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.
Ukrainian producer and director Alexander Rodnyansky has pulled his work Notes of a True Criminal from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in response to its decision to exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films from this year's edition.
"My film is not…
EXCLUSIVE: Quantify has boarded international sales rights to Nastasya Popov's buzzy SXSW comedy Idiotka as it revs up for its debut at the American Film Market.
The film, which premiered to rave reviews at SXSW, stars Anna Baryshnikov and Camila Mendes, with Julia Fox, Benito Skinner, Owen…
EXCLUSIVE: Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones), Cameron Crovetti (The Boys), Sarah Bolger (Mayans M.C.) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) are set to star in creature horror thriller Claire.
Producers Matthew R. Cooper and Anna Dragoo of Objectively Good Media (OGM), along with Sterling Beaumon and…
Actor and director Alex Lutz touches down in L.A. this weekend for the Northern American Premiere of romantic drama Connemara at The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) on Saturday evening, after which he will participate in an onstage conversation.
The work, which world premiered in Cannes…
An under-wraps film project by Woody Allen has secured €1.5 million ($1.7 million) in funding from Madrid’s regional government, sparking rumors that the director is set to shoot a long-gestated feature in the Spanish capital.
Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Madrid’s regional government…
EXCLUSIVE: Â Three-time Oscar nominated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is in the running for an Academy Award once again with biopic Franz exploring the life of enigmatic Czech writer Franz Kafka, which is Poland's entry this year.
Cohen Media Group, which we announced last week had acquired…
France’s Les Arcs Coproduction Village has unveiled the 18 European feature film projects selected for its 17th edition in December.
The lineup includes upcoming films by Lina Soualem, Arman T. Riahi and directorial duo Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov. (scroll down for the full…
EXCLUSIVE: Janus Films has set a January 30, 2026 release date for Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason's family drama The Love That Remains and unveiled its trailer for the film.
The work captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and…
Beta Cinema has taken international sales rights for drama Lapland War, about a group of Finnish youngsters as they grapple with their country's changing allegiances during World War Two, for an AFM launch.
It is the latest film by Finnish director Aku Louhimies, who is best known for the 2017…
EXCLUSIVE: Quantify has acquired worldwide sales rights to the YA adventure thriller The Queen's Jewels, starring Carson Rowland, Katherine McNamara, Michael Evans Behling and Natalie Martinez, for an AFM launch.
It will mark the first AFM for the film sales and distribution company which officia…
Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Artistic Director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), has confirmed its decision to become the first major film event to officially exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films and explained the process and thinking behind the move.
The…
EXCLUSIVE: Rita Ora and Ella Purnell have been unveiled for the lead voice cast roles of Harald Zwart's animated viking girls adventure ViQueens as Sola Media gear up to launch sales at the AFM.
Billed as a high-energy adventure-comedy, ViQueens follows two fearless Viking girls, Ingrid…