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Nearly three years after she was fired from the Scream franchise for speaking up in support of Palestinians, Melissa Barrera sees the tides changing. The actress recently expressed how “emotional” it made her to see Fennias and Ed Sheeran‘s other openers dropping out of his Loop Tour in support of Macklemore, who was dropped from

“I started, by Hollywood standards, quite late,” Naomi Watts began this morning when quizzed on whether the treatment of older women in Hollywood has improved during a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival. The British-Aussie actor is at the Spanish festival to receive an honorary Donostia Award for career achievement. “I launched with

EXCLUSIVE: Cult Japanese video game Lollipop Chainsaw is heading to the big screen. Deadline can reveal that a live action feature version is in the works as the game’s creators look to establish “a new model for building globally recognized entertainment franchises from Asia.” The latest Lollipop Chainsaw video game launches soon alongside an animated

Amazon MGM may not have had anything to say publicly when Criminal creator Ed Brubaker was first accused by a former production assistant of sexual and racial harassment, but today the studio and all the other defendants in the matter spoke very loudly. “While Noohu’s allegations must be treated as true on demurrer, the evidence

Six years after his unhinged social media age horror Spree, writer/director Eugene Kotlyarenko takes a more optimistic approach with his action-packed rom-com out of Japan. In Vintage Violence, Carter (Cole Sprouse) is an urban explorer who finds a haul of rare denim in a mineshaft. When Izumi (Kiko Mizuhara) invites him to offload the merchandise

With the fall festival season underway, the international film community is now turning its head to Spain’s Basque Coast as the San Sebastian International Film Festival kicks off its 74th edition on September 18. With 263 projects from 47 countries in the official lineup, the program looks set to bring together a mix of established

BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO Director: Takashi Miike Screenwriter: Daisuke Tengan Logline: A gambling-addicted Tokyo cop and an FBI agent search for a missing politician’s daughter, while a mysterious killer lurks in the criminal underworld, watching their every move. US Distributor: Neon Panelists: Takashi Miike, Shun Oguri, Lily James, Shotaro Mamiya First Screening: Monday, Sept. 14 at

EXCLUSIVE: A series of events have been set in Paris and New York to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway classic The Sun Also Rises. The celebration begins September 21 and 22 at Ritz Paris, with guests including filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who is set to direct the upcoming A Farewell To Arms

Netflix has announced that speakers including Possible Love DoP Kim Ji-yong, The Blue Road director Han Jun-hee and WETA FX’s CTO Kimball Thurston will join the streamer’s Creative Asia programme at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). Ji-yong will deliver a masterclass on how he and Possible Love director Lee Chang-dong shaped the visual

EXCLUSIVE: The 2026 Screamfest Horror Film Festival will open with Jeremy Weiss’s latest feature, The Night Driver, starring Josh Lucas, David Arquette, and Alyssa Milano. The festival, which runs October 6-15 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, announced its first wave of titles today. The lineup features 8 world premieres, 6 North American premieres, 1 US

Korean sales agent Finecut has locked several deals on a trio of movies featuring K-pop stars, including members of NCT, Fifty Fifty and The Boyz. The three movies – After-School Exorcism Club: Girls’ Night, Wi-Fi Love In The Palace and Wind Up: The Movie – are all theatrical editions of short-form series from the Kitz

EXCLUSIVE: Yasmeen Fletcher (Ms. Marvel), Sydney Agudong (Lilo & Stitch) and Billy Burke (Twilight) are leading indie dramedy, Chic. Writer-director Christopher Yates’ sophomore outing follows “Remi (Fletcher), 23-years-old and hot on the heels of a divorce, as she escapes to O’ahu in search of reinvention. Expectations of a summer akin to Eat, Pray Love quickly give way to a

AJ Odudu and Will Best are back as co-hosts of Big Brother UK 2026 (Season 23) on ITV2 and ITVX. The live reality competition returned to the UK with a new set of housemates ready to take on the challenge for a chance to win a cash prize. This season has already teased surprises that

EXCLUSIVE: After the hot new distributor at TIFF last year, Row K, imploded, many films that the label scooped up at the fest were left homeless; one of the big titles they supposed shelled out eight figures for was Jaume Collet-Serra’s reboot of 1993’s Cliffhanger starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan. In a complete surprise,

