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Tony-Nominated ‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Musical Sets 2028 North American Tour

Broadway’s Tony-nominated The Lost Boys musical will launch a North American tour in spring 2028, producers announced today, with the first stop at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced at a later date. A tour cast was not announced. “We’re thrilled to announce that The Lost Boys will launch […]

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Brenton Thwaites, Grace Van Dien, Emile Hirsch & Ron Perlman Set For ‘Beg The Devil’ — Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: Brenton Thwaites (We Bury the Dead), Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), and Ron Perlman (Hellboy) are to star in Beg the Devil, which Film Mode Entertainment is repping at the Cannes Market. Co-written and directed by Alex Turner (Dead Birds), the film is said to be based on the […]

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‘Outlander’ Wraps Up Series With Shocking Ending That Leaves Room For Future Continuation

The following reveals major plot points from Starz’s Outlander series finale. The series finale of Starz’s Outlander is finally available to view, and I doubt anyone is ready to see this romance of the ages come to a final conclusion. But ready or not, here it is. The first half of Outlander, “And the World […]

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‘Boorman And The Devil,’ Documentary About John Boorman’s Legendarily Ill-Fated ‘Exorcist’ Sequel, Acquired By Yellow Veil Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired North American rights to Boorman and the Devil, a documentary about the troubled production of John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic.” The 1977 follow up to the original Exorcist was a commercial and critical failure but has gone on to earn cult status. Yellow Veil Pictures plans to open […]

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Mariska Hargitay Extends Run In Broadway’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’

Mariska Hargitay has extended her starring run in Broadway’s Every Brilliant Thing by a week, and will now play in the essentially-solo show at the Hudson Theatre from Tuesday, May 26, through Sunday, July 5. Producers Second Half Productions, Seaview, and Gavin Kalin Productions announced the extension today. As previously announced, the play’s current star, […]

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‘Species’ Review: There Will Definitely Be Blood In Marion Le Corroller’s Visceral But Imaginatively Fleshed Out Body Horror – Cannes Film Festival

Blood is only the beginning in Marion Le Corroller’s Species, which follows firmly in the trail pioneered by Julia DuCorneau but brings its own thoughts to the woman-in-a-man’s-world body-horror genre. Built around a fantastic scream-queen performance from Mara Taquin, who literally comes out of her shell in ways that will not be revealed here, Le […]

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‘Elizabeth’ Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur To Direct ‘Foreign Bodies’ About Vaccine Pioneer Waldemar Haffkine — Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) is set to direct Foreign Bodies, a historical drama biopic about vaccine pioneer and bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine. Haffkine, little known to the general public, was the Ukrainian-Jewish scientist whose work on cholera and plague vaccines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries helped save millions of lives. The British Raj […]

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International Insider: Cannes Gets Cracking; Deadline Goes Local To Global; Barry Keoghan Interview

Welcome to a refreshed International Insider, folks. We’ve updated the newsletter with some new sections that make your weekly read more dynamic and exciting. What better time to roll it out than Cannes Film Festival week one? Lots on that and the other major happenings in the TV and film world to follow. Jesse Whittock […]

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Amy Jackson & Lauren Dark’s Unified Makes Production & Digital Hires

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Jackson and Lauren Dark’s UK production outfit Unified is hiring Claire Lamarra as Creative and Production Executive across film and TV, and bringing in Aidan Milburn who will work with the team on a consultancy basis across its digital expansion. As we revealed, Aftersun producer Jackson and former Film4 exec Dark launched Unified […]

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Joe Begos & WTFilms Team On ‘They Call Him Zorro’ Revisiting Iconic Hero With A Violent & Brutal Twist

EXCLUSIVE: Production and sales outfit WTFilms is joining forces with Joe Begos, known for cult horror hits such as Bliss and Christmas Bloody Christmas, on They Call Him Zorro. The partners say the picture will draw on the original writings of Johnston McCulley, who first introduced Zorro in his 1919 novel The Curse of Capistrano, […]

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‘Karma’ Teaser: Guillaume Canet & Marion Cotillard Return To Cannes With Psychological Thriller

EXCLUSIVE: Cannes habitués Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet hit the red carpet at the festival this evening with psychological thriller Karma, which premieres as a Special Screening, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser. Cotillard stars as a woman with a troubled past whose new life is upended by a child’s disappearance in the drama […]

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‘Fatherland’s Pawel Pawlikowski At Cannes: “I’m Lost Today…That’s Why I Make Movies That Take Place In The Past.”

