Producer Tanya Seghatchian and cinematographer Ari Wegner took to the stage Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event to discuss how they put together Netflix’ The Power of the Dog.
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Writer-director Jane Campion and star Benedict Cumberbatch said Paul Newman was one of the previous stars who tried to adapt Power of the Dog before them, relating the history of their new film based on Thomas Savage’s book during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel Sunday at the DGA Theater.
“The book had been optioned five times before,” Campion said. “Paul Newman apparently optioned it at one point.”
Cumberbatch stars as wealthy Montana rancher Phil Burbank. He runs a ranch with his
Producer Tanya Seghatchian and cinematographer Ari Wegner took to the stage Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event to discuss how they put together Netflix’ The Power of the Dog.
Academy Awards. It's only the second time in the last four decades that the critics' top honor went to a non English-language film.
The men in Jane Campion’s films and TV shows often know how to fuck, and they know how to hurt, and the space between those extremes isn’t very wide. These are rough and tumble men—sailors and foresters, drug dealers who survived Thai prison time, homicide detectives—and the way they look would imply certain things about them.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst star in the adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 Western novel.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorJonny Greenwood’s score for Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” is dark and complicated, just like its characters.Campion’s latest film has garnered critical acclaim and could land her a historic best director nomination at the Academy Awards.
Radiohead biopic, after forming a friendship with guitarist Jonny Greenwood.The actor’s next film is The Power Of The Dog, scored by Greenwood, where he plays cowboy Phil Burbank who runs a ranch in Montana with his brother George (Jesse Plemons).Speaking to NME, Cumberbatch recounts his “weird” first meeting with Greenwood and Thom Yorke after they watched his performance of Hamlet at The Barbican in 2015.“[Radiohead producer] Nigel Godrich and Edgar Wright came to see me in Hamlet,”
The Piano, was asked about her thoughts on the genre during a screening of her new film, The Power Of The Dog.Speaking to Variety, Campion said: “I hate them. I actually hate them.”Asked if she’d ever consider directing a superhero film, she added: “I think It’s safe to say that I will never do that.
Benedict Cumberbatch has a real knack for playing unique, oftentimes misunderstood egomaniacs. Whether it’s Doctor Strange, Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Melrose, Julian Assange, or Khan, the actor finds a way to ground his oftentimes sociopathic characters in a real emotional truth.
Jennifer Yuma editorJane Campion will be honored with the director of the year award for her work on “The Power of the Dog” at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, taking place Jan. 6-17.Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a masochistic cattle rancher named Phil Burbank, whose bullying demeanor is drawn from a frontier-worn masculinity and deeply closeted sexuality.
With Marvel Studios dominating the box office (and now, streaming), we are constantly seeing directors get asked if they’d be willing to dip their toes in the superhero world. Some say yes.
Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, featuring the full panels from all 31 buzzy awards-season movies that made up Sunday’s all-day showcase at the DGA Theater.
Netflix Dec. 1) and Dunst’s code word for awards.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNot only did Benedict Cumberbatch undergo dream analysis to prepare for his role in “The Power of the Dog,” but so did the film’s director and co-screenwriter Jane Campion.“It gives you so much confidence because whatever you find in that work it comes through you and it just feels grounded in something very real inside yourself,” Campion told me Thursday at the AFI Fest screening of her new Netflix film, “The Power of the Dog,” at TCL
Deadline’s Contenders L.A. returned for an in-person edition Sunday at the DGA Theater, with 31 buzzy awards-season titles showing off their wares in panels that featured the likes of Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Hudson, Kristen Stewart, Javier Bardem, Adam McKay, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Ben Affleck, Kenneth Branagh, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Simon Rex, Marlee Matlin, Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson to name a few.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst are promoting their new project together!
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is about much more than a man who drew remarkable portraits of cats. According to the movie’s star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the Amazon Studios project is about an artist in Victorian London who pursues many subjects with passion: boxing, painting, composing an opera (not a very good one, says Cumberbatch) and theorizing about the mechanical workings of the world, including the mysteries of electricity.
The stars of The Power of the Dog are stepping out for the movie’s latest screening!
Benedict Cumberbatch went all out to play Phil Burbank in his new film “The Power of the Dog”.