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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile’ Trailer: Brave Russian Women Journalists Flee Tyranny In Film From Julia Loktev, EPs Meryl Streep, Laura Poitras

EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw, Hamburg, Istanbul, New York – brave Russian journalists who dared to report the truth about their country have had to scatter across the globe to avoid imminent arrest. News anchors and reporters Anna Nemzer, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova and more turned My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow into a […]

Deadline•Matthew Carey14 Sept

Netflix and Sega Set ‘Crazy Taxi’ Film; ‘Sonic’ & ‘Stranger Than Heaven’ Adaptations Also Part Of New Slate Partnership

Netflix has set a new slate of projects with video game company Sega, including film adaptations of their titles Crazy Taxi and Stranger Than Heaven, and a new Sonic children’s series. Dan Gregor & Doug Mand, the screenwriting duo behind 2025’s reboot of The Naked Gun, are penning Crazy Taxi. First released in arcades in […]

Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept

Paramount & Comcast Streamer SkyShowtime Could Be Shut Down, Board Says

The future of Paramount and Comcast’s international streamer SkyShowtime is in serious doubt amid the Paramount-Warner mega-merger. A note from the SkyShowtime board to CEO Monty Sarhan informed him that it has kicked off a strategic review, “which includes the possibility of a wind-down.” “No decisions have been made, and all options remain under consideration,” […]

Deadline•Max Goldbart14 Sept

‘Casket Girls’: First Look At Gabrielle Union In Supernatural Horror — TIFF Market

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Gabrielle Union in supernatural horror-thriller Casket Girls, in which she stars with Mike Colter. The film follows “Detective Shay Williams (Union) and her partner Galpin (Colter) as they investigate a child’s supernatural encounter and accidentally release the legendary ‘Casket Girls’ from beneath a centuries-old New Orleans church. Trapped inside, they and a handful of survivors must outwit […]

Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept

Amanda Brocato Promoted To President Of Rosenfield Media Group

Amanda Brocato has been promoted to President at Rosenfield Media Group. Brocato will now take on a larger role within RMG’s business development and overall strategic direction, while continuing her work in client relations. She maintains her role alongside CEO Zach Rosenfield in corporate communications, as well as overseeing the company’s national footprint of live […]

Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept

Pluto Film Boards ‘Ida’ Star Agata Trzebuchowska’s Horror Feature ‘Sick’ Ahead Of Fantastic Fest Premiere + First Teaser

EXCLUSIVE: Pluto Film has boarded sales for Agata Trzebuchowska’s horror feature Sick ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin in September, which will be followed by its European debut at the Sitges Film Festival. The unsettling film about the horrors of growing up is the feature directorial debut of Polish director, screenwriter […]

Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow14 Sept

‘Lupin’ Part 4 Trailer: Is The Titular Character Up To His Old Tricks Or Is There Really A New Lupin?

“We have a new Lupin.” These shocking words are uttered at the start of the trailer for Netflix’s highly anticipated Lupin Part 4, which launches October 23. With the titular character stuck in a glass box, another appears to be on the loose, and the police are keen to find them. Throughout the trailer, we […]

Deadline•Max Goldbart14 Sept

Moveria Film Acquires ‘No Money No Honey,’ Documentary Set For Imminent Premiere At Camden International Film Festival

EXCLUSIVE: Moveria Film has acquired international sales rights to No Money No Honey ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine. Moveria describes the film directed by Nicole Costa as “a vibrant story of friendship, migration, joy, and resilience” centering on Máxima Mauricio (she/he), “an Argentine non-binary sex worker […]

Deadline•Matthew Carey14 Sept

Donald Trump Says There Already Are Enough Guardrails Around AI

Amid the increasing alarm over AI’s supercharged capabilities, Donald Trump rejected calls for new regulation, saying that there already are guardrails in place. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump wrote, “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! […]

Deadline•Ted Johnson14 Sept

Angel Studios’ Membership Guild Hits 3 Million Mark, Doubling Its Year-Ago Level

Angel Studios says its membership program has surpassed 3 million paying members, doubling its level of a year ago. The company, which went public last year, is known for releasing what it calls “values-based” films and TV series. It has promoted to Wall Street the unique role played by the Angel Guild membership plan, which […]

Deadline•Dade Hayes14 Sept

Yasmeen Fletcher, Sydney Agudong & Billy Burke Starring In Indie Dramedy ‘Chic’

