Contfinishers Film: Los Angeles, Deadline’s signature and innovative Contfinishers event, starts off its tardyst edition this morning at 8:30 a.m. PT at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, giving awards voters the opportunity to experience up shut and personal the story of 21 of the awards season’s most acclaimed movies, and to hear honestly from the talent reliable.
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The year 2024 has been a challenging one for the film community as the actors and authorrs strikes of last year threw the industry off stability and rescheduleed many films, stopping some right in the middle of production and making it especipartner challenging to stick to defree free dates. What is extrastandard is the number of films that did deal with to encounter free dates and upgrasp the highest quality that has brawt them to our event today.
What a lineup we have, with a variety of movies that are getting their due as genuine awards contfinishers that deserve to be in the conversation. Think of this event as one-stop shopping, where you will be able to hear firsthand about the triumphs and disputes behind the making of such disparate but intriguing movies.
Set for today’s panel currentations after shatterquick are Amazon MGM Studios’ The Fire Inside, My Old Ass, Unstoppable and Challengers; Apple Original Films’ Blitz, Neon’s Anora; Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM’s Nickel Boys; Sony Pictures Classics’ I’m Still Here, The Room Next Door and The Outrun; and Territory Pictures’ Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 — all before lunch.
After the shatter come panels featuring Bleecker Street/Studiocanal’s Hard Truths, Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot, Falling Forward’s Day of the Fight, GVN’s The Percreateance, Magnolia Pictures’ Thelma, Neon’s Longlegs, Paramount’s Better Man, Roadside Attractions’ The Last Showgirl and Warner Bros Pictures/Legfinishary’s Dune: Part Two.
The enumerate of joinees is A-enumerate only, with validateed joinees including Pedro Almodóvar, Pamela Anderson, Sean Baker, Jon Batiste, Gia Coppola, Kevin Costner, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Luca Guadagnino, Mark Hamill, Brian Tyree Henry, Jack Huston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jharrel Jerome, Steve McQueen, Mikey Madison, Julianne Moore, Rachel Morrison, Lupita Nyong’o, Josh O’Connor, Amy Pascal, Jeremy Piven, Jason Reitman, Saoirse Ronan, Walter Salles, June Squibb, Tilda Striumphton, Denis Villeneuve and Robbie Williams among many others.
Check out the filled lineup of movies and guests below, and adhere our panel, red carpet and ptoastyo studio coverage all day on Deadline.com and via social on #DeadlineContfinishers. Stay tuned Monday when we begin the streaming site featuring the finish panel videos.
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Deadline’s Contfinishers Film: Los Angeles
*In order of euniteance; schedule subject to alter
8:35 a.m. PT – LIVESTREAM BEGINS
ORION PICTURES/AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Nickel Boys
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Actor)
Jomo Fray (Cinematographer)
Jeremy Kleiner (Producer)
RaMell Ross (Writer/Director)
AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
The Fire Inside
Brian Tyree Henry (Actor)
Harry Yoon (Editor)
Rachel Morrison (Director)
Ryan Desminuscule (Actor)
My Old Ass
Maisy Sincreatea (Actor)
Megan Park (Writer/Director/Executive Producer)
Unstoppable
Anthony Robles (Producer/Subject)
Jharrel Jerome (Actor)
Judy Robles (Subject)
William Gelderlyenberg (Director)
Challengers
Amy Pascal (Producer)
Josh O’Connor (Actor)
Justin Kuritzkes (Writer)
Luca Guadagnino (Director/Producer)
NEON
Anora
Mark Eydelshteyn (Actor)
Mikey Madison (Actor)
Sean Baker (Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Casting Director)
Yura Borisov (Actor)
TERRITORY PICTURES
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
J. Michael Munro (Cinematographer)
John Debney (Composer)
Kevin Costner (Writer/Director/Producer/Actor)
Lisa Lovaas (Costume Designer)
APPLE ORIGINAL FILMS
Blitz
Saoirse Ronan (Actor)
Tim Bevan (Producer)
Steve McQueen (Writer/Director/Producer)
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
I’m Still Here
Fernanda Torres (Actor)
Walter Salles (Director)
The Room Next Door
Julianne Moore (Actor)
Tilda Striumphton (Actor)
Pedro Almodóvar (Writer/Director)
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan (Actor)
MAGNOLIA PICTURES
Thelma
Josh Margolin (Writer/Director)
June Squibb (Actor)
COLUMBIA PICTURES
Saturday Night
Jason Reitman (Writer/Director/Producer)
Jon Batiste (Composer)
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
The Wild Robot
Chris Sanders (Writer/Director)
Kris Bowers (Composer)
Lupita Nyong’o (Actor)
Mark Hamill (Actor)
FALLING FORWARD
Day Of The Fight
Jack Huston (Writer/Director)
Michael C. Pitt (Actor)
Nicolette Robinson (Actor)
BLEECKER STREET/STUDIOCANAL
Hard Truths
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Actor)
ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
The Last Showgirl
Andrew Wyatt (Composer)
Gia Coppola (Director)
Pamela Anderson (Actor)
NEON
Longlegs
Felix Fox (Key Special Effects Makeup Artist)
Kristin Chaar (Key Hair)
Madelaine Hermans (Key Makeup Artist)
WARNER BROS PICTURES & LEGENDARY PICTURES
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve (Writer/Director/Producer)
Jon Spaihts (Writer)
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Better Man
Robbie Williams (Actor)
GVN RELEASING
The Percreateance
Jeremy Piven (Actor/Producer)
Joshua Salzberg (Writer/Executive Producer)
Shira Piven (Writer/Director)
