The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has whittled down a field of 86 eligible films for this year's Best International Feature Film Oscar to a shortlist of 15 — see the list below. The group now will advance to the next round of voting to determine the eventual field of five…

Awards hopefuls, an Indian film, an anime compilation and a slasher reboot populated the indie film box office as Eternity and Hamnet rounded out the domestic top 10 with Bollywood's Dhurandhar. Demented Santa is back in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Neon's The Secret Agent continued strong, The Met: Li…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year's most talked-about movies continues with The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto), Neon’s thriller from writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho. The film premiered as in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the…

Vertical's searing drama Rosemead, Lucy Liu's first solo starring role, ginned up $50.2k from an exclusive run at NYC’s AMC Lincoln Square, one of the top per-theater openings of the year. The actresss, also a producer on Rosemead, did double duty this weekend at the indie film box office in…

Just before lockdown struck in 2020, the Best International Feature Film category was about to break wide open, with South Korea's surprise Best Picture winner Parasite bringing director Bong Joon Ho a near-unprecedented haul of four statuettes, from six nominations. The film's success was across the…

Kleber Mendonça Filho is in the thick of the awards season trail as he campaigns with his Brazilian Oscar entry The Secret Agent, but he is already thinking about his next film. The Brazilian director told Deadline on the red carpet at the opening night of Marrakech that it will be a drama set…

TIFF People's Choice Award Winner Hamnet, Cannes-decorated The Secret Agent and afterlife romcom Eternity have settled into theaters for the Thanksgiving frame with Friday set to usher in another wave — from Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing With Feathers and smaller indies like buzzy Sundance…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the plot of the movie The Secret Agent. The Secret Agent, Brazil’s official selection for the International Feature Film race at next year’s Oscars, recently opened in that country, a special moment for its writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho…

Neon on Thursday unveiled the official trailer for writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s buzzy period political thriller The Secret Agent, which won the Best Director prize for Filho, Best Actor for star Wagner Moura and the FIPRESCI prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The distributor…

EXCLUSIVE: Wagner Moura, star of Kleber Mendonça Filho's acclaimed Cannes Film Festival award-winner, The Secret Agent,  is scared of AI and how to deal with it. "Especially," he warns, "the idea that the truth as we know it, it’s kind of over. That scares the s**t out of me." He worries that…

Celebrating its ninth edition this year, Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF), founded by Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke, has become a key event for promoting Chinese cinema at home and overseas, as well as bringing international cinema to Chinese audiences.  Held at Pingyao Festival Palace…

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent has been submitted as Brazil’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th annual Academy Awards. The film was picked this afternoon by the Brazilian Cinema Academy. The Secret Agent is led by Wagner Moura and also stars Maria…