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UPDATED, 8:45 a.m.: “Lots of people get lost in Saltburn,” Paul Rhys’ butler Duncan warns Barry Keogh’s Oliver in the new trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ Saltburn, unveiled on Thursday morning. In the sophomore feature of writer-director Emerald Fennell, which has been buzzed about since her Academy…

Emerald Fennell talked the expected starting point for her new film Saltburn at Deadline’s Contenders London event. The director's follow-up to her Oscar Best Picture-nominated and Best Screenplay-winner Promising Young Woman stars Barry Keoghan as working-class Oxford University student Oliver, who…

After sitting it out last year, Deadline's Contenders film series returns to London today with a strong lineup featuring Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the panelists attending the awards-season event. Contenders London gets underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard…

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…

“This could easily have been set in Hollywood,” Emerald Fennell said of her new film Saltburn, during a post-screening Q&A at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The actual setting is, in fact, a long way from Hollywood. Fennell’s sophomore follow-up to her Oscar Best…

EXCLUSIVE: Emerald Fennell likened making Saltburn, her dangerously dark comedy of class and lack of manners, "to taking your clothes off and exposing yourself." The filmmaker, who won an Oscar and BAFTAs for her debut feature Promising Young Woman, clarified that the "transgressive" material that…

The haves and have-nots of Great Britain always have served as ripe subject matter for writers of every stripe, and the tradition continues in Saltburn, a vibrant if rather familiar take on the class system circa 2006. Emerald Fennell, following up on her Oscar-winning script for Promising Young Woman…

The Telluride Film Festival, a key part of the fall festival circuit launching awards season and perhaps some major Academy Award contenders, announced the wide-ranging lineup of films for its landmark 50th edition. The fest kicks off Thursday and runs…

Saltburn, the latest film from Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell, will open this year's London Film Festival.  Fennell also wrote and produced the pic, which will receive its International Premiere at LFF on October 4 at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, with simultaneous…

Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Archie Madekwe (See) and Alison Oliver (Conversations with Friends) are the newest additions to the cast of Prime Video’s upcoming feature Saltburn, written and directed by Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman). The trio joins an ensemble, which also…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in final negotiations to pre-buy rights to in-demand Cannes market package Saltburn, the next film from Promising Young Woman Oscar winner Emerald Fennell. Jacob Elordi (Euphoria), Barry Keoghan (The Batman) and Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) are attached to star in MRC’s Saltburn…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning writer and director Emerald Fennell has lined up the cast for her next film, Saltburn, with Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) and Barry Keoghan (The Batman) attached to star in the project from MRC Film. Deadline recently broke that Rosamund Pike also will co-star with principal photography set…