EXCLUSIVE: Yasmeen Fletcher (Ms. Marvel), Sydney Agudong (Lilo & Stitch) and Billy Burke (Twilight) are leading indie dramedy, Chic. Writer-director Christopher Yates’ sophomore outing follows “Remi (Fletcher), 23-years-old and hot on the heels of a divorce, as she escapes to O’ahu in search of reinvention. Expectations of a summer akin to Eat, Pray Love quickly give way to a […]

Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept

‘Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe Says She & Christopher Landon “Broke The Third Movie,” Waiting For Universal, Blumhouse To Fund

As Jessica Rothe grows in her “scream queen” cinematic career, the Happy Death Day star is ready to return to her horror roots. While discussing her new Joshua Giuliano slasher River at Deadline’s TIFF Studio, the actress revealed she and Happy Death Day franchise writer/director Christopher Landon “broke the third movie” and just need funding. […]

Deadline•Glenn Garner14 Sept

Former Tubi Production Chief Ashla Soter Joins Post House Digital Sword

EXCLUSIVE: Post house Digital Sword has hired former Tubi production exec Ashla Soter. A month after exiting the streamer, she’s been named Executive Producer and SVP of Production at Digital Sword, where she will assume oversight of production across the company’s full slate, working with studios, brands, and agencies alongside Digital Sword’s global editorial, color, […]

Deadline•Jesse Whittock14 Sept

Jon Cohen Named President Of Lipovsky & Stein’s Wonderlab Banner

Jon Cohen has joined Wonderlab, the newly launched production company of Final Destination: Bloodlines helmers Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, as President. Cohen comes over from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, where he most recently served as Head of Film. “We are so incredibly excited to launch Wonderlab with Jon,” Lipovsky and Stein said. “During his time at […]

Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept

‘Sunday In The Park With George’ Revival Delayed After Ariana Grande & Jonathan Bailey Exit

The West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George has now been delayed following the exits of Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey. Producer Empire Street Productions posted on Instagram that the planned 2027 release “will no longer proceed as scheduled.” It said the company “retain the rights with […]

Deadline•Max Goldbart14 Sept

Andrew Scott To Star In Film Version Of Simon Stephens Stage Play ‘Sea Wall’

Andrew Scott will star in a new feature film version of Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall, a play that the actor originally performed in 2008 at the Bush Theatre in London and that was later staged on Broadway in 2019 with Tom Sturridge in the sole role. The film, though, won’t be a traditional stage-to-screen adaptation: […]

Deadline•Greg Evans14 Sept

Well Go USA Entertainment Acquires ‘The Optimist’ For Digital Release On November 17

EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired Holocaust survivor drama The Optimist, for a digital release on November 17, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD launch on December 18. The digital push follows the film’s wide U.S. theatrical release by Trafalgar Releasing in March. Written and directed by Finn Taylor, and developed and produced by […]

Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow14 Sept

Dove Cameron & RJ Mitte Thriller ‘Cassi’ Gets Sales Launch At TIFF Market

EXCLUSIVE: VMI International is launching TIFF market sales on thriller Cassi, starring Dove Cameron (Descendants) and RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad). From director-writer Josh Webber, the film follows Cameron’s character Cassi, “a waitress at a local diner whose life takes a dangerous turn when she romances a reclusive young mortician called Isaac (Mitte). Their love quickly […]

Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept

Canada’s Precious Metal Productions & Black Fawn Distribution Strike Genre Slate Deal – TIFF

EXCLUSIVE: Precious Metal Productions and Black Fawn Distribution, two of Canada’s buzziest indie film companies, are joining forces on a three-picture genre slate. Precious Metal Productions’ co-founding heads Canadian producer Christopher Giroux and actress-producer Ann Pirvu say the deal marks a milestone for their company which they launched earlier this year. The first project under the new agreement […]

Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow14 Sept

‘Evil Genius’ Review: Courteney Cox’s True-Crime Unpacks The Toxic Love Story At Center Of “Pizza Bomber” Case — Toronto Film Festival

“You can’t make this shit up… and most of it, we didn’t,” Courteney Cox’s latest directorial outing prefaces, an appropriate warning for the chaotic nature of the unbelievable true-crime saga at the center of Evil Genius. In Evil Genius, adapted by screenwriter Courtenay Miles from the 2018 Netflix docuseries, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (Patricia Arquette) orchestrates the […]

Deadline•Glenn Garner14 Sept