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HBO Max’s The Batman prequel series has found its showrunner. The series, which is about Arkham Asylum, will be overseen by The Staircase creator Antonio Campos, who will serve as showrunner-executive producer and also will direct on the series, Deadline has confirmed. Initially, the series…

Colin Firth is tackling a character far removed from the British gentlemen he’s played throughout much of his career in HBO Max’s The Staircase, premiering in the Spring. The eight-episode limited series—based on a true story— sees Firth portray Michael Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Dave Kajganich will continue his foray into horror with the forthcoming adaptation of the Camille DeAngelis novel Bones & All. Producer and Literary Agent Theresa Park made the announcement today that the Suspiria screenwriter will pen the script which will be directed by Antonio Campos (The Sin…

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Bennett, Jason Clarke and Riley Keough have been set for The Devil All the Time, the Antonio Campos-directed drama that Netflix will put into production this month in Alabama. They join Tom Holland, Mia Wasakowska, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, Eliza Scanlen and Sebastian Stan, latter of whom was…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine and Simon Killer director Antonio Campos has set up his next film just in time to be a hot Toronto sales package. Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Chris Evans and Tracy Letts are in talks to star in The Devil All the Time. The pic is an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 novel…

EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Campos, the writer-director-producer whose credits include the Cannes Un Certain Regard pic Afterschool and the Sundance films Simon Killer and Christine, has signed with WME. Campos has been busy on the TV side of late, directing and executive producing USA’s The Sinner starring Jessica Biel in…

EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Campos (Afterschool) has signed on to rewrite and direct the upcoming horror film, Splitfoot (fka Voices Through the Trumpet), based on a 1936 article in The New Yorker about the first documented haunted house, written by journalist and bestselling author Carl Carmer. It follows the true story of a…

Antonio Campos, director of the harrowing movie Christine, came to Deadline’s big annual awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month to discuss how this story of a local Florida news reporter Christine Chubbuck and her 1974 on-air suicide came to be a movie 42 years after the events…

Rebecca Hall, the British actress born in London who is really half American (her mother comes from Michigan), might not have been born to play Florida TV news reporter Christine Chubbuck, but you would never know it after seeing Antonio Campos's Christine. Hall inhabits the role and considers it her best work, in a…

As it turns out, no video exists of the final moments of Christine Chubbuck’s life. The Florida TV news reporter infamously killed herself live on-air in 1974, but, according to Antonio Campos, director of the biopic based on her story, all copies of the tape have been destroyed — despite urban legend to the…

Park City, UT (January 27, 2012) – IFC Films announced today from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival that the company is acquiring North American rights to director Antonio Campos' SIMON KILLER. The film, with a screenplay also by Campos, stars Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Michael Abiteboul, Constance Rousseau, and Lila…

Borderline Films, the company behind the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, has signed a two-year first-look deal with Fox Searchlight, the studio that picked up the the Elizabeth Olsen-starring psychological thriller during the festival. Borderline Films was launched in 2003 by Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and…