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The Boy Meets World cast members Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence), Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter), Will Friedle (Eric Matthews), Trina McGee (Angela Moore), William Daniels (Mr. Feeny), Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (Dean Lila Bolander), Betsy Randle (Amy Matthews), William Russ (Alan Matthews and Anthony Tyler…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans to recut the 90-minute version of the Oscars broadcast it provided to international licensees, Deadline has learned, in order to restore a key moment it had left out of the original package: the Best Documentary Feature category won by the Uk…

EXCLUSIVE: Wim Wenders' stunning documentary Anselm will begin streaming exclusively on The Criterion Channel this coming Tuesday, March 19, following its theatrical run and world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The film shot in 3D, which explores the monumental work of German-born…

EXCLUSIVE: The legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell – a staging that launched the careers of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas, among others – will be the subject of a feature length documentary exec produced by Judd…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has greenlighted a documentary on the life of NBA legend Allen Iverson from Shaquille O’Neal’s Jersey Legends, a division of Authentic Studios, and Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media. Directed by One9, the film looks at the way in which Iverson’s authentic voice and unapologetic…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead of the strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards on April 14. Check back often for updates…

Nickelodeon is speaking out following details of sexual assault and abuse revealed by one-time Drake & Josh star Drake Bell by dialogue coach Brian Peck when Bell was a child. Bell details the abuse in the third episode of Investigation Discovery’s upcoming four-part docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark…

If Vladimir Putin was watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night from his dacha on the Black Sea, his mood may have been blackened by the Best Documentary Feature category. As Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast had predicted, the Oscar went to 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov's harrowing film about the…

UPDATE, 10:55 AM: A fraud lawsuit against a documentary about Billy Preston did not stop the film’s debut at SXSW last week. Today, the multi-Emmy winning director of Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It responded to the action by Sam Moore and others, and their claims of misrepresentation by…

For the most recent precedent for Grand Theft Hamlet, you'd probably have to go back nearly 20 years, to a 2006 episode of South Park. Titled “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” it found Cartman marshaling his friends to take on a super-advanced rogue player with a…