Scott Huver

Indian filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan is thanking to the legendary director Martin Scorsese for lending a gentle guiding hand in shaping his film Homebound. As the film's executive producer and a mentor to Ghaywan, Scorsese helped him find the focus he needed to make his story — which explores India's…

Even as Ryan Coogler took the opportunity to announce that Black Panther 3 would be his next film, he revealed why he felt compelled to step back from the blockbuster franchise films and intimate biopics that have propelled his career to make the whole-cloth original Sinners. And the reason was to…

Rami Malek admits that while the subject matter of his latest film Nuremberg is sobering and grim, the story and characters were so compelling that he and his castmates couldn't help but feel giddy when diving into the work. "What’s odd is the juxtaposition of the word 'fun' in Nuremberg," Malek…

Two of Hollywood's leading stunt coordinators revealed the elements that make for a great stunt sequence during Deadline’s inaugural Contenders Film stunt panel. "The script. The script. The script," Brian Machleit, who oversaw the stunt sequences in filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle Af…

Elle Fanning says her work on the complex family drama Sentimental Value left her feeling her own familial anxiety when her older sister, Emmy nominee Dakota Fanning, screened Joachim Trier's Norwegian film for the first time. "I think we had a Q&A afterwards and I just started crying," Fanning…

High Potential ended its Season 1 run in February as ABC's most watched new series in 6 years. A second season is on the way, and it will include “a little bit more” episodes than the 13 the first was comprised of, series star and producer Kaitlin Olson said during the ABC series' panel at the…

Paradise will explore the outside world in its second season. Star and exec producer Sterling K. Brown gave a few hints at what season two will look like at Deadline's Contenders Television event, including whether what life looks like outside of the bunker and whether his character's wife is…

When it came to adapting and reinventing novelist James Patterson's beloved Alex Cross for television, Cross showrunner and executive producer Ben Watkins and star/producer Aldis Hodge agreed that the literary character's already rich world little explored onscreen would be best enhanced by layering…

For the creative team behind Hulu's Good American Family, exploring the murky and notorious true-life tale of Natalia Grace was not to decide which of the conflicting narratives it wanted to embrace – was Grace an adoptive child with dwarfism or an adult with nefarious intentions posing as a…

Director Paul Feig admits that in making his latest film Another Simple Favor, the sequel to his 2018 hit comedy A Simple Favor starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, he found himself choosing to rethink his usual filmmaking methodologies – including his longstanding rule to avoid making sequels at…

With six novels in the original source material and multiple conflicting perspectives mixed within, Frank Herbert's Dune has long been considered impossible to film, despite several attempts.  Speaking during the Dune: Part Two panel along with co-writer and director Denis Villeneuve at Deadline…

For actor Jeremy Piven and his sister, filmmaker Shira Piven, their film The Performance wasn't only a long-fought labor of love 15 years in the making, it was the fulfillment of a family legacy. Appearing together on a panel for The Performance at Deadline’s Contenders Los Angeles event on…