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The list of feature documentaries still in contention for the Oscars has been cut to 15 finalists, a brutal culling from a contingent of 167 qualifiers. The annual shortlist announcement leaves a handful of filmmakers celebrating, many more disappointed, and documentary watchers with much to debate.  from Oscar winners Davis Guggenheim and Roger Ross Williams,

Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, the two preeminent production companies working in horror, have completed their long awaited merger, Blum announced on Tuesday. “Our deal is …. Done. @blumhouse and #AtomicMonster have officially joined forces,” the producer wrote on X, in a message accompanied by a reel showcasing both companies’ libraries. “The

Mickey Cottrell, the PR executive who specialized in the indie film business and worked both as an actor and a producer, died on New Year’s Day at the Motion Picture & Television Fund in Woodland Hills. He was 79. His death was confirmed by his sister, Suzie Cottrell-Smith, who told Deadline he suffered from Parkinson’s

Steven Yeun is falling out of Marvel Studios‘ Thunderbolts pic due to scheduling issues after production was pushed on the film because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Deadline has confirmed. Deadline first reported Yeun’s involvement in the film last year (though the studio never officially confirmed) and Yeun was expected to star opposite Florence

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a two-time Oscar winner and the first female director of a Star Wars film. Having an iconic franchise in her hands thrills the filmmaker as she says it was “about time” a woman took the reigns of a project in the Star Wars universe. “I’m very thrilled about the project because I

Adam Driver is opening up about his career and how he has not been strategic in booking his role and instead going by instinct to work with great filmmakers. The actor made an appearance on the SmartLess podcast, which is hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, where the topic of playing Italian

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based cultural institution Villa Albertine and Unifrance have announced the selection of French features due to be showcased in the 9th edition of their joint Young French Cinema program. The initiative aimed at promoting films in the U.S. by emerging French filmmakers without domestic distribution will showcase 11 titles this year. They include

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has set 16 alums from past editions to serve on its Competition Jury, also announcing the set of five set as jurors for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The list includes Debra Granik, Adrian Tomine, and Lena Waithe in U.S. Dramatic Competition; Shane Boris, Nicole Newnham, and Rudy

Amanda Seyfried, Angela Bassett, Suits stars Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams, George Lopez, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Michelle Yeoh and Will Ferrell make up the first list of presenters for Sunday’s 81st Golden Globe Awards. Jo Koy is hosting the Golden Globes, which will honor the year’s best in motion pictures and TV. The ceremony

Renny Harlin, director of the next three films of The Strangers franchise, is teasing that the trilogy opens up a whole new universe that could potentially lead to more installments in the future. The Strangers is a psychological horror film that starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman and was released in 2008 about a couple

Robert De Niro – for so many years a withdrawn presence in interviews who saved all his powers of expression for his screen work – has spoken in strong terms to describe his distaste for Donald Trump, and the people who voted for him, and may yet again. The veteran actor told The Guardian newspaper: “The

SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is very happy with Taylor Swift and not so happy with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos. We spoke with Crabtree-Ireland today at New York Comic-Con where he took the stage for a panel about AI. Talks collapsed on Wednesday night between studios and SAG-AFTRA following the guild’s

EXCLUSIVE: Ocsar-nominated Shine director Scott Hicks‘ projects aboout musician Ben Folds have been taken on for distribution by Banijay Rights. The director’s features will world-premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival later this month and see Hicks combine with celebrated producers Kerry Heysen and Jett Heysen-Hicks. Inspired by the 25th anniversary of Shine, which starred Geoffrey

Taylor Swift has the highest-grossing concert tour of the year, and she’s about to conquer movie theaters, as well. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, opening Friday, October 13, has already sold more than $100 million in advance ticket sales in 8,500 theaters across 100 countries around the world. Will it have a world premiere? Yes.

Spend on Italian TV and film productions shot upwards by 28% to €1.8B ($1.9B) last year, the latest report into the country’s sector revealed today. Closing the MIA Market, the likes of Audiovisual Producers Association (APA)/Cinecittà President Chiara Sbarigia, Netflix Italy boss Tinny Andreatta and Ministry of Culture Undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni presented the APA research,

John Carpenter isn’t living in a Barbie world. He doesn’t even know who Allan is. The Halloween and The Thing director told the Los Angeles Times that while Margot Robbie was “fabulous,” most of the box office smash film went “right over my head.” The 75-year-old Carpenter admits he doesn’t get out much, and watches

Documentaries like Netflix’s Harry & Meghan are “almost in a different category,” the docs boss of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment said today. Responding to a question from Deadline at MIA Market, former HBO producer Sara Bernstein also said the “fees have raised in terms of what this access looks like and what

The Grove in Los Angeles hosted the world premiere of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on Wednesday, October 11. Invited fans gathered at the AMC The Grove 14 after the entire mall was shut down for the event. AMC devoted all 14 of the venue’s theaters to exclusively host the premiere of Swift’s concert film,

It’s not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel’s good news. The director’s spectacular Jesus in the hood movie, The Book of Clarence, starring a mighty fine LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black

John Chau’s death in 2018 made headlines around the world: an evangelical young man killed on an island in the Andaman Sea inhabited by an isolated Indigenous group. Chau came to North Sentinel Island bearing a waterproof Bible and dreams of converting the North Sentinelese to Christianity, but his ill-fated mission ended in a hail