You can never go home is how the saying goes, and Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest movie, Fatherland, illustrates that through the latter life of Death in Venice author Thomas Mann. He returns to his homeland Germany post war 1949, a place he’s fled. The director billed it as a five-day road movie, with Mann journeying his […]

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BritBox & UKTV Delve Into ‘Chocolate Wars,’ Period Drama From Sony’s Fable & Freddie Highmore’s Alfresco Pictures About British Confectionary Dynasty

Turns out TV is also like a box of chocolates. BritBox has ordered period drama Chocolate Wars (working title) alongside UKTV and Sony Pictures Television. The scripted series is inspired by a book chronicling confectionery empire-building in the 19th-century, during which time British Quaker dynasty the Cadbury family established themselves among Britain’s biggest chocolate makers. Sony-backed […]

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As British Politics Is Plunged Into Chaos, Channel 4 Unveils Timely First Look at Steven Moffat’s ‘Number 10’

EXCLUSIVE: Look away now Keir Starmer. As the UK Prime Minister’s fragile Labour government is plunged into chaos, Channel 4 has chosen a good day to unveil first looks of Steven Moffat’s political drama Number 10. The Sherlock co-creator has always been clear that he is not basing the Downing Street series on any particular […]

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Paramount’s Warner Bros. Takeover Expected To Breach Its SkyShowtime Venture With Comcast

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is expected to create complications for its SkyShowtime partnership with Comcast, Deadline can reveal. Industry sources said Paramount’s proposed ownership of HBO Max will likely put the David Ellison-run company in breach of its joint venture agreement for SkyShowtime, a streaming service available in 22 […]

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Saudi Film Commission Ups Film Incentive to 60% As Country Reboots Cinema Drive

The Saudi Film Commission has increased its film incentive to 60% as in an update of the cash rebate scheme first launched in 2021 as the country attempted to kickstart a film industry following the lifting of a 35-year cinema ban in 2017. The update, which was announced during a presentation at Cannes Film Festival, […]

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Nicky Weinstock & Andrea Bucko Partner On New Production Outfit Sweetheart Entertainment

Producers Nicky Weinstock and Andrea Bucko have partnered to launch a new production outfit that will be known as Sweetheart Entertainment. The company launches at Cannes as both Weinstock and Bucko have films in Competition strands. Weinstock was a producer on Clarissa, which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, and Bucko was a producer on James Gray’s […]

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Asghar Farhadi On Being Shaken By Iran War Events During Post Of ‘Parallel Tales’ – Cannes

Two-time Oscar winning and Cannes lauded filmmaker Asghar Farhadi expressed this morning how he continues to be jolted by the atrocities in his home country of Iran which remains at war with the U.S. Farhardi was specifically asked about by a journalist about working without limits on his latest production in France; if he had […]

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Crossed Wires Festival To Co-Curate SXSW London Track; Jamie Laing, Miquita Oliver & More Join Schedule

EXCLUSIVE: Miquita Oliver, Jamie Laing, Alice and other major British names have joined the SXSW London podcasting track through a new pact with Crossed Wires, the UK’s biggest podcast festival. Crossed Wires will co-curate the podcasting track, with the fest’s co-founder Levine hosting. Unveiled today are a pair of new additions to the program: ‘Beyond […]

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Ones To Watch: Iraqi Actress Gheed Brings A Sense On Destiny To Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Debut With ‘Atonement’: “I Fell In Love With The Story”

Gheed — an exuberant, intelligent and very funny actress so clearly destined for international fame — has, like all the greats, jettisoned her surname. Audiences at Director’s Fortnight will get a taste of the Gheed experience when she arrives with her feature-film debut, Atonement. The first film from American director Reed Van Dyk, and based […]

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen-Voiced Animation ‘Tangles’ Gets 7-Minute Ovation At Emotional Cannes Premiere As Lauren Miller Rogen Tears Up