The devastating documentary NAZA, an investigation into Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, was shot at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, in part to avoid potential Israeli eavesdropping, presumably, and to facilitate shielding the identities of participants. Those participants are 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers who reveal, in almost matter-of-fact tones,

Some exciting news heading into the holiday season: Searchlight has announced a sequel to the beloved 2005 holiday film The Family Stone, with nearly the entire cast returning. This includes Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Elizabeth Reaser, Paul Schneider, and Brian White. The one big

The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film Being Heumann, Oscar winner Siân Heder‘s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. The event’s 51st edition features 10 days of premieres, gala presentations and more as the third leg of the fall

EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival hosts the world premiere of Black Sunflowers Friday evening, one of the most dynamic and explosive documentaries of the year. The film set in Ukraine is punctuated by ragers, “Tokyo drift”-style street racing, machine gun fire, and in interludes, moments of tenderness between young lovers. Director James Marcus Haney crafts

The 51st Toronto Film Festival is celebrating a major milestone this year, and the festivities are about to begin. Kicking off on Thursday, September 10, and running through September 20, the festival will showcase a massive program of 293 feature films, 45 shorts and 32 premieres. This year’s festival kicks off with Siân Heder’s inspiring

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins is set to star in 2048, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film from director Timothy Woodward Jr. Hopkins and Woodward Jr recently teamed up on sci-fi-horror film Eyes In The Trees, which is in post-production. Set in a future “where a dying planet has forced the last remnants of humanity underground, 2048 unfolds

EXCLUSIVE: Beijing-based producer-distributor Hishow Entertainment is expanding its cinephile ‘We Love Cinema’ brand with a slate of new acquisitions including recent Sundance winner Josephine and Ah Girl from Singapore’s Ang Geck Geck Priscilla. Beth de Araújo’s Josephine, starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, scooped both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in Mississippi on psychological thriller Ping, starring Obsession actress Megan Lawless. Lawless is joined in the cast by Fivel Stewart (The Recruit), creator Savanah Moss, WWE star Liv Morgan (Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo) and Carter Jenkins (After). Jason Buckley’s Ultimate Media Group (UMG) is launching international sales at the TIFF market and

William Shatner may be up for a well-deserved role in Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs sequel after the Star Trek legend’s latest roasting of Donald Trump. On a Labor Day long weekend that saw the former Apprentice host posting missives aiming to appropriate HBO’s trending Lanterns, claim the Moon, rename at least one US state, continent and

The 2026 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, September 2, with Oscar-winning English director Danny Boyle’s Ink — starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy — kicking off an 83rd edition that includes films starring the likes of Robert Pattinson, Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem, Jack Huston & Sofia Boutella, Dakota Johnson, John

Among a flurry of posts this weekend, Donald Trump revealed the service dress uniform designs for his Space Force. Without additional comment, the president shared photos and an overview of the uniforms on Truth Social, which include in their color palette “space gray” and “midnight black” as well as knee high leather boots and snazzy

EXCLUSIVE: Literary classics such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are getting the microdrama treatment. This is through the latest entrant into the microdrama field, LoveHit, an L.A.-based studio and app focused on originals based on classic literary adaptations. LoveHit, which launches this month, has a vertical video slate built entirely from classic novels in

May el-Toukhy, one of only two women in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year, took the unusual step of stopping the screening of her Golden Lion contender Woman Unknown at its world premiere Sunday evening after the subtitles got out of sync. The director was seen walking out of the screening to the

Susan Sarandon told a press conference in Venice on Sunday that she continued to lose big roles due to her public support of Palestine, even if the narrative around the nature of U.S. support of Israel has changed in recent months. “I’ve still had movies taken away recently because there are agencies that are telling

At times downright hilarious, at other times so farcical it nearly sails over the top, and at other times quite poignant, Jesse Eisenberg‘s third time out writing and directing a feature film, The Debut, throws it all at the wall, hits its target most of the time, and serves up a complete delight with go-for-broke

Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger creator-writer-producer Steven Knight says the film, which captures the rapprochement between feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, is about “reconciliation, redemption, and forgiveness”. The anticipated music documentary, which includes Noel and Liam’s first joint interviews in 20 years, captures the band’s hit reunion tour last year and sees the