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The creative team behind the Berlinale competition title Nightborn gave a strong, collective response to a question about the ongoing debate around politics at the festival during a press conference this afternoon.  “Art doesn’t necessarily have to be political,” Ilja Rautsi, who co-wrote the film with director Hanna Bergholm, told journalists in Berlin. “But then […]

The Berlin Film Festival is welcoming some of the world’s most gifted moviemakers – none more talented than the young Nigerian collective known as The Critics. The group, made up primarily of siblings and some of their cousins, has managed to develop an international following with their short films despite a lack of formal training […]

UK sales firm The Mise En Scene Company (MSC) is branding its EFM marketing with a “No AI Used” label and has called for a “global industry standard” to be implemented so audiences know whether films have used the tech. MSC says it was inspired by A24’s disclaimer at the end of horror movie Heretic, stating […]

“I’ve been training to play this role my entire life, from the day I was born. In ways, it’s extremely method,” Charli xcx joked this afternoon during a Berlinale presser when quizzed about the character she portrays in The Moment.  The film, which debuted last month at Sundance, screens this week in Berlin as part […]

Attending the Berlin Film Festival for new movie Rosebush Pruning, actor Callum Turner was asked by a journalist at the film’s press conference about online speculation linking him to the James Bond role. Turner declined to comment, and was helped out by co-star Tracy Letts who interjected jokingly: “I’m playing James Bond.” In a more […]

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Northern Lights Studios is launching at the European Film Market with “a mission to globalize the next wave of Nordic cinema”. Founded by veteran producers Christian D. Bruun, an executive producer on Jesse Eisenberg’s The End, and former Lee Daniels Entertainment exec Asger Hussain, who worked with Daniels on Precious and The Paperboy, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Menemsha Films has acquired North American rights for Belgian drama The Soundman, following its well-received U.S. premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. Set on the eve of the German invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, the drama explores the situation for Belgian Jews, torn between staying in their homeland amid […]

Editor’s note: Martin Moskowicz is well known to many in the industry attending Berlin’s EFM. An ever-present at major festivals and markets for close to 50 years, he is best known for his decades steering German production and distribution giant Constantin, producer of the Resident Evil franchise. In 2024, Moskowicz moved on from his role as CEO and is […]

EXCLUSIVE: French actress and director Nicole Garcia has shared details of her upcoming film Milo reuniting her with Oscar-winning star Marion Cotillard, as Studiocanal kicks off sales on the title at the EFM. La Vie en Rose actress Cotillard stars as a woman who arrives alone in a quiet provincial town in France’s Drome region and takes a job […]

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. director Lance Hammer returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his first film in 18 years, Queen At Sea, playing in competition, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser. The drama co-stars Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, who won best actor at the Berlinale in 2015 for his performance in 45 […]

Prolific British screenwriter Jack Thorne is at this year’s Berlinale with his latest project, Lord of the Flies, which he told an audience of industry professionals during a Q&A session was shot and produced at the same time as his massive Netflix breakout, Adolescence.  “We were working on them at the same time, and we […]

EXCLUSIVE: Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, known as Ale, felt enormous pressure to have a baby – from her husband, her mother-in-law, from Mexican society in general. But after three miscarriages she became desperate and from there flowed a strange tale that world burst into national and international headlines. The story – of a baby gifted […]

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales agency Film Republic has taken international rights to Isabel Sandoval’s fourth feature, Moonglow, which recently received its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sandoval, a US-based Filipino actor, writer and director, also stars in the film alongside Arjo Atayde (Trigger, BuyBust). Set in 1970s Manila, the noir […]

Nightborn, the second feature from Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, debuts at this year’s Berlinale. Here’s a clip from the film.  The film’s synopsis reads: With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But […]

Some familiar faces are dropping in as Disney gets into the micro-drama craze with its new short-form series, Locker Diaries. Designed for vertical viewing, the series features characters from Zombies, Descendants and Phineas & Ferb in bite-size adventures that blend comedy, drama and thrills, all unfolding in school hallways and told through open locker doors. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is planning to offer buyouts to select executives in specific areas, sources tell Deadline. There has been confusion among Sony TV staffers this week, with many getting the impression that this would be a broad offering across the studio, I hear. In fact, the approaches will be targeted, limited to certain […]

A besieged Casey Wasserman is putting his entire talent and marketing agency on the auction block as the fallout from revelations of his relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell continue to batter the LA28 chair. “This organization, its leadership and the entire team mean the world to me,” Wasserman said in a memo to […]

When Stephen Colletti first entered the Traitors castle, he has fans divided over how he was represented. As some viewers of the Peacock competition reality series speculated that Colletti hates his Laguna Beach roots after choosing One Tree Hill as the credit below his name during video confessionals, the actor and TV personality recently clarified […]

Win, lose or draw at the box office, when it comes to making certain movies from a time-tested tentpole filmmaker like Gore Verbinski, ya gotta back the director if you’re a film financier, and ya gotta make it loud by going theatrical if you’re a distributor. Such is the case for Rango Oscar winner Gore […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tèa Leoni is returning to broadcast — and multi-camera comedy — with a starring role in NBC’s pilot Newlyweds, co-created by Gail Lerner and Jamie Lee Curtis. Landing Leoni, who had multiple pilot offers, firmed up Newlyweds‘ green light, which had been cast-contingent, clearing the project for production. Written by Lerner, Newlyweds is a […]

Be it by sea or by air, Jerry Bruckheimer is ready to get to work on his next major franchise blockbuster. The 2x Oscar nominee recently gave a status update on the upcoming installments in the Pirates of the Caribbean and Top Gun franchises, noting that he is “expecting a script shortly” on the latter. […]

Gavin Newsom still won’t totally admit he’s running for President in 2028, but the California Governor is forthright in his belief that Donald Trump has a sell-by date. “Donald Trump is temporary,” Newsom told the Munich Security Conference today. “He’ll be gone in three years,” the Trump trolling Democrat added, with an eye to the […]

Amid a rising storm of angst over AI video, Disney fired off a cease and desist letter to China’s ByteDance for stocking its new Seedance 2.0 platform “with a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters” as the platform treats Disney IP from Star Wars to Marvel to Family Guy as if it was “free public […]

James Van Der Beek was one of the stars of Fox’s cancer special The Real Full Monty. The network is now set to repeat the two-hour special following Van Der Beek’s death earlier this week from colorectal cancer. The Real Full Monty will air on Wednesday, February 18 at 8pm, replacing a repeat of The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Inspired by the DIY success of Markiplier’s Iron Lung, Dylan Clark’s Portrait of God sale to Monkeypaw, and Curry Barker’s Obsession, YouTube horror filmmakers Cameron Gallagher and Jeremiah Lewis are moving into production next week on It Visits Me, a psychological horror based on their viral short of the same name that is approaching […]