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After all the excitement and explosion of new talent in the 1960s and 1970s, the cinema in general and Hollywood in particular hit a dry spell in the 1980s, without question the dullest decade for movies on record. Hollywood studio fare became more standardized, most movies were too long, bloated and unambitious, and…

The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival will pay tribute to German filmmaker Wim Wenders. The event, scheduled to run August 13-20 in the Bosnian capital, will see Wenders presented with an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award – the fest's top honor – and a retrospective of his works will be programmed to screen for audiences…

Pope Francis provoked criticism with his recents remarks about homosexuality, in which he told the author of a new book that men with "deep-seated" gay tendencies shouldn't be admitted to seminaries. And he has also faced an insurrection from within the Vatican itself, over doctrinal issues and his handling of a sex…

Dutch cinematographer Robby Muller, whose credits spanned such films as Repo Man; Paris, Texas; Breaking The Waves; and To Live And Die In LA, has passed away. His family told local media in Amsterdam that he died on Tuesday after a long illness. He was 78. Müller was known as the “Master of Light” and drew…

Deadline's portrait and video studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off eight talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Arctic director Joe Penna and actors Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smaradottir; Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella from HBO’s Fahrenheit 451; and Tahar Rahim from Treat Me Like…

Wim Wenders hadn’t entertained the notion of an audience with the Pope when the Vatican wrote him to ask if he’d be interested in helming a documentary on the current incumbent Pope Francis. But the prospect was intriguing, he told Deadline at our Cannes Studio ahead of the film’s festival premiere, especially when…

Focus Features has set a May 18, 2018 domestic release for Wim Wenders’ documentary, Pope Francis – A Man of His Word. The film is a rare co-production with the Vatican, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and the pope addressing his audience directly, answering questions on life, death, social justice…

EXCLUSIVE: Wim Wenders has just signed with UTA. The move comes after the three-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s latest documentary, Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word, landed a worldwide rights deal from Focus Features at Cannes. Next up for Wenders: Submergence, a romantic thriller starring Alicia Vikander and James…

Look! Up in the sky! FilmRise has acquired North American rights to National Bird, a documentary on drone warfare that screens at Tribeca this week and will get a theatrical rollout in the fall. FilmRise touts National Bird as “the first film — or any other media story — that has revealed so much firsthand information…

James McAvoy has attached himself to star in director Wim Wenders’ film Submergence. Based on the book by J.M. Ledgard, it’s a romantic thriller about two lovers “immersed in life-or-death situations and separated by thousands of miles, who find solace in the memories of their intense romance the previous Christmas…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Wim Wenders' Every Thing Will Be Fine, the pic that stars James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams, Marie-Josée Croze, Robert Naylor, Patrick Bauchau and Peter Stormare. IFC plans a December 4 release date after the film makes its North American premiere in Toronto next…

UPDATE, 9:04 AM: Earlier this month, film director Oleg Sentsov’s defense caught what looked like a break when a key prosecution witness retracted his testimony, saying it had been given under duress — yet the trial is due to resume tomorrow after a pause in the proceedings. Detained for more than a year, the…