Renowned Hong Kong director and producer Soi Cheang is repping his country for the first time in the International Feature Oscar category, with this year's box office hit Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. The film has made over $111 million globally since it first premiered locally in early May, and…

Household names at home but working under the moniker of Filip och Fredrik, Swedish TV hosts and journalists Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson are now in the international spotlight with their documentary The Last Journey, Sweden’s Oscar entry.  The movie follows a road trip they organize for…

More than 25 years later, Mike Myers is breaking down the basis for one of his most quotable characters. Although he admitted Lorne Michaels provided some inspiration, the Saturday Night Live alum revealed that the Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil was originally based on another more specific character…

Tunisian Oscar entry Take My Breath explores the clash between desire and identity as the life of 23-year-old seamstress Shams (Amina Ben Ismail) is overturned when their intersex identity is exposed. Targeted by an obsessive attacker, Shams escapes to the capital city and lives in the shadows, shunned by…

Although it has been the subject of many acclaimed documentaries, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has yielded very little in the way of fiction. Damian Kocur's Under the Volcano, which has been chosen as Poland's official submission for this year's Best International Feature Oscar, is unusual in that…

Spain's International Feature Oscar entry Saturn Return centers on real-life Granada indie rock group Los Planetas. However, says director Isaki Lacuesta during Deadline's Contenders Film: International event, "It's not a classical biopic. We didn't want to make a monument." In the late 1990s, Los…

Nearly two decades after the last installment, the first look at 28 Years Later raises more questions than answers — one being, “Does anyone know morse code?” Sony debuted the first poster and teaser for the zombie sequel on Friday, ahead of the Alex Garland-written, Danny Boyle-directed film’s June…

Upon being referred to as "legendary" during his visit to the Deadline Studio at the Red Sea Film Festival this week, Oscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas good-naturedly joked, "I guess legendary is what happens when you get old enough."  Now 80, Douglas has long been worthy of the…

Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz taps into his country's zeitgeist with contemporary drama Life (Hayat), starring Miray Daner as a young woman who runs away to Istanbul to escape an arranged marriage but still struggles to break free of male domination. Her jilted fiancé Riza (Burak Dakak)…

More than 20 years later, the world is looking back on one of Keira Knightley‘s breakout roles through a new lens. Although audiences have come to see her Love Actually scene with Mark’s (Andrew Lincoln) cue cards as less romantic over the years, the 2x Oscar nominee admitted she thought it was a…

After two decades as a leading costume and set designer in Greece, artist Eva Nathena has stepped behind the camera to direct her first feature with Murderess.  Based on Alexandros Papadiamantis' popular novel The Murderess — a seminal piece of literature in Greece — the film is set in 1900s Greek…

In Dovecote, an atmospheric drama short film by Italian filmmaker and artesian Marco Perego, the camera fixates on society's often unseen citizens: the women confined to a seaside prison in Venice. Filmed inside Giudecca's working women's prison on an island in the Venetian lagoon, the story centers…