EXCLUSIVE: As the Cannes market kicks into gear, leading German producer Christian Becker, How to Be Single bilingual writer-director Christian Ditter and international sales agent Rocket Science are landing on the Croisette with Momo, one of their most ambitious projects to date.  The big-budget project, which is currently filming in Croatia, is the English-language adaptation …

When it comes to keeping the momentum for storytelling, writers from hit shows such as True Detective: Night Country, Irish hit dramedy Faithless and British superhero comedy  all have different approaches for making returnable television series.  Speaking at the inaugural screenwriting festival Storyhouse in Dublin, Irish writer-actor and presenter Baz Ashmawy spoke about his …

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. Today we’re talking to UK film veterans Richard Kondal and Patrick Fischer, founders of post-production house Creativity Media and film finance company Creativity Capital. …

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a famous line from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado that is familiar to most Spaniards: “Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar,” which translates as “Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”  If there’s one Spanish company that is determinedly paving the way …

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking visual effects powerhouse Union VFX, an independent outfit based in London and, more recently, Montréal, which has spent the last …

EXCLUSIVE: It’s no secret that the independent film game is not for the faint-hearted, with the last decade seeing a number of companies and financiers collapse under the weight of the industry’s constant state of flux. But amidst the turmoil and unprecedented change, Teddy Schwarzman has been quietly building his …

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Angel, Sarah Bridge, Iain Cooke and Catherine Grieves, four of the UK’s most esteemed film and TV music supervisors, have banded together to launch 45 RPM, a music supervision collective that will be a “one-stop shop” for creatives.  The company, which is the first of its kind in the …

When British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi was watching the UK media coverage of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011, it had a profound impact on her. At the time, Shalit was an Israeli occupation soldier who had been abducted in 2006 by Palestinian freedom fighters and the first Israeli soldier …

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an empowered stay video message to attendees of the opening night time of the 73rd version of the Berlin Movie Pageant on Thursday, urging filmmakers and tradition “not to remain silent” relating to world politics as his nation approaches a 12 months for the reason …

EXCLUSIVE: When the British authorities launched its £500M ($601M) Movie & TV Manufacturing Restart Scheme (PRS) in October 2020, impartial producers breathed a sigh of reduction. The scheme promised to kickstart movie and TV manufacturing by providing cowl for Covid-related prices that was essential to getting the cameras rolling once …

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a characteristic the place we shine a highlight on key executives and corporations shaking up the offshore market. This week, we’re speaking to Krysty Wilson-Cairns, the Oscar-nominated author behind movies equivalent to 1917, Last Night In Soho and final 12 months’s Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne starrer The Good …

A number of weeks after Zar Amir-Ebrahimi gained the Finest Actress Award in Cannes for her efficiency as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in crime thriller Holy Spider, the Iranian-French actor flew to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in what was set to be one other pressing story from an Iranian filmmaker: Noora Niasari’s …