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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 […]

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 […]

Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix’s Korean romance “Love Untangled,” said her first commercial feature felt little different from her independent films once cameras rolled, apart from the scale. The freedom, she added, came with weight. Namkoong was speaking at “New Voices in Film,” an industry panel staged by the Busan International Film Festival and Netflix […]

“I think we created history,” Being Heumann producer Kevin Walsh concluded this morning during a Q&A session at Deadline’s Contenders London. The veteran producer wasn’t speaking specifically about the feature film, but the accessible environment he and director Siân Heder created on the film’s set. “We are as proud of that as we are of […]

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Travis Knight took to the stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to explain just how much work had gone into making LAIKA’s new release Wildwood. Accompanied by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, composer Dario Marianelli and costume designer Deb Cook, Knight revealed that the legendarily difficult stop-motion process did not exactly make life easy when making a […]

Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin dug into the challenges of making Everest: The Other Side at Deadline’s Contenders London event on Saturday. The heart-stopping documentary follows the quest of mountaineer-skiers Jim Morrison, who joined them on stage, and Hilaree Nelson to scale the North Face of Mount Everest and the ski down […]

When Kim Ji-yong read the script for “Possible Love,” its emotional climax, set in a still forest by the beach, had no wind in it. Korean summer storms on location changed that. The cinematographer behind “Decision to Leave” and “Squid Game” Season 2 asked director Lee Chang-dong to change the scene’s setup, a choice that […]

Hollywood’s appetite for Asian stories has broadened, but for Lionsgate’s Helen Lee-Kim, “every movie is still a fight.” Lee-Kim, the studio’s president of international, made the remark at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market during the panel “UTA × Gold House: Hollywood & The Asian Diaspora,” moderated by Variety‘s Asia Editor […]

The major problem for so many kids content producers these days is getting their series financed. Many are now at Mipcom, the world’s biggest annual TV confab set to take place from Monday in Cannes, the same French Riviera city that hosts the legendary film festival. Proceedings kicked off Saturday with MipJunior, the kids & […]

Generative AI can widen the options for a visual effects shot, but artists still decide which of them serve the story, according to James Rustad, global head of GenFX at Eyeline, Netflix’s in-house VFX studio. Rustad made the case at an InnoAsia session “Making What’s Next: Generative AI and the Future of Filmmaking at Eyeline,” […]