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As indie darlings and awards season contenders like Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, The Lighthouse, Waves and Dark Waters continue to impress, the Thanksgiving weekend has a handful of offerings when it comes to the specialty box office. This week will see the premiere of Michael Apted’s (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist) 63 Up, the latest installment […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2R4fWDu

British emergency services have declared a “major incident” after a stabbing in London Bridge, while there are reports on social media about gunshots being fired. The Metropolitan Police said they responded to reports of a stabbing in the British capital around 2PM local time. A man has been detained and several people were injured, police […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/34wiiPn

Martin Scorsese’s comments about the Marvel Cinematic Universe have, by their very nature of being critical of something so popular and dominant, been mostly misconstrued as targeting Marvel, and Marvel only. But his real criticism is not about the MCU, as much as it’s about the franchise nature of all of modern Hollywood. The notion of franchises permeating all of Hollywood’s major output is something that you can see manifest as soon as filmmakers and actors are able to, for one reason or another, escape the franchise world if only for a short project. A good example arrives in theaters this week: Rian Johnson’s newest, best film, Knives Out . Knives Out is a whodunit in the style of Agatha Christie, gussied up for modern times. (In spite of its throwback appeal, Knives Out unquestionably takes place in the present.) Its massive ensemble cast includes everyone from Christopher Plummer to Jamie Lee Curtis to Michael Shannon. But its two biggest stars – Daniel Craig and Chris Ev...

Stage director Marion McClinton, who staged for Broadway two of August Wilson’s plays and Regina Taylor’s Drowning Crow, died yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 65. The New York Times reports that McClinton died of kidney failure. With credits in both Off Broadway and regional theater, McClinton directed the Broadway productions of Wilson’s King […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/37Rk67B

British TV chef Gary Rhodes died from a bleed on a brain during a break in filming on a new show for ITV, his family have said. In a press statement sent to Deadline, Rhodes’ family moved to end speculation around his cause of death, confirming that he suffered a subdural hematoma after a day’s […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/2OXa3Fr

Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners from its Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event industry strands. The events spotlight projects from the region but also international participants. This year’s winners include Filip Syczynski’s The Great Match, the Polish feature from producers Anna Rozalska and Aleksandra Aleksander of Match & Spark, which scooped the […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/33xCq2u

EXCLUSIVE: Reign’s Toby Regbo is to star in the third and final season of Italian drama Medici. The series will air over four nights in a primetime slot on Italian broadcaster Rai from December 2 with Netflix airing it after its domestic launch in early 2020. It will be branded an original Netflix series in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/34AgB3q