Scott Huver

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve knew the storytelling success of Dune: Part Two hinged on the developing chemistry between stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, as well as the antagonistic energy of Austin Butler, and worked carefully with the actors to ensure that those elements showed up…

For actor Jeremy Piven and his sister, filmmaker Shira Piven, their film The Performance wasn't only a long-fought labor of love 15 years in the making, it was the fulfillment of a family legacy. Appearing together on a panel for The Performance at Deadline’s Contenders Los Angeles event on Saturday…

Reuniting with filmmaker Mike Leigh for Hard Truths three decades after her breakthrough in their collaboration Secrets and Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste embarked on an unconventional route with the director to create not just her character, but the film's story and fully-formed world. "The initial…

Thelma filmmaker Josh Margolin pointed the film's 95-year-old leading lady June Squibb to the same source of inspiration that sparked the movie itself: his grandmother, who shares the name of the title character. "Josh gave me some little films that he’d made, like of Thelma going to the store or…

The real world story behind I'm Still Here, which chronicles how a Brazilian family had their life upended when the patriarch, a former congressman, goes missing in the 1970s, held such a deep personal meaning for director Walter Salles he felt compelled to depict it on film. But he never expected that…

While one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles and his mother Judy, the subjects of the sports drama Unstoppable, knew turning their story into a film could inspire audiences to overcome their own obstacles, they also had to overcome their own trepidation about revealing the pain of their personal struggles on…

While legendary film composer Hans Zimmer has previously ventured musically into the realm of World War II with films like Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor, working on filmmaker Steve McQueen's Blitz – set during the relentless, eight-month-long bombing of London by Nazi Germany – allowed him to look at the era…

Songwriter Sean Douglas, who's written hits for a wide assortment of pop artists including Demi Lovato, Madonna, Nick Jonas, The Chainsmokers and Selena Gomez, found crafting the signature song "Harper and Will Go West" for the documentary Will & Harper alongside comedienne Kristen Wiig was more than a…

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 composer John Debney found a kindred spirit in actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner when the two met making Hatfields & McCoys over a decade ago, both for their shared love of the Western genre and their proud status as native Angelenos. "We both grew up out here, and…

After a live performance of the song "The Creatures of Nature" from Sasquatch Sunset at Deadline's Sound & Screen event, the film's composers, risk-taking band The Octopus Project, revealed that they also recorded a version relayed entirely in bigfoot grunts recorded by the film's leading lady, actress…

The moment after director Ridley Scott informally tapped Harry Gregson-Williams to craft the score to the long-awaited sequel Gladiator II, the composer knew his next phone call would be to his early mentor Hans Zimmer, who'd created the music for the original Gladiator film. "As soon as Ridley…

In Paramount+'s imported Australian romantic comedy series Colin from Accounts, the star-crossed lead couple Ashley and Gordon's meet-cute starts saucy but ends not-so-cute when, spotting him behind the wheel and liking what she sees, she impulsively flashes her nipple; distracted, he accidentally hits a…