Eloise Singer’s Lucy Liu-narrated The Pirate Queen: No Safe Waters is among eight works selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s third Immersive Competition, the lineup of which was announced on Friday. It is the latest […]
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Italian film and TV veteran Marco Chimenz has come onboard Italy’s audiovisual MIA market as Strategic Consultant just days after it was revealed that he had stepping down as co-managing director of Federation Studios. Chimenz’s […]
Rai Cinema touched down at the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) New York gala on Thursday evening to present Giuseppe Tornatore’s upcoming film The First Dollar to the high-profile guests. The project, which is in […]
The Annecy International Film Festival is teaming with stop-motion studio Laika on an exhibition entitled “Wildwood: A First Glimpse into a Handmade World” to mark the launch of its new Cité internationale du cinéma d’animation. […]
Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks, billed as a Romeo and Juliet-style love story set on the French Riviera, has joined the 2026 lineup of Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. The picture will play as a special screening […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal has been announced as Jury President for the 83rd Venice Film Festival, running from September 2 to 12. The actress and director follows in the wake of Alexander Payne (2025), Isabelle Huppert (2024), Damien […]
The life of Bernard Loiseau, the late French culinary giant who inspired the character of Chef Auguste Gusteau in Pixar’s Ratatouille, is set to be explored in a biopic. Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, which is part of […]
The Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday revealed a fresh round of titles for the Official Selection of its 79th edition, including James Gray’s Paper Tiger and Judith Godrèche’s A Girl’s Story. (scroll down for full […]
Radial Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to The Isolate Thief, the latest Western from Nashville-based Hideout Pictures which previously achieved success in the genre with Old Henry. Directed by John Suits (3022) and written […]
EXCLUSIVE: Studio TF1 has boarded sales on Vincent Garenq’s Cannes-selected drama Forsaken (L’Abandon) revisiting the final 11 days of French school teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder triggered by a class on free speech shook France […]
A UK influencer has been charged with attempted murder after crashing her car into another influencer outside a club in London’s Soho entertainment district. Former The X Factor finalist Gabrielle Carrington, who goes under the […]
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis, the globally shot cultural project overseen by Martin Scorsese, will world premiere at the Vatican on April 21 as part of events commemorating the first anniversary of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy has joined the starry cast of Morten Tyldum’s Ibelin, re-telling the inspirational true story of late disabled Norwegian gamer Mats Steen, as production gets underway in Norway. The Oscar-nominated actor (Living) joins previously […]
Elon Musk was summoned for a hearing in Paris on Monday as part of a probe into X and alleged irregularities around its algorithms as well as its AI tool Grok’s role in the dissemination […]
Tina Ghavari’s Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day will world premiere at SXSW London this June as the opening film with the director and key cast in attendance. It is among a second wave of feature […]
French actress Leïla Bekhti has been announced as President of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Jury. She will be joined by Senegalese producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italy’s director Laura Samani, and France’s director Thomas Cailley. […]
Netflix has announced animated feature Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory, featuring Kit Connor and Taika Waititi in lead voice roles, describing it as a contemporary reimagining with “a fresh twist” of the Roald Dahl classic […]
Montreal-based Games of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Rings of Power, John Wick: Chapter 4 and Dune VFX firm Rodeo FX has announced the opening of a studio in Bangalore, India. The new hub, which marks […]
Beta Cinema has posted deals for award-winning Austrian Berlinale 2026 Panorama title Four Minus Three as it enjoys a strong theatrical launch in its home territory and sweeps nomination in key local film awards. Directed […]
Spanish director Eva Libertad’s debut solo feature Deaf (Sorda), about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the 2026 European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award. The award continues a prizewinning run for the […]
The Marché du Film and Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) have announced a three-day IP market, dedicated to Japanese intellectual properties with strong potential for film adaptation, during this year’s edition of the […]
Kanye West has postponed a concert in the French port city of Marseille in June following news that France was studying options for banning the event due to his past antisemitic outbursts and pro-Nazi declarations. […]
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez is studying ways in which to ban a scheduled Kanye West concert in the Southern port city of Marseille in June in response to the artist’s past antisemitic outbursts and […]
