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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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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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Breaking Baz: Barbara Broccoli Gets Ready To Transfer Off Broadway ‘Sing Street’ Musical To London Stage In Summer 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli, with her theater hat on, is transferring the Sing Street musical to London. The play is based on John Carney's charming 2016 coming-of-age movie about a group of skint schoolkids in 1982 Dublin who form a rock band to help them find love and forget their troubles.
The…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Slow Horses’ Star Ruth Bradley Reveals How Gary Oldman’s ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Captivated Her Childhood Imagination; Years Later She’s Acting Alongside The Oscar Winner
EXCLUSIVE: There was a top-secret code name on the sides Ruth Bradley was sent to prepare for an audition. "I didn't know who the characters were, I didn't know what the show was, but I was like, this dialogue is some of the best dialogue I've ever read."
Bradley immediately emailed her agent: "Who…
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Emma Corrin And Kodi Smit-McPhee Joining Cate Blanchett’s ‘The Seagull’, Which Soars Onto London Stage In 2025
Emma Corrin, hot from playing villainous Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine, will join Cate Blanchett in the eagerly awaited new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Barbican Theatre in 2025.
Another addition to an already sizzling company is Kodi Smit-McPhee, who shot to fame in…
Breaking Baz: Billy Howle Prepares To Play An Angry Young Man On Stage & Dishes On The Hush-Hush Movie About How The Middle-East Became A Tinderbox
EXCLUSIVE: Billy Howle is so at home playing characters wading through pools of anger and angst that he had an “alien feeling" while playing idle rich boy Benji Winbury in Netflix hit The Perfect Couple.
The British actor, almost as a counterpoint to the Nantucket frippery on display in the…
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Breaking Baz: Angelina Jolie Says Portraying Maria Callas In Pablo Larraín’s ‘Maria’ Is A Role “That Comes Along Once In A Lifetime”
EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie says that roles such as her portrayal of Maria Callas — arguably the greatest prima donna assoluta soprano of all time — in director Pablo Larraín’s Maria, come along “once in a lifetime.”
The Academy Award-winning artist laughs, then adds, “I mean, it’s certainly the most…
Breaking Baz: Maggie Smith “Could Make Grown Men Cry” Because She Was A Perfectionist And Giant Of The Stage – In “Top Tier” With Judi Dench & Ian McKellen
Maggie Smith was a constant in the life of producer Robert Fox for half a century. She could "make grown men cry,” says Fox, because "if you weren't 100 percent on top of your game, you were dead in the water, and she was right."
Fox produced Dame Maggie in some of her greatest stage hits from Peter…
Breaking Baz: Chris Hemsworth & Sam Rockwell Bring Star Power To Support Stunt Artists In First ‘Stuntnuts’ Movie, Part Of New Matthew Vaughn Marv Films Franchise
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth (Thor & Extraction movies) and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Argylle) are "helping out" their stunt-world buddies in the first of an initial four-part movie series called Stuntnuts – yes, it's a palindrome- which are being made under Matthew Vaughn's…
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Rosamund Pike Set For National Theatre Debut In New Legal Drama From Suzie Miller, Who Created ‘Prima Facie’ For Jodie Comer
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn, Wheel of Time) will make her debut at London's National Theatre in 2025, and they've given her the starring role in the world premiere of a new work by Suzie Miller, the playwright who created Prima Facie, the legal drama that catapulted Jodie Comer to…
Breaking Baz: ‘Nickel Boys’ Filmmaker RaMell Ross On Blocking Out Black “Trauma Porn” In Visual Poetry Adaptation Of Colson Whitehead’s Novel
EXCLUSIVE: When Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner handed RaMell, the visual artist and filmmaker, Ross Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Nickel Boys — the story of Black boys beaten, tortured and worse at a notorious state-run reform school in the Florida Panhandle — he knew he was…
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Breaking Baz: Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ Recreates Bombing Raids On London As Seen Through The Eyes Of Brave 9-Year-Old Boy
EXCLUSIVE: It was the faded monochrome photograph of a small Black boy, both hands gripping a valise, as he leaves London with a party of other school-age evacuees, that caught Steve McQueen's eye while he was researching his Small Axe film anthology.
"I just wanted to know who he was … what was his…
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