Exclusive: New York-based distributor Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights to French director Jérémy Clapin’s sci-fi drama Meanwhile on Earth following its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month.
The lost sibling tale marks the first live-action feature for Clapin after his 2019 Oscar-nominated, Netflix-acquired animated movie I Lost My Body, which originally world premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week and also won the Cristal for Best film at the Annecy International Animation Festival in 2019
The drama follows a young woman who is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her brother, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission.
While stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from her him, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind his reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.
The lost sibling tale marks the first live-action feature for Clapin after his 2019 Oscar-nominated, Netflix-acquired animated movie I Lost My Body, which originally world premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week and also won the Cristal for Best film at the Annecy International Animation Festival in 2019
The drama follows a young woman who is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her brother, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission.
While stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from her him, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind his reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.
- 3/8/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Match Factory has locked multi-territory deals on Berlinale titles Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky and Dying by Matthias Glasner, which picked up the festival’s Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.
Alongside the Silver Bear, Dying also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas Prize and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award. The pic has sold to France (Bodega Film), Italy (Satine Film), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Norway (Selmer Media As), Poland (Aurora), Cis (Provzglyad), Ex-Yugoslavia (McF MegaCom Film), Hungary (Cirko Films), Greece (Cinobo), Romania (Freealize), Taiwan (Andrews Film), and South Korea (Pancinema). Match Factory has said negotiations for additional territories are underway, with a UK deal already confirmed. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury described the film as a “deep and darkly funny family drama.” The film stars Lars Eidinger, Lilith Stangenberg, and Corinna Harfouch.
Elsewhere, Kossakovsky’s Architecton has sold to me Spain (Caramel Films), Italy (Be Water), Benelux (Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie...
Alongside the Silver Bear, Dying also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas Prize and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award. The pic has sold to France (Bodega Film), Italy (Satine Film), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Norway (Selmer Media As), Poland (Aurora), Cis (Provzglyad), Ex-Yugoslavia (McF MegaCom Film), Hungary (Cirko Films), Greece (Cinobo), Romania (Freealize), Taiwan (Andrews Film), and South Korea (Pancinema). Match Factory has said negotiations for additional territories are underway, with a UK deal already confirmed. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury described the film as a “deep and darkly funny family drama.” The film stars Lars Eidinger, Lilith Stangenberg, and Corinna Harfouch.
Elsewhere, Kossakovsky’s Architecton has sold to me Spain (Caramel Films), Italy (Be Water), Benelux (Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie...
- 2/26/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
On February 23, 2024, Cohen Media Group released “Io Capitano” in the United States, Italy’s Oscar-nominated Best International Feature film directed by Matteo Garrone. The movie is a Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall), who leave Dakar to reach Europe. The 2024 Oscars contender has received widespread acclaim from critics, scoring a perfect 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critics consensus reads, “A journey toward hope, ‘Io Capitano’ perambulates through the ravishing Saharan landscape encountering the most sublime and debased corners of humanity.” The castings, under the direction of Henri-Didier Njikam, took place on the African continent and features mostly newcomers. Read our full review round-up below.
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Damon Wise of Deadline says, “Despite its technical elegance — and the film is near flawless in that respect — the...
The critics consensus reads, “A journey toward hope, ‘Io Capitano’ perambulates through the ravishing Saharan landscape encountering the most sublime and debased corners of humanity.” The castings, under the direction of Henri-Didier Njikam, took place on the African continent and features mostly newcomers. Read our full review round-up below.
See Watch our exciting interviews with 12 of the 20 Oscars 2024 acting nominees
Damon Wise of Deadline says, “Despite its technical elegance — and the film is near flawless in that respect — the...
- 2/24/2024
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Winners have been announced at the 74th Berlin Film Festival, with Dahomey by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop scooping the coveted Golden Bear for best film. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Saturday evening at the Berlinale Palast.
The doc borrows its name from the former West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in the south of today’s Republic of Benin. It was founded in the 17th century by King Houegbadja. Under his reign and that of his descendants — a three-century dynasty — the kingdom was a considerable regional power, with a highly structured local economy, a centralized administration, a system of taxes, and a powerful army, including the famous Amazon women (Agodjié).
Diop’s doc opens in November 2021 as twenty-six royal treasures from the former Kingdom are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin. Along with thousands of others, these artifacts were...
The doc borrows its name from the former West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in the south of today’s Republic of Benin. It was founded in the 17th century by King Houegbadja. Under his reign and that of his descendants — a three-century dynasty — the kingdom was a considerable regional power, with a highly structured local economy, a centralized administration, a system of taxes, and a powerful army, including the famous Amazon women (Agodjié).
Diop’s doc opens in November 2021 as twenty-six royal treasures from the former Kingdom are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin. Along with thousands of others, these artifacts were...
- 2/24/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple Original Films and Sony Pictures’ Ridley Scott-directed action epic Napoleon has landed a theatrical release date in China of Dec. 1.
The movie starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix in the title role will begin its global raid on Wednesday; here in the states taking advantage of the Thanksgiving five-day holiday.
Sony is banking on the movie to make the bulk of its global moolah overseas, which is par for the course on historical epics, i.e. 1917 did 58% of its $384.5M global box office overseas. Dunkirk did 64% of its $527.8M at the international box office.
However, there’s not question about how fickle the China market has been at the B.O. post pandemic, i.e. while Oppenheimer did a hearty $61.6M there out of its $623.7M foreign B.O., 1917 which was released in the heart of the pandemic in August 2020 did under $10M.
Scott’s Napoleon follows the rise...
The movie starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix in the title role will begin its global raid on Wednesday; here in the states taking advantage of the Thanksgiving five-day holiday.
Sony is banking on the movie to make the bulk of its global moolah overseas, which is par for the course on historical epics, i.e. 1917 did 58% of its $384.5M global box office overseas. Dunkirk did 64% of its $527.8M at the international box office.
However, there’s not question about how fickle the China market has been at the B.O. post pandemic, i.e. while Oppenheimer did a hearty $61.6M there out of its $623.7M foreign B.O., 1917 which was released in the heart of the pandemic in August 2020 did under $10M.
Scott’s Napoleon follows the rise...
- 11/17/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bleecker Street’s survival horror thriller The Origin, which debuted at Fantastic Fest in September, is getting a title change. Now known as Out of Darkness, it will hit theaters on February 9.
Directed by Scottish helmer Andrew Cumming and written by Ruth Greenberg (The Spark) in both of their feature debuts, Out of Darkness follows a group of six who have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes toward the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. As relationships in the group fracture, the determination of one young woman reveals the terrible actions taken to survive.