Canadian director Leah Nelson’s feature animation Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me got a heartfelt and enthusiastic seven-minute ovation at its premiere in Cannes in a packed Special Screening on Thursday evening. Nelson was accompanied by voice cast members Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen, Abbi Jacobson and Samira Wiley as well producers Lauren […]

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Sumathi Studios Launches ‘Rihana’ Starring Jeremy Irons As Sri Lanka Raises Profile As Shooting Destination

EXCLUSIVE: Sri Lanka’s Sumathi Studios is making its debut in Cannes with female-led human rights drama Rihana, featuring Jeremy Irons in a lead role, and directed by veteran filmmaker Chandran Rutnam, known for his work as a line producer on Hollywood films. Produced by Jagath Sumathipala, the film also stars Vidhushika Ramaraj as a Sri […]

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EST N8 Takes Worldwide Rights To Bangladeshi Rotterdam Winner ‘Master’

EXCLUSIVE: Global production and sales company EST N8 has secured worldwide rights, excluding Bangladesh, to Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s political drama Master, which won the Big Screen Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sumit’s sophomore film, Master is the first film from Bangladesh to win a top award at a major European film festival, […]

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Marion Cotillard Talks Cannes Double-Duty With “Strong And Twisted” ‘Karma’, “Very Artistic” ‘Roma Elastica’ & Returning After Raising Her Family

Oscar-winning Cannes habitué Marion Cotillard returns to the festival with Guillaume Canet’s Karma and Bertrand Mandico’s Roma Elastica. These titles bring her Official Selection tally to 16 films since 2011, eight of them in Competition, including Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night and Leos Carax’s Annette. Karma revolves around a woman with a troubled past whose new […]

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Fire & Ice Media Picks Up Filipino Sports Drama ‘Bilyarista’ Starring Loisa Andalio & John Arcilla

EXCLUSIVE: Fire & Ice Media has acquired international sales rights across all territories to Bilyarista, directed by Italian-American filmmaker Phil Giordano and starring Loisa Andalio and Venice Best Actor winner John Arcilla. Andalio plays Aya, a young woman from Manila’s margins who sets her sights on becoming a world billiards champion – only to be […]

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‘To Hold A Mountain,’ ‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon,’ ‘Mariinka’ Among Big Winners At Millennium Docs Against Gravity In Poland

Millennium Docs Against Gravity has presented awards for the 23rd edition of the major international nonfiction film festival in Poland. To Hold a Mountain followed its Grand Jury Prize win at Sundance by capturing MDAG’s top prize in international competition, the Grand Prix – Bank Millennium Award. The film directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar […]

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Thailand’s Film Frame Launches Sales On ‘The Resident’ From ‘Thai Fighters’ Director Chaiwat Sitalasai

EXCLUSIVE: Bangkok-based production house Film Frame Productions is launching international sales on The Resident, an upcoming horror film from Thai Fighters co-director Chaiwat Sitalasai, here in Cannes. ‘Pie’ Rinrada Kaewbuasai and Toomtam Yuttana star in the film, which is currently in post-production for a theatrical release in the fourth quarter of 2026. The story follows […]

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MrBeast & Teamsters Poised For Showdown Over ‘Beast Games’ Season 3 Deal, Or Lack Thereof

EXCLUSIVE: Just days after inking a union deal with IATSE for production on Season 3 of Prime Video’s Beast Games, MrBeast now finds himself in a stand-off of sorts with the Teamsters. A tense dust-up this afternoon to try to solve an impasse in negotiations has seen by the Teamsters as over reach. In response […]

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‘Off Campus’ Author Elle Kennedy Revisits “Slow Burn” Romance Of Hannah And Garrett; Talks Role In Prime Video Adaptation Of Her Books

Editor’s Note: Trigger & Content Warning – This piece also mentions rape and physical abuse/domestic violence as part of the main characters’ storylines. SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the Off Campus book series. As with many a book adaptation, author Elle Kennedy didn’t want to get her hopes up too high when her Off Campus […]

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Ken Russell’s Uncensored Version Of ‘The Devils’ Receives First Public Screening At Cannes 55 Years After It Was Produced

