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Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the industry platform of Busan International Film Festival, launched three new programs last year, which are starting to yield results as they move into their second edition. Among these, InnoAsia hosts a range of panels, workshops and other events focusing on advanced technologies and innovative business strategies, including AI,

Tim Blake Nelson will accompany his TIFF-premiering prison drama The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd to the Philadelphia Film Festival later this month to be honored with the Artistic Achievement in Directing Award. PFF’s 35th edition is set for Oct. 15-25 presented by nonprofit Philadelphia Film Society. The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd

EXCLUSIVE: Mockingbird Pictures is launching three new titles at Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market, heading a slate of horror, supernatural mystery, comedy and family drama as the range of genre films emerging from Vietnam and Southeast Asia continues to expand. Horror, the bedrock of Southeast Asian genre cinema, features prominently on the slate through

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Casey Giltner has sold elevated thriller spec This Land Is Our Land to Sony Pictures, Deadline has learned. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Andrew Form, of the A Quiet Place franchise, will produce alongside Lawdie Pahlavan. Giltner is a screenwriter and novelist whose holiday horror spec On The First Day of

Sebastian Stan is reprising his role as Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, in Avengers: Doomsday and is teasing that the film will be “heartbreaking.” Marvel fans are already bracing for the worst, and Stan’s recent interview while promoting Fjord has them guessing that someone will die. “I haven’t seen the movie, and I don’t know how it

EXCLUSIVE: The battle over Baby Reindeer is back on. After legal proceedings were dormant for more than a year, Netflix has suffered a blow in its efforts to get Fiona Harvey‘s lawsuit thrown out of court. Harvey, a former lawyer from Scotland, hit Netflix with a $170 million defamation lawsuit in 2024 after Baby Reindeer

Television and streaming are primed for a major upgrade — getting a whole historic lot all to themselves. The settlement in the state AGs’ lawsuit requires Skydance, the combined company of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, to keep both the Paramount and Warner Bros. lots for at least the next five years. During a press

French animation studio Xilam, which is known for shows such as Oggy and the Cockroaches and Submarine Jim as well as recent feature Lucy Lost, has announced a new leadership structure and wave of senior promotions. Caterina Gonnelli-Linden has been appointed as Co-Chief Executive Officer, alongside incumbent CEO and founder Marc du Pontavice. She will

Andrew Garfield says he prepared “day in and day out” for months to play Sam Altman, “listening and watching footage of him … trying to find my version of that character.” Where he landed on the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI wasn’t complimentary – calculating, manipulative and nihilistic. “There’s such a heavy responsibility … playing

EXCLUSIVE: Production management and entertainment payroll firm Entertainment Partners (EP) has a new boss in Britain. Chris Gratton has today been named Executive Vice President and Managing Director of EP’s UK business, effective today. This will see him lead EP’s UK operations, as EP pushes out its integrated production technology offering in the UK. The

Amid Paramount’s industry-shaking acquisition of Warner Bros., James Gunn is remaining focused on his work. When asked if he’s ready to start writing his next film to follow Man of Tomorrow, the DC Studios co-CEO revealed he’s “already in it” while awaiting the edit for his upcoming sequel to 2025’s Superman. “I had to do

EXCLUSIVE: The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on Lindsey Ryan’s Capsized starring Rhys Ifans, Lily Rabe, Sarah Catherine Hook and Griffin Gluck. In the film, “a family’s ‘vacation’ spirals into a turbulent journey as they grapple with lost homes, fractured identities and the grip of a troubled patriarch.” The movie is set to make

On paper, director Tom McCarthy‘s latest film, A Statement might appear to be a dense polemic, hardly the stuff of exciting moviemaking. It centers on a 1980 Florida conference dealing with the effects of Carbon Dioxide emissions on the environment, gathering politicians, academics, scientists and environmentalists from around the U.S. to talk about the subject

James Gunn and Peter Safran, the bosses of Warner Bros-owned label DC Studios, will continue to lead the film, TV and comic book production hub and do what they do best after Paramount closes its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. Once upon a time, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in Paramount’s hands, having a distribution

France’s growing culture wars have its hit arthouse circuit after a right-wing mayor in the small town of Elne in southwest France rebaptized the municipal cinema theater, previously named after late radical anti-colonial director René Vautier. Elne Mayor Steve Fortel said he was renaming the theater to “La Bobine Illibérienne” for the sake of “neutrality”