The movie was shot on location...
Directed by Scottish helmer Andrew Cumming and written by Ruth Greenberg (The Spark) in both of their feature debuts, Out of Darkness follows a group of six who have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes toward the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. As relationships in the group fracture, the determination of one young woman reveals the terrible actions taken to survive.
The movie was shot on location...
- 10/31/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Fantastic Beasts filmmaker David Yates told Total Film that the Harry Potter spinoff feature franchise “is parked.”
That’s a very similar message to what he told us back at TIFF, however, that was in regards to his involvement with the overall Harry Potter franchise..
We’ve reached out to Warner Bros to get an update on whether the J.K. Rowling spinoff features are truly on ice; the author originally announcing on a pre-fan day for the film back in 2016 with producer David Heyman that the plan was for five Fantastic Beasts movies, set in five different cities.
Fantastic Beasts followed the adventures of writer Newt Scamander (who penned one of Harry Potter’s textbooks) in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards.
That’s a very similar message to what he told us back at TIFF, however, that was in regards to his involvement with the overall Harry Potter franchise..
We’ve reached out to Warner Bros to get an update on whether the J.K. Rowling spinoff features are truly on ice; the author originally announcing on a pre-fan day for the film back in 2016 with producer David Heyman that the plan was for five Fantastic Beasts movies, set in five different cities.
Fantastic Beasts followed the adventures of writer Newt Scamander (who penned one of Harry Potter’s textbooks) in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards.
- 10/27/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… So, we’re going to do the hard work for you.
This week we’re featuring Matteo Garrone’s gritty Venice Silver Lion-winning migrant drama, Io Capitano. Italy’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, it boasts a stunning performance from new talent Seydou Sarr and is drawing audiences in its home country ahead of international rollout later this year.
Name: Io Capitano
Country: Italy
Producers: Archimede, Tarantula, Rai Cinema, Pathé Films
Distributor: Pathé Films
For fans of: Lion, Slumdog Millionaire, Fire at Sea
Veteran Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s stock...
This week we’re featuring Matteo Garrone’s gritty Venice Silver Lion-winning migrant drama, Io Capitano. Italy’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, it boasts a stunning performance from new talent Seydou Sarr and is drawing audiences in its home country ahead of international rollout later this year.
Name: Io Capitano
Country: Italy
Producers: Archimede, Tarantula, Rai Cinema, Pathé Films
Distributor: Pathé Films
For fans of: Lion, Slumdog Millionaire, Fire at Sea
Veteran Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s stock...
- 10/4/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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Let’s Talk About Residuals Baby
Possible blueprint?: As is so often the case days, it all started with a tweet. Writer-director Carina Adly MacKenzie took to X to throw a proverbial grenade into the long-running debate around streaming residuals – the U.S. unions’ long-held desire for writers and actors to be compensated fairly when shows on the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ perform above expectations. “Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it’s the law there,” wrote Carina. “They literally already have that system in place.” Curiosities on both sides of the Atlantic...
Let’s Talk About Residuals Baby
Possible blueprint?: As is so often the case days, it all started with a tweet. Writer-director Carina Adly MacKenzie took to X to throw a proverbial grenade into the long-running debate around streaming residuals – the U.S. unions’ long-held desire for writers and actors to be compensated fairly when shows on the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ perform above expectations. “Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it’s the law there,” wrote Carina. “They literally already have that system in place.” Curiosities on both sides of the Atlantic...
- 9/8/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, which has just been submitted as Romania’s official entry into the Best International Feature Film Oscar race, has been picked up by Mubi for multiple key territories.
Related: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners: Photo Gallery
The streamer has taken all rights for U.S. and streaming rights for Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Turkey and Latin America in advance of its North American premiere at Toronto on September 9.
Sales company Heretic has also cinched distribution deals in a flurry of territories: I Wonder Pictures (Italy); Filmin (Spain); Njutafilms; Films4U (Portugal); Aurora (Poland); Filmgarten (Austria); European Film Forum Scanorama (Lithuania); and Cinobo (Greece). Warner Bros. Discovery has picked up Eastern and Central European rights and will be shown on HBO, HBO Max and Cinemax in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic,...
Related: Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners: Photo Gallery
The streamer has taken all rights for U.S. and streaming rights for Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Turkey and Latin America in advance of its North American premiere at Toronto on September 9.
Sales company Heretic has also cinched distribution deals in a flurry of territories: I Wonder Pictures (Italy); Filmin (Spain); Njutafilms; Films4U (Portugal); Aurora (Poland); Filmgarten (Austria); European Film Forum Scanorama (Lithuania); and Cinobo (Greece). Warner Bros. Discovery has picked up Eastern and Central European rights and will be shown on HBO, HBO Max and Cinemax in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to hit musical production Waitress: The Musical, from composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The distributor is teaming with Fathom Events for a December 7 nationwide release of the show, which was captured live onstage in 2021 during its long Broadway run.
Based on Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie feature, Waitress: The Musical stars Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert piemaker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself. Through the support of her fellow waitresses and an unexpected romance, Jenna begins to find the courage to take a long-abandoned dream off the shelf.
The film was directed by Brett Sullivan, while Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus directs for the...
Based on Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie feature, Waitress: The Musical stars Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert piemaker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgotten part of herself. Through the support of her fellow waitresses and an unexpected romance, Jenna begins to find the courage to take a long-abandoned dream off the shelf.
The film was directed by Brett Sullivan, while Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus directs for the...
- 9/6/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Big World Pictures has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights from Paris-based sales firm Charades to Giacomo Abbruzzese’s debut feature, Disco Boy.
Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution earlier this year, the largely French-language film stars rising German actor Franz Rogowski as a Belarusian immigrant haunted by his actions as a mercenary in the French Foreign Legion. Above is an English-language trailer for the movie.
An early 2024 theatrical release is being lined up following fall festival play. France’s Films Grand Huit produces.
Rogowski is best known for Ira Sachs’ Passages, Christian Petzold’s Transit and Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom. Upcoming he will star in Andrea Arnold’s Bird and David Michôd and A24’s Wizards!.
In Disco Boy, Rogowski plays Aleksei, who reaches Paris following a difficult and undocumented journey across Europe. In Paris he enlists in the French Foreign Legion,...
Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution earlier this year, the largely French-language film stars rising German actor Franz Rogowski as a Belarusian immigrant haunted by his actions as a mercenary in the French Foreign Legion. Above is an English-language trailer for the movie.
