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Dimitri Eipides, the well-regarded figure at film festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, has died after battling long-term illness. The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, at which Eipides was a former director, confirmed that he had passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 6. He was known to be obscure about his exact…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures Content Group is set to land international rights to Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia following the concert film’s opening-night screening at the Toronto Film Festival. HBO has domestic rights to the filmed version of the former Talking Heads frontman’s acclaimed Broadway show…

As expected, Chloe Zhao’s Venice Golden Lion winner Nomadland took the often Oscar-predictive Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award announced this morning. Regina King’s One Night in Miami was second, and Beans was third in the slimmed down competition at the fest, which had about a sixth of the…

Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente, the co-heads of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have called for the immediate release of documentary filmmaker hajooj kuka. He, along with four other artists (Duaa Tarig Mohamed Ahmed, Abdel Rahman Mohamed Hamdan, Ayman Khalaf Allah Mohamed Ahmed, and Ahmed Elsadig…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has picked up North American rights to Caged (previously titled The S.H.U.), a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame. Premiere Entertainment Group is handling the projects rights during the virtual Toronto market. Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan…

Adam Benzine, the British filmmaker whose 2015 doc short Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah was Oscar-nominated, is putting the finishing touches to The Curve, a feature documentary examining the decisions that led to American's COVID-19 crisis. Production co Jet Black Iris Productions is launching the film to the…

As everyone knows, at least for the past several years, the fall festival circuit (Venice, Telluride, Toronto, NY) has been the quartet that sets the template for the movie awards season, leading all the way up to Oscar. It is known as the six-month season, a wearying ride for those in major contention. But the coronav…

The 2020 Toronto International Film festival has unveiled its line-up of In Conversation With… events for this year. The six talks are: Halle Berry, who will discuss her new feature Bruised; Claire Denis and Barry Jenkins, speaking together about their careers, Ava DuVernay, who will discuss art, activism and Black…

The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival will be announced tomorrow morning in Rome, but today it was unveiled that Chloe Zhao's upcoming feature Nomadland has been set to world premiere on September 11 on the Lido. It will also have a simultaneous screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, both of…

The fall festival trifecta – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – plus the nearby New York Film Festival, say they are ditching competing this year to focus on collaboration and supporting the cinema biz through the pandemic era. Traditionally the first port of call for films intending to launch into awards season, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that A24 has acquired North American rights to Rose Glass’ psychological horror film Saint Maud, which made its world premiere in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program. In addition, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) nabbed all international rights for Saint Maud, excluding the U.K…

Everybody loves a comeback and it’s been a while since we’ve seen Renée Zellweger at the Oscars. Coming home from TIFF, one of the definite takeaways aside from Joaquin Phoenix in Joker was Zellweger’s sublime portrayal of Judy Garland in Roadside Attractions’ Judy. The pic follows the Wizard of Oz star during the…