Deadline's series of Contenders Events will expand this year with the addition of Contenders International. The event is set for Poland on October 17, focusing on foreign-language Academy Awards aspirants. The event will be held annually in a different European country each year. This expands a full contingent of…

Donald Trump got into another tiff with CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta after the president bashed the network during a press conference in India. After Trump claimed that the network apologized “that they said certain things that weren’t true,” Acosta responded, “Mr. President, I think our record on…

Paradigm has promoted four agents across the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices, the agency announced today. The new agents are Melisa Baloglu, Len Chenfeld, Brittany Miller and Ryan Theobalt. The company additionally announced that Natalia Williams, an LA-based Content Dept. agent, will now work across both…

National Geographic Documentary Films, distributers of the Oscar-winning Free Solo and Oscar-nominated The Cave, has obtained the rights to Saudi Runaway, the Susanne Regina Meures-directed documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is slated to screen at Berlin International Film…

AMC Networks Tuesday announced today a comprehensive, long-term distribution agreement with DISH Network and Sling TV that includes continued carriage of AMC Networks' linear channels AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and BBC World News, as well as the launch in the coming months of AMC Networks' targeted SVOD…

President Donald Trump told reporters that Harvey Weinstein’s conviction sends a “very strong message” and was a “great victory” for women, while he noted Democratic figures who “loved” the movie mogul. Weinstein was found guilty on Monday of committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third-degree rape.…

BBC Studios has raided rival ITV Studios for the executive producer of one of its tent-pole brands, Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. Pete Ogden will join the BBC’s commercial production arm in early May as the creative director of entertainment North, having been at ITV Studios for the past eight years. He is…

Giant Miami-based Spanish language broadcaster Univision is being acquired by two private investment firms, ForgeLight and  Searchlight Capital Partners, and will enter a new era led by Wade Davis – longtime media executive, former Viacom CFO and ForgeLight founder-CEO – and marked by enhanced collaboration with…

Hillary Clinton has said that yesterday's guilty verdict in the Harvey Weinstein trial shows "it was time for an accounting." Clinton also confirmed that she would support the Democrat nominee in the forthcoming U.S. election regardless of who secures the role. Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival today, where her Hulu…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmax has boarded sales on Basque-language genre movie All The Moons, the new feature from writer-director Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me). The Barcelona-based outfit is launching the film at the EFM. Shoot got underway last week on the project, which is set in the north of Spain at the end of…