Diana has been working in global film journalism since 2005. Before returning to Deadline in 2021 to focus on features for international film and television, she was previously International Reporter for the site. She is based in London and has frequently covered all the major film festivals and markets including Cannes, Berlin, AFM, Toronto and Sundance. Prior to joining Deadline, Diana was the UK correspondent for Variety and also covered film news and box office at Screen International.
Heading into its tenth edition next month, NEM Dubrovnik 2023 looks set to be its biggest event yet. Taking place from June 5-8 at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel, the annual TV market will feature 11 keynote speakers as part of the program this year. They include: All3Media International CEO Louise Pedersen…
When Croatian-born TV exec Sanja Božić-Ljubičić set out to establish a television market in her corner of the world a decade ago, she had always felt the Balkan region had been overlooked on the global content map.
"The Balkan region was always somewhat neglected," she tells Deadline. "But Croatia…
Gurinder Chadha revealed that Harrison Ford had an unknowing effect on her ability to get UK hit film Bend it Like Beckham off the ground when she made it two decades ago. At the time, the director was struggling to get financing from any of the UK public film funding bodies so she could make her now…
Harnessing audiences for film and television content is now more challenging than ever thanks to variables such as the streaming model disruption and aftershocks of the pandemic. And while the industry tries to keep up with the ever-evolving landscape, content creators on YouTube are attracting enormous…
EXCLUSIVE: Brit pop superstar Robbie Williams and The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey were in Cannes this week to talk about their upcoming large-scale feature film Better Man based on the singer's life.
The musical project, which is being shopped to buyers here in Cannes through Rocket…
Since it opened this year's Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes this year, The Goldman Case has seen rave reviews as director Cédric Kahn examines the 1975 trial of Pierre Goldman, the political activist, armed robber, literary icon and child of the Holocaust whose politicized trial was a huge story…
EXCLUSIVE: The rain in Cannes managed to stop for a few hours on Saturday when Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International hosted an exclusive event for buyers on the Croisette for its upcoming project Night Boat to Tangier, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, director James Marsh and producers Andrew…
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, "Change is the only constant in life." The entertainment sector is no exception to this adage. It's an industry that has long benefited from advancements in technology that have increasingly enriched the quality of films and programs and have also condensed the…
EXCLUSIVE: Wagner Moura (Narcos, Elite Squad, The Gray Man) is set to star in the upcoming biopic Angicos about Brazilian educator and author Paulo Freire. Felipe Hirsch will write and direct and Adriana Tavares of Café Royal will produce alongside Paula Linhares of Cenya Productions and Marcos Tellechea…
Tye Sheridan was in the middle of shooting The Night Clerk when Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire was adamant he needed the young actor to star in his upcoming paramedic movie Black Flies, so the French director flew to Utah in the middle of that film's shoot to convince him to come aboard.
"At first I was…
A mere week after wrapping their feature film Our House Is on Fire in Ukraine, director Alice Biletska and producers Brian Perkins, Daniel Finkelman and Oleg Saitskiy came into Cannes to talk about their very personal project and the experience of shooting a feature film in the war-torn country.
"It…
When two British-born powerhouses get together — Idris Elba, an actor-director-producer of Sierra Leone, Creole and Ghanaian descent, and Nigerian-rooted Mo Abudu, largely considered the go-between for African content to the rest of the world — they have a powerful chemistry. Remarkably, though, they've…