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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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Breaking Baz: Rap Artist Q-Tip And His Beats & Rhythms Join Ringside Team For Broadway-Bound Musical ‘Ali’
EXCLUSIVE: Q-Tip, the legendary rapper, producer, singer and lyricist, will be adding his hip-hop know-how to the Broadway-bound Ali, a musical about Muhammad Ali's life in and out of the boxing ring.
The acclaimed rhymer has been signed on by Ali lead producer Richard Willis as music producer…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Scandal’s Tony Goldwyn Discovers Teen Actor Who Runs Rings Around Robert De Niro & Bobby Cannavale In Impactful Movie ‘Ezra’
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Goldwyn called them "thoughtful human movies" — the ones, he said, “that don't have the big marketing hook or are not genre pictures or horror or action movies have become increasingly difficult to get made."
We were discussing Ezra, his new film as director. It’s about how Max (Bobby…
Breaking Baz at London Film Festival: ‘Black Panther’ Star Daniel Kaluuya On The 10-Year Odyssey To Make ‘The Kitchen’ With His Best Filmmaking Friends
EXCLUSIVE: The BFI London Film Festival closes Sunday with the world premiere of The Kitchen, a movie set in a dystopian London where an impoverished community is forced to fend for themselves in ramshackle apartment blocks. It marks the feature directorial debut of Oscar- winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and…
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Breaking Baz At London Film Festival: Todd Haynes Trumps Tabloid Tale With Gripping Melodrama ‘May December’ Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore & Hot New Star Charles Melton
Todd Haynes tells me that May December, his gripping melodrama starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, "aggressively disturbs our moral moorings."
It's true, and as I watched the movie — about a TV star (Portman) who arrives in Savannah, Georgia, to shadow the woman (Moore) at the…
Breaking Baz at London Film Festival: Jeymes Samuel Says Hot Biblical Era Epic ‘The Book Of Clarence’ Is His ‘Ben-Hur’; And He’s Laid An Easter Egg Trail To His Next Movie
It's not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel's good news.
The director's spectacular Jesus in the hood movie, The Book of Clarence, starring a…
Breaking Baz at London Film Festival: Emerald Fennell On Why LFF Opener ‘Saltburn’ Is Like “Prodding Something Uncomfortable” But “That’s What Movies Are For”
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell says that "if you're prodding at something uncomfortable, that's what movies are for."
The filmmaker spoke to this columnist at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) opening night gala reception held at BFI Southbank following the international…
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Breaking Baz: How “Scrappy Team” Behind ‘The Farewell’ Blossomed To Make ‘Expats’ With Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films; Limited Series Gets Premiere Date & London Fest Slot
EXCLUSIVE: Executive Producer Dani Melia describes how "a scrappy team" that made filmmaker Lulu Wang's acclaimed low-budget feature The Farewell joined forces with Blossom Films' Nicole Kidman and Per Saari to make "this big international production" Expats for Prime Video.
Melia tells me how she…
Breaking Baz: Bob Geldof Collaborates On Live Aid Musical With Broadway & West End Director Luke Sheppard; Show Will World Premiere At London’s Old Vic
EXCLUSIVE: Rock icon Bob Geldof is collaborating on a stage musical about the global phenomenon that was Live Aid. The show, called Just For One Day, devised and directed by Luke Sheppard (& Juliet), will have its world premiere at the Old Vic Theatre in London early next year.
Live Aid was a concert…
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Breaking Baz: Broadway’s Robbie Fairchild To Star In Stage Adaptation Of Oscar Winner ‘The Artist’; West End’s Gary Wilmot & Briana Craig Also Cast
EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Fairchild, a Broadway lead and former New York City Ballet principal dancer, will star in the stage version of Michel Hazanavicius' 2011 Oscar-winning movie The Artist, set in the 1920s when movies found their voice with the advent of talking pictures.
Fairchild received a Tony…
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Breaking Baz: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Filmmaker Ilker Çatak On Why He Favors Movies That Provoke & How A Fight With His Father Sparked His Career
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Ilker Çatak, whose terrific film The Teachers' Lounge is Germany's submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards, wants to see and make films that provoke.
But what exactly does that mean?
Well, according to Çatak, most filmmakers, including himself…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’s French Filmmaker Justine Triet On Why She’s Obsessed With Germany’s Superstar Actress Sandra Hüller
EXCLUSIVE: Everybody mingles at Telluride. I have this abiding memory of Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at the festival's opening-day brunch set atop a mountain in the San Juan range of the Rockies, bounding over to Cannes Palme d'Or winner Justine Triet and Sandra…
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Breaking Baz @ TIFF: Hollywood Filmmaker Tarsem Singh On Shooting ‘Dear Jassi’, His First Film In India; Helmer Talks Of Mothers And Murder
EXCLUSIVE: Director Tarsem Singh thought of his own sainted mother as he tried to understand why a Canadian woman of Indian heritage would plot to have her daughter abducted then murdered.
It was to be a significant moment as Singh prepared to shoot Dear Jassi, his first feature shot in India, the…
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