This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
The BBC has apologized for mistakenly including footage of LeBron James in an obituary on Kobe Bryant, just hours after the decorated LA Lakers basketball star died in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
BBC One’s flagship 10PM bulletin led on Bryant’s death and 30-seconds into Chris Buckler’s report, footage of James on…
The documentary community has been rallying around Syrian-born filmmaker Feras Fayyad, director of Oscar-shortlisted film The Cave, after he was denied a visa to enter the United States. The situation escalated 10 days ago when Fayyad was detained on his way into Copenhagen, where he lives in exile, by immigration…
BREAKING: Amazon Studios announced wide it has acquired North American rights to Herself, directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady). The inspirational story about hope, perseverance and community world premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. Amazon Studios is planning a theatrical release later…
EXCLUSIVE: In the first major deal on the ground at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Searchlight Pictures is closing a worldwide rights deal for around $12 million for the David Bruckner-directed thriller The Night House, sources tell Deadline. Scripted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the film stars Rebecca Hall…
UPDATED with complete list of winners:Billie Eilish swept the marquee Record, Album, Song and New Artist categories Sunday at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, with the 18-year old dominating the ceremony dubbed music’s biggest night.
The live ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was hosted by Alicia Keys the same…
UPDATED AT 8:18PM PT with latest news conference.Los Angeles County officials held a series of briefings today on the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. Bryant was 41.
The helicopter crashed into a hillside above Calabasas in foggy conditions just…
Nipsey Hussle loomed large over the Grammy Awards on Sunday night as the late rapper was honored with a star-studded tribute. Hussle, real name Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019. He was 33 years old.
On Sunday night at the Staples Center, director Ava DuVernay introduced the tribute to…
In the wake of her bruising reelection, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is calling for unity in advance of the 160,000-member union's upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract. "Labor solidarity is crucial, and in many ways it is our superpower," she said at Saturday night's national board meeting…
Alicia Keys used the power of her voice and piano to get a pointed message across. Faced with the uncomfortable task of being the face of the Grammys in a week when ugly accusations of sexism and voting irregularities dominated, Keys turned attention on the people who make music, instead of the people who exploit…
In Rodrigo GarcÃa's Four Good Days, Mila Kunis saw an opportunity to come to grips with the enormity of the opioid crisis through the intimacy of a two-hander—a film that would compassionately approach and strive to understand both addicts, and those who love them.
Based on a Washington Post article by Eli Saslow, the…
Just hours after Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash, the Grammy Awards quickly put together a tribute honoring the late NBA legend.
Moments after Lizzo opened this evening’s show, announcing “Tonight is for Kobe” before performing her hits Cuz I Love You and Truth Hurts, host Alicia Keys took the…
Long before he directed Beasts of the Southern Wild—the Sundance phenomenon, which went on to earn four Oscar nominations—Benh Zeitlin longed to put his original spin on the story of Peter Pan. Seven years after hitting Park City with his first feature, the director has made his dream a reality, returning to the…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
