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Micheal Ward, the British actor known for his roles in the Netflix series Top Boy and Steve McQueen's Small Axe, has been found not guilty of rape and sexual assault following a trial in London.  Ward was accused of raping a woman in the back of a Mercedes after meeting her at a New Year’s party…

Anthony Hopkins has signed a record deal with classical music label Decca Classics and will release a collection of recordings through the label next month.  The project has been titled Life Is A Dream and will feature compositions written by Hopkins and performed by Gustavo Dudamel and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to Revolutionaries Never Die, the latest feature from Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi, set to debut in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente competition at this year's Locarno Film Festival.  The film's synopsis…

EXCLUSIVE: The Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank, also known as Afreximbank, has officially launched its much-talked-about $1 billion Pan-African Film Fund, with publishing veteran Lavaille Lavette signed on to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the new venture.  Afreximbank has…

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Daniel Stisen (Last Man Down) have joined Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire) in Angels In Darkness, the neo-noir fantasy thriller directed by Ali Zamani. The feature is produced by Zeus Zamani and April Kelley, with Uncorked Entertainment distributing. The…

David Chase is currently in development on Project: MKUltra, a limited series at HBO that will chart the story of a secret mind control program operated by the CIA in the 1950s and '60s. The show will be Chase's first series since his groundbreaking hit The Sopranos. But why has it taken the New…

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Promises industry strand has unveiled the winners of its project showcase, which ended this evening. Scroll down for the full list of winners.  This year's edition featured 38 film and series projects that were presented to industry figures. The…

Ben Jackson and Katie Sinclair of Riff Raff Entertainment were keynote speakers this afternoon at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival's industry sidebar, where they discussed their boutique label, which Jackson launched with Jude Law in 2017, including some of the projects on their slate.  Jackson…

Moritz de Hadeln, a pioneering industry professional who led the Berlin, Venice and Locarno Film Festivals, died July 4 of complications from a scheduled medical procedure. He was 85. Reps close to de Hadeln's family confirmed the news to Deadline. De Hadeln was born in the UK city of…

EXCLUSIVE: Vera Drew's Trandemic is the first recipient of the Transgender Film Center Found Footage Feature Fund award. Drew's project was selected from an applicant pool following a multi-stage review process. Applications were first evaluated by the Transgender Film Center and partner…

"The fact that your movie doesn’t find distribution doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have an audience," producer Juan de Dios Larraín (A Fantastic Woman, The Eternal Memory) concluded this afternoon during a panel on the second day of Karlovy Vary's industry forum.  "Every movie has an audience…

There's an interesting flair to the work of the British documentarian Andy Mundy-Castle. In White Nanny Black Child (2023), he traces the legacy of Britain's so-called farming experiment, where thousands of Black children from West Africa were adopted by white English families between 1955 and 1995…