International

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Amani Ballour, the courageous subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave, has been granted a visa to enter the United States in time for the Academy Awards, Deadline has learned. Amani, whose efforts to run a subterranean hospital in the besieged Syrian city of Eastern Ghouta are documented in…

Just because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been quiet about its inner workings—a museum fund-raising announcement here, an Oscar press release there—doesn't mean it's been quiet inside. Every once in a while, rumblings from the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters are loud enough to be heard out…

EXCLUSIVE: Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles, New York and London based production and management outfit that has credits include The Accountant and Ozark, has boosted its ranks by hiring UK talent manager Iona Maclean. Maclean links up with the company having been running her own banner, Iona Maclean…

The sinking of the Sewol ferry has left a scar on the psyche of South Korea, more than five years after the devastating tragedy occurred. On the morning of April 16, 2014 the passenger ship with 476 people on board, including hundreds of school kids, began listing dangerously. Relatively quickly the vessel tipped over…

EXCLUSIVE: The Legend Of Buster Scruggs and Harry Potter actor Harry Melling is the latest to join the cast of Joel Coen’s update of Shakespeare classic Macbeth. We hear production is due to get underway in mid-February. Melling will take on the role of Malcolm, a son of former Scottish king Duncan, and a threat to…

Foundation, the Apple original drama with Jared Harris and Lee Pace that's based on Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel trilogy, is set to become Ireland's largest-scale production ever. At a press briefing in Dublin today, national funding body Screen Ireland talked up the country's production slate for 2020, noting…

Bectu, the UK union that represents entertainment workers, has asked for a sit-down with awards body BAFTA to discuss a proposal that it believes would effect "substantial change" in the industry's diversity. Philippa Childs, head of Bectu, wrote to BAFTA chief executive Amanda Berry earlier this week to express…

Kim Shillinglaw has become the latest executive to down tools at Endemol Shine Group. The director of factual for Endemol Shine UK is leaving after three years at the business. Shillinglaw, the former BBC Two controller, joins formats chief Lisa Perrin and Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones in…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has achieved something few could have predicted a couple of years ago: it has revved new life into the faltering global brand that was Top Gear — and in doing so, proved that there is enough room on the road for more than one big car show. The chemistry between new hosts Andrew Flintoff, Chris…

Jörn Donner, the prolific Finnish producer and director whose credits included Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning Fanny And Alexander, has died at the age of 86. Reports in local news were followed today by a statement released by the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the biggest film event in the region, mourning his…

After weeks of UK government press briefings dripping poison on the BBC’s funding model, Boris Johnson appears ready to push ahead with plans that could weaken the corporation’s ability to collect its licence fee revenue. It means one of the prime minister’s first domestic policies since winning a thumping majority in…

Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Netflix’s Marriage Story, Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit and Lionsgate’s Knives Out were among the film winners as the Casting Society of America handed out its 35th annual Artios Awards for film, TV and at separate ceremonies across two continents. Check out the full list of winners…