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Is there a working actor today who is more versatile than Jeff Daniels? Consider the range: the comedies The Purple Rose of Cairo and Dumb and Dumber and the ferocious dramatic stage turns in To Kill a Mockingbird and God of Carnage to his work in dramas that include his Emmy-winning role in HBO’s Th…

This weeks 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Dan Stevens. Of course we all remember his first major foray onto our screens as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey, and the untimely death of his character that had fans raging for his return. But Hollywood called, and since then, Stevens has accrued a long…

In addition to his Oscars Best Picture announcement, there’s something else combining Al Pacino and reading on the way – his memoir. Pacino has announced that his memoir, Sonny Boy, will be published this fall by Penguin Press. "I wrote Sonny Boy to express what I've seen and been through in my…

It wasn’t quite a La La Land-level Oscar snafu, but Al Pacino likely wishes he had a do-over after semi-botching the announcement of Oppenheimer’s Best Picture win and failing to name the nominees on Sunday. Watch the clip below. Addressing the situation in a statement today, the Scent of a Woman…

All evening, the Oscar ceremony appeared on course for a Scarface reunion of Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer to introduce the final award for Best Picture. Instead, Pacino walked out by himself to present the category, with the announcer portraying this as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of one of…

EXCLUSIVE: William Shakespeare is headed back to the big screen again. Bernard Rose (Immortal Beloved) is writing to direct Lear, Rex…, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Al Pacino will star as the title character, and Jessica Chastain will star as Goneril. Other cast to follow soon. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Al Pacino, Diego Boneta, Xolo Maridueña, KiKi Layne, Alexander Ludwig, Ron Livingston, Kendrick Sampson, Nicole Beharie, Logan Marshall Green and Titus Welliver will star in Killing Castro. Eif Rivera will direct the movie from a script by Leon Hendrix, Thomas DeGrezia and Colin Bateman. This…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning filmmaker Barry Levinson is stepping in to direct the David Mamet-scripted drama Assassination, we hear, and is putting his own stamp on the project. Deadline first reported about the movie out of Cannes. Two-time Oscar nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Mamet originally was…

Michael Keaton, after making his directorial debut with 2008’s The Merry Gentleman, steps behind the camera again with his latest film Knox Goes Away, in which he also delivers one of his finest and most poignant performances as a man facing a rare form of…

Al Pacino is so good at his craft, you can blink and miss it. Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan recalled a time when Pacino turned down a note from the director, insisting that he'd "already done that." The film was 2002 thriller Insomnia with Pacino. "I had gone up to Pacino after a…

Oscar winner Al Pacino (The Godfather), Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen (Green Book), Oscar nominee John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), BAFTA winner Shia LaBeouf (Honey Boy), NBR Award winner Rebecca Pidgeon (Heist) and Golden Globe nominated singer and actress Courtney Love (The People vs. Larry Flynt) are set…

Michael Corleone said it best: “Never let anyone know what you are thinking.” That’s why there has been a bit of kerfuffle in the wake of a New York Times interview with Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors. They let us know what they were thinking, comparing themselves to Robert De Niro and Al…