International

UPDATE, writethru: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega's globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint…

ITV has postponed another episode of Love Island following the death of Caroline Flack but the show will return on Monday night with a tribute to the former presenter. The British broadcaster said that the decision had been made after "careful consideration" between Flack's representatives and the Love Island…

A planned April premiere in Beijing and a tour of other cities in China for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, has been cancelled because of ongoing problems caused by the coronavirus quarantine, Deadline has confirmed. Daniel Craig and the cast will not attend the Beijing screening or the subsequent publicity…

EXCLUSIVE: Megan Fox and Bruce Willis are joining Emile Hirsch in Randall Emmett’s directorial debut Midnight In The Switchgrass, which Highland Film Group will be selling at the upcoming EFM. Set in 2004, the film will follow an FBI agent (Fox) and a Florida State officer (Hirsch) who team up to investigate a string…

The Masked Singer has replicated its winning formula in the UK after the singing contest ended on a big ratings high for commercial broadcaster ITV. The final episode of the Bandicoot TV-produced entertainment show was watched by 6.4M viewers at 7PM on Saturday night, according to live BARB figures provided by…

The Grammys and the Oscars are in the rear-view mirror, and South by Southwest is still a month away. That means the music industry gets to take a deep breath and contemplate the more important things in life, like whether a song is any good. One of the oldest axioms of the music business is, “It all starts with a…

Following the death of British TV presenter Caroline Flack on Saturday, ITV and Channel 4 are changing their schedules. ITV’s youth channel ITV2 pulled Love Island: Unseen Bits soon after the news of Flack’s death broke on Saturday evening local time. It was replaced by an episode of home video show You’ve Been Framed…

Caroline Flack, former host of the British version of Love Island, has died at the age of 40. Flack, who has been a presenter on UK television since 2002, was found dead at her home in London on Saturday. A lawyer for the Flack family told Sky News that she died by suicide. In a statement, the family said: “We can…

FilmNation has boarded sales on hot project The Good Nurse, starring  Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne. We first broke news of the thriller in 2018. Based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt) is set to make his English-language feature directing…

Paramount Pictures has moved the controversial gang film Blue Story to a March 20 exclusive opening. Blue Story is directed by Onwubolu, who is known as Rapman on his successful YouTube videos. His film tells of two London youths whose lives are scarred by gang warfare. Its showing in the UK, where it’s made close to…

EXCLUSIVE: Film financier and fund manager Samuel Ha has opened the doors to Bound Entertainment, a new studio focused on global stories and Asia co-productions in film and TV, while also publishing web comics for the U.S. and Korea. Heading up film and TV in the Los Angeles office is 10-year-international feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is attached to star in contained Black List thriller O2, which has Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) directing and Wild Bunch International aboard for sales. Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the EFM…