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EXCLUSIVE: With Wednesday recently wrapping production, Tim Burton may already have his eyes set on what’s next on the feature side as sources tell Deadline he is teaming Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro on new untitled film. Insiders say the film is still in development but the plan is for Burton to direct from a script by Ishiguro. As with anything Burton related, plot details are being kept under wraps though multiple sources say it would be set in post World War II Japan. Sources also say this an original script by Ishiguro and not based on a previous or…

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based producer-financier Christa Campbell has launched film, TV and media company XTA Media, which has seed funding from London and Denmark-based private investment firm Three Thousand Capital. Campbell’s credits as a producer and exec producer include Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood, The Iceman, Leatherface, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Tesla, Red Sonja, and the Oscar-nominated documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. Until recently the former actress ran Campbell Grobman Films with Lati Grobman. According to Campbell, the new company comes with a sizeable capital injection and will acquire IP, develop original and adapted…

Reese Witherspoon and Paris-based content group Mediawan have partnered to acquire Hello Sunshine from Candle Media. It’s the latest high-profile acquisition for the burgeoning Mediawan group after Chernin Entertainment, Brad Pitt’s Plan B, and See-Saw Films. “Mediawan has built a global, independent studio by putting creators first. That has always been my vision for Hello Sunshine,” said Hello Sunshine founder Reese Witherspoon. “I’m investing alongside Mediawan and joining Pierre-Antoine Capton and his teams because this is the perfect home for this new media landscape. It’s also a homecoming. Peter Chernin and Jesse Jacobs believed in Hello Sunshine from day one.…

Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: London 2026, featuring all the panel conversations from our showcase of movies that are firing up the movie-awards season. The cast and creatives from 12 leading awards contenders appeared over the weekend at the in-person-only event, which unspooled at London’s Ham Yard Hotel. Discussions delved deep into the journey behind these awards-season projects, as stars and filmmakers revealed the stories behind their latest movies. This year’s lineup comprised Netflix’s anticipated Brad Bird feature Ray Gunn, Danny Boyle’s Venice debut Ink and Cannes buzz films La Bola Negra and Gentle Monster;…

The Bend Film Festival wraps on Sunday after presenting awards for the 23rd edition of the cinematic spectacle in central Oregon. Ramzi Bashour’s debut feature Hot Water, starring Lubna Azabal (Coriolanus), Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages), and Dale Dickey (Widow’s Bay), won Best Narrative Feature. The filmmaker, born in Lebanon and based in New York City, crafts an offbeat road trip movie involving a mother and son “stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs” in the American West. The jury, comprised of Whitaker Lader, Charlie Sextro, and Sebastián Hernández, wrote Hot Water “charmed our socks off. The film took us on…

The UK has selected Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals For A Revolution as its entry to the Best International Feature Film category of the 99th Academy Awards. The film explores Iranian filmmaker Ahangarani’s experience of exile as she rebuilds her life and creative practice in London, through five portraits of relatives and mentors, which are also expressions of resistance. The UK played an integral role in the film’s journey, serving as the base where it was written. Drawing from personal archives, home videos, street protest footage, newspapers and recorded voices, Ahangaran retraces more than 40 years of Iran’s history. From the early…

EXCLUSIVE: Miles & Juliette, the new feature from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bill Pohlad and his River Road Entertainment, has started production in Paris. The film stars Damson Idris as Miles Davis and Anamaria Vartolomei as Juliette Gréco.Joining Idris and Vartolomei are J. Alphonse Nicholson as Kenny “Klook” Clarke, Jay Reeves as Tadd Dameron, Grammy-winning musician and producer Terrace Martin as Charlie “Bird” Parker, Denny Love as James Moody, Lodric D. Collins as Max Roach, and Hubert Point-Du Jour as John Coltrane. A first-look image has also been released You can see it below: ‘Miles & Juliette’ Courtesy of River Road Written…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, based on CD Projekt Red’s best-selling action-adventure RPG. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to produce alongside CD Projekt Red the Poland-based award-winning video game developer and the franchise rights holder. Related Stories The game is set in the fictional cyberpunk metropolis of Night City in California, within the dystopian Cyberpunk universe. At the center of the game is V, a mercenary who gets reluctantly imbued with a cybernetic “biochip” containing an engram of legendary rockstar and terrorist Johnny Silverhand. As Silverhand’s consciousness begins overwriting V’s own,…

EXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall is set to join Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage in the Universal pic Naughty from director Olivia Wilde. Jimmy Warden penned the script that Wilde will direct. The project originates from a spec script by Warden. Naughty follows Mallory (Aniston), whose only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Dinklage) and convince him to testify in her divorce hearing. While unconfirmed, sources say Hall plays a friend joining Aniston on her trip to the North Pole. LuckyChap will produce, as will Wilde and Warden. EVP Production Development…

EXCLUSIVE: Keith Kjarval and Renny Harlin, the producer and director of the upcoming The Beast, have set another feature collaboration in Athina, an action thriller to shoot in Europe next spring. Written by Kjarval, who produces via his Unified Pictures banner, the film sees two estranged brothers descend into Athens’ criminal underworld in search of a missing young woman. In the process, the pair get caught between two powerful families and the violent past that once tore them apart. Kjarval and Harlin’s current film The Beast stars Samuel L. Jackson as a U.S. President who must unlock the offensive capabilities…