The controversy of whitewashed casting – hiring white actors to play non-European characters – has been particularly hot lately, particularly with films based on Biblical stories or simply set in the ancient Near East. That controversy was very much on the minds of Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, creators … Read entire story.
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Turning something like The Girlfriend Experience, into a TV show, as Starz is doing with a series that premieres this spring, seems a weird thing to attempt. Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film about a high priced call girl is wisp-thin, mostly serving as a comment on the financial crisis of 2007-2008 … Read entire story.
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Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon and producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison came to The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month to tell the tale of the long creative gestation of their film, The Danish Girl, which took 15 years to get to the screen. Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne … Read entire story.
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At Deadline’s big awards-season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, held in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members last month at the DGA, Sony Pictures Classics highlighted its Sundance pickup Grandma, which since has earned Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations for star … Read entire story.
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