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Felonious Gru and his brood return to the big screen July 3 in Illumination and Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me 4, seven years after its predecessor and two years after spinoff prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. Co-directors Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage touched down at the Annecy International…

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-joon will head to Italy for this year’s Lucca Comics & Games festival. The trio will meet fans and to news about the highly anticipated second season of the Korean survival thriller on October 31 in the striking Tuscan city of Lucca…

EXCLUSIVE: The back and forth over the prospect of a hot-button film on the formative years of Donald Trump is near done, and The Dish hears that backer Kinematics will soon be bought out of Daniel Snyder’s $5 million investment with a premium. Tom Ortenberg, who runs Briarcliff Entertainment and has…

Think of it as the Marché du Film, except just for documentaries. That's one way to picture Sunny Side of the Doc, the annual gathering of some of the top buyers and sellers of nonfiction content around the world. The four-day event got underway Monday in La Rochelle, the historic port city on…

Sideshow and Janus Films have bought U.S. rights for Chinese director Jia Zhangke's epic drama Caught By The Tides, following its buzzy world premiere in competition at Cannes in May. Written by Jia and Wan Jiahuan, the film follows a deeply moving love story over a 23-year time span against the…

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in August. The veteran technician will be feted with the festival's Vision Award Ticinomoda, the prize…

EXCLUSIVE: Limonero Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Blue Carbon, an innovative environmental-themed documentary produced by MAKE Waves Media that features the participation of Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Jayda Guy, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge…

The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023 produced catastrophic damage and loss of life – killing more than 55,000 thousand people and leveling huge swaths of cities. Perhaps most devastating of all was the knowledge that the destruction didn't need to be so extreme. Poor…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago entrepreneur Knowledge Beckom is teaming up with longtime friend and collaborator Lil Rel Howery to bring the inaugural Whats Funny Comedy Festival to Chicago this fall, Deadline can exclusively reveal. The festival will take place from September 16th-22nd at the historic DuSable…

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday announced the first six titles set to make their world premieres at the 49th edition, in the Gala and Special Presentation program, also naming this year’s TIFF Tribute Award recipients. Films selected thus far include R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s Disney+ doc El…

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi actor and rising star Mohammed Elshehri has signed to host the second season of MBC's reality-survival game show One Million Dollar Land (Ard Al Malyon). The show is a spin-off of Million Dollar Island, from Netherlands game show stalwart Talpa Studios (The Voice, Big…

Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of a grim day in U.K. history: the Battle of Orgreave when police clashed with striking workers at a coking plant, leaving more 100 people injured. Those shocking events are investigated in the documentary Strike: An Uncivil War, which on Monday – the eve of the…