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The 2024 SXSW Film Festival kicked off March 8 in Austin with the opening-night world premiere screening of Doug Liman’s Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. It started nine days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen…

Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi's My Stolen Planet won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival today, automatically qualifying the film for Oscar consideration. The film, which held its world premiere at the Berlinale last month, combines the director's memories…

In Michael Showalter's The Idea of You, based on the novel by Robinne Lee, Amazon MGM Studios brings to the screen a narrative that tantalizes with the prospect of exploring the complexities of love, age disparity and the pursuit of happiness in the digital…

EXCLUSIVE: More citizens will head to the polls this year for elections than any other in history, and the political fever has reached Series Mania. This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM opened this year’s SXSW with a bang with Road House, and they’re going to end it tonight with another one, that being Michael Showalter’s Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine romance movie, The Idea of You. But an intriguing stat has arisen before tonight’s world premiere and…

EXCLUSIVE John Bradley didn't know what he was getting into with 3 Body Problem. The Game Of Thrones star plays physicist and entrepreneur Jack Rooney in the upcoming sci-fi epic. Speaking to Deadline, he said that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss initially told him about the character they had…

The story shocked the world 10 years ago: the Copenhagen Zoo's decision to euthanize a healthy two-year-old giraffe named Marius because they considered it a "surplus animal." CNN reported on it. So did Le Monde in France, the U.K.'s Guardian and The Independent, and the Irish Times. The New York…

Halloween is coming early this year, as Blumhouse and AMC Theatres have partnered to launch the Halfway To Halloween Film Festival, which will take place at over 100 AMC theaters in 40 U.S. cities from March 29 to April 2. Anchored by an April 1st 13th anniversary screening of Insidious, the horror…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep…

Alex Garland’s latest film Civil War, from A24 and featuring a star-studded cast including Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman, aims to hold a mirror up to a society spiraling out amongst…

One of the most anticipated movies in a contentious Red vs. Blue election year, A24’s Civil War made its grand splash Thursday night in the Texas democratic stronghold of Austin — and the media, on which this feature casts a spotlight, savored it like a stack of beef ribs. The dystopian future movie…

Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits is a poignant exploration of grief, memory and the transformative power of music, marking his foray into magical realism. At its core, this film, brought to life by a vibrant cast including Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Retta…