Gregory Alan Williams Directing Pair Of Pics EXCLUSIVE: Baywatch: The American Dream and The Righteous Gemstones actor Gregory Alan Williams is to direct a pair of SAG feature films, one a family adventure and the other a thriller. Production has begun on Paw Paw and Dayja, which follows the tender…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of a big win at the Clio Entertainment Awards last night, transatlantic creative agency Silk Factory has made a trio of hires and opened an interactive production arm in the UK. Stephen Schwartz and Amanda Pulver have joined as Vice Presidents, while executive producer…

Davina McCall, the former Big Brother host and one of the UK’s best-known television presenters, has revealed that she is in hospital undergoing an operation to remove a benign brain tumor. In an Instagram video, McCall, who co-presents ITV's BAFTA-winning series Long Lost Family, said a “very rare&#8221…

Friends, Romans, Insider fans! Lend me your ears. Jesse Whittock here, back with the latest international film and TV news in the week Gladiator II released and Disney’s Indian plans came to fruition. Disney/Reliance…

Cameras are rolling on Montmartre, an eight-part historical drama set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the titular Parisien neighborhood. The drama is coming to the screen courtesy of Authentic Prod and TF1 and will star Alice Dufour, Victor Meutelet, and Claire Romain. The Banijay…

EXCLUSIVE: The recently-launched Swiss Studios is readying a slate of streamer-friendly originals, including a drama series set in a German oil town and limited series about a Swiss samurai. Launched last month as a collective of five European production companies, Swiss Studios is seeking to take…

The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled a high-powered in conversations program for its upcoming 21st edition gathering 18 leading directors, actors, scriptwriters, and producers. They include U.S. director and screenwriter Ava Du Vernay (Origin, 13th), French Oscar winner Justine…

EXCLUSIVE: A group of leading U.S. film sales companies have informed American Film Market organizer the Independent Film & Television Alliance that they won’t be returning to Las Vegas in 2025 and are prepared to set up their own bespoke market and screenings event in Los Angeles, such has been the…

The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) wrapped its 19th edition on Wednesday with a screening of E.oni’s bold coming-of-age drama Love in the Big City, which stars Kim Go-eun (Exhuma) and Noh Sang-hyun (Pachinko). Run by the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK), this year’s festival drew over 3,300…

Deadline has launched a new Awards Hub — a magazine site within Deadline showcasing awards news, features, interviews, videos, events, photo galleries and more. Head to the hub now to read the Gladiator II cover story, hot off the press from our Oscar Preview print magazine. The hub is a one-stop…

Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle has voiced support for the festival's 2024 Best Documentary winner No Other Land and dismissed suggestions that comments made by co-directors Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra at the awards ceremony were antisemitic. The festival posted the message from Tuttle on its…

Last month at MIPCOM, many regulars at the Cannes TV market noticed more American accents on the Croisette than usual. They weren’t wrong: A batch of small to mid-sized U.S. unscripted producers had made the journey across the Atlantic to find new business that simply hadn’t been necessary before the…