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, who lives in a grand house in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him…
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Emily Blunt In Talks To Star In ‘Not Fade Away’ At Annapurna; John Krasinski & David O. Russell Producing
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Blunt is in talks to star in Not Fade Away, a feature from Annapurna Pictures that has David O. Russell and John Krasinski attached as producers. It’s based on a 2015 memoir Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found by Rebecca Alexander who, born with a rare genetic mutation that caused her to lose her sight and hearing over time, beat the odds and expectations of her prognosis.
Lindsey Ferrentino is adapting the screenplay.
We hear that neither…
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‘Missing Link’: Laika’s Zach Galifianakis-Hugh Jackman-Zoe Saldana Toon To Connect A Week Earlier This Spring
UPDATE: With Universal moving its family feature The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle off of April 12 to MLK weekend 2020, Annapurna is moving its Laika toon Missing Link up by a week to that date. Pic will be up against such wide releases as Aviron’s Hero Fiennes Tiffin-Selma Blair sci-fi pic After and the Fox drama Breakthrough. Through four releases–Coraline, ParaNorman, The […]
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The Reasons Behind Annapurna’s Tumultuous Week
Tuesday’s news about Annapurna shockingly pulling out of two projects –Jay Roach’s untitled Roger Ailes movie and the Jennifer Lopez feature Hustlers — in addition to its head of production Chelsea Barnard exiting, has raised serious questions in Hollywood about the independent studio’s financial livelihood moving forward. Barnard’s departure comes roughly four months after the Megan Ellison-run […]
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Nicole Kidman Transformed For Deep-Cover Duty In Annapurna’s ‘Destroyer’– The Contenders LA
Any fan of Nicole Kidman would have recognized the willowy, red-headed Australian actress as soon as she appeared on stage this weekend for the Annapurna presentation at Deadline’s The Contenders award-season event in Los Angeles. That wasn’t the case a few minutes later, however, when the DGA Theater’s screen showed scenes from Destroyer with a visage of […]
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Lionsgate Handling Sales On Jay Roach’s Starry Roger Ailes Harassment Movie – AFM
EXCLUSIVE: I understand Lionsgate is selling Jay Roach’s Roger Ailes-Fox News harassment movie here at the AFM. As we’ve reported in recent weeks, Lionsgate has been moving towards a deal for the movie, which was previously set up with Annapurna. The expectation is that Lionsgate will take worldwide rights and handle U.S. and UK itself, […]
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Olivia Wilde’s ‘Booksmart’ Boosted By ‘Ellen’ Social Media Push; First Six Minutes Of Movie Released – Watch
Olivia Wilde’s femme teen comedy Booksmart had a blitzkreig social media push today to a potential 221M followers prior to the pic’s early access paid sneaks tonight at 800 locations. That combined reach is comprised from social media pushes on EW, Ellen DeGeneres’ channels as well as Annapurna’s and Booksmart’s social media handles. Starting at […]
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Annapurna Nabs ‘The Hunter & The Fox’ Pitch; Miles Joris-Peyrafitte To Write & Direct
EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has beat out the competition for an original film pitch titled The Hunter & The Fox with Dreamland helmer Miles Joris-Peyrafitte attached to write and direct. Not much is known about the plot details other than it is said to be an elevated Kubrickian-type horror thriller. Joris-Peyrafitte made his feature directorial debut with As […]
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Annapurna Bailout By Larry Ellison Likely As Chapter 11 Looms For Megan Ellison’s Oscar-Winning Studio
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE with Megan Ellison memo to staff: A showdown that has lenders on one side of the table, with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and her father and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison on the other, is about to take place, and it will decide whether Annapurna continues as a taste-making studio or a Chapter 11 casualty. […]
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Annapurna Update: Megan Ellison’s Company Nearly Out Of The Woods; “Last And Final” Offer Made To Banks
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Hollywood’s biggest lenders are about to call off the dogs on Annapurna, Megan Ellison’s taste-maker production/distribution company. Sources said that Ellison’s father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, has submitted a “last and final offer” to pay Annapura’s key lenders, offering between 80 cents-85 cents on the dollar. This for a debt sources place […]
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‘Colette’ Scribe To Pen Movie About NYT Reporters Who Took Down Harvey Weinstein
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter behind critically acclaimed indie films like Colette, Ida, and Disobedience, has been tapped to script for a film about how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey investigated and eventually broke the lengthy piece that detailed years of sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Last year, Deadline broke […]
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‘Vice’s Amy Adams & Adam McKay On Plugging In To Dick Cheney’s Pursuit Of Power – The Contenders L.A. Video
“What we were most surprised about was how likeable he was and Lynne was from the beginning,” Vice director Adam McKay said of Dick Cheney and the ex-Vice President’s wife. “But the big thing was how much Lynne was driving all of this, that really surprised us.” “For me, finding my way into Lynne, it […]
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Barry Jenkins On ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’: “To Me It Meant Everything”– The Contenders NY Video
When Barry Jenkins brought his If Beale Street Could Talk team to Deadline’s The Contenders New York, it was something of an emotional reunion, according to Colman Domingo, who plays the story’s patriarch Joseph Rivers. “Barry, thank you,” he told director Barry Jenkins, “because you really did create a family. Every time we see each other, […]
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‘Booksmart’: How Olivia Wilde Made A Comedy For Today’s Evolved Generation Of Teens – The Contenders NY
When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day. The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its […]
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