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EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Cailley's French box office hit The Animal Kingdom has continued its crowd-pleasing run to take the Audience Award prize at the 29th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Set in a world where human beings start transmuting into animals, The Animal Kingdom world…

EXCLUSIVE: At 94 years old, June Squibb may not be the most conventional of action heroes. But by gum, she’s the one we need. The Nebraska Oscar nominee is poised to save the summer with Thelma, the nonagenarian action comedy marking the first feature of writer-director Josh Margolin, which Magnolia…

Following its breakout as one of the more highly discussed titles of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, nonagenarian action comedy Thelma, starring Oscar nominee June Squibb (Nebraska) in her first leading role, has been snapped up for North American distribution by Magnolia Pictures. The deal came…

EXCLUSIVE: D. Smith's breakout documentary Kokomo City, a top contender for Oscar recognition, will make its debut on Showtime and Paramount+ on February 2, Deadline can reveal. The film, which has won awards around the world, will become available for streaming as part of the Paramount+ with…

The premiere of Kokomo City at the Sundance Film Festival last January heralded the arrival of a fresh new cinematic talent, D. Smith. Her directorial debut, a documentary about four Black trans women in New York and Atlanta, won two awards at Sundance and went on to earn prizes at the Berlinale, DocAviv…

In a clip from the documentary, Little Richard: I Am Everything, we hear the young entertainer singing an early version of what would become his signature tune, "Tutti Frutti." But surprise! The original lyrics were different than the ones we know today: "Tutti frutti, good booty/Tutti frutti, good booty!"…

EXCLUSIVE: After serving as the distributor for Participant and River Road’s Academy Award-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., Magnolia Pictures has taken U.S. rights to the sequel, with Dogwoof coming aboard to rep international sales. An urgent continuation of the original film’s story, the doc is…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of its August world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, the comedy Lousy Carter led by Oppenheimer‘s David Krumholtz has been picked up for North American theatrical distribution in early 2024 by Magnolia Pictures. Written and directed by Bob Byington (Frances Ferguson)…

UPDATE: CNN has scheduled the premiere of Lisa Cortés' Little Richard: I Am Everything for September 4. The network will premiere the documentary at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Cortés said in a statement, “I made this film because the story of Little Richard is the story of rock ‘n’ roll — and rock ‘n roll is…

Bam!  Kokomo City grabs viewers from the first frame as Liyah, a Black trans woman, recounts meeting with a man at her home who was going to pay her for sex. Things were proceeding as expected until Liyah discovered a gun on the man's person and concluded she faced an imminent threat. A fracas…

Christopher Nolan's mega-hit Oppenheimer features dozens of historical characters, but among them you won't find Ted Hall. And yet Hall, who went to work on the Manhattan Project as a teenage wunderkind physicist, occupies a significant place in the overall story. As a fresh-faced and idealistic youth, he…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Invisible Beauty, the Sundance world premiere documentary about the career of pioneering African American model and fashion icon Bethann Hardison. Magnolia plans a September 15 theatrical release of the film directed by Hardison and Frédéric…