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EXCLUSIVE: Speaking onstage at our Contenders London event over the weekend, Ferrari director Michael Mann confirmed that Heat 2 is set to be his next movie. Asked whether the novel adaptation would be his next screen epic, the legendary filmmaker told us: “Yes. Meg Gardiner and myself wrote the…

Deadline kicked off movie-awards season Saturday with Contenders London, which featured creatives and key craftspeople from 13 buzzy films that will be at the forefront of kudos conversations leading up to the Oscars in March. Click to launch the Contenders London streaming site. A starry…

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…

Moving out of the documentary space with Nyad — the true but lightly fictionalized story of Diana Nyad, an athlete who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s — director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi came to Contenders London with producer Andrew Lazar and Bonnie Stoll, the real-life inspiration for Jodie…

Michael Mann's high-octane sports feature Ferrari has been two decades in the making, and speaking at Deadline's Contenders London event, the director admitted there were times he thought his passion project about the life of Enzo Ferrari would never take off.  "There were numerous times when I…

Spanish director J.A. Bayona talked about the long and arduous journey to bringing air crash survival drama Society of the Snow to fruition at Deadline Contenders London. The immersive drama, which is Spain's Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences…

Fresh from a victory tour of the fall festivals, four of the key creatives behind Netflix awards favorite Maestro stopped by Contenders London to reveal some of the secrets behind the scenes. Speaking with Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye, producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, makeup designer Kazu Hiro, costume…

May December director Todd Haynes said of first reading Samy Burch's script, "I loved how disquieting it was for the reader and thought, 'Wow, if there was a way to convey this on screen and ignite that sense of engaged questioning and uncertainty'… It reminded me of the kind of movies that I came of age…

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to Aardman Animation's 2000 stop-motion hit, is arriving 23 years after the original. Mused director Sam Fell during a panel at Deadline's Contenders London, "At the end of the first one, you're kind of a bit sick of chickens. It takes about three or four years…

"I wanted to tell a story about the environment that I grew up in but based in the biblical era and merge the two," Jeymes Samuel told Deadline's Baz Bamigboye of the idea behind his latest pic, The Book of Clarence, at London Contenders.  Starring LaKeith Stanfield, David Oyelowo, and Benedict…

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…