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Fuse always fetes the Halloween holiday with great makers of genre fare, and we’ve had the likes of John Carpenter, Stephen King, James Wan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mike Flanagan, Darren Lynn Bousman and Eli Roth grace us in the past. Today, we look at a producer and studio chief who has influenced the genre…

When James Burrows was called the Spielberg of sitcom directors, Steven Spielberg wrote him to say he wished to be known as the James Burrows of film directors. The son of the famed playwright, director and producer Abe Burrows, James Burrows grew up around the business but initially planned to have…

To commemorate the publication of the making-of-Airplane! memoir Surely You Can't Be Serious, authors and the film's writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker sat with Deadline to reminisce about how they got away with making the seminal raucous comedy 43 years ago and watched it become a…

Most filmmakers who list proud accomplishments in Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse would not include this favorite review of their work: "Like a septic tank explosion, it needs to be seen to be believed." But few directors possess the subversive humor of John Waters, the Baltimore-based…

Dublin-born musician-turned-writer/director John Carney's latest film Flora and Son opens limited today, and goes wide on Apple TV+ next Friday everywhere but Ireland, where it will get a full theatrical release February 23. The film stars Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Oren Kinlan…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to grim headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. There was also the…

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment…