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Independents are out in force with high-profile fall festival fare from Pricilla to The Holdovers, a big Viva Pictures push with Inspector Sun (voiced by Ronny Chieng), Cannes documentary winner Four Daughters and Waikiki, the debut feature by Hawaiian filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana. the first…

The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood turned 100 last year — and now the venue is ready for its closeup. Netflix said today that the storied movie palace and birthplace of the red carpet will reopen next month after a three-year renovation and retrofit. The streamer acquired the Egyptian in 2020 and…

Deadline Contenders Film returned to London to be the host of an event that would spotlight 13 of the buzziest movies of the year. The lineup included Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann. Panels at the event taking place at London’s Ham Yard Hotel included Scott’s Napoleon, Fennell's Saltburn…

In the David Fincher-directed film, The Killer, from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, and based on a graphic novel, Michael Fassbender stars as an assassin battling his employers when a hit goes terribly wrong. Speaking during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders London event, editor Kirk Baxter…

Depending on who you speak to, Aggro Dr1ft has either been a hideous blight on the fall festival circuit or… Well, currently, there's not exactly a consensus on what there is to love about Harmony Korine's in-your-face fantasia, a nightmare vision of Florida made all the more hellish by its refusal to…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve all heard about the occasional bicycle thief at the Venice Film Festival. Less so poster thieves. That’s what Netflix has seemingly encountered after a handful of its kickstand posters went missing outside the five-star Excelsior Hotel. Six large posters for movies Maestro and T…

David Fincher's latest feature, The Killer, earned 6 minutes and 45 seconds of applause Sunday evening at the film's world premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The atmosphere inside the room following the premiere was respectful, with Fincher in attendance without his main cast but with a…

In principle, using the rainy-day, kitchen-sink post-rock of Manchester band The Smiths so prominently in a film like The Killer seems incredibly perverse, given that it’s an exotic, globe-trotting thriller about an American assassin. But in reality, it’s actually a very sound choice indeed: legend has it…

David Fincher is in town today for the world premiere of The Killer starring Michael Fassbender as an assassin who battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt while insisting none of it is personal. Related Stories …

Netflix on Tuesday unveiled its full fall slate of films, touting the release dates of awards contenders like Pain Hustlers and The Killer, among other titles.  A crime drama starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans that adapts the book by Evan Hughes, Pain Hustlers has been set to open in select…

Netflix on Tuesday dropped the teaser trailer for The Killer, David Fincher’s new movie for Netflix that has its world premiere Sunday in the Competition lineup at the Venice Film Festival. It then hits theaters on October 27 and launches on the streamer November 10. The pic, based on Alexis Nolent…

Nathalie Emmanuel is set to join the cast of The Killer for Peacock and will star opposite Omar Sy in a leading role. The two are toplining the reimagining of the 1989 John Woo film, which the auteur director is also set to helm and produce. The original pic starred Chow Yun Fat and follows an…