An early 2024 theatrical release is being lined up following fall festival play. France’s Films Grand Huit produces.
Rogowski is best known for Ira Sachs’ Passages, Christian Petzold’s Transit and Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom. Upcoming he will star in Andrea Arnold’s Bird and David Michôd and A24’s Wizards!.
In Disco Boy, Rogowski plays Aleksei, who reaches Paris following a difficult and undocumented journey across Europe. In Paris he enlists in the French Foreign Legion,...
- 8/15/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: French filmmaker Justine Triet has become only the third woman to win the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Palme d’Or in the event’s 76-year history, scooping the award for Anatomy of a Fall. She joins Jane Campion (1993’s The Piano), and, more recently, Julia Ducournau who won for Titane in 2021 (Ducournau was also on the jury this year).
Anatomy of a Fall follows Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel who live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed. Samuel’s death is treated as suspicious, presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.
In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise called it “a cerebral smash” that “subvert(s) the pleasures of genre...
Anatomy of a Fall follows Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel who live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed. Samuel’s death is treated as suspicious, presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.
In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise called it “a cerebral smash” that “subvert(s) the pleasures of genre...
- 5/27/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
UK director Molly Manning Walker’s first film How To Have Sex won the top prize in Cannes Un Certain Regard on Friday evening.
The tale of a group of teenagers on a rite of passage clubbing holiday was described by Deadline reviewer Damon Wise as “a visceral and sensory experience” and an “exceptional debut”. Read the review here and a Deadline interview with the director here.
The Jury Prize went to Moroccan filmmaker Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds about a father and son who find themselves caught up in a kidnapping plot that goes wrong.
Best Director went to Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir’s documentary The Mother Of All Lies about the bread riots that shook a working-class Casablanca neighborhood in 1981.
She follows in the footsteps of Alain Guiraudie, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sergei Loznitsa who also won the prize early in their careers.
In other awards, the Ensemble Prize...
The tale of a group of teenagers on a rite of passage clubbing holiday was described by Deadline reviewer Damon Wise as “a visceral and sensory experience” and an “exceptional debut”. Read the review here and a Deadline interview with the director here.
The Jury Prize went to Moroccan filmmaker Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds about a father and son who find themselves caught up in a kidnapping plot that goes wrong.
Best Director went to Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir’s documentary The Mother Of All Lies about the bread riots that shook a working-class Casablanca neighborhood in 1981.
She follows in the footsteps of Alain Guiraudie, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sergei Loznitsa who also won the prize early in their careers.
In other awards, the Ensemble Prize...
- 5/26/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Only nine directors have ever won the Palme d’Or twice. Francis Ford Coppola did it in the ’70s with The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. Ruben Östlund joined the club last year after following The Square with Triangle of Sadness. But this year, there is a very real possibility that, at 86, Ken Loach may go above and beyond that by winning a third Palme for his new film, The Old Oak. Loach first won in 2006 with the historical Irish drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, then doubled up in 2016 with I, Daniel Blake, a caustic study of Britain’s healthcare crisis. After that came Sorry, We Missed You, a no-less withering look at the punitive gig economy. Like the latter two films, The Old Oak is set in the North East of England and completes an unofficial trilogy, this time with a slightly more optimistic bent. Like all of...
- 5/26/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
No matter who wins Best Actress tonight, one thing is for certain, we’ll be remembering Andrew Dominik’s edgy, warts all Nc-17 biopic of Marilyn Monroe, and Ana de Armas fearless portrayal of the big screen bombshell years from now.
Asked tonight on the Oscar red carpet about what the toughest part was of getting into Monroe’s skin, de Armas said the trick was “to trust the process and the work that had been done previously.”
She added that by “taking that pressure off my shoulders and let it happen, and know that the director and the team was — we were all working toward the same goal, and everyone was very passionate about it.”
Deadline film reviewer Damon Wise beamed about the Netflix movie out of Venice, “Blonde takes a blowtorch to the entire concept of the Hollywood biopic and arrives at something almost without precedent.”
“That the...
Asked tonight on the Oscar red carpet about what the toughest part was of getting into Monroe’s skin, de Armas said the trick was “to trust the process and the work that had been done previously.”
She added that by “taking that pressure off my shoulders and let it happen, and know that the director and the team was — we were all working toward the same goal, and everyone was very passionate about it.”
Deadline film reviewer Damon Wise beamed about the Netflix movie out of Venice, “Blonde takes a blowtorch to the entire concept of the Hollywood biopic and arrives at something almost without precedent.”
“That the...
- 3/13/2023
- by Antonia Blyth and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
As Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 barrels the Marvel Studios’ franchise toward its conclusion, Karen Gillan, stopping in Deadline’s SXSW studio provided a glimpse as to how life is shaping up for Thanos’ adopted daughter and Gamora’s adopted sister, Nebula, in the threequel.
“Now we’re seeing Nebula post the death of the source of her trauma, Thanos. He’s been eliminated from the story, and now we’re seeing her character become a little bit of the person that she should have been had that not happened to her,” Gillan told Deadline.
Cranky and combative Nebula’s idea of bliss now is “her new family with the new Guardians and letting love in for the first time, rather than the defense mechanism always triggering. Allowing her to be loved and to love,” said the actress who was at SXSW for the world premiere of her movie...
“Now we’re seeing Nebula post the death of the source of her trauma, Thanos. He’s been eliminated from the story, and now we’re seeing her character become a little bit of the person that she should have been had that not happened to her,” Gillan told Deadline.
Cranky and combative Nebula’s idea of bliss now is “her new family with the new Guardians and letting love in for the first time, rather than the defense mechanism always triggering. Allowing her to be loved and to love,” said the actress who was at SXSW for the world premiere of her movie...
- 3/11/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In his bold 1990 interpretation of Luigi Pirandello’s “Henry IV,” the late and legendary Irish stage, screen and music star Richard Harris utters the immortal lines, “Woe to him who doesn’t know how to wear his mask.”
Even before his breathtaking big-screen triumph 60 years ago as the rugby ruffian Frank Machin in Lindsay Anderson’s film directing debut, “This Sporting Life,” Harris proved adept at juggling personal and professional personas. He swaggered with macho gusto and great thesping chops through the London stage scene and quickly found key roles in action epics such as “Guns of Navarone” and “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
Then his stunning 1963 breakthrough in “Life” made the showbiz side of the equation easy.
A Cannes lead actor award, an Oscar nomination and reams of reviews such as Variety’s quickly put Harris at the top tier of international leading men. Variety’s London critic at the...
