Author: Deadline

Spike Lee will head up the jury for the upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival. The decorated Malcolm X filmmaker will preside over the features competition jury, which last year saw Zarrar Kahn’s In Flames taking Best Feature and Farah Nabulsi’s The Teacher scoring a pair of wins including Best Actor for Saleh Bakri. Lee will also participate in the Festival’s In Conversation strand, sharing insights. For this year’s edition, the fourth, 16 features have been selected from the past year, with the winners being selected by Lee and the Jury to receive the Yusr Awards. Lee is a cinema icon who won an…

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige can hardly wait for the Fantastic Four‘s entry to in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men’s future involvement. Feige made a live virtual appearance at the opening of the Disney APAC Content Showcase, held in Singapore, talked up the future of the MCU ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ release next year. Appearing onscreen at the showcase wearing a blue Fantastic Four cap, he pointed at the hat when asked which Marvel title he was most excited for in 2025. “Finally, [we’re] bringing Marvel’s First Family into the MCU,” said Feige. “They wrap…

EXCLUSIVE: White Bird star Ariella Glaser has boarded Flavia, the Martin Freeman-starring adventure movie about an 11-year-old detective. Glaser stars as Ophelia de Luce, the sister of the movie’s protagonist, who is played by Molly Belle Wright. Freeman, Jonathan Pryce and Toby Jones are also aboard. Flavia is based on the Alan Bradley series of books centered on the pre-teen detective. The movie from Bharat Nalluri and Daisy Jones and the Six writer Susan Coyne starts with the main character finding a dead body at her decaying British manor house, with her father accused of the murder. She subsequently dives…

EXCLUSIVE: WME‘s ex-corporate strategy SVP has joined the board of Insanity, the UK agency that reps the likes of Maya Jama. Laura Edwards will become a Non-Executive Director at the London shop following five years in New York with WME, which she exited several months back. During her time at WME she worked across M&A, talent and global strategy. She used to work for Adidas and previously ran a consultancy in London and New York. At Insanity, Edwards will join the agency’s leadership team and contribute to board meetings. Insanity recently achieved B-Corp certification, defined as “businesses that meet the…

Gabrielle Union is joining a now-growing list of public figures that are leaving social media platform X. In a final post made yesterday, the Bring It On star cited changes to the terms of service, as well as the return of “volatile” individuals as reasoning for her departure. Recently, Jamie Lee Curtis also announced her leaving the Elon Musk-owned site. (High-profile accounts have trickled out in 2022 and 2023 as well, when Musk assumed ownership of then-Twitter and became CEO of X.) “There are pivotal moments in life when we must declare that enough is enough—and for me, today is…

Denzel Washington, revered for his consistent hit rate as much as his talent when it comes to movie-making, reveals he knows he made some bad choices at an earlier stage in his career.  The double Oscar winner, who stars as slave owner Macrinus in Gladiator II, told The Times of London:  “After Malcolm X [1992] I made some real clunkers. Look them up — I won’t say their names. They are all in the 1990s. But I was earning. I had responsibilities.” Washington added by explanation:  “In life, you learn, earn and then you return — as in give back. So if…

‘All God’s Children’ review: Ondi Timoner captures a turbulent but inspiring story of interfaith harmony in gentrified Brooklyn – DOC NYC

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video’s upcoming German film The Calendar Killer (original title Sebastian Fitzeks Der Heimweg) will launch on January 16, 2025, and you can take a first look at the trailer above. Based on Sebastian Fitzek’s thriller novel ‘Walk Me Home’, which topped German book charts for 11 weeks, the thriller stars Luise Heyer (Der Junge muss an die frische Luft), Sabin Tambrea (Babylon Berlin) and Friedrich Mücke (Balloon). Rainer Bock (The Collini Case), Andreas Döhler (All Quiet on the Western Front), Romy Miesner (Polizeiruf 110), Shadi Eck (Liberame), Dennenesch Zoudé (Unorthodox), Isabel Thierauch (Zwischen Sommer und Herbst), Kristin Suckow (Ottilie von Faber-Castell) and others also have roles. Pic will launch on Prime Video in 240 territories…

British theater and screen actor Timothy West has died aged 90. His children, Juliet, Samuel and Joseph, released a statement that said he said died “peacefully yesterday evening” surrounded by friends and family. West was one of the UK’s most beloved actors, known on-screen for roles in soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street, comedy-drama Brass and for Channel 4’s Great Canal Journeys, a touching series in which he traveled around the country on a boat with his wife, Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales. He also had many theater roles in productions such as Macbeth and King Lear. “After a long and extraordinary…

EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Fink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role’s being played by West End star Lucie Jones in a stage musical adapted from the beloved 2004 movie. The show is headed for an out-of-town-tryout at the Manchester Opera House, where it will run for a limited season from September 21, 2025.  Just this past April, Garner joined fellow stars from the film — Mark Ruffalo, who played Matt Flamhaff, the boy next door who Jenna doesn’t realize holds a candle…