EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer for The Divided Island, a doc about the ongoing ‘Cyprus problem’ that is set for a UK cinema release on November 1. Directed by Turkish Cypriot Cey Sesiguzel, and co-produced by Greek Cypriot Andreas Tokkallos, the film aims to bring an unbiased and shared understanding of…

Sharon Stone appeared at the Taormina Film Festival today, during a press conference held at the luxe San Domenico Palace (where season 2 of The White Lotus was partially filmed). Stone is in the hilltop Sicilian town to accept the Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement later this evening. In a…

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand psychedelic comedy movie The Paragon has landed North American distribution. Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing have acquired the pic, which stars Benedict Wall, Florence Noble, and Jonny Brugh (Thor: Love and Thunder, What We Do in the Shadows). From…

Germany’s Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Names New Boss Influential German funding body Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is getting a new Managing Director. Sarah Duve-Scmid will succeed Kirsten Niehuus in the middle of next year. Duve-Scmid was previously a deputy board member and head of funding at…

Hello again, it’s Insider time. Jesse Whittock here with the latest news and views from the international TV and film worlds. Let’s begin. Sign up here. Emmys: Noms & Numbers Gary Oldman was nominated for ‘Slow…

EXCLUSIVE: British producer OR Media, which has made shows for the Saudi state broadcaster and BBC, along with Tom Hollander-starring docu-feature Path of Blood, has laid off 14% of its workforce and failed to pay freelancers to the tune of what sources estimate could be hundreds of thousands of pounds…

EXCLUSIVE: The producers of a buzzy Edinburgh Festival play about J.K. Rowling's trans views are preparing for protests ahead of the show opening next month. Penned by Joshua Kaplan, a Hollywood writer whose credits include HBO's Tokyo Vice, TERF imagines a confrontation between Rowling and the stars…

Studiocanal is moving into the Big Apple. The Paris-based production-distribution house will launch an office New York City, with Anne Chérel promoted to Chief Commercial Officer to oversee the base. Studiocanal, which is in throws of making Paddington in Peru, already has an office in LA and a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found the actor set to play President Garfield’s daughter in upcoming biographical series Death By Lightning produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. British up-and-comer Laura Marcus (The Serpent Queen) will portray Mollie Garfield opposite Michael…

Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon the London Palladium stage. "That's my wife," he declared during the interval. Indeed it was. Imelda Staunton was…

Swedish-Chilean filmmaker Daniel Espinosa is feeling reinvigorated after returning to Europe to make his latest feature, Madame Luna, as well as Netflix's upcoming crime drama The Helicopter Heist. The director of Easy Money, Life, Safe House and Morbius tells Deadline: "I spent 12 years in America…

The Strictly Come Dancing dancer who has left the show over allegations of “gross misconduct” has admitted that he kicked partner Zara McDermott. A spokesman for Graziano Di Prima told the BBC that the kick had taken place following multiple reports, adding: “There is never a time when kicking, or…