Even before his breathtaking big-screen triumph 60 years ago as the rugby ruffian Frank Machin in Lindsay Anderson’s film directing debut, “This Sporting Life,” Harris proved adept at juggling personal and professional personas. He swaggered with macho gusto and great thesping chops through the London stage scene and quickly found key roles in action epics such as “Guns of Navarone” and “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
Then his stunning 1963 breakthrough in “Life” made the showbiz side of the equation easy.
A Cannes lead actor award, an Oscar nomination and reams of reviews such as Variety’s quickly put Harris at the top tier of international leading men. Variety’s London critic at the...
- 2/27/2023
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
As the 73rd Berlin Film Festival rolls into its first weekend, one of the buzziest titles on the ground is the taut political thriller Reality, starring Euphoria and White Lotus breakout Sydney Sweeney.
The film debuted in the festival’s sidebar Panorama section Saturday evening and has since received widespread acclaim from critics and the wider festival crowd. In Deadline’s review, Damon Wise described the pic as an “astonishingly effective docu-drama hybrid.”
The story follows the real-life U.S. whistleblower Reality Winner, a former intelligence officer who was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for the unauthorized release of classified material (five years and three months). Winner had passed documents to the media in 2018 about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Sweeney portrays Winner in the film from director Tina Satter, who adapted the screenplay with James Paul Dallas from her own 2021 Broadway play Is This A Room.
The film debuted in the festival’s sidebar Panorama section Saturday evening and has since received widespread acclaim from critics and the wider festival crowd. In Deadline’s review, Damon Wise described the pic as an “astonishingly effective docu-drama hybrid.”
The story follows the real-life U.S. whistleblower Reality Winner, a former intelligence officer who was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for the unauthorized release of classified material (five years and three months). Winner had passed documents to the media in 2018 about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Sweeney portrays Winner in the film from director Tina Satter, who adapted the screenplay with James Paul Dallas from her own 2021 Broadway play Is This A Room.
- 2/19/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
From its triumphant world premiere (with seven-minute standing ovation) at the Venice Film Festival, A24 opens Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale in theaters this weekend amid a whirl of Oscar buzz around star Brendan Fraser. The former action star carries the psychological drama as Charlie, a reclusive and severely obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Deadline critic Damon Wise said Fraser’s “all-in performance… makes adjectives such as ‘brave’ and ‘fearless’ seem almost meaningless” and that The Whale is “cutting the line to put a never-better Brendan Fraser at the front of the Best Actor race.” See full review.
It opens on six screens total in NYC and LA and plans to hold there next week, expanding in a limited national footprint on Dec. 21 for the holidays.
The Whale looks set to do...
Deadline critic Damon Wise said Fraser’s “all-in performance… makes adjectives such as ‘brave’ and ‘fearless’ seem almost meaningless” and that The Whale is “cutting the line to put a never-better Brendan Fraser at the front of the Best Actor race.” See full review.
It opens on six screens total in NYC and LA and plans to hold there next week, expanding in a limited national footprint on Dec. 21 for the holidays.
The Whale looks set to do...
- 12/9/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American rights on Tarik Saleh’s Cairo Conspiracy, which formerly was known as Boy from Heaven. Sweden’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, where Saleh won the Best Screenplay prize. Samuel Goldwyn is planning an early-2023 release.
The political thriller stars Tawfeek Barhom as Adam, the son of a fisherman who is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in the Egyptian capital, the university’s highest-ranking religious leader dies suddenly, and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite. The film also stars Fares Fares as secret serviceman Colonel Ibrahim; this is a reteam for Fares and Saleh after 2017 Sundance hit The Nile Hilton Incident.
In his review,...
The political thriller stars Tawfeek Barhom as Adam, the son of a fisherman who is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in the Egyptian capital, the university’s highest-ranking religious leader dies suddenly, and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite. The film also stars Fares Fares as secret serviceman Colonel Ibrahim; this is a reteam for Fares and Saleh after 2017 Sundance hit The Nile Hilton Incident.
In his review,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 will be giving the ghost story The Eternal Daughter a domestic theatrical release on December 2nd, and with that date just one month away they have unveiled the film’s trailer. You can check it out in the embed above.
Written and directed by Joanna Hogg (Unrelated), The Eternal Daughter was executive produced by Martin Scorsese and sees Tilda Swinton playing the dual role of an artist and her elderly mother who confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
Swinton and Hogg previously worked together on the 2019 film The Souvenir, its 2021 follow-up The Souvenir: Part II, and the 1986 short film Caprice. They made The Eternal Daughter in secret in Wales during the pandemic lockdown. Swinton is joined in the cast of this one by Joseph Mydell (Tonight You’re Mine), Carly-Sophia Davies (Midsomer Murders), and newcomers Zinnia Davies-Cooke,...
Written and directed by Joanna Hogg (Unrelated), The Eternal Daughter was executive produced by Martin Scorsese and sees Tilda Swinton playing the dual role of an artist and her elderly mother who confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
Swinton and Hogg previously worked together on the 2019 film The Souvenir, its 2021 follow-up The Souvenir: Part II, and the 1986 short film Caprice. They made The Eternal Daughter in secret in Wales during the pandemic lockdown. Swinton is joined in the cast of this one by Joseph Mydell (Tonight You’re Mine), Carly-Sophia Davies (Midsomer Murders), and newcomers Zinnia Davies-Cooke,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The world premiere of Hansal Mehta’s ‘Faraaz’ starring Zahan Kapoor and Aditya Rawal took place at the prestigious Curzon Cinema in Soho, London over the weekend to a packed audience that was left awestruck by the film. The gripping drama, inspired by the Holey Artisan attack in Dhaka where 22 people were brutally killed, ‘Faraaz’ received spontaneous applause after the show and was followed by a 15-minute Q and A with the cast and crew, moderated by Damon Wise, who asked about the film’s real-life parallels, the eclectic casting and what Faraaz being a story of standing tall in the face of grave injustice means today.
The film had a total of 3 screenings over the weekend which were packed to capacity as patrons showed up in huge numbers for the film. People even queued up in large numbers outside the cinema to get last-minute entries.
An overwhelmed Hansal Mehta said,...
The film had a total of 3 screenings over the weekend which were packed to capacity as patrons showed up in huge numbers for the film. People even queued up in large numbers outside the cinema to get last-minute entries.
