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EXCLUSIVE: Top Gun: Maverick breakout actor Danny Ramirez is set to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in an untitled detective movie from director Todd Haynes. Details have been thin on the ground so far, but the movie is said to follow two men, one played by Phoenix, who are intense lovers and leave…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the EFM, Anatomy Of A Fall sales firm MK2 Films has boarded Todd Haynes’ anticipated collaboration with Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix.  We understand the secretive detective story, which is currently untitled, is aiming to shoot this summer, and MK2 and John Sloss’ Cinetic will be…

Charles Melton has had a good year; although saying farewell to Riverdale hit him hard, he went head-to-head with Natasha Lyonne for an episode of Poker Face and earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Todd Haynes' May December. Sandwiched between Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, the U.S.-born…

Even by the HFPA's eccentric standards, Todd Haynes' May December is a wild card in the Best Musical or Comedy category. But it does feature elements of both, in a deceptively dark story that harks back to the days of Hollywood's self-imposed censorship code, when ingenious directors found sensitive and…

Even by the HFPA's eccentric standards, Todd Haynes' May December is a wild card in the Best Musical or Comedy category. But it does feature elements of both, in a deceptively dark story that harks back to the days of Hollywood's self-imposed censorship code, when ingenious directors found sensitive and…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with the Todd Haynes-directed May December starring Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Charles Melton. It made a splash at Cannes this year when the darkly comedic and complex feature, loosely based on the…

May December, the title of Todd Haynes's latest drama, reflects the director's dance card for the year: having opened in Cannes, the Netflix title has been a festival favorite ever since, and will likely hang in there until voting closes after Christmas. Its two star names, Natalie Portman and Julianne…

When Julianne Moore first was approached for May December, a dark dramedy that would have her star opposite Natalie Portman under the direction of frequent collaborator Todd Haynes, she said yes immediately. But only in looking more closely at the material and her Gracie character did she come to…

Todd Haynes tells me that May December, his gripping melodrama starring Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, "aggressively disturbs our moral moorings." It's true, and as I watched the movie — about a TV star (Portman) who arrives in Savannah, Georgia, to shadow the woman (Moore) at the…

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…

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…

Todd Haynes, who has appeared on behalf of his latest directing outing, May December, since its splashy debut in Cannes, turned to a new collaborator when promoting it at the New York Film Festival. Samy Burch, writer and executive producer of the film (which is based on an original story developed…