Craig Brewer stumbled onto Greg Kohs’ rather obscure little documentary titled Song Sung Blue and knew then he wanted to turn the incredible true story into a major feature film with big starring roles for Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. The story of…

Joachim Trier has been on a high since Cannes where his latest film, Sentimental Value, was the Grand Prize winner, just missing out on the Palme d’Or so many thought it deserved. Norway’s official entry for the Best International Film Oscar has since…

Joseph Kosinski is holding a very hot hand in the movie business. His sequel Top Gun: Maverick, 32 years in the making, not only became the highest-grossing movie of Tom Cruise’s career but also was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and earned…

“I am always on pins and needles before a film opens. It is less about the reviews for me than whether people show up or not,” James Cameron told me when I interviewed him about the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Surprising? I thought so, coming…

Dwayne Johnson is up for his first Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for his real-life portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, a movie that brought him a 15-minute standing ovation when it premiered in Venice and has, as he says…

Chloe Zhao has had quite a week. Her latest film Hamnet opened over Thanksgiving, landed on the AFI Awards Top 10 Movies of 2025, and won her nominations for directing and screenplay (co-written with the book’s author Maggie O’Farrell) at both the Critic…

If you are an aspiring filmmaker be sure to watch my illuminating conversation on this week’s episode of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens. My guest is the director and co-writer of the new film, Rental Family , Hikari who is proof positive…

When you have the great Guillermo del Toro sitting next to you for half an hour, you know you are going to be talking movies — yes, his movies. of course, but so many others. It is like taking one of those master classes he does on the side, and I am so…

Kathryn Bigelow may have just made the most important movie of her career, and we talk all about it in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens. A House of Dynamite is a ticking time bomb of a movie, a tense drama told from…

EXCLUSIVE: Happy 40th anniversary to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and their Imagine Entertainment, which the pair founded in November 1985. They are celebrating the occasion by joining me for this special edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Len…

Scott Cooper started out as an actor, but, after directing his first film, 2009’s Crazy Heart, and seeing how Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal did it, he tells me he knew then he would never go back to that side of the camera. Since…

Derek Cianfrance has taken his time to make movies he wants to make. It paid off with 2010’s Blue Valentine, 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines, and 2017’s The Light Between the Oceans. In 2020, he made the Emmy-winning HBO limited series I Know This Much…