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Morgan Matthews' upcoming road movie 500 Miles, starring Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy and buzzy teen actor Roman Griffin Davis, has sold to multiple territories for Beta Cinema, following its launch at the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) last month. The film has been acquired for Australia…

Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) has posted a record of number of visitors for its 2024 edition, with more than 12,000 professionals from 143 countries attending this year. But there was a 3% dip in registered buyers to 1,263, against 1,302 in 2023. There was talk this year among TV…

Kevin James (The King of Queens) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) have been set to lead action-comedy Playdate, which will be directed by Luke Greenfield (The Girl Next Door) from a script written by Neil Goldman (Shrinking). The film follows a down-on-his luck man, Brian (James), who was just fired from…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere today at the Berlin Film Festival, Cohen Media Group has secured all North American distribution rights to Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger. Martin Scorsese narrates the film, which is directed by Emmy winner David Hinton. CMG…

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory has wrapped principal photography on hybrid drama Mosolov's Suitcase after a near six-year struggle to complete the production in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and then the war in Ukraine. Deadline can reveal the first trailer which has been…

The bad news might coming to an end…. and at this point that counts as good news for the global TV drama business, analysts say. Laying down the stats at the Berlinale Series Market, Ampere Analysis' Richard Broughton declared that overall spending on TV content will increase this year after…

BBC Making Sarah Everard Documentary The BBC is making a documentary about the investigation into the tragic murder of Sarah Everard, which led to a major reckoning over misogyny and bad behavior in London’s Metropolitan police force. Sarah Everard: The Search For Justice looks into Everard’s murder…

A group of pro-Palestinian supporters staged a protest against Israel’s ongoing military action in the Gaza Strip in the main Gropius Bau venue of the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market on Sunday. About 50 people entered the ground floor of the main atrium shouting, “Stop the genocide&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: After we broke news of the studio acquiring Margot Robbie starrer Big Bold Beautiful Journey, we can reveal that Sony Pictures has boarded another of the European Film Market’s most in-demand projects: Past Lives director Celine Song’s next movie, Materialists, which A24 is selling. In…

Rumours have been swirling here at the European Film Market in Berlin that a market later in the year, the American Film Market, is moving location. Sources close to AFM organizer IFTA confirmed to us this morning that Las Vegas is one of a few options on that table at the moment. So is last year’s…

Having championed the cause of animals in farmyard doc Gunda, Victor Kossakovsky is making a fresh appeal to the world through new work Architecton: stop using concrete. The visually arresting documentary, world premiering in Competition at the Berlinale, explores how unsustainable modern building…

EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has unveiled key deals for Mascha Halberstad’s CGI animation Fox And Hare Save The Forest ahead of its world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival's young audience-focused Generation Kplus sidebar this weekend. The company has sold the movie into more than 50 territories…