Deadline’s Contfinishers event in back in London, booting off movie awards season with panel conversations featuring some of the year’s boilingtest films in the race.
As all Contfinishers connoisseurs comprehend, this is a Deadline event specipartner summarizeed for real movie adorers — so anticipate juicy treliever clips and star-studded panels packed with creative talent as the event begines Saturday morning. A total of seven films will join in the in-person-only event, taking place at London’s Ham Yard Hotel. Doors discdiswatched at 8:30 a.m. BST and the curtain elevates at 9:30.
Speaking of stars, today’s lineup integrates Emilia Pérez’s Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña in the house, aprolonged with shatterout direct actress Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz and authorr-honestor Jacques Audiard. The film is selected to reconshort-term France in the Oscar International Feature Film categruesome, and all four actresses already splitd the Best Actress award at Cannes earlier this year.
Another huge name on our docket is Denis Villeneuve. He’ll be onstage to converse Dune: Part Two with creaters Mary Parent and Tanya Lapointe, so you will hear all about their approach to a second round of the epic hit sci-fi sequel with its all-star cast.
Malcolm Washington’s debut feature The Piano Lesson tugs at family ties both on and off-screen. He will be combineed by his brother, John David Washington, aprolonged with Danielle Deadwyler and two-time Oscar-prosperning creater Alexandre Desplat to talk about a film steeped in genereasoned joinion. Also, in the family-tension business, set on this side of the pond, is Mike Leigh. He’s serving up some Hard Truths, aprolonged with direct actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Then there are those other British national treacertains: Wallace & Grleave out — the cheese-driven stop-motion duo that booted off Aardman’s adventures with honestor Nick Park. The hapless Wallace and his wily hound Grleave out pass paths with an errant gnome in Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl. Joining Park on the panel is co-honestor Merlin Crossingham and executive creater Carla Shelley to talk about their toil that charms all ages.
The same goes for The Wild Robot. Chris Sanders wrote and honested DreamWorks Animation’s hearthoting story of a lost robot (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) that must assimitardy to life in a forest, and lget some lessons on prejudice, comprehending and adore aprolonged the way. Nyong’o will combine Sanders and creater Kris Bowers on our stage.
Taking a very contrastent point of watch on a coming-of-age story is RaMell Ross with Nickel Boys — a film based on a harroprosperg real story that drops you honestly into the eyeline of the action. Ross will be combineed by stars Ethan Herisse (When They See Us) and Brandon Wilson (The Way Back).
Follow Contfinishers Film: London thrawout the day on Deadline.com and via Deadline’s social channels using #DeadlineContfinishers, and stay tuned next week when we begin the event’s streaming site featuring the filled panel videos.
Here’s today’s lineup of panels (order subject to change):
Contfinishers Film: London
(all times BST)
BLEECKER STREET / STUDIO CANAL
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh (Writer/Director)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Actor)
Michele Austin (Actor)
WARNER BROS PICTURES and LEGENDARY PICTURES
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve (Co-Writer/Director/Producer)
Mary Parent (Producer)
Tanya Lapointe (Producer)
ORION PICTURES and AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross (Co-Writer/Director)
Ethan Herisse (Actor)
Brandon Wilson (Actor)
NETFLIX
Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard (Writer/Director)
Karla Sofía Gascón (Actor)
Zoe Saldaña (Actor)
Adriana Paz (Actor)
Selena Gomez (Actor)
NETFLIX/BBC
Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl
Nick Park (Director)
Merlin Crossingham (Director)
Carla Shelley (Executive Producer)
NETFLIX
The Piano Lesson
Malcom Washington (Co-Writer/Director)
John David Washington (Actor)
Danielle Deadwyler (Actor)
Alexandre Desplat (Composer)
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
The Wild Robot
Chris Sanders (Writer/Director)
Kris Bowers (Composer)
Lupita Nyong’o (Actor)
