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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has dropped out of jury duty at this year’s Marseille Film Festival after several filmmakers set to screen films at the fest withdrew their films to protest Lapid’s presence as part of a cultural boycott of Israel. The festival criticized the planned boycott this afternoon in a statement, noting that Lapid

The breakout success of YouTube creators is diminishing the influence of the industry’s older generation, according to vet German executive Robert Franke. The likes of Kane Parsons, Curry Barker and Markiplier have helmed successful movies of late, giving the box office a huge shot in the arm. Franke told a Seriencamp audience this is “scary

HBO Max famously acquired Heated Rivalry for the U.S. three weeks before the Canadian hockey series was to premiere on local streamer Crave. Starting off as a guilty pleasure, the romantic drama went on to became a worldwide obsession — and a critical darling, recently breaking Canadian Screen Awards records by winning 16 awards, including

Peddi from Prathyangira Cinemas debuted in India — where it’s the top Telugu opener of 2026 — as well as Stateside this weekend amid a social media controversy accusing the film of objectifying its female lead. In an unusual move, writer-director Buchi Babu Sana agreed Saturday to modify the scenes called out by critics of

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on the latest episode of Love Island UK Season 13. George Knight left Love Island UK after only a few days in the villa, and the show is addressing his exit. After arriving as a bombshell on the first day, George decided to leave for “private reasons,” as Lorenzo

Anna Faris‘ iconic role as Cindy in the horror parody feature film series Scary Movie almost went to another actress, revealed writer, producer and star Marlon Wayans. In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Faris asked Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans if there was “ever a celebrity that desperately wanted to be in a Scary Movie,

Drake Doremus was shooting a commercial in Madrid during the pandemic when a chance encounter changed the course of his life completely. The writer-director initially packed for a nine-day trip but after meeting the woman who would later become his wife, he ended up staying in the Spanish capital for five months. The twist of

Like it did for many people, the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus, whose last film, 2019’s Endings, Beginnings, now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That chance encounter in Madrid has

George Knight, a contestant on Love Island UK Season 13, is opening up about his abrupt exit from the dating series. The Islander came in as a bombshell on Day 1 but left the Mallorca-set villa after only a few days on the show. “Family comes first, always,” Knight wrote on Instagram. “Leaving the @loveisland

UPDATED, June 4: Taylor Swift‘s coming for that Oscar on her bathroom floor. Her new Toy Story 5 song, “I Knew It, I Knew You” is now streaming. The song marks a return to Swift’s early career genre, country music. “Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,”

Claire Foy has revealed that she was kept on her toes by the “electric” Richard E. Grant while filming Savage House. The Emmy-winning star of The Crown joked that working with Grant in the 18th-century period romp was like “constantly teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.” In an interview at SXSW London, where

Gerhard Zeiler, the President of international at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), has called on big players to “get rid of an exclusivity mindset” when it comes to content. Zeiler appeared to suggest WBD will better leverage YouTube in the future, meeting audiences, especially younger, “where they are.” Zeiler noted that WBD has six-month exclusivity on

“My 22 year-old daughter just graduated college and my 18-year old film is about to open Friday,” Masters of the Universe producer and Escape Artists’ Jason Blumenthal tells Deadline, “That’s just hard math.” “Jason and I had our busiest year ever between DTF St. Louis, Voicemail for Isabelle, David O. Russell’s Madden and the Sorkin

EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired international sales rights for Belgian director Isabelle Tollenaere’s displacement drama Paris Paris ahead of its premiere in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Proxima sidebar in July. The drama follows three men from China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Palestine living together in a squatted apartment

EXCLUSIVE: Curry Barker‘s next movie from Blumhouse–Atomic Monster and Focus Features, Anything But Ghosts, will also star Superstore and The Mindy Project actor Chris Reinacher. Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer are also producers on the pic. The news comes in the wake of Barker’s current pic in cinemas, Obsession, becoming Focus Features highest grossing movie at

The barrage of online skepticism and discussion about SNL UK was a useful tool that the show’s producers used to shape and develop their version of the long-running series, Helen Kruger Bratt, Managing Director of Universal Television Alternative Studio, said this morning at Deadline’s Reality TV Summit in London.  Bratt, who oversees production on the

