Film Bridge International has entered into a two-picture production deal with Dublin-based Merlin Films headed by Kieran Corrigan and Deliverance director, John Boorman. Film Bridge founder and CEO Ellen Wander will partner with Corrigan and Boorman to produce two features, heist thriller Underground and gritty action…

The expanded cast for the Disney+ series Star Wars: The Mandalorian has been unveiled by Lucasfilm with some notable new additions: Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers (Predator), Omid Abtahi (American Gods) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man). The announcement also confirmed…

A film memoir of former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev featuring exclusive interviews has had its North American rights acquired by distributor The Orchard from History Films. Meeting Gorbachev is a documentary directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer for Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film. The…

Werner Herzog has breezed through films about all sorts of shady topics, and put himself in harm's way just as often, but with Meeting Gorbachev—a string of conversations with former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, now 87—the unflappable Bavarian director finally found a subject that put him on the backfoot…

Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group has acquired the rights to Greg Grandin’s nonfiction book Fordlandia to develop as a potential television series, with acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog attached to direct. Oscar-nominated Christopher Wilkinson (Gemini Man, Pawn Sacrifice) is writing the series adaptation…

History is taking the wraps off two major projects: the History 100, a set of 100 documentaries exploring the past 100 years, and a three-hour live event in July honoring daredevil Evel Knievel. The projects were announced in the runup to parent A+E Networks’ upfront presentation this evening. The documentary…

David Crowley was many things—”a visionary filmmaker, a political activist, an Iraq veteran, a family man—what documentarian Erik Nelson calls “an American hybrid.” In 2010, the up-and-coming voice in fringe politics embarked on a film project titled Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future, the would-be…

XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Salt And Fire, the latest narrative film from Werner Herzog. Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres and Gael Garcia Bernal star in the eco-thriller, which is having its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. XLrator plans a spring 2017 theatrical…

UPDATE, 4:03 PM: Richard Jones, father of Sarah Jones – the 27-year-old camera assistant killed two years ago on the Georgia set of Randall Miller’s Midnight Rider – tells Deadline he would like a face-to-face meeting with German filmmaker Werner Herzog in response to the director’s comments that he teaches students…

Natalie Portman fans will get their chance to experience the Oscar-winning actress' filmmaking chops this weekend with the theatrical launch of A Tale of Love and Darkness, which she also wrote based on a memoir. Portman also stars in the Focus World release, which debuted in Cannes last year. It’s not this weekend’s…

Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer was teaching Indonesian plantation workers how to make their own film about union issues when he first forged the relationships that would lead him to make the Oscar-nominated documentary The Act Of Killing (2014) and its follow-up The Look Of Silence, exec produced by Werner Herzog. Since…

Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Werner Herzog’s documentary Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World. It world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and a theatrical release is planned for this…