One might argue that there’s something symbolic in the fact that the two big Hollywood studio titles screening this year at Cannes can’t be found in the Official Competition but are in the repertory Classics section. The first being The Fast and the Furious, which rode into town on Thursday night with Universal for an […]

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Tony-Nominated ‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Musical Sets 2028 North American Tour

Brenton Thwaites, Grace Van Dien, Emile Hirsch & Ron Perlman Set For ‘Beg The Devil’ — Cannes Market

‘Outlander’ Wraps Up Series With Shocking Ending That Leaves Room For Future Continuation

‘Boorman And The Devil,’ Documentary About John Boorman’s Legendarily Ill-Fated ‘Exorcist’ Sequel, Acquired By Yellow Veil Pictures

Mariska Hargitay Extends Run In Broadway’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’

‘Species’ Review: There Will Definitely Be Blood In Marion Le Corroller’s Visceral But Imaginatively Fleshed Out Body Horror – Cannes Film Festival

‘Elizabeth’ Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur To Direct ‘Foreign Bodies’ About Vaccine Pioneer Waldemar Haffkine — Cannes Market

International Insider: Cannes Gets Cracking; Deadline Goes Local To Global; Barry Keoghan Interview

Amy Jackson & Lauren Dark’s Unified Makes Production & Digital Hires

Joe Begos & WTFilms Team On ‘They Call Him Zorro’ Revisiting Iconic Hero With A Violent & Brutal Twist

‘Karma’ Teaser: Guillaume Canet & Marion Cotillard Return To Cannes With Psychological Thriller

‘Fatherland’s Pawel Pawlikowski At Cannes: “I’m Lost Today…That’s Why I Make Movies That Take Place In The Past.”

BritBox & UKTV Delve Into ‘Chocolate Wars,’ Period Drama From Sony’s Fable & Freddie Highmore’s Alfresco Pictures About British Confectionary Dynasty

As British Politics Is Plunged Into Chaos, Channel 4 Unveils Timely First Look at Steven Moffat’s ‘Number 10’

Paramount’s Warner Bros. Takeover Expected To Breach Its SkyShowtime Venture With Comcast

Saudi Film Commission Ups Film Incentive to 60% As Country Reboots Cinema Drive

Nicky Weinstock & Andrea Bucko Partner On New Production Outfit Sweetheart Entertainment

Asghar Farhadi On Being Shaken By Iran War Events During Post Of ‘Parallel Tales’ – Cannes

Crossed Wires Festival To Co-Curate SXSW London Track; Jamie Laing, Miquita Oliver & More Join Schedule

Ones To Watch: Iraqi Actress Gheed Brings A Sense On Destiny To Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Debut With ‘Atonement’: “I Fell In Love With The Story”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Rogen-Voiced Animation ‘Tangles’ Gets 7-Minute Ovation At Emotional Cannes Premiere As Lauren Miller Rogen Tears Up

Sumathi Studios Launches ‘Rihana’ Starring Jeremy Irons As Sri Lanka Raises Profile As Shooting Destination

EST N8 Takes Worldwide Rights To Bangladeshi Rotterdam Winner ‘Master’

Marion Cotillard Talks Cannes Double-Duty With “Strong And Twisted” ‘Karma’, “Very Artistic” ‘Roma Elastica’ & Returning After Raising Her Family

Fire & Ice Media Picks Up Filipino Sports Drama ‘Bilyarista’ Starring Loisa Andalio & John Arcilla

‘To Hold A Mountain,’ ‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon,’ ‘Mariinka’ Among Big Winners At Millennium Docs Against Gravity In Poland

Thailand’s Film Frame Launches Sales On ‘The Resident’ From ‘Thai Fighters’ Director Chaiwat Sitalasai

MrBeast & Teamsters Poised For Showdown Over ‘Beast Games’ Season 3 Deal, Or Lack Thereof

‘Off Campus’ Author Elle Kennedy Revisits “Slow Burn” Romance Of Hannah And Garrett; Talks Role In Prime Video Adaptation Of Her Books

Ken Russell’s Uncensored Version Of ‘The Devils’ Receives First Public Screening At Cannes 55 Years After It Was Produced

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