An overwhelmed Hansal Mehta said,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Director Darren Aronofsky embraced Brendan Fraser as the lights came up, the credits rolled, and applause rang through the auditorium at the UK premiere of their latest film, The Whale, at the London Film Festival Tuesday evening. We were in the crowd.
The pair were joined by screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter as the film received a lengthy and raucous standing ovation from the festival audience. The applause continued for an extended period and Fraser left the pews of the Royal Festival Hall and climbed onstage to thank the festival audience. He was briefly joined on stage by Hunter and Aronofsky.
Unlike other major European festivals like Cannes and Venice, London isn’t usually known for standing ovations or notable audience reactions. As such, videos of Fraser and The Whale cast at the Lff premiere have been posted widely across social media.
brendan fraser stayed to watch the whale and he went on stage afterwards...
The pair were joined by screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter as the film received a lengthy and raucous standing ovation from the festival audience. The applause continued for an extended period and Fraser left the pews of the Royal Festival Hall and climbed onstage to thank the festival audience. He was briefly joined on stage by Hunter and Aronofsky.
Unlike other major European festivals like Cannes and Venice, London isn’t usually known for standing ovations or notable audience reactions. As such, videos of Fraser and The Whale cast at the Lff premiere have been posted widely across social media.
brendan fraser stayed to watch the whale and he went on stage afterwards...
- 10/11/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Few movie dramas in recent years have generated as much fevered online speculation as Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde.
Fourteen years in the making, Blonde uses Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name as a starting point to chart a fictionalized chronicle of Monroe’s inner life.
After a number of false dawns and reincarnations, the movie finally got underway in August 2019 with fast-rising Cuban native Ana De Armas in the lead role, financial backing from Netflix and Plan B Entertainment as main producer. The film wouldn’t emerge, however, until more than three years later, finally getting its launch at the Venice Film Festival and its general release this month.
‘Blonde’ Premiere Photo Gallery: Ana de Armas Channels Marilyn Monroe At Venice Film Festival
Speculation was rampant during the three-year post-production that Netflix wasn’t happy with the movie’s uncompromising and dark portrayal. A well-placed...
Fourteen years in the making, Blonde uses Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name as a starting point to chart a fictionalized chronicle of Monroe’s inner life.
After a number of false dawns and reincarnations, the movie finally got underway in August 2019 with fast-rising Cuban native Ana De Armas in the lead role, financial backing from Netflix and Plan B Entertainment as main producer. The film wouldn’t emerge, however, until more than three years later, finally getting its launch at the Venice Film Festival and its general release this month.
‘Blonde’ Premiere Photo Gallery: Ana de Armas Channels Marilyn Monroe At Venice Film Festival
Speculation was rampant during the three-year post-production that Netflix wasn’t happy with the movie’s uncompromising and dark portrayal. A well-placed...
- 9/23/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood’s glory days were on full display Thursday as the cast of Blonde, with star Ana de Armas resplendent in a pink full-length gown, walked the red carpet before the film premiered in the Palazzo del Cinema at the 79th Venice Film Festival.
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‘Blonde’: Andrew Dominik & Ana De Armas Sensed Ghost Of Marilyn Monroe While Making Biopic – Venice
Other stars on hand for the Lido festivities included Adrien Brody, who plays Marilyn Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller; Bobby Cannavale, who plays her husband Joe Dimaggio; and Julianne Nicholson, who plays her mother.
Venice Film Festival: Deadline’s Full Coverage
Director Andrew Dominik escorted de Armas on the red carpet as did Brad Pitt, whose Plan B Entertainment produced the film.
Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, the film is a fictionalized take on Monroe — blending fact and fiction...
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‘Blonde’: Andrew Dominik & Ana De Armas Sensed Ghost Of Marilyn Monroe While Making Biopic – Venice
Other stars on hand for the Lido festivities included Adrien Brody, who plays Marilyn Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller; Bobby Cannavale, who plays her husband Joe Dimaggio; and Julianne Nicholson, who plays her mother.
Venice Film Festival: Deadline’s Full Coverage
Director Andrew Dominik escorted de Armas on the red carpet as did Brad Pitt, whose Plan B Entertainment produced the film.
Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, the film is a fictionalized take on Monroe — blending fact and fiction...
- 9/8/2022
- by Robert Lang and David Morgan
- Deadline Film + TV
Blonde, Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited and anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas, just had its world premiere Thursday night at the Venice Film Festival, where the audience greeted it with an 11-minute standing ovation after the credits rolled.
The Sala Grande audience chanted “Ana, Ana, Ana” at the conclusion of the Netflix movie, which clocks in at 2 hours and 46 minutes. Brad Pitt, who was there in his capacity as a producer on the film, also seemed to energize the crowd in the theater.
‘Blonde’ Premiere Photo Gallery: Ana de Armas Channels Marilyn Monroe At Venice Film Festival
See both their reactions here:
Ana de Armas reacting to the 11-minute standing ovation at #VeniceFilmFestival for #Blonde pic.twitter.com/2Y4Du3vjVj
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 8, 2022
Brad Pitt during #Blonde’s 11-minute standing ovation #VeniceFilmFestival pic.twitter.com/6N40bl9Fu4
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 8, 2022
The Netflix title was...
The Sala Grande audience chanted “Ana, Ana, Ana” at the conclusion of the Netflix movie, which clocks in at 2 hours and 46 minutes. Brad Pitt, who was there in his capacity as a producer on the film, also seemed to energize the crowd in the theater.
‘Blonde’ Premiere Photo Gallery: Ana de Armas Channels Marilyn Monroe At Venice Film Festival
See both their reactions here:
Ana de Armas reacting to the 11-minute standing ovation at #VeniceFilmFestival for #Blonde pic.twitter.com/2Y4Du3vjVj
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 8, 2022
Brad Pitt during #Blonde’s 11-minute standing ovation #VeniceFilmFestival pic.twitter.com/6N40bl9Fu4
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 8, 2022
The Netflix title was...
- 9/8/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
In a triumphant world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale received a seven-minute standing ovation inside the Sala Grande on Sunday evening. Star Brendan Fraser was visibly moved as he was embraced by his director while extended applause rang throughout the auditorium.
The psychological drama was met with strong response throughout the day with Fraser getting top notes for his leading turn. He plays Charlie, a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity, who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Venice Film Festival 2022 Photo Gallery
Aronofsky directs from a screenplay written by Samuel D Hunter, based on Hunter’s 2012 play of the same name. Also starring are Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton.
In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise wrote that Fraser’s “all-in performance… makes adjectives such as ‘brave’ and ‘fearless’ seem...
