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The first trailer for director George Clooney’s Christmas Day release, The Boys in the Boat, dropped today. The Boys in the Boat is based on Daniel James Brown's #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics…

“The nandina is a species of flower and plant native to eastern Asia,” we’re told. “The smell at certain times of the year gives you a real buzz — like the buzz you get just before pulling the trigger.” Here is the first trailer for Master Gardener, writer-director Paul Schrader’s feature starring…

Thirteen Lives tells the true story of the attempt to rescue a group of young boys and their soccer coach who are trapped in a system of flooding underground caves in Thailand. This isn’t the first time that this story has been told, having been the subject of several documentaries previously, but…

Magnolia Pictures has snapped up U.S. rights to Master Gardener — the latest starry feature from Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader (First Reformed), which world premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival and most recently screened at the New York Film Festival. Pic is slated for release next…

This week’s guest is Joel Edgerton. In a chat about the plethora of projects he has in the offing, including the upcoming George Clooney-directed The Boys in the Boat, Edgerton reveals the moment he decided to be an actor, how he wanted to be Indiana Jones growing up, and the time his dad woke him…

"I made a new life for myself from flowers," marvels the green-thumbed Narvel Roth. "How unexpected is that?" To be fair, it's about the only plausible thing that happens in Paul Schrader's Venice Film Festival out of competition entry Master Gardener, an incredibly silly but fitfully entertaining noir-tinged drama…

Netflix has bagged Thomas M. Wright’s tense Cannes thriller The Stranger and will premiere it globally in October. The Australian drama had its world premiere in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival this year, where Deadline critic Anna Smith said it revealed “quietly compelling insight” about the nature…

The only real problem with Thirteen Lives, an engrossing account of the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their coach from desperate straits when they become stranded in perilous caves during a monsoon, is that the same story was just recounted in the documentary The Rescue last fall. Yes, of course, big-budget feature films…

EXCLUSIVE: This weekend marks four years since 12 members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach walked into the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, and were soon trapped 1000 meters down by rapidly rising floodwaters. Leading to an extraordinary 17-day rescue effort in which the Thai…

MGM and Amazon on Tuesday released the trailer for Thirteen Lives, the Ron Howard-directed drama about the real-life rescue in 2018 of 12 youth Thai soccer players and their coach from a cave after it flooded and trapped them inside. The incident became a worldwide event that encompassed more than 10,000 volunteers as…

“I think we're dealing with pretty primal forces of right and wrong with this story,” Australian writer/ director Thomas M. Wright said during a discussion about his new film The Stranger at Deadline’s Cannes studio. “It was a very difficult film to make just in terms of managing the amount of info in it,” Wright…

An undercover cop befriends a murder suspect in The Stranger, a taut Australian thriller in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Written and directed by Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), it features excellent performances from Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also serves as producer. The Stranger begins simply…