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The Lighthouse, the indie UK production co-launched by former BBC Studios scripted chiefs Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts that is backed by Sky Studios, has landed global TV rights to Juno Dawson's YA book trilogy Clean, Meat Market and Wonderland. Clean, about a teenage girl’s battle with heroin…

EXCLUSIVE: Former BBC Studios scripted chiefs Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts set up their new production venture The Lighthouse in October last year, boasting a shared roll call of credits that includes Luther, Doctor Who, War And Peace and Emmy-winning The Night Of. But even with this greatest hits…

Comcast-owned Sky Studios has taken a minority stake in The Lighthouse, the production outfit established by former BBC Studios drama chiefs Hilary Salmon, Radford Neville and Nick Betts. Deadline revealed last October that Salmon had left BBC Studios to launch The Lighthouse, and Sky Studios has swooped to invest in…

With the Oscars and the Golden Globes overlooking female directors this year, it was the Independent Spirit Awards who outdid them by handing its Best Feature award to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Best First Feature to Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and Best Documentary to Julia Reichert’s American Factory. “We’re so much…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe had never worked together before they found themselves in a remote part of Nova Scotia being battered by wind, rain and sea on the shoot for Robert Eggers' Lovecraftian horror The Lighthouse. They came from different worlds to create the movie's only two characters; Pattinson, a…

For sound designer Damian Volpe, The Lighthouse was impossible to resist. Centered on two 19th century lighthouse keepers driven to madness, while stranded on a remote Atlantic isle, the latest from Volpe’s frequent collaborator Robert Eggers was simply rife with sonic opportunity. Working with a limited set of…

UPDATED with actuals and adjustments. All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front the weekend before Thanksgiving. Todd Haynes’ legal thriller Dark Waters has played well with critics as it sits at a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it has the potential to reach the masses. This weekend, the awards season…

A24’s Adam Sandler thriller Uncut Gems and Robert Eggers’ spooky black-and-white movie The Lighthouse led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations Thursday morning with five noms apiece, followed by Amazon’s Honey Boy scripted by Shia LeBeouf and based on his rocky childhood. For a fourth straight year, A24 lead…

Robert Eggers made a black & white movie — literally. Meaning, we’re not talking digital. He shot in 35MM Double-X black and white, a negative that hasn’t changed since the 1950s for his two-hander New England ghost story starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. In the color era, no matter what the year, it’s…

Robert Pattinson found incredible fame in the Twilight movies, and he is about to jump into another iconic franchise as he takes on the title role in The Batman. But as he explains in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, it still is challenging independent cinema that seems to draw his…

UPDATED with additional and adjusted grosses. All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front for the first weekend of November when it came to new releases. That gave the opportunity for Neon’s critically-acclaimed Parasite to flourish even more, and the Fox Searchlight’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit to…

When Robert Eggers approached cinematographer Jarin Blaschke with The Lighthouse, he had a quite specific vision for how this riotous psychological thriller would look and feel. "It is briny. It feels old and crusty. The term he used was, 'It's black and white, with a cherry on top,'" the DP explains. "All I could…