The psychological drama was met with strong response throughout the day with Fraser getting top notes for his leading turn. He plays Charlie, a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity, who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Venice Film Festival 2022 Photo Gallery
Aronofsky directs from a screenplay written by Samuel D Hunter, based on Hunter’s 2012 play of the same name. Also starring are Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton.
In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise wrote that Fraser’s “all-in performance… makes adjectives such as ‘brave’ and ‘fearless’ seem...
- 9/5/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s Bones and All day here at the Venice Film Festival, where the Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer from Luca Guadagnino received a 10-minute standing ovation after its world premiere screening this evening.
The audience cheered with shouts of “Luca! Luca! Luca!” — a reaction that delayed the beginning of the evening’s next competition film.
Venice Film Festival 2022 Photos
Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, the film tells the story of Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), two unlikely companions who unite in America’s Midwest in the 1980s after Maren is abandoned by her father. As they make their way across the country, their shared compulsion to feast on human flesh and their struggle to reconcile the immorality of their desire forces them into society’s margins, destined to deal with the consequences of their true selves for the rest of their lives.
Venice...
The audience cheered with shouts of “Luca! Luca! Luca!” — a reaction that delayed the beginning of the evening’s next competition film.
Venice Film Festival 2022 Photos
Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, the film tells the story of Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), two unlikely companions who unite in America’s Midwest in the 1980s after Maren is abandoned by her father. As they make their way across the country, their shared compulsion to feast on human flesh and their struggle to reconcile the immorality of their desire forces them into society’s margins, destined to deal with the consequences of their true selves for the rest of their lives.
Venice...
- 9/2/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Good Afternoon International Insider team, Max Goldbart here with your mid-August dose of headlines, analysis and silly emojis. We’re taking a break next week but will be back with your favourite Friday lunchtime newsletter in a fortnight on September 2. For now, read on.
Johnny Depp’s Very International Comeback
Back in the director’s chair: Johnny Depp has had a decent fortnight. Last week, we revealed a first-look image of his eponymous role as King Louis Xv in Jeanne du Barry (his first film for three years) and this week focus pivoted to the director’s chair, where the once-disgraced star is due to return for the first time in a quarter of a century. Depp will sit behind the camera for Modigliani, a feature film about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Al Pacino is on board as co-producer with Depp and Barry Navidi, sources confirmed to Deadline’s Zac Ntim,...
Johnny Depp’s Very International Comeback
Back in the director’s chair: Johnny Depp has had a decent fortnight. Last week, we revealed a first-look image of his eponymous role as King Louis Xv in Jeanne du Barry (his first film for three years) and this week focus pivoted to the director’s chair, where the once-disgraced star is due to return for the first time in a quarter of a century. Depp will sit behind the camera for Modigliani, a feature film about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Al Pacino is on board as co-producer with Depp and Barry Navidi, sources confirmed to Deadline’s Zac Ntim,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Afternoon all! It’s been a manic week but fortunately one that can be summarized neatly in several paragraphs, as evidenced below. Read on International Insider crew.
Big Cannes Interviews & Packages
Sitting down with David and Riz: With Cannes on the horizon, Deadline has been breaking packages here, there and everywhere this week but we still found time to sit down with two of those most prominently involved. On Tuesday, Damon Wise published his interview with Eastern Promises creator Cronenberg to talk Crimes of the Future, his latest Cannes pic. David talked variety, 25 years’ worth of Cannes trips and whether his violence in movies can go too far. Not to be missed. Meanwhile, Andreas broke the news of hot Riz feature Hamlet, a modern adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, and spoke at length with the Sound of Metal star about his plans for one of his boldest projects yet. Not...
Big Cannes Interviews & Packages
Sitting down with David and Riz: With Cannes on the horizon, Deadline has been breaking packages here, there and everywhere this week but we still found time to sit down with two of those most prominently involved. On Tuesday, Damon Wise published his interview with Eastern Promises creator Cronenberg to talk Crimes of the Future, his latest Cannes pic. David talked variety, 25 years’ worth of Cannes trips and whether his violence in movies can go too far. Not to be missed. Meanwhile, Andreas broke the news of hot Riz feature Hamlet, a modern adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, and spoke at length with the Sound of Metal star about his plans for one of his boldest projects yet. Not...
- 5/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalist and author Lynette Rice, who has covered the TV industry for more than two decades, is joining Deadline as TV Editor, Awards and Senior TV Writer. She starts March 16.
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
Rice will help spearhead the print and online coverage of TV awards season and contribute to the site’s coverage of TV industry news. She can be reached at lrice@deadline.com.
“I’ve known Lynette for 22 years. It’s a long story but she is the reason I got into entertainment journalism,” said Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Nellie Andreeva, who made the hire with Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming Jr. “As we finally get to work together, Mike and I are thrilled to have Lynette bring her deep knowledge of the TV business and extensive industry contacts to Deadline.”
On the breaking TV news side, in addition to Andreeva, Rice joins Deadline’s TV Editor Peter White, Senior TV Reporter Rosy Cordero,...
- 3/11/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1952, the second season of CBS sitcom I Love Lucy set viewing records that, 70 years later, have yet to be beaten. The star was Lucille Ball, a lovable klutz from New York, and her husband Ricky was played by her real-life spouse—Cuban refugee Desi Arnaz. Together they founded Desilu Productions, soon to be the No. 1 independent TV company in America. In 1957, however, a scandal surfaced that threatened to tear it all down: Lucy was a registered Communist. Or was she? That fraught time is brought to life by Aaron Sorkin in his Amazon Studios release Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman as Lucy and Javier Bardem as Desi. Damon Wise sits down with all three to discuss the forgotten legacy of a most unlikely power couple.
Calling the Shots: Aaron Sorkin
Being the Ricardos is Aaron Sorkin’s 10th credited feature script and his third film as director. In...
Calling the Shots: Aaron Sorkin
Being the Ricardos is Aaron Sorkin’s 10th credited feature script and his third film as director. In...
- 1/19/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s awards team, responsible for the brand’s print publication AwardsLine, has been bolstered today by the promotion of Antonia Blyth to Senior Awards Editor, and the additions of Damon Wise as Film Editor, Awards and David Morgan as Production Editor, Awards.
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
Antonia joined Deadline in 2019 as AwardsLine’s Deputy Editor, after a long association with the brand as a freelance contributor. She continues to report to Joe Utichi, Deadline’s Executive Awards Editor, whose own promotion was announced earlier in the year. “Antonia has been my right hand since long before she joined us full-time,” said Utichi. “She is an indispensable part of the Deadline family; a consummate journalist and gifted writer who has fully embraced the challenge to deliver world-leading awards coverage. She is my ultimate partner-in-crime.”
