For his latest nonfiction role, Gabriel LaBelle had a rare peek inside his character’s world. The Saturday Night star recently recalled his visit to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where he saw a Saturday Night Live taping and met creator Lorne Michaels while portraying him in the film, which premieres…

Columbia Pictures' Saturday Night from Jason Reitman debuted at $265k, a great $53k per theater that’s the second-best limited opening of the year, and the best since June when Kinds Of Kindness also opened in 5 theaters (to a $75k PTA). It's been a long a slightly dower wait for something to pop. Sat…

Jane Curtin, a member of Saturday Night Live‘s inaugural broadcast and season, had one way of coping for the late-night NBC sketch series since-historic first taping — now the subject of Jason Reitman’s well-reviewed Saturday Night. “I never really paid much attention to the audience,” she told the N…

Dylan O’Brien is keeping a pretty cool head after undertaking his latest role. The Saturday Night actor said he “can’t wait” to meet Dan Aykroyd following his portrayal of the Saturday Night Live alum in the upcoming Jason Reitman-helmed film, which premieres nationwide on Oct. 11, the 49th…

Indie distributors are fretting about the current marketplace, specifically a glut of films vying for precious theater space and hard-to-snare audiences who, with exceptions of course, still seems mostly willing to come out for big ticket films. While there are fewer wide studio releases than…

With the awards race ramping up, and festival favorites emerging, the list of films in the Best Picture Oscar race can seem long, and, this early in the season, distinctly unclear. Fortunately, both Deadline's Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic, Pete Hammond, and Film Awards Editor Damon Wise keep on…

In a career that began with the lauded satire Thank You For Smoking and has drawn four Oscar noms for films that include Juno and Up in the Air, Jason Reitman managed the neat trick by creating his own niche, and coming out from under the considerable shadow cast by his iconic director dad Ivan Reitman…

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman became the newest member of the National Assocation of Theatre Owners last night on the Sony lot as part of the exhibitor trade org’s opening festivities for their 2024 Fall Summit. Reitman, who is leading the charge to renovate and manage…

The fall festival trifecta of Venice/Telluride/Toronto traditionally have been venues for the serious start of Oscar season. But that kind of awards-season mojo has been shifting, however slowly, with the most recent Best Picture winners, Oppenheimer and Ever…

TIFF isn’t a festival known for its standing ovations, but it’s arguable that tonight’s Canadian premiere of Sony’s behind-the-scenes SNL movie Saturday Night came close with arguably the most rapturous response here at the 49th edition, which included the audience clapping rhythmically through the…

Lorne Michaels was a big lynchpin and supporter behind the scenes of Jason Reitman’s Sony movie Saturday Night about the behind-the-scenes thrills of the NBC sketch show on its first eve of air Oct. 11, 1975. However, Michaels still has yet to watch the movie. "Lorne has not seen the movie yet,&#8221…

Sony Pictures on Monday unveiled a new trailer for Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s film that recounts Lorne Michaels’ whirlwind experience getting Saturday Night Live ready for opening night in 1975. Currently rated 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is coming off of its Telluride premiere and…