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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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Breaking Baz: Greta Gerwig Parties At Vanity Fair’s Oscar Event & Talks ‘Barbie 2’ As ‘Oppenheimer’ Gets Overshadowed By All That Kenergy – See The Guest List
Greta Gerwig tells me there's "no resistance" from her about the possibility of Barbie 2.
The challenge for her she says, is how to tackle a follow-up movie. Initially, the filmmaker wasn't "feeling" the idea of a sequel, but now she's warm to such a situation. "I'm not dismissing it, I want to do…
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Hollywood, and Deadline’s live blog, returned for the 96th Academy Awards. The sunny skies, and the fact that the 10 Best Picture nominees include several that audiences have actually seen, bodes well for the festivities. Jimmy Kimmel was back as host, and because Donald Trump remains former president…
Breaking Baz: Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux Proclaims 2024 Academy Awards ‘The Cannes Oscars’ As He Parties At the Charles Finch & Chanel Annual Soiree In Beverly Hills
The 96th Academy Awards ceremony should be known as the Cannes Oscars, argues Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux.
He's got a point.
Frémaux sipped a cocktail at the Charles Finch and Chanel Annual Pre-Oscar Dinner in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and ticked off Justine…
Breaking Baz: German Stars Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller & Leonie Benesch Make Their Mark On 2024 Oscars
Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest — nominated for Best Picture, Best International Picture, Director, Sound, and Adapted Screenplay — are familiar with Shakespeare's famous verse from Hamlet: "All the world's a stage, and all the…
Breaking Baz: A Stroll Around The Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition With Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Rock & Jeffrey Wright, While ’Reservation Dogs’ Star Details How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Helped Revitalize Native Culture
Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock had the good sense to arrive early at the Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street exhibition at the Larry Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
They surveyed the 30 or so Basquiat art works in relative peace ,before the throng arrived.
Cohen tells me he came…
Breaking Baz: Tributes For International Industry Titan Jenne Casarotto From Kathleen Kennedy, Donna Langley, Barbara Broccoli & Many More
How do you capture Jenne Casarotto? She was at the intersection of theatre, film and television. It all, seemingly, swirled around her.
Not just around her.
It was the brilliant team that she assembled at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, the agency that's been at the epicenter of UK arts culture…
Breaking Baz: ‘Stranger Things’ West End Stage Actor Louis McCartney Is Headed For Superstardom, Says Show’s Director Stephen Daldry
EXCLUSIVE: Louis McCartney describes himself as "a West End baby" because before he was cast to play boyish-looking monster Henry Creel in the Stranger Things stage show The First Shadow, he'd never performed on stage in his life.
"They were coaching me how to speak properly, how to project my…
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Breaking Baz: Vanessa Kirby Reunites With ‘The Crown’s Benjamin Caron For Noir-ish Drama ‘The Night Always Comes’ Ahead Of Starring In ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Napoleon star Vanessa Kirby will reunite with The Crown's Benjamin Caron on a movie based on Willy Vlautin's 2021 novel The Night Always Comes, about a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a 24-hour quest to call in old debts and raise enough money to keep a roof over her…
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Breaking Baz: BBC And Broadway Eyeing Award-Winning West End Musical ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’
EXCLUSIVE: BBC commissioning executives are booked to see the award-winning musical Standing at the Sky's Edge, which opens Wednesday night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its transfer from a sold-out season at the National Theatre. This column told you a year ago that StudioCanal's RED Production…
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The Partnership: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Director Justine Triet And Star Sandra Huller On Reuniting For Their Award-Winning Film, A Scary Sleepover And A Possible Threepeat
Palme d'Ors don't grow on trees, so it's small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize. Hüller's turn dominates the 'sort of' courtroom drama of the film, in which her…
Breaking Baz: ‘Rustin’ Star Aml Ameen Plots ‘Boxing Day’ Sequel & Plans to Direct An Ambitious Crime Thriller Movie
EXCLUSIVE: Aml Ameen, who portrays Dr.Martin Luther King in Rustin, reveals that he's in talks with Film4 and the BFI to direct and star in the sequel to holiday romance Boxing Day, his feature directorial debut — and he has a second film, a crime saga called Night and Day that he wants to make…
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Breaking Baz BAFTA Film Awards Parties Special: Dominic Sessa Wins First Movie Role After ‘The Holdovers’ Breakout; Bob Geldof Wants Live Aid Musical In Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre; Florence Pugh At Universal ‘Oppenheimer’ Celebration
EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Sessa, the 21-year-old rising star, didn't win a Supporting Actor BAFTA Award Sunday night — that went to Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr. — but he did pick up his first post-The Holdovers role that will see him starring with Rose Byrne in director Stephanie Laing's drama Tow.
This…
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