“These are lies coming from Russian media,” wrote Ben Stiller about a video posted on X alleging USAID spent $4 million to send the actor on a highly-publicized visit to Ukraine after the Russian invasion. “I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and…
In the first of several farewell addresses this week, President Joe Biden said that his administration is leaving his successor Donald Trump “with a very strong hand to play” in foreign policy.
Biden made the case that his administration strengthened fractured alliances that made a difference in…
EXCLUSIVE: Actor-activist Liev Schreiber has joined the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Once Upon a Time in Ukraine as an executive producer.
The short film directed by Oscar nominee Betsy West (RBG) explores how Ukrainian children cope with the devastation and terror of war – finding poignant…
EXCLUSIVE: WTFilms has acquired international sales rights for Ukrainian director and producer Egor Olesov's timely drama The Daughter set in the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
News of the acquisition comes as Ukraine marks the one thousandth day of the resulting…
The Les Arcs Film Festival has announced the 18 in development film projects selected for its 16th Les Arcs Coproduction Village, aimed at connecting the upcoming features with coproducers, sales agents, distributors and other financing partners.
The copro meeting will take place within the…
Oscar-nominated producer Alexander Rodnyansky has been sentenced in absentia to eight-and-a-half years in jail by a Russian court on charges of spreading fake news about Russia's war in Ukraine.
The trial was related to social media posts by Rodnyansky, firstly in March 2022, in which he…
Aaron Kaufman, the Emmy-nominated director behind Superpower, Sean Penn’s Paramount+ documentary about the Ukraine-Russia war, has died at the age of 51.
Deadline confirmed the news with Chad Verdi of Verdi Productions, who financed and executive produced some of Kaufman’s previous and upcoming…
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has admitted that it was wrong to report that Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage had excused Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
In a BBC News channel report noting a backlash against Farage’s comments in an earlier Panorama interview, a presenter said: "There's been…
The Russian-Canadian director of documentary Russians At War, which is screening Out of Competition in Venice, has pushed back against suggestions that the film is an attempt to whitewash war crimes by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
Anastasia Trofimova spent seven months embedded under the radar…
EXCLUSIVE: Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova's documentary Russians At War, giving rare insight into life for Russian soldiers on the frontline in Ukraine, world premieres Out of Competition in Venice this week and Deadline can unveil a first look.
Trofimova embedded herself under…
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has dropped trailer for its boxset series telling Volodymyr Zelensky’s story from humble entertainment beginnings to President of Ukraine in the war against Russia.
The Zelensky Story from Elon Musk Show maker 72 Films will launch September 4 and was revealed by Deadline last y…
The Reuters agency team covering the war in Ukraine has suffered a strike on their hotel in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.
The news agency has released a statement saying one of the team is missing and two others in hospital following the "apparent missile strike" on the Hotel Sapphire 10.35pm…