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EXCLUSIVE: Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Cara Delevingne (Carnival Row) and Noémie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) are set to star in a genre biopic of celebrated author Patricia Highsmith, which is being produced by Carol and Past Lives outfit Killer Films. Titled The Murderous Miss Highsm…

EXCLUSIVE: Happening writer-director Audrey Diwan has recalibrated her English-language debut Emmanuelle, which is a working title. She has set Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) to star in a film that will begin production September in Hong Kong. The Veterans and CAA Media Finance will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Baby Ruby, the TIFF thriller starring Noémie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones). The movie, which marks the feature directorial debut of playwright Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons)…

Did you ever see those videos of women giving birth in high school anatomy class? It's like watching a David Cronenberg film because childbirth is body horror. The impending task of motherhood is draining, and for some, Postpartum depression is a large part of the terrifying ordeal of being a mom. This is what…

As she was writing the script for her new film, Baby Ruby, director Bess Wohl found that her own emotional truth was the key to balancing humor and horror through the lens of motherhood. "It was a really tricky thing to find," she said during a panel discussion about Baby Ruby at Deadline's TIFF studio on Friday. "The…

Actor/director Louis Garrel's heist film The Innocent (L' Innocent), is flat out entertaining. It hits all of the familiar beats of a romantic dark comedy, but it’s the witty, sarcastic dialogue that carries the entire establishing arc all the way to the end. Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg) is a drama teacher in a prison who…

I've been following the career of French actress Noemie Merlant since I saw her in Celine's Sciamma queer romance film Portrait of a Lady on Fire at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.  Since her performance as Marian in Sciamma's film, Merlant has worked non-stop as an actress appearing films including:  Jumbo…

A couple struggles to process the aftermath of the Bataclan terrorist attack in One Year, One Night (Un Ano, Una Noche), an affecting Berlin Film Festival competition title from Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta (Between Two Waters). Inspired by a book from Ramón González entitled Peace, Love and Death Metal, it's based…

EXCLUSIVE: Isaki Lacuesta’s drama One Year, One Night (Un Año, Una Noche), about survivors grappling with trauma following the devastating terrorist attack at Paris’ Bataclan theater on November 13, 2015, world premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival today. Check out a clip above as a group of friends…

Lauded for her turn in Céline Sciamma's 2019 Cannes Film Festival competition entry, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Noémie Merlant returned to the Riviera this year with her directing debut, Mi Iubita, Mon Amour. The story follows Jeanne (Merlant), a young woman about to get married who travels to Romania to celebrate…

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Star Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo. The French-language coming-of-age love story is eyeing a theatrical release for fall 2020. Dark Star's president Michael Repsch negotiated the deal with Pip Ngo of XYZ Films. Jumbo, which stars Noémie Merlant (Port…