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Turkey’s Kanal D Internatioanal Adds To Sales Team Turkish distributor Kanal D International has beefed up its international team with a new hire and a promotion. Duda Rodrigues joins to cover sales to the U.S. and Canada as well as Latin America  and Portuguese-speaking territories. With Turkish drama continuing to sell well internationally, Kanal D has also upped one of its existing sales execs. Selahattin Tosun has been made Head of Drama, Digital Partnerships, and Africa for the Turkish outfit. The outfit sells the likes of Secret of Pearls, which was a Deadline Hot One at MIPCOM. UK’s Film &…

The BAFTA Film Awards nominations were revealed this afternoon in London, with a mix of titles from studios (and their specialty labels), indies and streamers spread out across the field again this year. All nominations are led by Edward Berger’s Conclave which scored 12 total. In the UK, the papal election thriller is released by Black Bear which nabbed a total 15 nods (including three for Sing Sing). Conclave is a Focus title in North America. (Scroll down for scorecards by film and distributor.) Combined, Focus and parent studio Universal landed a leading 32 nominations as distributor for such movies…

Tony Slattery, the comedian and actor best known for his improvizations on hit comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, died today following a heart attack two days’ ago. He was 65. Slattery’s family confirmed his death to the BBC. A statement on behalf of his partner Mark Michael Hutchinson said: “It is with great sadness we must announce actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged 65, has passed away today, Tuesday morning, following a heart attack on Sunday evening.” Slattery was perhaps best known as regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the Channel 4 improv show that he appeared…

Matthew Rankin’s second feature is something of an anomaly on this year’s Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film. For one thing, it takes place in a world that doesn’t actually exist, positing a surreal fusion of east and west that transplants the earnest rustic dramas of the Middle East to the bland, snow-covered industrial estates of Winnipeg, Canada. The plot is even harder to describe, involving a spectacle-snatching turkey, a desperately dull tour guide, and an office worker who quits his job to visit his mother, all linked by the story of two young children who find a bank note…

Saying that AI was discussed at CES last week is a bit like saying oxygen was breathed during the giant tech confab. There was simply no way of avoiding the topic. For Hollywood, which has been unsettled by the rise of the technology over the past couple of years, the conversation swung from near-utopian levels of optimism to deep-seated mistrust and fear. Generative AI is widely seen as a force that needs to be reckoned with, as it poses significant ethical, financial and legal challenges, with many in the creative community nervous about job security or the future value of…

As the Palisades and Altadena fires continue to ravage Los Angeles communities, celebrities like Jennifer Garner, Paris Hilton and others are mobilizing to donate, jumpstart relief funds and volunteer. Some, like Sharon Stone and Halle Berry, are donating clothing to those who have lost their homes or otherwise been displaced amid the ongoing state emergency. Per MSNBC reporting, Garner — herself a Palisades resident of 25 years and whose home was spared by the blaze that has ballooned across over 20,000 acres since Jan. 7 — partnered with award-winning chef José Andrés’ food relief nonprofit World Central Kitchen, whose pop-ups…

UPDATED with latest: The Palisades Fire Friday night got over the ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, threatening the San Fernando Valley. That triggered a new mandatory evacuation order for an area from Sunset Boulevard to Encino Reservoir, and from the 405 Freeway west to Mandeville Canyon. That region was previously under an evacuation warning. Voluntary evacuations stretch all the way to Ventura Boulevard, covering a large swathe of Encino as well as parts of Brentwood. New evacuation warnings have been issued for areas of Bel Air, just east of the 405 freeway. PREVIOUS noon: A break in the weather…

Bong Joon-ho‘s highly anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17 is set to premiere on February 28 in South Korea, before the title’s March 7 North American release and global rollout. Starring Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie and Mark Ruffalo, the $150M blockbuster is Bong’s first feature since helming his history-making title, Parasite. Warner Bros. Korea also confirmed that Pattinson will make an appearance at CGV Yongsan in Seoul on January 20 for the first major promotional event for the film. The film’s global release dates have seen several changes. Mickey 17 was first announced for a 2024 release,…

Pritish Nandy, the Indian poet, producer and filmmaker, has passed away at the age of 73. Born in 1951 in Bihar, he produced many films such as Bollywood Calling, Sur, Kaante, Chameli and Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, among others. Numerous figures in Indian entertainment have been paying tribute to the influential figure, whose death was confirmed to local news sites by his son, Kushan Nandy. Nandy also produced comedy-drama Four More Shots Please!, which won an International Emmy nomination in 2020, and romantic anthology series Modern Love Mumbai for Prime Video. He was also a prolific journalist, serving as the publishing…

Justin Baldoni bemoaned being banished to the basement by Blake Lively during the It Ends with Us premiere, according to a purported leaked voice message he sent to his associates. The message was played in full on The Megyn Kelly Show during an interview the former Fox News host conducted with Bryan Freedman, Baldoni’s attorney. Kelly provided little context as to how she obtained the message, but Freedman said in the interview that he planned to put “every single text message, every single document” in the public domain. Freedman has repped Kelly in the past. Deadline has been unable to…