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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has set Emilie Anthonis as its new President and Managing Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Anthonis will take up the post as of January 1, 2025, succeeding Stan McCoy, who is stepping down after more than a decade. Based in Brussels, Anthonis will report to

Big Brother UK has welcomed its 16 new housemates for Season 21. AJ Odudu and Will Best returned to host the reality competition series and led the new housemates, who will compete for a cash prize of £100,000 (about $130,000). RELATED: ‘Love Is Blind UK’ Season 1 Cast Photos & Netflix Episode Release Date Schedule

Motherland, by veteran Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). Mendoza told Deadline about his motivation to make Motherland, shooting his next film Chameleon and the challenges that the Filipino film industry is currently facing. The making of Motherland The film follows the story of Dao-ayen, a

The pandemic and Hollywood strikes battered box office for independent cinema is turning a corner, distribution execs told a panel at the Zurich Summit industry conflab on Saturday. “We’ve been in a trench trying to get out,” said Rebecca Kearey, Head of International at Searchlight Pictures, which enjoyed box office success with Poor Things late last

Rising star Minha Kim unveils her first lead performance since breaking out in AppleTV+’s prestige drama series Pachinko, playing a young woman accused of murdering a best-selling author in Chun Sun-young’s feature debut A Girl with Closed Eyes. Premiering at the Busan International Film Festival, the yarn unspools as a polished crime thriller bolstered by a raft

Joel Kinnaman wants DC Comics fans to believe he will not reprise his role as Rick Flag Jr. in HBO’s Peacemaker. Kinnaman first appeared in the DCEU film Suicide Squad in 2016 and reprised his role in James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad in 2021. Although Kinnaman’s character was killed off in the 2021 film, there

Emma Corrin, hot from playing villainous Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine, will join Cate Blanchett in the eagerly awaited new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at London’s Barbican Theatre in 2025. Another addition to an already sizzling company is Kodi Smit-McPhee, who shot to fame in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. He also appears with an incandescent

EXCLUSIVE: The Fighter Oscar winner Melissa Leo has inked with Gersh for representation. Leo recently starred in Long Gone Heroes with John Hutcherson and King Ivory, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. The New York City-born native who grew up in Putney and Bellows Falls, VT, won Best Supporting Actress at the

Josh Brolin had reportedly been in talks to play Hal Jordan in the HBO series Lanterns, based on DC Comics‘ Green Lantern. In a recent interview, the Dune star acknowledged that things “didn’t work out” and commented on reports that Kyle Chandler is in talks to play the superhero role. “You know what? Green Lantern

The 29th edition of the Busan International Film Festival opened Wednesday night with top stars like Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Song Joong-ki (Descendants of the Sun) and Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) walking the red carpet under the towering dome of the Busan Cinema Center, in front of more than 4,500 guests. With a new leadership team

The mental health crisis in the UK’s film and television study has deepened. That’s the headline finding of the Film and TV Charity‘s latest Looking Glass Survey, one of the industry’s most comprehensive studies on working conditions for British freelancers. Some 35% of 4,300 respondents described their mental health as “poor” or “very poor,” representing

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a really cool project that just got greenlit at DC Studios and Warner Bros Pictures Animation: Dynamic Duo. Dynamic Duo is the first joint project between DC Studios and the Bill Damaschke led WBPA. The 6th & Idaho movie scripted by Matthew Aldrich is being made by a new animation studio out of New

EXCLUSIVE: Pinewood, the famous British film studio facility, is closing its television unit. The company said it had taken the decision following an internal review and it comes amid a dramatic slowdown in comedy and entertainment commissioning in the UK. Pinewood’s three dedicated TV studios host shows including Taskmaster, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, and Gordon

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her critically acclaimed work in A24’s Civil War, Kirsten Dunst has found her follow-up as she is set to join Channing Tatum in the true crime pic Roofman. Derek Cianfrance is directing. Pic is based on the remarkable story of Jeffrey Manchester, an eccentric and charming serial robber who broke into more

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you that Rust and Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts has landed the villain role in DC‘s Supergirl. Supergirl is based on Tom King’s 2022 comic book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which Bilquis Evely illustrated. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic book for the big screen. In that comic, the bad guy is Krem of

