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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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Filmmaker Steve McQueen Hails Life Of Adam Somner, Salutes Producer & Go-To First AD As “Working Class Hero“
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has paid a moving tribute to much admired award-winning producer and first assistant director Adam Somner, who died just before Thanksgiving from anaplastic thyroid cancer.
They worked together on McQueen's wartime movie Blitz, which seemed appropriate for two…
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Breaking Baz: Emma Thompson’s Child-Minding Witch ‘Nanny McPhee’ Stage Musical Aims For London’s West End In 2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit London's West End in 2026, Deadline can reveal.
Oscar-winner Thompson, songwriter Gary Clark and Working Title's…
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Breaking Baz: ‘The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson Says She “Danced Between Shame And Beating Myself Up”, And It’s Led To One Of The Year’s Best Performances
EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson says she has "danced between shame and beating myself up" — and she's still here.
She has opened so many eyes with her stunning breakthrough performance, at age 57, playing Shelly, a veteran hoofer forced to hang up her heels in Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl. I think it's…
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John Magaro On How He Prepared To Tell The Olympics Story That Horrified The World In ‘September 5’
John Magaro is the glue that holds September 5 together. He stars as ABC Sports producer Geoffrey Mason, who was covering the 1972 Munich Olympics when Black September terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic compound. Magaro must convey the enormous pressure and responsibility placed on…
Breaking Baz: British Star Maxine Peake Has Plenty To Discuss About Her Extraordinary Role In Powerful FX Drama ‘Say Nothing’
EXCLUSIVE: There's fire and anger in Maxine Peake's portrayal of Dolours Price in new FX drama Say Nothing.
Price, in her younger years, was one of the Irish Republican Army's most feared paramilitary operatives, responsible, along with her younger sister Marian, for atrocities in London and Northern…
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‘Nickel Boys’ Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Shares Her Ancestral Pain In RaMell Ross’s Dark Story From Florida’s History
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was raised in McComb, Mississippi, a one-time battleground in the struggle for civil rights, and says she carried a lot of the pain her maternal forebears endured. Undoubtedly, that informed her powerful performance as Hattie in Nickel Boys, writer-director RaMell Ross's adaptation…
The Partnership: How Angelina Jolie Connected With Pablo Larraín To Make Beautiful Music in ‘Maria’: “It’s The Most Vulnerable I’ve Ever Felt”
Angelina Jolie remembers the first time she was set to publicly embody the voice of prima donna assoluta Maria Callas in preparation for the Netflix film Maria. Her sons Maddox and Pax Jolie-Pitt stood watch protectively, like security. "I was so nervous," Jolie recalls. "My boys guarded the…
Steve McQueen Was Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer On Eve Of Shooting ‘Blitz’, But Is Now “Fully Recovered” Following Surgery: His Story
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is revealing today that two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a procedure to remove the tumor.
Thankfully, the filmmaker is now "fully recovered and fully functional," he tells Deadline.
The knight of the British realm is making a…
Breaking Baz: Beloved Jennifer Garner Rom-Com ‘13 Going On 30’ Adapted As Stage Musical Set For 2025 UK Opening With Hopes For West End & Broadway
EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Rink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role's being played by West End star Lucie Jones in a stage musical adapted from the beloved 2004 movie.
The show is…
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Breaking Baz: Danielle Deadwyler Finds “Artistic Love” Working On ‘The Piano Lesson’ & Teases Possibility Of West End Stage Debut
EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler achieved "artistic love" working with director Malcom Washington and his sibling John David Washington on the screen adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson.
"I'm with these beautiful men," she says. "They're like brothers to…
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Breaking Baz: Jared Harris Aboard As Treacherous Uncle In ‘Hamlet’ For Royal Shakespeare Company, Says Play Was A Favorite Of Dad Richard Harris
Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is a play much-loved by his father Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies and…
Breaking Baz: Andrew Lloyd Webber Conjures New West End & Broadway Musical ‘The Illusionist’; ‘Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd Directing
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard's Jamie Lloyd.
During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through…
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