Damon has had a long and storied career in his native UK, covering cinema for outlets like Total Film, Empire,...
- 11/8/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
A sold out official Closing Gala ceremony featuring body-swapping action-packed Korean film ‘Spiritwalker’ made for an energetic, rapturously received eleventh and final day of the London East Asia Film Festival.
Thirty three films from across East Asia played all over London from 21st to 31st October with online industry talks, a young critics programme, Q+A events and more complimenting a diverse, cultural festival selection.
Award Winners
The festival jury was chaired by Nick James (former editor Sight & Sound) with Hannah McGill (former Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival) and Damon Wise (BFI Festival advisor) joining. Having viewed all eleven festival Competition titles and being pleased to view diverse, stimulating cinema, the jury were in attendance for the Closing Gala ceremony to announce the winners.
A Special Mention was afforded to Ricky Ko for action-drama ‘Time’’s cinephilic opening sequence. The jury were impressed with its joyous tribute to...
Thirty three films from across East Asia played all over London from 21st to 31st October with online industry talks, a young critics programme, Q+A events and more complimenting a diverse, cultural festival selection.
Award Winners
The festival jury was chaired by Nick James (former editor Sight & Sound) with Hannah McGill (former Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival) and Damon Wise (BFI Festival advisor) joining. Having viewed all eleven festival Competition titles and being pleased to view diverse, stimulating cinema, the jury were in attendance for the Closing Gala ceremony to announce the winners.
A Special Mention was afforded to Ricky Ko for action-drama ‘Time’’s cinephilic opening sequence. The jury were impressed with its joyous tribute to...
- 11/2/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Deadline Contenders Film: London, our annual awards-season kickoff that is gearing up for its hybrid in-person/virtual edition this weekend, has finalized its lineup of panelists for this year’s showcase, which will put the spotlight on 19 of the year’s buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent for BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters.
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
- 10/5/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders London is officially back and in person, with the latest edition of the movie awards-season showcase set for Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel. The all-day series of panels with 19 of the buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent will begin at 8 a.m. London time. There will also be a virtual edition beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
Returning as host and moderator is Executive Awards Editor Joe Utichi, who steers Deadline’s awards-season coverage. He’ll be joined by fellow moderators including Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr, Awardsline Deputy Editor Antonia Blyth, Television Editor Peter White, International Film Reporter Tom Grater, International Features Editor Diana Lodderhose, Awards Columnist and Film Critic Pete Hammond (who’ll be joining virtually), Awardsline contributor Damon Wise and Film Critic Anna Smith.
Throughout the event BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters will hear from the filmmakers, stars and crew...
- 9/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The London East Asia Film Festival (Leaff) celebrates its sixth edition in 2021 with a commitment to diverse, culturally impactful cinema entertainment. After a year of shut cinema doors, Leaff is returning home to London’s big screens with an expanded catalogue to help stimulate the renaissance of cinema and promote cultural empathy.
With cinematic offerings from eight regions – China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam – this year’s programme is an ode to the quiet and independent voices from East Asia. Two international premieres, five European premieres and 18 UK premieres will take place at our state-art-of-the-art venues, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, The Cinema at Selfridges, as well as the newly opened Odeon Luxe West End and The Chiswick Cinema. The festival is divided into five strands: Official Selection, Competition, Hong Kong Focus, Documentary, and Retrospective.
Opening Gala
The festival opens with a memorial to the late Benny Chan...
With cinematic offerings from eight regions – China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam – this year’s programme is an ode to the quiet and independent voices from East Asia. Two international premieres, five European premieres and 18 UK premieres will take place at our state-art-of-the-art venues, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, The Cinema at Selfridges, as well as the newly opened Odeon Luxe West End and The Chiswick Cinema. The festival is divided into five strands: Official Selection, Competition, Hong Kong Focus, Documentary, and Retrospective.
Opening Gala
The festival opens with a memorial to the late Benny Chan...
- 9/25/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Tilda Swinton and Sean Baker were among the human co-conspirators present to accept awards on behalf of the canine scene-stealers in their Cannes films at the irreverent Palm Dog Awards on the Croisette this afternoon. Masterminded by journalist Toby Rose in 2001, inspired by his own French fox terrier Muttley, the Palm Dog Awards show has become an annual treat on the penultimate day of the Cannes Film Festival, and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Swinton accepted the Palm Dog prize on behalf of her very own trio of spaniels, who star alongside her in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II. Hogg was present at the show too, albeit over FaceTime from Swinton’s iPhone.
The Jury Prize was shared by Sophie in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, and Panda, the sheepdog in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. Both directors were on hand to collect the prizes.
Baker, who arrived...
Swinton accepted the Palm Dog prize on behalf of her very own trio of spaniels, who star alongside her in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II. Hogg was present at the show too, albeit over FaceTime from Swinton’s iPhone.
The Jury Prize was shared by Sophie in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, and Panda, the sheepdog in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. Both directors were on hand to collect the prizes.
Baker, who arrived...
- 7/16/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
At a Cannes Film Festival like no other, Leos Carax’s Annette may have been the perfect opening movie.
Our Pete Hammond described it as an “offbeat rock opera musical fantasy” (not the most populated of genres) in his Deadline review last night, and the film’s creativity and originality, typical of Carax, has set the Croisette abuzz with upbeat chatter about just how good the Cannes program looks this year. Some are doubting Annette’s mainstream appeal and awards potential, and of course plenty of people left the premiere halfway through (possibly to watch the Spain v Italy soccer match penalty shootout) but on the whole the general message is – arthouse cinema is back, and there’s going to be a lot to look forward to across the next 10 days.
The Annette team gathered again this morning for the post-screening press conference, sans Adam Driver who was a no-show.
Our Pete Hammond described it as an “offbeat rock opera musical fantasy” (not the most populated of genres) in his Deadline review last night, and the film’s creativity and originality, typical of Carax, has set the Croisette abuzz with upbeat chatter about just how good the Cannes program looks this year. Some are doubting Annette’s mainstream appeal and awards potential, and of course plenty of people left the premiere halfway through (possibly to watch the Spain v Italy soccer match penalty shootout) but on the whole the general message is – arthouse cinema is back, and there’s going to be a lot to look forward to across the next 10 days.
The Annette team gathered again this morning for the post-screening press conference, sans Adam Driver who was a no-show.
