Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year's most talked-about movies continues with Paramount Pictures’ Roofman. Co-written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, the film is a deeply nuanced and entertaining look at the unbelievable true story of real-life thief…

With Roofman, Paramount’s true-crime dramedy starring Channing Tatum, producers Lynette Howell Taylor, Jamie Patricof, and Alex Orlovsky departed from their usual territory mined alongside Oscar-nominated filmmaker Derek Cianfrance. Previously, they’d collaborated on a pair of richly directed…

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…

Our latest Take Ten with Deadline guest is Channing Tatum. Tatum joined us at Deadline HQ in LA to talk about his latest film Roofman. In the video interview, he talks real-life crime, snacks, nudity, and stunts, among other things. In Roofman, directed by Derek Cianfrance, Tatum stars as…

While filming their latest crime comedy-drama Roofman, Peter Dinklage became quickly acquainted with co-star Channing Tatum. Director Derek Cianfrance recalled the actors’ first time meeting during a scene in which Tatum was “full monty” while portraying fugitive Jeffrey Manchester, a father and…

Have you ever pulled a Terrence Malick and ripped up your shot list for the day? How do you get an experienced thespian like June Squibb to the place where you need them? We canvassed such topics and more at Deadline and the Directors Guild of America’s first the Art of Directing panel at the…

If Roofman wasn’t a true story, it would be hard to believe. World premiering tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, this Paramount release stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran who turned to crime to try and…

It's hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987's Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the '60s alone he released four of his 13 features. In these days of instant gratification, a director…

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Cianfrance’s next film Roofman is starting to gain serious momentum, with Miramax landing domestic and international distribution rights. The film stars Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, and has Cianfrance directing after co-writing the script with Kirt Gunn. The film is based…

Bradley Cooper almost quit The Place Beyond the Pines. During Indiewire’s Screen Talk live at the New Directors/New Films festival, writer/director Derek Cianfrance — who co-wrote the feature with future Sound of Metal director Darius Marder — said Cooper didn’t like what he read after…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal’s latest Wolfman movie starring Ryan Gosling looks to be gaining momentum as the studio has zeroed in on a director that knows the Oscar-nominated actor’s work very well. Sources tell Deadline that Derek Cianfrance, who teamed with Gosling on the dramas Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentin…

A potent tale of generational trauma, loss, immigration, hope and reconciliation, HBO’s I Know This Much Is True is a dual-role tour de force from Mark Ruffalo. And the Emmy-nominated actor is unequivocal on what it meant to him professionally and personally. "It was the most gratifying and challenging thing I've…