The drama behind the election of a Pope has been done to various degrees of success by Hollywood before, notably 1968’s pulpy The Shoes of the Fisherman, and 2019’s wonderfully literate The Two Popes with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins in an imagined…

Superstar singer Robbie Williams displayed his signature cheekiness at the world premiere screening of Michael Gracey’s musical biography Better Man when he asked members of the audience at the Telluride Film Festival to “suspend your absolute bigotry” over a word that most Americans find…

“You take it apart, then you put it back together piece by piece.” That, in a nutshell, is why Pharrell Williams was inspired to do his biopic completely in the animated world of LEGO. Turning the standard music-oriented documentary life story on its head, Williams enlisted Oscar and Grammy-winning…

As Deadline told you would happen, tonight at 10 PM is a lock for the US debut of the hot button film The Apprentice, about the formative growth of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as mentored by Roy Cohn. The film has been quietly placed on the Telluride roster, and now they’ve locked the…

“What happens to the dog?” That is a line that pops up throughout the new dramedy The Friend, which asks that question in different ways and plays with our own experiences in watching movies centered on man’s best friend where whether the dog lives…

After today’s Telluride premiere of Better Man, the cat will be out of the bag. Or, more appropriately, the monkey will be out of the barrel. The film covers Robbie Williams' larger-than-life ascension from the bad boy in the Brit boy band Take That to superstar solo artist – with all the drug and…

The controversial movie Donald Trump doesn't want people to see is still being lined up for a pre-election release in the U.S. The Apprentice, which made waves at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, is due for release stateside by Briarcliff, as we first reported. October 11 has been the…

Michelle and Barack Obama are teaming up with double Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and Kyle Thrash for The Turnaround, a short documentary that will make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. The film tells a remarkable story from the sporting world that suggests Philadelphia, indeed…

The story of the horrifying crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where militant Palestinian terrorists known as Black September took the entire Israeli team hostage, killing all, has been told many times via TV movies, as well as a different perspective in…

EXCLUSIVE: About 50 minutes into Blink, the National Geographic documentary that's about to make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the Lemay-Pelletier family boards a gondola in Ecuador and begins a spectacular descent down a steep mountainside. But then the gondola jerks to a sudden…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Malcolm Washington says that his screen adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson honors his family's history, especially that of his mother Pauletta Pearson Washington. Set in post-Depression era Pittsburgh, the haunting movie is about two…

The 51st Telluride Film Festival gets underway Friday with a number of world and North American premieres highlighting an impressive lineup of movies, many of them Oscar hopefuls. The Colorado gathering, along with the concurrent Venice and upcoming Toronto…