EXCLUSIVE: Moonbug Entertainment is making a move into the consumer products space with the hire of Ashley Maidy. The Riot Games industry veteran has joined the CoComelon company as Managing Director of Consumer Products. In the role, she’ll be responsible for expanding the Candle Media-owned company…

In the fuselage of a C-47 transport plane, a group of high-ranking Nazis in uniforms stripped of their insignia are facing their captors. Among them, Hermann Göring strikes up a conversation with a U.S. military psychiatrist, Lt. Colonel Douglas Kelley. "Howie here tells me you do magic," Göring says to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-nominated novelist, screenwriter and essayist Nick Hornby below writes a special tribute for Deadline commemorating Jenne Casarotto, his agent for nearly 30 years, who died on February 29 aged 77. The industry titan, who co-founded leading British talent agency Casarotto Ramsay…

Cannes mayor David Lisnard has published a blistering critique of media coverage of #MeToo in France, suggesting that investigations into cinema figures accused of sexual harassment were not dissimilar to those of East Germany's secret police into political dissidents. Lisnard made the comments in an…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Statham (Fast & Furious) has been set to lead a new action-thriller from director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest), which Black Bear is launching this week for the Cannes market. In the currently untitled pic, Statham will play Mason who lives in isolation in a remote Scottish island…

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman has joined the voice cast for French director Ugo Bienvenu's upcoming animated feature Arco about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era. Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New…

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped in Singapore and the United States on Charlotte Hong's debut feature Tropical Rain, Death Scented Kiss. The animation and live-action hybrid film is set in an apocalyptic vision of Singapore falling into a wilderness populated by spirits. A dime store romance…

‘The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’ Joins Sky In Wide-Ranging AMC Pact Sky has struck a deal with AMC Networks to bring the Walking Dead universe to the UK pay-TV service. The agreement includes the British debut of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which went out in the U.S. earlier this year…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Phillippe (Shooter) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) are leading thriller The Patient, which is launching in the Cannes market with International Film Trust. Kelly Greyson (Fortress) and David Cade (Lansky) also star in the under-the-radar project, which wrapped principal photography…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Nour Films has acquired French rights to Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi's first feature Norah ahead of its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard. The film will make history as the first ever Saudi feature to play in Cannes' Official Selection just six…

The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is gearing up for a 6% hike in attendance with numbers expected to hit close to 15,000 participants, according to projections revealed by executive director Guillaume Esmiol in the run-up to its opening Tuesday. “We’ll only have the exact number at the end of…

French actress and activist Judith Godreche is among a group of protestors who have set up a demonstration outside the CNC in Paris this morning calling for the organization's head Dominique Boutonnat to be suspended.  Images of the protest began circulating widely on social media this morning and…