The Deadline Team

TITLE: Look Into My EyesSection: U.S. Documentary CompetitionDirector: Lana Wilson Writer: Lana WilsonLogline: A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing. Look Into My Eyes gives us an intimate…

TITLE: DEVOSection: PremieresDirector: Chris SmithLogline: Born in response to the Kent State massacre, new wave band Devo took their concept of "de-evolution" from cult following to near–rock star status with groundbreaking 1980 hit "Whip It" while preaching an urgent social commentary. Filmmaker Chris…

Season 11 of Hallmark’s longest-running original series When Calls the Heart will return in April. As Hope Valley enters the 1920s in the new season, schoolteacher Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) embarks on a fresh start – with new romance, new challenges and new style. She and Mountie Nathan Grant…

The Savages director said he made the remarks “before the film even came out” and while he was promoting his documentary Nuclear Now. Oliver Stone was clearing up his Barbie comments from last year after an interview with the filmmaker resurfaced recently. Deadline took a deserved shot from him also…

Nadia Romdhani, former Screen International and The Drum executive, is joining Deadline as Sales Director, International. Romdhani, a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in the advertising, film and TV sectors, will be based in London as part of Deadline‘s formidable…

TITLE: Every Little ThingSection: U.S. Documentary CompetitionDirector: Sally AitkenScreenwriter: Sally AitkenLogline: Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical…

When the Oscar shortlist of feature documentaries was announced in December, it was dominated by films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival – films like Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, The Eternal Memory, Beyond Utopia and A Still Small Voice.  The shortlist announcement provided…

In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, a small group of people toil in obscurity, tending to broken pegs, stuck valves, clogged tubing and damaged keys – all to restore musical instruments to perfect working order for the city's public-school students.  These dedicated professionals are used to going…

Barbie is an original screenplay, not an adapted screenplay, claims director/producer Judd Apatow. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision to classify Greta Gerwig's film is seen as a slam by Apatow, who posted last night on the matter. "It's insulting to the writers to say…

After launching the Strike Talk podcast with producer Todd Garner to give WGA strikers comfort in the early days of 2023’s labor unrest, Billy Ray is signing off. When you are an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and a director and producer to boot, you’ve got to go back to work at some point. No one expected…

Another week, another casting change on General Hospital. Lindsay Hartley on Tuesday filled in as Sam McCall while GH mainstay Kelly Monaco took some personal time. But her absence will be brief; she’s back on Friday. Hartley has filled in for Monaco before on the ABC sudser. News of…

The list of feature documentaries still in contention for the Oscars has been cut to 15 finalists, a brutal culling from a contingent of 167 qualifiers. The annual shortlist announcement leaves a handful of filmmakers celebrating, many more disappointed, and documentary watchers with much to…