Refresh for latest…: We’re in a bit of a getting going/holdover this weekend at the international box office. There are two animated films continuing to roll out in the marketplace — both of which are highly scored, and performing to differing degrees. And neither should be counted out. To wit: Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One added $16.6M

True to form, Tom Cruise unexpectedly jetted to London to surprise nearly 3,000 fans at a Top Gun: Maverick orchestral event held at the famed Royal Albert Hall Sept. 27. “I’m very excited to be here with you all tonight to share in this unique cinematic orchestral experience with Top Gun: Maverick,” the action star said

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Mechanical Cake have partnered together for the launch of three original graphic novel series: Modville, Hyde, and Nick. Sources say Ridley Scott will be heavily involved, lending his meticulous eye and unmatched world-building skills to the projects. “Mechanical Cake is a terrific company,” Scott said. “They understand the art of graphic

Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Frenzy, dozens of other films and TV and on West End and Broadway stages, has died. She was 88. Her family said today that she died September 16 at her home in Warwickshire, England, but did not give the cause. Barry Foster and Barbara Leigh-Hunt in ‘Frenzy’ Everett

With the HBO series The Joker and the upcoming sequel Joker: Folie a Deux already earning rave reviews, DC Studios doesn’t look to be done focusing on Batman bad guys, as sources have confirmed to Deadline that the studio is in early development on a new movie involving classic Gotham villains Bane and Deathstroke. Matthew

EXCLUSIVE: James Gunn‘s Superman may be wrapped, but we’re hearing that Alan Tudyk is also part of the mass ensemble pic in an undisclosed role. Tudyk already is playing the voice of nuclear plant meltdown-born villain Doctor Phosphorus in Gunn’s upcoming Max animated series, Creature Commandos, which technically kicks off the first part of the DC

French actor and director Nicolas Bedos was given a one-year suspended prison sentence by a Paris criminal court on Thursday on charges of sexual assault and sexual harassment while under the influence of alcohol. Cannes regular Bedos – whose recent credits include La Belle Epoque, OSS 177: From Africa With Love and Mascarade – was

After a teaser garnered 39 million views across two weeks, the official trailer is now out for Alia Bhatt-starrer Jigra, check it out above. The emotional action thriller is set for an October 11 global release with Moviegoers Entertainment handling international and Viacom18 Studios releasing in India. Bhatt (Gangubai Kathiawadi) leads the cast alongside rising

Lynda Carter has played Wonder Woman and she portrayed the President of the United States over most of Supergirl’s six-season run, but now the Hollywood Walk of Fame recipient is making Amazonian efforts to see Kamala Harris elected to the White House. Tonight, the long-time Washington DC resident is hosting Geeks & Nerds for Harris.

Switzerland has picked Klaudia Reynicke’s family drama Reinas as its submission to the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th Academy Awards. The Swiss-Spanish-Peruvian coproduction is set in Peru in 1992 as the country undergoes social and political upheaval. Against this backdrop Lucía and Aurora’s single mother Elena is drawing up plans to leave

A year to the day after the Writers Guild strike settlement, Ellen Stutzman has been ratified as Executive Director of WGA West in a referendum. The vote was 2,279 “yes” to 72 “no.” The union also revealed results of its 2024 Board of Directors elections, with eight members being named to two-year terms. They are

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Kyle Chandler is in negotiations to star in Lanterns, HBO‘s high-profile series based on the Green Lantern DC comic, sources tell Deadline. No one is commenting, but I hear Chandler is poised to play Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern character that was played by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 movie. The series

Sujo, which won the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema following its world premiere there earlier this year, has been selected to represent Mexico in the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature Film. Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s drama centers on Sujo, the beloved son of a small-town cartel gunman who

‘Fool Me Once‘ Producer Quay Street Lands Next Project For BBC Fool Me Once producer Quay Street Productions has landed a BBC thriller series starring Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy. The Guest comes from Matthew Barry, who was also behind Quay Street’s Russell Davies-produced Men Up drama for the Beeb. The Guest centers on the