The Berlin Film Festival has announced it is leaving X on December 31, 2024, after 15 years on the social media platform where it currently has 133.9K followers. The festival, which will celebrate its 75th edition from February 13 to 24, 2025, posted its decision to leave X on Monday. "The…

Belgium is approaching the 30th anniversary of the start of a dark chapter in its history in which pedophile Marc Dutroux abducted six young girls from June 1995 to August 1996. Imprisoning them in the basement of his house in the former coal-mining town of Marcinelle, the convicted sex offender…

Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova's doc Russians at War makes its North American debut in Toronto this week, following a world premiere in Venice, amid calls from Ukrainian diplomats in Canada for the festival to pull the film. The two-hour work, for which Trofimova embedded with Russian…

A24 acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Brutalist, the Brady Corbet-directed film that just won the Silver Lion award at Venice before bowing at the Toronto Film Festival. Corbet wrote the immigrant story with Mona Fastvold, and pic stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn…

The 2024 Venice Film Festival kicked off August 28 with the long-awaited Tim Burton-Michael Keaton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening the 81th edition, which runs through September 7 on the Lido. Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films.  The lineup for the world’s oldest fest also…

Just a few months after the first three-hour installment of Kevin Costner’s legacy project had its lackluster premiere at Cannes, his second slab of Western fudge has launched in Venice. There are more snow-topped mountains in Montana, more bars bathed in golden gaslight, more shoot-outs, more lines of…

Pedro Almodóvar won his first ever top A-list festival prize on Saturday evening as his English-language euthanasia drama The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, scooped Venice's Golden Lion. The Spanish director has competed six times in Competition at Cannes and is also a…

Venice Film Festival jury president Isabelle Huppert expressed support for Nicole Kidman after the actress was unable to accept her Best Actress prize for Babygirl in person, due to her mother's death. Kidman had traveled to Italy to receive the award but had to get back on a plane shortly after…

Babygirl writer-director Halina Reijn accepted Nicole Kidman’s Best Actress accolade at the 81st Venice International Film Festival awards ceremony on the star’s behalf, as the Oscar winner had to step away from the event following her mother’s death. “Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly…

The Venice awards ceremony had a political edge on Saturday evening as multiple winners used their acceptance speeches to express sympathy for the Palestinian people and condemn Israel's military campaign in Gaza. "As a Jewish American artist working in a time-based medium, I must note, I’m accepting…

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion main prize. Jury president Isabelle Huppert and her jury were on hand to bestow the Golden Lion along with the other main prizes. Scroll down to see the list of laureates. Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in…