EXCLUSIVE: Production has finished on the Birmingham, AL shoot of the Alec Baldwin and Jim Gaffigan high-stakes action thriller, Crosshairs, from filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil (Vehicle 19, The Immaculate Room). In Crosshairs, a New York police detective finds himself trapped on a park bench, holding a bomb, caught in the crosshairs of a hidden sniper—with

A documentary feature about the legendary Ghanaian musician Kiki Gyan is among the projects that will participate in this year’s Locarno Open Doors programme.  Six projects from ten different African countries have been picked to participate in the programme. Locarno Open Doors is in the second year of a four-year cycle dedicated to Africa.  The

Backrooms star Mark Duplass sees the overwhelming box office successes of horror entries Obsession and Backrooms as a beacon for a struggling industry. “I just want to take a moment to celebrate the glimmer of hope that Obsession and Backrooms are bringing to our industry,” he said in a video posted to X. “And I

Ryan Reynolds doesn’t only do acting and soccer. The Welcome to Wrexham chief and Hollywood star is now leading a docuseries about the SailGP team he co-owns with Deadpool & Wolverine co-star Hugh Jackman. The docuseries about the BONDS Flying Roos team will see Australia’s fastest sailors travel the globe to face elite rivals while

While there was no conversation about the elephant in the room–the pending Paramount Warner Bros Discovery merger-at Warner Bros Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca‘s Produced By panel this afternoon, the studio boss took time to give props to the zeitgeist going on at the weekend box office, read the YouTube creators Kane Parsons and

Paramount+ has bought Wild Cherry, the spooky BBC series from Nicôle Lecky, one of the UK’s most exciting creatives. Wild Cherry stars The Penguin’s Carmen Ejogo and House of the Dragon‘s Eve Best and is about people born into a world of wealth and good fortune. Life is perfect in this luxurious haven until Lorna

Ask E. Jean by Ivy Meeropol is holding over for second week at IFC Center in New York after a full-house opening weekend and adding the NuArt in LA before expanding. Over 40 theaters are booked for the next month as the distributors build a network to support the documentary about the writer and former

EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo Arriaga‘s original screenplay on which seminal Mexican film Amores Perros was based is being turned into a scripted TV series. AF Films has acquired rights to Perro Blanco, Perro Negro and is working with Sofia Vergara’s Hispanic talent management and entertainment company LatinWe to develop and produce a high-end international drama series. A

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of their Cannes Best Director winning Fatherland, Italian-based producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli and their Our Films banner are teaming with Oscar nominated and Cannes- winning filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher on the feature take of Italo Calvino’s 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees. The UTA repped Rohrwacher will adapt and

The Sherlock Holmes franchise continues its expansion with a modern reinvention series focusing on his arch nemesis James Moriarty. Fremantle and Operation Mincemeat producer Archery Pictures are collaborating on Moriarty [working title], which comes from writers Chris Cornwell (A Discovery of Witches) and Oliver Lansley (Where’s Wanda?). The team said Moriarty will be a “modern

With free speech under threat in Hollywood, Poppy Liu refuses to separate her politics from her art. The I Love Boosters star, who has been a vocal supporter of Free Palestine, recently commented on potentially being “blacklisted” in the industry, explaining that being silent “would be the death of me as an artist.” “Honestly, if

We Are Parable has set the 2026 cohort for its talent development programme, Momentum.  This year, the programme, which is backed by Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television, received over 700 applications. 30 UK-based Black filmmakers made the final cut. Of the selected group, 55% are based outside London, with filmmakers hailing from Birmingham, Bristol,

Everybody to Kenmure Street left this year’s Sundance Film Festival with a major award in World Cinema Documentary competition: a Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance. The civil resistance in question is this: On the morning of May 13, 2021, agents from the UK’s Home Office attempted to conduct an immigration raid in Glasgow, Scotland, seizing

Samantha Bee will play Canada’s unorthodox ambassador to Bulgaria in a comedy for pubcaster the CBC. The Ambassador was announced this morning at CBC’s upfront, along with new series from the exec producer of Cardinal and Snowpiercer, and the creators of Norsemen and producers of Lilyhammer and Letterkenny, and a drama based on hockey star