Melanie joined Deadline in 2022 as Senior International Film Correspondent. She came from UK trade Screen International, where she spent a decade covering film and TV news out of France, Europe and the Middle East. She has also worked for Variety and Moving Pictures as well as the UK broadsheet The Independent, entertainment magazine Heat and Japan’s The Daily Yomiuri, working out of London, Rome, Brussels, Tokyo and Jerusalem. Melanie originally trained in journalism at Reuters and spent four years there in the mid-1990s as a reporter.
An open letter, initiated by members of the French cinema world to protest tycoon Vincent Bolloré's growing control of France's media and entertainment sectors, has started to gather international support.
Organisers of the letter entitled "Time To Switch-Off Bolloré" announced a raft of…
UK director Clio Bernard has clinched the People's Choice Audience Award at parallel Cannes section Directors' Fortnight.
Starring Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew and adapted from the book of the same name by Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Light…
New York-based distribution company 1-2 Special has acquired all North American rights to Marine Atlan's La Gradiva which has just scooped the main Grand Prize at Cannes Critics Week.
The film follows a group of high school students on a class trip to Naples amid the charged landscape of…
Tilda Swinton warned that cinema needs to avoid "formulaic" work and privilege "messy, adventurous experiences" to survive in the age of AI in an onstage conversation at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
"As long as what we’re producing is not formulaic and in some way tiring for the…
EXCLUSIVE: The Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) has waded into the debate over Vincent Bolloré's growing control of the French entertainment and media sectors, sparked by the ‘It's Time To Switch-Off Bolloré' letter launched on the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, saying it is…
EXCLUSIVE: Monica Bellucci hits Cannes Film Festival this year in Léa Mysius' Palme d'Or contender The Birthday Party (Histoires De La Nuit)and Deadline can reveal a first look of the star in the dark thriller, which closes the main competition program on Friday.
Adapted from Laurent…
The 2026 edition of the Esports World Cup (EWC), which was due to take place in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh this summer, has been moved to Paris due to security concerns linked to the Iran-U.S. war.
The Esports Foundation (EWCF) announced late Wednesday that the event will run from July 7…
EXCLUSIVE: Rai Cinema is getting behind a feature inspired by a real-life operation involving Italian intelligence, elite special forces and the Foreign Ministry's Crisis Unit to evacuate Palestinian children wounded in air strikes from the war-torn territory.
The cinema arm of Italy’s state…
French director Marine Atlan's La Gradiva has scooped the top Ami Paris Grand Prize in the competition of Cannes parallel section Critics' Week.
The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies…
Félix de Givry's Adieu Monde Cruel, which debuts as the closing film of Cannes Critics' Week this evening, follows a bullied teenage boy who is left in limbo after he fails in a suicide attempt having sent out a farewell letter to his callous classmates.
De Givry told the Deadline Studio that…
EXCLUSIVE:Renate Reinsve looks set to star in Mia Hansen-Løve's eagerly awaited Mary Wollstonecraft biopic If Love Should Die, exploring the life of the 18th century English writer, philosopher and women's rights advocate.
First announced in 2024, the feature will follow the last 12 years in…
Jenna Ortega has been announced as the star of Leos Carax’s upcoming seventh feature film Lily May B ahead of its shoot next spring.
The official synopsis reads: “Once upon a time, there was a little girl, a young woman and a young boy. They each held a secret too heavy to bear. They met in an …