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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…

The Grand Jury Prize for International Competition at Sheffield DocFest has gone to At the Door of the House, Who Will Come Knocking, the feature directorial debut of Maja Novaković, a filmmaker from Bosnia-Herzegovina. A clearly overwhelmed Novaković accepted the award at a ceremony Sunday evening…

Surrendering to pressure from several music acts and an ad-hoc movement, Barclays has suspended its sponsorship of all 2024 music festivals organized by Live Nation in the UK. The festivals now without Barclays backing include such popular events such as Download, Latitude, and the Isle of Wight…

International documentary filmmakers and industry reps are gathering at Sheffield DocFest in the U.K. at a moment of political tumult in Europe. British voters head to the polls for a general election on July 4; in France, President Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called snap legislative…

Robert De Niro feels he's been extremely "fortunate to wind up with Marty" for all these years, and Martin Scorsese returned the compliment as the actor and director sat down after a screening of Mean Streets, the 1973 film that marked their first collaboration, and Scorsese's breakout. They went on to…

Australian director Adam Elliot 's stop-motion picture Memoir of a Snail has won the top Cristal prize for best feature at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The movie gathers a starry cast led by Succession star Sarah Snook, who lends her voice to protagonist Grace Puddle, a young…

This four-part, so-far-untitled documentary series about the rise and rise of Hollywood's least likely marquee-name director starts out with a tribute from Christopher Walken that will be very hard for the next three instalments to match. In that inimitable… sta-cc-a-to… WAY… of his, the Sleepy Hollow…

The 2024 Tribeca Festival kicked off June 5 with the world premiere of the documentary Diane Furstenberg: Woman In Charge, launching the 12-day New York-set fest that features narrative and documentary competitions as well as a slew of A-list panels that always seem to make news. Among the 108…