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Contenders Documentary Deadline’s Full Coverage

Deadline’s awards-season weekend wrapped today with our showcase of a cross-section of nonfiction films in this year’s wide-open documentary race, with titles touching on the topics of war, politics, art, social justice and more. Click to read all of Deadline’s written coverage, and check back Monday when we launch the event’s streaming site with all the panel videos.

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Triggerfish & UNESCO Look To Address Gender Disparity In African Animation Through Creators Lab Initiative

EXCLUSIVE: Triggerfish, the Cape Town-based producer behind Disney+ series Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, and UNESCO are launching a program for African women in animation. The South African toon house has teamed with the United Nations organization to launch The Creator Labs, which will seek to…

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Paramount’s Channel 5 Increases Operating Profit In 2023 But Takes Hit On Huge $200M Payment To Viacom Interactive Subsidiary

Paramount UK network Channel 5 saw turnover and operating profit rise last year but made an overall loss of £159.5M ($200M) due to a one-off payment to a Paramount Global subsidiary. According to its full-year 2023 results posted on Companies House, the loss was solely down to an investment in Viacom…

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Sky Gives First Peek At Matt Smith Playing Bunny Munro In Adaptation Of Cult Nick Cave Novel

Matt Smith is as you’ve never seen him before playing Bunny Munro in Sky’s adaptation of the cult Nick Cave novel. Check out this first-look image (above) of the former Doctor Who star as the titular character. Smith can be seen complete with cigarette in a laundrette alongside newcomer Rafael Mathé…

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Streamer Profit Set To Seriously Outpace Subs Growth Over Coming Years – Report

The streamers’ newly-discovered drive to prioritize profit over subs will soon be felt in the landscape in a big way, according to an Ampere Analysis report. The firm’s latest deep dive into the SVoD world found that subscription streaming revenues are expected to grow almost three times faster than…

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‘African Queens: Cleopatra’ Director Tina Gharavi Options Icelandic Bestseller & Tees Up International Crime Thriller Series ‘The Fox’

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA and Sundance-nominated Tina Gharavi has optioned Icelandic bestseller ‘Refurinn’ and is adapting it as crime thriller that will be a UK-Iceland co-production. Gharavi helmed Jada Pinkett Smith's four-part Netflix docudrama African Queens: Cleopatra and is currently directing Virginia Woolf…

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‘My Driver And I’ Team Basks In Emotional Reaction To Coming-Of-Age Story & Praises Evolution Of Filming In Saudi Arabia – Red Sea Studio

Title: My Drvier And I Director: Ahd Kamel Red Sea Section: Arab Spectacular Logline: Salma is a young, privileged, and rebellious Saudi girl whose family hires a Sudanese man named Gamar to drive her to and from her day-to-day activities. Initially adhering to a simple employer/employee…

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Tuba Büyüküstün Talks Strength Of Female Stories In Turkey & Says She’s “Not Sure” There Will Be A Third Season Of ‘Another Self’ — Red Sea Studio

Turkish star Tuba Büyüküstün said that female-led stories are prevalent in her culture and that has enabled her to play "strong" female characters throughout her prolific career. "In Anatolian culture, we have really strong women stories and women are really important to our culture," she said at…

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Brendan Fraser Talks Working In Japan For ‘Rental Family’, Playing Dwight D. Eisenhower In ‘Pressure’ & Why He Still “Pinches” Himself About ‘The Whale’ Oscar Win — Red Sea Studio

Brendan Fraser is coming off the back of shooting two films this year – Searchlight's Japanese comedy Rental Family and StudioCanal and Working Title's D-Day movie Pressure – and the Oscar-winning actor touched down at Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to talk about both. Speaking…

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Daniel Dae Kim On Bridging Cultures & How ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Has Made Him “Cool With The Kids” – Red Sea Studio

Red Sea Film Festival juror Daniel Dae Kim said he's enjoying being exposed to "great talent" from the region here in Jeddah when he stopped by the Deadline Studio for a chat this week. In the video above, he also speaks about "making the world a little bit smaller" through international collaboration…

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Kennedy Center Honors Features Salutes To Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead And Bonnie Raitt — And A Sendoff To Joe Biden

At Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro each appeared on stage to give special tributes to Francis Ford Coppola, while Al Pacino called him a trailblazer willing to break the first rule of Hollywood: Never put your own money in your movie projects. Julia…

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Cover Story: Eggers, Depp, Hoult & Dafoe Reveal Devil In The Detail Behind ‘Nosferatu’

The Craft Of ‘Nosferatu’: Editing, Cinematography, Score Brought “Originality & Darkness”

‘Dìdi’ Star Joan Chen On Embracing Vulnerability Through Acting And Motherhood

‘Oh, Canada’s Richard Gere And Paul Schrader Explain Why Their Reunion Took So Long

Omar Miller On “Enlightening Experience” Making ‘Naples To New York’; Says Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ “Is Gonna Be A Whopper” – Red Sea Studio

"This is one of the few times as an actor where you sign up for one film and end up making another film, but that other film is better than the film that you thought you signed up for," star Omar Miller enthuses in the video above, talking about Gabriele Salvatores' Naples to New York which is playing at…

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Director & Producers Of Red Sea Competition Title ‘Red Path’ On Portraying “The Struggle Of Kids Dealing With Trauma” & Challenges Of Shooting In Remote Locations — Red Sea Studio

Title: Red Path Director: Lotfi Achour Red Sea Section: In Competition Logline: When a group of jihadists attack two young shepherds, 13-year-old Achraf is obliged to bring the head of his cousin, Nizar, to the family as a macabre message. Traumatized, Achraf finds his cousin's ghost is…