Baahubali: The Eternal War, a CGI animated spin-off set in the Baahubali universe, will be among nine upcoming animated features showcased in the Annecy International Film Festival’s Work in Progress (WIP) lineup in June. Lead produced […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nyle DiMarco has boarded feature documentary The Way We Move, chronicling the life and work of acclaimed American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter Amber Galloway, as executive producer following its buzzy debut in SXSW last […]
EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has acquired international sales rights to working-titled Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which was announced on Tuesday as the opening film of Cannes parallel section ACID. The debut feature from […]
Kantemir Balagov’s New Jersey-set drama Butterfly Jam, starring Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough, will open the 58th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. It is among 19 features, selected from 1,800 submissions, and nine short and […]
ACID, the filmmaker-selected Cannes parallel section which first championed the early works of Justine Triet, Kaouther Ben Hania and Radu Jude, has announced the lineup for it 2026 edition. The selection, showcasing nine independent productions, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Paradise City Sale has acquired world sales rights to Sara Ishaq’s debut feature The Station ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week in May. The film was among seven features announced […]
Phuong Mai Nguyen’s In Waves, an animated feature adaptation of L.A. illustrator AJ Dungo’s eponymous cult 2019 graphic novel set in California, will open the 65th edition of Cannes Critics’ Week. It is among 11 […]
Centre-right, pro-European Union opposition leader Péter Magyar beat populist, right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s high stakes general election on Sunday. Final results have yet to be posted but Magyar’s victory was confirmed when […]
Iwana Chronis has been appointed as CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, succeeding Sandra den Hamer who has served as interim director for the past three years. Taking up the post on May 1, Chronis […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mk2 Films has boarded sales on Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s post-genocide drama Ben’Imana ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Un Certain Regard in May. The film makes history as the first feature by […]
EXCLUSIVE: Chilean director Manuela Martelli will make her Cannes Official Selection debut in May with her second feature Meltdown premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser. Set in Chile in […]
One of the talking points around the Cannes Film Festival’s 2026 edition is the absence of big U.S. studio titles making their way to the French Riviera this year. The U.S. is represented instead by […]
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has boarded sales on Jeanne Herry’s Cannes 2026 Palme d’Or contender Another Day (Garance) and revealed a first look of Adèle Exarchopoulos in the lead role. The drama was announced as having been […]
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has boarded sales and unveiled a first image for Volker Schlöndorff’s Visitation, which was announced as having been selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection on Thursday. The film, which is Schlöndorff’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rising UK star Raffey Cassidy (Killing of a Sacred Deer) has been reunited on set with The Brutalist co-cast members Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience) and Oscar and Bafta nominee Guy Pearce (Memento) this past month […]
Playtime has boarded international sales on Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss ahead of its world premiere as the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival. The film was first announced earlier this year during the […]
The Marché du Film has unveiled the eight directors who will present projects at the fourth edition of its Cannes Investors Circle aimed at connecting elevated international arthouse productions with potential financiers. The curated lineup […]
Celine Dion announced additional six dates for her comeback concert season in Paris in September and October as pre-sales began on Tuesday due to strong demand. The new concerts will take place on September 18 […]
The 12th edition of the Saudi Film Festival, which was due to have taken place in Saudi Arabia‘s Eastern Province city of Dhahran from April 23 to 29, has been postponed to June 25 to […]
Oscar-winning Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho has revealed that his hotly-awaited debut animated feature film will be titled Ally at the same time as unveiling a first image for its titular protagonist. Created from a […]
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (GFF) has appointed Andrew Mohsen as its new Artistic Director, replacing Marianne Khoury who stepped down from the role earlier this year. Mohsen, who has been part of the festival’s […]
Lebanese-French artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri and the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have filed a war crime complaint in France related to the killing of his parents in 2024 in an Israeli […]
Rodeo FX has inaugurated a new Paris studio bringing all its French divisions, including 2025 acquisition Mikros Animation, under one roof. The Montreal-based VFX firm, which has worked on productions such as Games of Thrones, […]
The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film (May 12-20) is extending its AI For Talent Summit which will mark its second year this May after a one-day inaugural edition last year. The second edition will […]