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Melanie Goodfellow
Senior International Film Correspondent
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Melanie joined Deadline in 2022 as Senior International Film Correspondent. She came from UK trade Screen International, where she spent a decade covering film and TV news out of France, Europe and the Middle East. She has also worked for Variety and Moving Pictures as well as the UK broadsheet The Independent, entertainment magazine Heat and Japan’s The Daily Yomiuri, working out of London, Rome, Brussels, Tokyo and Jerusalem. Melanie originally trained in journalism at Reuters and spent four years there in the mid-1990s as a reporter.
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Patrick Drahi’s Altice Group Sells French BFM & RMC Channels
The Alice Group has sold its media arm, which includes the BFM and RMC TV channels, to French Lebanese billionaire Rodolphe Saadé in a deal valued at $1.68B (€1.55B).
French media reported the sale had been announced to Altice Media employees on Friday morning, following the signing of a legally…
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Exiled Iranian Filmmakers Call Out AMPAS Over Omission Of Murdered Director Dariush Mehrjui From In Memoriam Segment
The Independent Iranian Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has written to AMPAS to protest the omission of murdered director Dariush Mehrjui from the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Award on Sunday night.
As per Oscar tradition, the Academy paid tribute to a select group of 51 film and entertainment…
Magnolia Pictures Release ‘The Animal Kingdom’ Takes Top Award At 29th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema In New York
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…
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Juliette Binoche Appointed New President Of European Film Academy As Agnieszka Holland Steps Down
French actress Juliette Binoche has been announced as the new president of the European Film Academy, replacing Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
The body said Binoche had been unanimously proposed by the members of the EFA board after Holland expressed her desire to step down in 2024.
The…
Navalny Aide Leonid Volkov Attacked With Hammer Outside Vilnius Home
Leonid Volkov, the former chief of staff of late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, was attacked on Tuesday outside his house in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Navalny's former press person and assistant Kira Yarmysh reported the attack on social media.
"Leonid Volkov has just been attacked near…
Disney+ Unveils Trailer & New Images Of Daniel Brühl As Iconic Designer In Gaumont-Produced Drama ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’
Disney+ has unveiled a proper first look of German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl as the titular iconic designer in the new show Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, produced by leading French film and TV company Gaumont.
Rush, Good Bye, Lenin! and Captain America: Civil War actor Brühl is shown sporting Lagerfeld’s…
BFI & BAFTA Unveil 2024 Participants For 10th LGBTQIA+ Mentoring Scheme
The BFI and BAFTA have unveiled the 2024 intake for its 10th BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development program, supporting six emerging LGBTQIA+ creatives working on their debuts in film and TV.
They comprise writer and performer Travis Alabanza, creative producer Isabella Bassett, actor and writer…
Record Number Of Non-English-Language Movies Take Home Oscar Statuettes
Non-English-language movies stormed the Oscars this year, with five films taking home statuettes — the most ever in one ceremony.
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari's Best Screenplay Academy Award for French-language courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall followed three past non-English-language winners…
‘Four Daughters’ Producer Habib Attia Talks Upcoming Projects & Challenges: “Tunisia’s Post-Revolution New Wave Has Matured”
Kaouther Ben Hania will make history for her native Tunisia on Sunday with its first Academy Award if her hotly tipped nominated work Four Daughters triumphs in the Best Documentary category on Sunday.
The director belongs to a generation of Tunisian filmmakers who emerged in the wake of their…
Metrograph Pictures Strikes North America Deal With Charades For Jérémy Clapin’s Berlinale Sci-Fi Movie ‘Meanwhile On Earth’
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based distributor Metrograph Pictures has acquired North American rights to French director Jérémy Clapin's sci-fi drama Meanwhile on Earth following its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section last month.
The lost sibling tale marks the first live-action feature for…
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Canal+ Group & Studiocanal Help Drive Positive 2023 Vivendi Results Amid Questions Over Split Project
A hike in subscribers for French pay-TV giant Canal+ Group as well as a successful year at the box office in France for Studiocanal helped drive positive 2023 results for parent company Vivendi, which were released Thursday evening after the close of the local stock exchange.
The media and…
HBO’s Francesca Orsi Given Series Mania Award; ‘The Whirlpool’; Banijay Launch Winners; British Animation Awards – Global Briefs
Francesca Orsi Wins Series Mania Award
HBO programming boss Francesca Orsi is to be awarded Series Mania’s Woman In Series Award and will take the stage with Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter at the Lille confab later this month. Orsi, whose slate has included the likes of The Last of Us, The White Lotus and…
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