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Comedies, docs and a Bollywood title are among the Easter and Passover weekend's packed roster of new specialty releases. The heavy number of limited openers comes just ahead of next weekend's rollout of Avengers: Endgame, which will mark mostly a pause for new specialties. Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Kill…

UPDATED, 10:32 A.M: Following its one-night-onl screenings last week, Terry Gilliam's long-gestating The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will begin its North American theatrical rollout Friday. Screen Media said the pic will hit screens in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Austin and other top markets day-and-date with…

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is finally making its way to theaters after an arduous journey — and they have a new trailer to prove it. The film, which made its world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, will play via via Screen Media and Fathom Events in over 700 U.S. cinemas and select…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Paolo Branco is not letting up in his pursuit of compensation over The Man Who Killed Don Quixote rights snafu. However, a statement sent to me today from the film’s producers indicates that they are not ceding ground either. According to a statement from Branco on Wednesday, a Madrid court ruling…

At the start of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a title card appears. "And now, after more than 25 years in the making… and unmaking… a Terry Gilliam film." The history behind the director’s tortured attempt to adapt Miguel de Cervantes' seminal novel is the stuff of legend, beginning in 1989. He first…

UPDATED with festival statement, more detail: Following yesterday’s court decision to allow the closing-night screening of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Cannes Film Festival organizers today released an official statement on the matter — one that calls out Paulo Branco who had been seeking an…

It has been a typically fast-moving day at the world’s biggest film festival. In the space of just a few hours we have had a string of updates on already epic Cannes closer The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. We’ve had confirmation that director Terry Gilliam was taken unwell in London, that Amazon has backed out of U.S…

Director Terry Gilliam, whose The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is due to screen at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19 pending a court decision later today, suffered what has been termed a mild alert over the weekend in London. He was hospitalized overnight for surveillance, Deadline understands, but it appears that…

The Cannes Film Festival called an impromptu press conference this afternoon to give Thierry Fremaux a chance to meet with journalists a day ahead of kick-off and to elaborate on some of the biggest issues at this year's event. One of the most pressing is the will-it-or-won't-it screen question hanging over Terry Gilli…

In the ongoing war of words and court filings over Terry Gilliam's troubled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, comes a new, strongly-stated missive. On behalf of French distributor Océan Films and the movie's producers, the communiqué released today is titled "Why Paulo Branco Was Never, Is Not And Never Will Be The…

UPDATE, writethru with follow-up response from Paulo Branco: As Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote faces yet another hurdle on its way to the screen, the Cannes Film Festival has pledged itself firmly on the side of the filmmaker. Releasing a statement to that effect, Cannes today addressed a legal challeng…

Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is facing yet another hurdle on its decades-long journey to the screen. A legal challenge filed this week could see the movie pulled from its May 19 closing night berth in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. This is the latest salvo, this time lodged by Paulo…