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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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The Partnership: How Angelina Jolie Connected With Pablo Larraín To Make Beautiful Music in ‘Maria’: “It’s The Most Vulnerable I’ve Ever Felt”
Angelina Jolie remembers the first time she was set to publicly embody the voice of prima donna assoluta Maria Callas in preparation for the Netflix film Maria. Her sons Maddox and Pax Jolie-Pitt stood watch protectively, like security. "I was so nervous," Jolie recalls. "My boys guarded the…
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Steve McQueen Was Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer On Eve Of Shooting ‘Blitz’, But Is Now “Fully Recovered” Following Surgery: His Story
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is revealing today that two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a procedure to remove the tumor.
Thankfully, the filmmaker is now "fully recovered and fully functional," he tells Deadline.
The knight of the British realm is making a…
Breaking Baz: Beloved Jennifer Garner Rom-Com ‘13 Going On 30’ Adapted As Stage Musical Set For 2025 UK Opening With Hopes For West End & Broadway
EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Rink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role's being played by West End star Lucie Jones in a stage musical adapted from the beloved 2004 movie.
The show is…
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Breaking Baz: Danielle Deadwyler Finds “Artistic Love” Working On ‘The Piano Lesson’ & Teases Possibility Of West End Stage Debut
EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler achieved "artistic love" working with director Malcom Washington and his sibling John David Washington on the screen adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson.
"I'm with these beautiful men," she says. "They're like brothers to…
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Breaking Baz: Jared Harris Aboard As Treacherous Uncle In ‘Hamlet’ For Royal Shakespeare Company, Says Play Was A Favorite Of Dad Richard Harris
Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is a play much-loved by his father Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies and…
Breaking Baz: Andrew Lloyd Webber Conjures New West End & Broadway Musical ‘The Illusionist’; ‘Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd Directing
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard's Jamie Lloyd.
During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through…
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Breaking Baz: Edward Berger Says Ralph Fiennes Puts British “Inscrutability” At The Heart Of ‘Conclave’, And The Role Couldn’t Have Been Played By An Italian Actor
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Edward Berger says that Ralph Fiennes' sublime performance as the cardinal charged with overseeing the election of a new pope in awards-season contender Conclave has a "whisper" of the inscrutability Anthony Hopkins displayed in his portrait of a veteran butler in James Ivory's 1993…
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Breaking Baz: Denis Villeneuve Reveals He Will Go Back Behind Camera “Faster Than I Think” To Make Third ‘Dune’ Movie
EXCLUSIVE: Denis Villeneuve says that his "break" is over and that he will "go back behind the camera faster than I think" to film the third instalment of his "deep" immersion into Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
"I'm in the writing zone right now," the filmmaker says, referring to Dune: Messiah…
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Breaking Baz: Gary Oldman, ‘Slow Horses’ Star & Oscar Winner, Will Return To British Stage After 4-Decade Absence In 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses star Gary Oldman is stepping back on stage in April 2025 for the first time after an absence of nearly four decades to star in Samuel Beckett's celebrated one-man play Krapp's Last Tape for a limited season at the British theatre where the actor began his professional career in…
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Breaking Baz: Thomasin McKenzie Shines As Test-Tube Baby Pioneer In Heartfelt Movie ‘Joy’ – London Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: Thomasin McKenzie says that because of her youthful appearance — she's 24 — it has been "a bit of a struggle" to play her own age or older, but those worries are banished with her latest role. In the wonderful movie Joy, she delivers a remarkable portrait of Jean Purdy, one of the founding…
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Mike Leigh Planning To Shoot Next Movie In 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Octogenerian Mike Leigh isn’t slowing down in terms of output. The acclaimed British filmmaker is currently enjoying strong notices for new film Hard Truths, which recently debuted at TIFF and is playing this week at the London Film Festival.
Leigh took part in a Deadline Contenders panel…
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Stephen Graham To Star In ‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie
EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Graham has told Deadline he is starring in Netflix’s upcoming Peaky Blinders movie.
The Line of Duty star confirmed to us on last night’s London Film Festival (LFF) red carpet that the pic will be his next project, before he plays Bruce Springsteen’s dad in biopic Deliver Me from No…
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