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Netflix unveiled its slate of Polish-language series and films due to hit its service in 2023 in a “See What’s Next” event in Warsaw on Tuesday. Since arriving in Poland in 2016, the platform has steadily ramped up production of local content and has gotten behind 40 original local Polish films and…

UPDATE: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that a preliminary investigation indicated that a missile that struck Poland was likely from Ukrainian air defense. “We have no indication that this was a result of a deliberate attack, and we have no indication that Russia is preparing offensive…

Poland’s Camerimage film festival was in full swing with a packed-out screening of Top Gun: Maverick and a masterclass hosted by Baz Luhrmann when news broke that a missile had struck within the country, killing two people. The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of Przewodow, on the…

How do you write music for a wandering donkey in EO? Composer Pawel Mykietyn didn’t take the responsibility lightly. “First off this donkey survived,” the Polish composer told the audience, with the help of an interpreter, at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “I hope I don’t disturb the…

A concert venue in Kraków, Poland has canceled two upcoming shows by onetime Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters following recent comments the singer-songwriter made about the ongoing war in Ukraine. Live Nation Polska and Tauron Arena Kraków announced the decision Saturday on Twitter, with Waters later calling out media…

Sting spoke out Saturday night during his concert in Warsaw, warning that democracy is under attack worldwide. He called the war in Ukraine "an absurdity based upon a lie," and brought out popular Polish actor Maciej Stuhr to translate his statement that democracy is "in grave danger of being lost…

SECOND UPDATE: 3 PM PACIFIC: World Cup producers FIFA will allow the Russian national soccer team to participate in World Cup qualifying games, the organization said today. The moves comes as Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic have declared they will not participate in any matches with Russia in the qualifying…

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Monday vetoed a media bill that would have silenced a Discovery-owned news channel there, noting concerns about straining U.S. relations and damaging Poland’s international image as a place to do business. The bill would have prevented any non-European entity from owning more than a…

EXCLUSIVE: Poland has become the first European nation to make its official submission to the International Oscar race this year, with Jan P. Matuszynski's Leave No Traces selected to compete. The movie has its premiere at Venice Film Festival on September 9. The story is set in Poland in 1983, when the country is…

Poland's Parliament, its powerful lower house, passed a bill Wednesday that could force Discovery — which owns the nation's largest independent broadcasting group and news network — to divest its media holdings there. The legislation, which still requires approval by the Senate and Polish President Andrzej Duda, would…

UPDATED with video: KilI It And Leave This Town is a deeply personal, unconventional and moving hand-drawn animation from artist-turned-animator Mariusz Wilczynski, who explores subjects including grief and childhood in his feature debut. "I wouldn't say it was biographical; it's a tale based on emotions I had to deal…

UPDATED with video: Never Gonna Snow Again co-directors and co-writers Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert's professional collaboration is an unusual one — the pair are ex-husband and wife. But Szumowska says their enduring partnership shows "collaboration is possible.” "In these difficult times I think it's a…