- 7/7/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Quentin Tarantino made a surprise appearance at today’s Palm Dog awards in Cannes, the annual celebration of the best dog performances in the Cannes selection. His film, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, features blockbuster bowser Brandy, owned by Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth character in the film.
First awarded by journalist Toby Rose in 2001, inspired by his own French Fox Terrier Muttley, the Palm Dog has become an annual treat on the penultimate day of the Cannes Film Festival. Now in its 19th year, the award to Tarantino had been long coveted by the director. “I have to say I am so honored to have this,” Tarantino said in a barnstorming speech on stage as he accepted the golden collar bestowed on the winner. “I’ve told everybody, I have no idea if we’re going to win the Palme d’Or. I feel no entitlement. But I...
First awarded by journalist Toby Rose in 2001, inspired by his own French Fox Terrier Muttley, the Palm Dog has become an annual treat on the penultimate day of the Cannes Film Festival. Now in its 19th year, the award to Tarantino had been long coveted by the director. “I have to say I am so honored to have this,” Tarantino said in a barnstorming speech on stage as he accepted the golden collar bestowed on the winner. “I’ve told everybody, I have no idea if we’re going to win the Palme d’Or. I feel no entitlement. But I...
- 5/24/2019
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, premiered yesterday at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and it seems like the pic has already won over critics.
Initial reactions from those lucky enough to attend the screening popped up on Twitter last night, with many viewers showering it with praise.
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood is so gloriously, wickedly indulgent, compelling and hilarious. The film Qt was born to make. The world is a more colourful place in Quentin Tarantino’s twilight zone. Round two, please. #Cannes2019
— Joe Utichi (@joeutichi) May 21, 2019
Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood – Historically dubious, thematically brilliant, Qt finds his form in film that could win Palme d'Or or be picketed by audiences, or maybe both. Thrilling, provocative, blackly comical, intensely unsettling masterwork. #cannes2019
— Jason Gorber – at #Cannes2019 (@filmfest_ca) May 21, 2019
I wouldn’t change a single second of Once Upon A Time … In Hollywood.
Initial reactions from those lucky enough to attend the screening popped up on Twitter last night, with many viewers showering it with praise.
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood is so gloriously, wickedly indulgent, compelling and hilarious. The film Qt was born to make. The world is a more colourful place in Quentin Tarantino’s twilight zone. Round two, please. #Cannes2019
— Joe Utichi (@joeutichi) May 21, 2019
Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood – Historically dubious, thematically brilliant, Qt finds his form in film that could win Palme d'Or or be picketed by audiences, or maybe both. Thrilling, provocative, blackly comical, intensely unsettling masterwork. #cannes2019
— Jason Gorber – at #Cannes2019 (@filmfest_ca) May 21, 2019
I wouldn’t change a single second of Once Upon A Time … In Hollywood.
- 5/22/2019
- by Mike Lee
- We Got This Covered
There can only be one winner, but each of the Best Picture nominees overcame creative, financial and logistical hurdles to get this close to the finish line. Here are their war stories.
Black Panther
Fifty years ago, the phrase ‘Black Panther’ carried more political baggage than it does today, immediately summoning up images of a militant African-American revolutionary, named after by the controversial civil rights party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, in 1966. Created by Stan Lee in a bid to deliver the world’s first non-stereotype black superhero, the comic book of the same name materialized around the same time. Unusually, The Black Panther wasn’t an alter ego—it was the formal title for T’Challa, King of Wakanda—but Lee described the overlapping of names as “a strange coincidence”, adding that “maybe if I had it to do over again, I’d have...
Black Panther
Fifty years ago, the phrase ‘Black Panther’ carried more political baggage than it does today, immediately summoning up images of a militant African-American revolutionary, named after by the controversial civil rights party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, in 1966. Created by Stan Lee in a bid to deliver the world’s first non-stereotype black superhero, the comic book of the same name materialized around the same time. Unusually, The Black Panther wasn’t an alter ego—it was the formal title for T’Challa, King of Wakanda—but Lee described the overlapping of names as “a strange coincidence”, adding that “maybe if I had it to do over again, I’d have...
- 2/12/2019
- by Joe Utichi, Damon Wise, Anthony D'Alessandro and Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
The London East Asia Film Festival (Leaff), opens its third year on the 25th October at Vue Leicester Square with “Dark Figure of Crime”, the newest thriller by director Kim Tae-gyun, and runs until the 4th November. It will close with the intelligent and emotionally complex family drama, “Ramen Shop”, the latest feature film by acclaimed Singaporean director, Eric Khoo.
Having expanded to include the cinematic offerings of 13 countries – China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar – Leaff’s 2018 programme focuses on the “future”. Through the lens and unique perspectives of East Asian filmmakers, Leaff offers compelling insight into not only the future of those in East Asia but in London, with vital and thought – provoking dialogues being opened up around subjects such as youth, human interaction, development, cultural and social issues.
Leaff will screen 6 International premieres, 8 European premieres and 23 UK premieres,...
Having expanded to include the cinematic offerings of 13 countries – China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar – Leaff’s 2018 programme focuses on the “future”. Through the lens and unique perspectives of East Asian filmmakers, Leaff offers compelling insight into not only the future of those in East Asia but in London, with vital and thought – provoking dialogues being opened up around subjects such as youth, human interaction, development, cultural and social issues.
Leaff will screen 6 International premieres, 8 European premieres and 23 UK premieres,...
- 9/22/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Horror remakes are always going to be controversial affairs, especially when the original is as beloved a flick as Dario Argento’s Suspiria. The 1977 Italian cult classic is a spellbinding and nightmarish immersion of the senses that would be tough for anybody to top, even a director as renowned as Call Me by Your Name helmsman Luca Guadagnino.
The filmmaker recently went on record expressing his desire for this latest work to be “a relentless experience that’s going to go deep into your skin all the way down into your spine,” and even more ominously, “the most disturbing experience you can have.” Based on the first reactions received by the movie at its Venice International Film Festival premiere, Guadagnino may have succeeded in his endeavor, for better or worse.
Just take the following tweet from Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, which reports on the divided reception, consisting of both boos and applause.
The filmmaker recently went on record expressing his desire for this latest work to be “a relentless experience that’s going to go deep into your skin all the way down into your spine,” and even more ominously, “the most disturbing experience you can have.” Based on the first reactions received by the movie at its Venice International Film Festival premiere, Guadagnino may have succeeded in his endeavor, for better or worse.
Just take the following tweet from Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, which reports on the divided reception, consisting of both boos and applause.
- 9/1/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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