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary+ will become the streaming home of Speak., the documentary executive produced by Josh Gad that centers on gifted high schoolers competing in the Original Oratory category at the National Speech & Debate Association’s National Tournament. The award-winning film directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and co-directed by Guy Mossman will begin streaming on Doc+ on

SPOILER ALERT: This interview includes major details about Amazing Spider-Man #1000’s “Still Standing.” EXCLUSIVE: There’s no need to state the obvious, but being a superhero takes a lifelong toll. It’s a thankless job, and for Peter Parker, aging gracefully only dredges up unresolved regrets. That’s the idea at the heart of Noah Hawley’s featured anthology

EXCLUSIVE: In what we understand to be a high-seven figure deal, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has picked up all international rights to Sundance horror hit Buddy. We hear Sony beat out multiple suitors for rights to the feature directorial debut of Too Many Cooks director Casper Kelly. The well-received film premiered in the Midnight section

Drill an ice core into an Icelandic glacier and the frozen cylinder will tell the history of the Nordic land going back millennia – volcanic eruptions deposited as peppery flecks, air bubbles trapping ancient atmospheric data. But what happens when those glaciers melt? Does history itself dissolve? These are some of the elemental questions raised

EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the highest-grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office and the third-highest grossing ever worldwide, is getting a re-release, we hear. Sources are buzzing that the movie directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland will have extra footage that includes, but is not limited to, Rosario

Chinese director Niu Niu’s Final Payment scooped the Best Film Award in the Fei Mu Awards of this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF), while Rafiki Fariala’s Congo Boy won Best Film in the festival’s Roberto Rossellini Awards. Final Payment, which also won Best Actor for Niu Jianrong’s performance, revolves around a homeowner clashing with

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Foundation, which last week announced the cancellation of the 2026 edition of its Red Sea International Film Festival, is keeping its pledge to continue year-round support of independent filmmakers in the Arab world and beyond. The foundation’s Red Sea Fund has unveiled the 30 projects selected in its first two

Many questions surround Avengers: Doomsday, and one major one is whether Mark Ruffalo will reprise his role as Bruce Banner. The actor recently appeared in Spider-Man: Brand New Day as Banner, and the Russo Brothers teased that the Hulk is “certainly involved” in the story around Doctor Doom. “I think [what] we could say is, [Banner] is

EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has acquired all North American rights to Kasper Kalle’s queer gothic romance No Rest For The Wicked. The film, which world-premiered in Competition at the 2026 Fantasia International Film Festival won the Cheval Noir Award for Best Director and the Cheval Noir Award for Best Actor (Pilou Asbæk). It will continue its

After 50 years, Carrie White is taking on another form with Mike Flanagan’s series adaptation of Stephen King’s debut horror novel. In Prime Video’s Carrie, all episodes premiering Oct. 7, Summer H. Howell plays the title role of the telekinetic prom queen, taking the torch (so to speak) from Sissy Spacek, who originated the character

FilmNation Entertainment Founder and CEO Glen Basner will receive the Game Changer Award this evening at the Zurich Summit, the annual industry event aimed at fostering transatlantic connections taking place within the Zurich Film Festival. As part of the honor, Basner participated in an onstage conversation on Saturday moderated by German Oscar-winning director Edward Berger.

After eight years and countless entries in the expanding onscreen universe, Star Wars is revisiting the Skywalker family with its next project. Deadline can confirm that Lucasfilm has tapped Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts (director of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home) to helm the first installment in a new

Kane Parson’s $400M hit Backrooms, spinning off his web-series inspired by “creepypasta’ horror content on the internet, is invariably and understandably billed as a horror. The director told a panel at the Zurich Summit on Saturday, however, that he does not see it as being aligned with the genre. “I didn’t direct like a horror

After weeks of providing A24‘s Primetime with free press, Chris Hansen has finally seen the Lance Oppenheim-helmed thriller. On Friday, the former To Catch a Predator host teased his reaction after catching a screening of the movie, which is now in theaters, based on Esquire‘s depiction of Hansen in the 2007 article “Tonight on Dateline

We have the first trailer for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA, which debuted to huge acclaim at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Check it out above. Earlier this week, in an unprecedented move, it was announced that The Guardian newspaper will make NAZA available for global audiences for free on its website after its