Mads Mikkelsen is set to star in a new period drama King's Land (working title) which will reunite the prolific Danish actor with A Royal Affair director Nikolaj Arcel. The €8M ($8.5M) historic feature, which is produced by Zentropa and will be shopped internationally by TrustNordisk, is penned by Arcel with Anders…

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fugue) makes her english language debut with The Silent Twins, the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge…

Day 22 in the Depp-Heard trial will continue with Team Depp’s rebuttal, with Depp’s ex Kate Moss and possibly Depp himself expected to take the stand. Closing arguments are set for Friday. Both Depp and Heard have previously testified in the high-profile, $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by Depp against his…

EXCLUSIVE: Utopia has finalized its North American deal for Cannes Competition pic Holy Spider, the noir thriller from Danish-Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi. We told you the deal was all but there a couple of days ago. Based on a horrific true story, the film follows female journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) who…

Austrian writer-director Sebastian Meise has been named president of the Jury at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival. He'll be joined on his jury by screenwriter and producer Lucile Hadžihalilović, writer-director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, actor Milan Marić and producer and senior consultant for international…

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Finch (Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love) is as English as they come, but Hollywood runs through his veins. Having written movies, produced a few, directed three; managed movie stars and built brands, and published high-end cultural magazines, he decided "smack in the middle of Covid, in my late…

BBC Studios Partners With ‘Repair Shop’ Star Jay Blades & Hungry Bear BBC Studios has struck a first-look development deal with Hungry Jay Media, the JV between Repair Shop breakout Jay Blades and Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel producer Hungry Bear. The one-year deal will give BBC Studios priority access to Hungry Jay’s…

“As you are all aware, there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” Matthew McConaughey wrote in a message posted to social media tonight. The Oscar winner spent the first 12 years of his life in Uvalde, which is about 80 miles west of San Antonio and where today 19 students and 2…

Luminaries and special guests descended on the Palais des Festival Tuesday night to celebrate Cannes’ 75th anniversary. Among those walking the red carpet were Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lea Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, Cara Delevingne, Agathe Rousselle, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sophie Marceau, Mads Mikkelsen…

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival kicked off at the American Pavilion by hosting fest-goers such as Joel Edgerton of The Stranger, Jesse Eisenberg and Julianne Moore of When You Finish Saving The World, and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Aero is the official sponsor of the…

Editors note: Deadline presents the 21st episode of its video series in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for when we asked them to do this was…

Nostalgia has seldom looked grittier, or more treacherous, than it does in Mario Martone's eponymous new film. The Italian director splashes his teaming, boisterous, unruly native city of Naples across the screen in fulsome fashion in telling the story of a man who left as a teenager but, some 40 years later, is drawn…