Deadline spoke with 16 major international fests and markets scheduled over the next six months, including Venice, Toronto, AFM, Sundance and Berlin to get the latest on how they are adjusting their upcoming editions following months of lockdown cancellations.
Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino has been set to write and direct The Hand Of God for Netflix.
The Youth and The Great Beauty filmmaker most recently helmed HBO series The New Pope and Silvio Berlusconi biopic Loro.
His latest pic will be produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a…
BBC to premiere Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Strasbourg 1518’Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer’s latest film Strasbourg 1518 is to premiere on BBC Two on July 20. The film is part of the BBC’s Culture in Quarantine initiative, and features performances from great dancers inspired by the so-called dancing plague that broke…
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese crime drama Sheep Without A Shepherd, one of the last big box office hits in China before cinemas were forced to shutdown, grossing $167M, has been set for a UK theatrical release by distributor Trinity CineAsia.
Theaters have started re-opening in the UK and multiplexes including Cineworld and Vue…
Sky and Sony Pictures Television have signed a new “long-term” partnership that will give the Comcast-owned pay-TV operator access to Sony’s movies across the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
The deal builds on an agreement signed in 2016 and means new Sony Pictures Entertainment releases…
J.K. Rowling and The Handmaid’s Tale scribe Margaret Atwood are among 150 writers, academics and activists to sign an open letter published by Harper’s bemoaning the “restriction of debate” in modern culture.
Rowling, who has been at the center of a rancorous online debate about transgender rights in recent weeks, put…
Idris Elba has again teased the idea of turning his cult BBC detective drama Luther into a feature, more than a year after Season 5 aired on British television.
The actor told a press junket for Season 3 of his Sky comedy In The Long Run that there are no “formal plans” for another Luther series, according to Sky…
The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts, fell last month and required an overnight stay in the hospital, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed to Deadline on Tuesday. The Washington Post broke the story.
Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized overnight last month after injuring his head in a…
“Old fashioned” is a term that can be used in a non-flattering way, but in describing Tom Hanks’ new World War II film, it is a compliment. In terms of a genre that has been done repeatedly since, and during, that immortal conflict itself, it is hard to think of a way to bring any new light to it. Greyhound, a…
Jude Law is in talks to play the villainous Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy, Disney’s live-action update of its 1953 toon classic, Deadline has confirmed.
David Lowery is directing the pic from a screenplay he wrote with Toby Halbrooks, based on the J.M. Barrie novel. The film, which stars Ever Anderson as Wendy and…
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Away, Jason Katims’ space drama series. The streamer has set September 4 for the premiere of the series starring Hilary Swank.
The 43-second clip features only Swank, weightless in the space capsule, clearly longing to see her family. “I miss you so much,” says Swank’s Emma…
In an incredibly frank conversation with Vulture, actress Thandie Newton spoke about her decision to turn down a part in the remake of Charlie’s Angels starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and, in the role that Newton was considered for, Lucy Liu.
Newton said she was “massively affected” by the abuse, racism and…
The board of directors SAG-AFTRA's Los Angeles Local voted overwhelmingly Tuesday – strictly along the guild's fractious party lines – to oppose ratification of the union's new film and TV contract. The local is the union's largest, representing just under 50 percent of the entire membership, and just over 50 percent…
