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It may not just be enough to act anymore for Bradley Whitford. He has now also gotten the directing bug. Whitford, who has won three Emmys for three different series in three different categories – (a real feat) with his Supporting Actor -Drama Series win for The West Wing, a Guest Actor-Comedy Series for Transparent,

EXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has launched sales on French director Benoît Jacquot’s upcoming crime thriller Belle starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Guillaume Canet. The work is adapted from the 1951 novel The Death Of Belle by the iconic Belgian writer Georges Simenon who is best known for his novels about Paris detective Maigret. Canet and Gainsbourg will play

EXCLUSIVE: Arlene Nelson, the director known for her work on such unscripted series as Angel City and Secrets of Playboy, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. “I’m thrilled to be working with UTA,” Nelson told Deadline. “UTA’s track record of representing talented directors and its commitment to bringing distinctive and wide-ranging voices

EXCLUSIVE: Trom creator Torfinnur Jákupsson is turbocharging his quest to place the Faroe Islands on the global film and TV map. It’s been a whirlwind year for the man who first came up with the idea for hit thriller Trom while working at a fish factory when he was 16. Deadline can reveal his now-one-year-old

Jennifer Lawrence hit the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday for the world premiere of Afghan director Sahra Mani’s feature documentary Bread and Roses, which she produced with Justine Ciarrocchi under their joint banner Excellent Cadaver. Described as an unpoliticized tale of resilience, the documentary follows three educated, previously employed women whose lives have been upended

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s Republic Pictures label has acquired North American rights to dystopian drama-thriller The End We Start From, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve). The mid seven-figure pact marks the biggest announced deal for a project on sale at this year’s Cannes market so far. Anton and UTA are handling world sales here

Senegalese and French director Ramata-Toulaye Sy is only the second Black woman to make it into Competition in Cannes. Her debut feature, Banel & Adama, which had its debut Saturday, follows in the footsteps of Mati Diop’s 2019 Atlantics. Sy draws on her roots in the Fulani, or Peul, culture of the Futa region in

Quentin Tarantino has apparently closed the book on Rick Dalton, the actor portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. Tarantino made the announcement via The Video Archives podcast, which he hosts with Pulp Fiction cowriter Roger Avary. A series of tweets announced the death, and indicated that Tuesday’s podcast will be “a memorial episode

Production on Aziz Ansari’s feature helming debut Good Fortune has been suspended amid the writers strike, Deadline has confirmed. WGA pickets forced a shutdown of the Keanu Reeves–Seth Rogen pic Thursday night. The movie was shooting on location in L.A.’s Koreatown, but plans are for principal photography to resume in the future are unknown at

Warner Bros. Discovery is reaching back to its past to celebrate a century of entertainment in a new, four-part documentary series. Narrator Morgan Freeman will guide viewers through “100 Years of Warner Bros.,” offering clips from past TV shows and films, along with takes from the directors, actors, and executives who created the magic, and

EXCLUSIVE: Kellan Lutz (Twilight), Neal McDonough (Minority Report), and Mila Harris (No Exit) have signed on to star in The December Cross, with Archstone Entertainment securing world sales rights and Joshua Harris and Jon Gosier of FilmHedge financing. Todd Turner (Good Neighbor) wrote and will direct the film. Turner will also serve as producer through

The advance buzz for The Flash continues to grow. The latest warm words about the movie come from the “King of Horror” Stephen King. King said on Twitter in recent hours: “I got an advance screening of THE FLASH today. As a rule I don’t care a lot for superhero movies, but this one is

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed Bertie, the highly sought-after writer-director otherwise known as Katie Ellwood, who has been behind such titles as Hawkeye and Troop Zero, and has a top-notch dance card looking ahead. Known for tonally specific work which is darkly comic, full of humanity and frequently action-packed, Bertie recently teamed with frequent

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Alba (Sin City), Russell Harvard (Fargo), and Daniel Durant (CODA) are attached to star in sports feature film Flash Before the Bang, inspired by the true story of an all-deaf high school track and field team in 1980’s Oregon. The film heralds from deaf writer-director Jevon Whetter, on whose experience the story is

The Cannes Film Festival has kicked off its 76th edition Tuesday with the opening ceremony followed by the world premiere of Jeanne Du Barry, starring and directed by Maïwenn and featuring the return of Johnny Depp to the big screen. The premiere was attended by Maïwenn, Depp and co-stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory,

EXCLUSIVE: Normal People and Where the Crawdads Sing star Daisy Edgar-Jones is the latest star attached to Oscar winner Ron Howard’s next movie Origin Of Species, which is a hot project at the Cannes market. The in-demand Jones is in talks to join the buzzy project which — as we told you on Sunday —

EXCLUSIVE: Elle Fanning (The Great) is set to star alongside Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic that two-time Oscar nominee James Mangold is directing for Searchlight Pictures. The film heading into production in New York this summer watches as a young Dylan (Chalamet) shakes up the music world

UPDATE: The WGA East has confirmed that it will be out on the picket line for this week’s upfronts on all three days of events, starting Monday. The pickets will be supported by guest speakers Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Congressmember Maxwell Frost. Presentations are scheduled from NBC, Fox, The

Amid fickle Riviera skies and the looming potential that the WGA strike and France’s own heightened tensions over pension reforms could simmer to a boil here, the red carpet is partially rolled out and technicians have been milling up and down the Croisette today as preparations continue for the start of the Cannes Film Festival

Tom Holland and Dwayne Johnson are opening up about mental health battles they have experienced in life. The Spider-Man: No Way Home star has been transparent about the importance of mental health. In August 2022, Holland announced he was taking a break from social media as he “spiraled” from reading negative comments about him on