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UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Emmys are going to be in 2024, and with voting for the TV honors ending Monday night, it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation starts to pick up again. The Primetime Emmys…

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…

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…

Napoleon director-producer Ridley Scott was on stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to discuss the journey behind his latest epic and why he chose Joaquin Phoenix to portray the iconic Emperor. Speaking about casting Oscar winner Phoenix, who he had previously worked with on Gladiator [in…

The production team behind Barbie was on hand at Deadline’s Contenders London event to reveal some of the secrets behind the smash hit’s unique journey and what set it on the road to becoming the year’s biggest movie at the box office. Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed fantasy comedy, starring Margot Robbie…

Greek writer-director Christos Nikou wanted to explore the modern concept of love when he approached his English-language debut Fingernails starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Luke Wilson. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders London event, the Apples director admitted that the concept of dating apps and…