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To Cord Jefferson, jazz has always felt like “the sound of home.” So when thinking about the score for his first feature, American Fiction, where family was very much front and center, he felt there could be no more appropriate genre of music on which to draw. “I grew up in a household where jazz was…

EXCLUSIVE: America Ferrera’s directorial debut I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is in development at Amazon MGM Studios' Orion Pictures from screenwriter Linda Yvette Chávez. The film, based on Erika Sánchez's New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, was previously set at Netflix. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures has entered production on Hedda, its reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s famed 1891 stage play Hedda Gabler, announcing the addition of six to its cast. Newcomers include Imogen Poots (Baltimore), Tom Bateman (Thirteen Lives), Finbar Lynch (Tom Clancy’s Jack…

Ernst Goldschmidt, the sales agent who co-founded Orion Pictures and oversaw distribution of some of last century’s biggest movies, died last month from heart failure in his hometown of Badenweller in Germany. He was 92. The respected exec’s December 2 death was announced by his…

When you’re composing music for a character named Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in the movie American Fiction, it should be pretty obvious where a composer like Laura Karpman might find her inspiration. “They wanted the music to sound like Beethoven, but I thought I’d take a different tack,” Karpman…

Close to 40 years after Wim Wenders won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas, its enigmatic ending continues to spark debate in cinephile circles. Talking about his career in a Lumière Film Festival masterclass over the weekend, the German director stood by his decision to have Harry Dean Stanton's…

After establishing itself as a probable awards contender at TIFF, where it won the People’s Choice Award, the publishing world satire American Fiction, marking the first feature from writer-director Cord Jefferson, has unveiled its first trailer. An adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure that…

Emma Seligman's Bottoms is looking at an estimated weekend gross of $516k on ten screens with a possible leading $51,625 per-theater average for the raunchy, teenage high school girl take on Fight Club. That's a win for MGM, its Orion Pictures label and Brownstone Productions, producers on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Hoss (Tár) and Nicholas Pinnock (For Life) have closed deals to join the new film Hedda from MGM's Orion Pictures. While details as to their roles haven't been disclosed, they join an ensemble that also includes Tessa Thompson, Callum Turner and Eve Hewson, as previously…

EXCLUSIVE: Eve Hewson (Flora and Son) is set to join Tessa Thompson in Hedda, the new film to be directed for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B by Nia DaCosta, who is working from her own script. Details as to the role she’s playing haven’t been disclosed. Related…

On the heels of a breakout performance in The White Lotus Season 2, Will Sharpe has been tapped to direct Crying in H Mart for MGM‘s Orion Pictures, Deadline can confirm. Related Stories News …

Writer-director Sarah Polley and producer Dede Gardner joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees to discuss Women Talking, their film that is nominated for a pair of Oscars, for Best Picture and Polley’s adapted screenplay. The all-star cast includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire…