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It is always entertaining and informative when I get the chance to talk with Lee Daniels, as I did for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens. He is unapologetically honest and authentic in talking about this business, his career, his influences and why he is so happy to be back behind the…

Talking with Paul Greengrass for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens was almost like going to the church of cinema. We talked about his first foray into the Western genre with News of the World, the weird and startling timeliness of the story set five years after the Civil War but pertinent…

This has been a very promising movie awards season for advancement of female directors  into the conversation.  Chloe Zhao, Emerald Fennell, Regina King all have landed significant  nominations for their work this year , and the list goes on from there prominently including Julia Hart and her noirish thriller, I’m Your…

John Lee Hancock is attracted to true stories as a director. His films behind the camera include such real-life tales as 2002’s The Rookie, 2004’s The Alamo and 2009’s The Blind Side, which won Sandra Bullock an Oscar and his film a nomination for Best Picture. Then there was Saving Mr. Banks (2013), the criminally…

Robin Wright may best be know for her acting skills, but increasingly she is becoming a major force behind the scenes as well. Today she joins me on this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens where we discuss Land, her latest project and her feature directorial debut. The Focus Features movie will…

Ryan Murphy takes us Behind the Lens of his first big movie musical The Prom in today’s edition of my weekly Deadline video series, which focuses on filmmakers and their careers. Murphy of course is not only a director and writer but also one of Hollywood’s most prolific producers who always seems to have several…

George Clooney’s seventh film as a director, The Midnight Sky, landed on my Top 10 list for 2020, actually in the Top 5 for that matter, and there is a reason for that. It not only is an enormously challenging film to shoot — half taking place in an outer-space setting, and the other half in the worst weather…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Russo and Anthony Russo helped me launch the new season of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens, as we give you the first-ever look at their new epic movie, Cherry and cover the waterfront on a number of different topics including the very future of movies themselves. Coming off a spectacular run…

The celebrated director Mimi Leder, veteran of so many television and movie successes joins me today for this episode of my Deadline video series Behind The Lens. We really cover the waterfront of her remarkable career starting with her personal revelation that George Clooney was a “goddamn movie star” when she looked…

Two years ago, Nicole Kidman appeared on my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side. Among other things we talked about her limited series, Big Little Lies. It was primarily about acting, that conversation, but what I also discovered was that Kidman has become just as prolific a producer with her company, Blossom…

It’s not often you get Vince Gilligan to sit down for an extensive interview, so in his conversation with me for my Deadline video series Behind the Lens I didn’t want to waste a moment. In addition to an edited version as is customary here, we are also presenting the full uncut talk as the man behind Breaking…

At the end of an interview for my Deadline video series Behind the Lens, I told CBS’ Late Late Show host James Corden that he is now doing what a lot of people did when they were kids: putting on a show in their garage. And due to the coronavirus pandemic that is literally what he is doing — no audience, no band, no…