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Baz Bamigboye
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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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Breaking Baz: David Hare, British Playwright & Filmmaker, Casts An Unsparing Eye Over The UK General Election & Reveals He Is Working On A Drama About “The Great Question Of The 21st Century”
EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country's two major parties parry in the cut and thrust of the July 4 general election.
Hare's view, he tells Breaking Baz, is…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Sherwood’s’ James Graham Hits West End With Alan Bleasdale’s ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’, Talks Europe-Set TV Thriller & Updates On Soccer Drama ‘Dear England’
EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight's gala opening at London's National Theatre — en route to a run at the Garrick Theatre — of his sublime stage adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's landmark 1982 television drama Boys from the Blackst…
Breaking Baz: Zendaya Keeps The Spotlight On Tom Holland As He Makes His Shakespeare Debut In Modern-Dress ‘Romeo & Juliet’ In London’s West End
Not sure that I would equate Tom Holland and Zendaya with the same level of triple-A star firepower as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, but the last time I witnessed sheer frenzied pandemonium outside the Duke of York's Theatre was when Taylor went to see Burton read excerpts from Dylan Thomas' Under M…
Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Parthenope’ World Premiere Draws Nine-Minute Standing Ovation – Cannes Film Festival
Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino ascended the red carpet here this evening for his latest Cannes competition entry, Parthenope, which was welcomed by a nine-minute standing ovation.
“This movie is a celebration of the journey of my life,” the humbled filmmaker told the crowd.
"The movie is a…
Breaking Baz @ Cannes: ‘The Apprentice’ Star Maria Bakalova On Admiring Ivana Trump’s “Don’t Get Mad, Get Everything” Attitude
EXCLUSIVE: Dahlings, Oscar-nominated Maria Bakalova is channeling an essence of Ivana Trump, who she praises as a "boss lady," when we meet on a terrace at the Palais to natter about her slyly sublime portrait of Donald Trump’s first wife in filmmaker Ali Abbasi's Cannes hit The…
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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Mike Figgis Mourns Fred Roos, Details Fly-On-The-Wall Coppola Documentary ‘Megadoc’; Festival Party Talk Through The Night With Blanchett, Schrader & Oldman
Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. It's called Megadoc.
Figgis told me Monday that it's been edited but there's allowance for the fact that the film played in competition here at the Cannes Film…
Breaking Baz: Morfydd Clark & Billy Howle Lead Hot Theater Productions In London Dubbed The Angry & Young Season
EXCLUSIVE: Lord of the Rings star Morfydd Clark and Under the Banner of Heaven's Billy Howle will star in new versions of John Osborn's Look Back In Anger and Arnold Wesker's Roots, which will run in rep at London's Almeida in what has been dubbed the Angry and Young season. Ahead of the season, Romola…
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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Donna Langley, Michelle Yeoh & Greta Gerwig Capture The Castle At Kering’s Women In Motion Dinner
It seemed appropriate that the location for the annual Women in Motion dinner in Cannes should be at Place de la Castre, atop Suquet Hill where victors of yore could survey their domain. It was certainly the case that honored guest Dame Donna Langley had captured the castle.
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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Sony’s Tom Rothman On How Movies Endure, Charles Finch Throws Swish Soiree Honoring Columbia Pictures & Josie Rourke Gives Voice To The Irish
Tom Rothman, the Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman and CEO, wined and dined a select few at a splendidly swish soirée Friday at Mamo Michelangelo in Antibes, hosted by Charles Finch as part of his annual Filmmakers Dinner honoring 100 years of Columbia Pictures, and there was something he said about why…
‘Megalopolis’ Debuts At Cannes With 7-Minute Standing Ovation
The most awaited film this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, had its world premiere Thursday night, with the dystopian epic decades in the making landing a seven-minute standing ovation.
Coppola, the 85-year-old director and five-time Oscar winners, bowed as the…
Breaking Baz @ Cannes: ‘Barbie’s Michael Cera Brings Holiday Cheer To Cannes & Has Two Feature Movies In Development To Direct
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cera caught Tyler Taormina's feature directing debut Ham on Rye after a friend suggested he check it out. He was so impressed that he signed himself up as a sort of producing "cheerleader" on the filmmaker's latest picture Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, which plays in Directors'…
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‘Furiosa’ Gets Nearly 8-Minute Standing Ovation After Its Cannes World Premiere
George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the anticipated latest installment in his apocalyptic franchise, had its world premiere here at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
The film received a standing ovation of 7 minutes and 50 seconds after the final frame played in Cannes’ massive Palais…
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