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STXfilms has won the U.S. rights to director Kevin Macdonald’s untitled legal thriller formerly known as Prisoner 760. The project stars Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA winner Jodie Foster, BAFTA nominee Tahar Rahim, Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley, Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and Shazam! and The M…

UPDATED, 9:28 AM: Matt Bomer, Jeff Bridges, Regina Hicks, Norman Lear, Joel McHale, Katelyn Ohashi, Billy Ray and Jeff Ross have joined the lineup of Friday’s fundraiser for the Motion Picture & Television Fund's COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. It will stream on MPTF’s YouTube page starting at 6 p.m. PT. PREVIOUSLY, Ma…

EXCLUSIVE: As they sort through offers on their three Sundance films Shirley, Some Kind of Heaven and Summertime, Los Angeles Media Fund principals Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman are broadening the company footprint with increasingly ambitious feature films, scripted and unscripted series, and Broadway…

Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Shailene Woodley are joining Benedict Cumberbatch in 30WEST-Topic Studios-BBC’s Prisoner 760 which STX international will be launching at AFM. STXinternational has secured all foreign rights on the pic and will be directly distributing in the UK and Ireland. Directed by Oscar and BAFTA…

Evelyn "Brandy" Foster, who managed the childhood career of daughter Jodie Foster, died May 13  in her Los Angeles home from complications related to dementia. She was 90 years old. Her death was confirmed by Jennifer Allen, publicist for Jodie Foster. Born Evelyn Almond and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Foster had…

The lineup for keynote and featured speakers continues to grow at SXSW with their final round up of guests. Call Her Ganda filmmaker PJ Raval and a conversation with Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff, Gimlet co-founder Matt Lieber and Anchor co-founder Michael Mignano have been added to keynote program while…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster will direct, co-produce and star in an English-language remake of Woman at War, the spirited and eccentric eco-thriller that Iceland has officially submitted for the Foreign Language competition at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards. Foster will reinterpret the role of Halla…

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber announced today that it has acquired North American rights for Pamela B. Green's documentary, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film centers on the life and accomplishments of the world's first female filmmaker and…

Jodie Foster has signed with CAA in all areas. The Accused and Silence of the Lambs actress and Money Monster filmmaker previously was repped by ICM’s Joe Funicello for acting throughout her career up until his retirement, and UTA for directing since 2012. Foster continues to be represented by attorney Matt…

It has been five years since Elysium, the last time Jodie Foster headlined a movie on camera, and for her return she has chosen another futuristic tale, Hotel Artemis — a rather odd duck of a project. In this dystopian crime thriller, she is considerably aged up and known only as The Nurse, a take-all-prisoners woman…

With winner Nicole Kidman, Jessica Lange and none of the other nominees from last year in the Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category eligible this year, the field looks wide open. Which is exactly the kind of contest we like, Primetime Emmys or otherwise. In today's Deadline TV Talk podcast, we look at…

When title sequence director Pamela B. Green first came upon the story of Alice Guy-Blaché, she was in disbelief that the 19th-century filmmaking pioneer was so little known, and was inspired to make her first documentary: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. “I just couldn’t believe I’d never heard of…