Latest News

The success of Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent — which caused a splash in Cannes last year and has been making waves ever since — marks an extraordinary chapter in the history of Brazilian cinema. Dealt a cruel blow by former president Jair Bolsonaro, the country's indigenous film industry…

On the same day the 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicked off, the Academy this morning announced an impressive four nominations for one of last year's most memorable success stories. Directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote it with Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams — the decades-spanning story of a rural logger…

This year, the international category was the focus of much speculation; in addition to the obviously intense competition for the final five slots, there was a sense that this year's crop could break out into other categories. And so it came to pass: Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, Kleber…

When Ari Aster saw Korean director Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet! he felt inspired to call upon Will Tracy to write a remake. Tracy's writing credits include Succession, The Menu, The Regime and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, all of which perfectly placed him to write a screenplay about…

Odessa A'zion has shot to stardom in mere minutes — or so it seems. Just a few weeks ago, she appeared in Rachel Sennott's new comedy series, I Love LA, which has already been renewed for a second season. And now, the world is about to see her opposite Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s…

Here at Deadline we are fortunate to have the opportunity to interview some of the industry’s best and brightest. The topic of these interviews is generally fairly serious — covering the dedication to their art, diligence, persistence and love of the craft — because making art is, after all, a pretty…

For Nia DaCosta, working with Tessa Thompson as her muse has redefined Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler and made it work in purely cinematic terms. Her version is simply called Hedda, but there's nothing simple about it. The filmmaker sets the action in 1950s England, and Thompson's title character…

British actor Leo Woodall, aged 29, has smashed it playing Renee Zellweger's hunk du jour in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a heartthrob in Netflix weepie One Day and by playing leads in television dramas. Now, he excels in portraying Sergeant Howie Triest, a young U.S. interpreter tasked with…

Hikari made her name as a director in 2019 with her first feature, 37 Seconds, which premiered at Berlin. Then she went on to direct episodes of Tokyo Vice and Beef. Now, with her latest film, Rental Family, set in Tokyo, she draws on her heritage and explores themes of exclusion and isolation. In…

This year is yet another doozy for Kerry Condon. Having earned her first Oscar nomination for her role in 2023's The Banshees of Inisherin, this season, Condon is in contention for not one, but two films. In Train Dreams, the Clint Bentley-directed movie based on Denis Johnson's novella, Condon is…

Tonatiuh was born to star in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Written and directed by Bill Condon, the film is set in 1980s Argentina during the militant dictatorship era known as "The Dirty War" and centers on a pair of prison cellmates: Molina (Tonatiuh), a gay window dresser jailed for indecency, who…

Few actors have had a career quite like Sweden's Stellan Skarsgård, who became a big Scandi star in his late teens, blundered briefly into softcore porn, then nearly gave up TV and film altogether for theater. Something pulled him back, however, and the 74-year-old is now one of the most sought-after…