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Good afternoon Insider team, Max Goldbart here. It has been a wild ride of a week with Berlin drawing to a close. Read below for a good ol’ recap. A Year At War Commemorating: A year is a long time in anyone’s calendar but, for the people of Ukraine, the 12 months that have followed

Alicia Allain, a producer and actress who started in the business as a hair stylist, has died according to a social media post by her husband, John Schneider. She was 53. “This is a time of unimaginable sorrow for me,” former Dukes of Hazzard star Schneider wrote after his wife’s passing. “Grief is much too

British actor Phil Davis says he has resigned his membership from BAFTA in the wake of Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards which he called “an embarrassing travesty.”  In a Twitter post, Davis, who was a Supporting Actor BAFTA nominee for his role in Mike Leigh’s 2004 Vera Drake, wrote, “The BAFTA awards were an embarrassing travesty.

Movie Academy CEO Bill Kramer said there is “a whole crisis team” in place for the Academy Awards next — a first for the ceremony in its 95 years. The move is another reaction to Will Smith’s infamous face-slap of Chris Rock as the latter was about to present the Best Documentary Oscar. In an

Bethlyn Hand, the former Senior Vice President of Advertising and Administration for the Motion Picture Association, passed away on February 14. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, her brother Lloyd Hand said. She was 85. A veteran of the MPA, Hand joined the org soon after Jack Valenti was made President, and remained for 37 years.

Winning an Oscar is not easy and Emma Thompson is opening up about campaigning to win an Academy Award and how it made her “seriously ill.” “Both times I had to do the Oscars, I got seriously ill,” Thompson said in an interview with Radio Times. “I found the pressure and glare of it too

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has taken down from its website a story about Will Ferrell after being fooled by a Twitter account that did not belong to the Anchorman actor. Ferrell has been in the UK this month on something of a soccer tour, attending a variety of games and mingling with fans. He was present

German director Robert Schwentke’s directorial career has swung in a few directions; he has made Hollywood actioners like Flightplan with Jodie Foster, the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife and a film that almost defines the idea of a personal movie, based on his own diagnosis with testicular cancer. He has both written and directed

Ana de Armas is being candid and talking about how social media has affected the “concept of a movie” for new generations. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Knives Out star blamed social media for diluting what a movie star used to mean to past generations. “I feel like the new generations don’t have

EXCLUSIVE: Neon is in pole position to win North American rights to Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe horror-thriller Longlegs in the first sizeable domestic deal of this year’s EFM. The multi-million dollar pact, which is being worked through with CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group, isn’t done but is heading in that direction,

At tonight’s DGA Awards, directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert landed Best Theatrical Feature with their A24 smash Everything Everywhere All At Once — besting competition that included Todd Field (Tár), Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) in their first time out at the ceremony.

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical has grossed over $33M in UK cinemas since its release on November 25 last year, picking up two BAFTA nominations along the way. In a unique deal, Sony/TriStar retained UK rights to the movie while Netflix financed the pic and took the rest of the world, debuting it on the

Sean Penn has reiterated his offer to have one of his Oscars melted down by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky – saying his gift to the battling leader was inspired by his “continuing shame towards the Motion Picture Academy.” Penn debuted his documentary Superpower, detailing Zelensky’s leadership and Ukrainians’ courage following Russian invasion, at the Berlin

A week before the first court hearing in the Rust criminal case against Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for the fatal October 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins, the Santa Fe District Attorney has added a particularly poignant individual to their witness list. In a fourth amended state’s witness list for preliminary hearing filed yesterday in

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first teaser for Guy Nattiv’s biopic Golda starring Helen Mirren as Israel’s iconic Prime Minister Golda Meir ahead of its world premiere at the Berlinale next week (Feb 20). “As someone who grew up with Golda as a heroic myth, almost beyond human, and as the only female prime minister in the history

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an empowered live video message to attendees of the opening night of the 73rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, urging filmmakers and culture “not to remain silent” when it comes to global politics as his country approaches a year since the Russian invasion. Zelenskyy, who has made

As many as 35,000 UK film and TV workers could be plunged into financial distress over the coming year, according to new research from The Film & TV Charity, which revealed improvements to the industry’s mental health crisis. The charity’s third Looking Glass survey, which takes the industry’s temperature on mental wellbeing, bullying and working

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s How to Trian Your Dragon will return to the big screen, but as a live-action feature adaptation with the franchise’s 3x Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning filmmaker Dean DeBlois returning to write, direct and produce the newest entry. How to Train Your Dragon is based on the book series by Cressida Cowell.

Studiocanal has boarded development on part English-language thriller Smiling Hacker which is currently being written by Audrey Diwan. Anna Marsh, Deputy CEO of parent group Canal+ Group, teased the project at an event in Paris on Wednesday promoting the pay-TV giant’s commitment to local and international cinema and launching a new channel bannered Canal+ Box

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t the first choice to host the Oscars. Or the Second. Or the 11th. So goes the riff on one of the more memorable scenes from Top Gun: Maverick in the first trailer for Kimmel’s upcoming Oscars hosting gig. Oh, and because it’s the Oscars, they were able to actually get Jon Hamm