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Filmmaker Malcolm Clarke, a two-time Best Documentary Short Subject winner, is in production on Wuhan – A Season In Hell, a feature-length documentary about the ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic. The film will chronicle the initial days of the global pandemic in Wuhan's ERs and ICUs and the scale of the local…

Outrage over a perceived lack of fast action from Twitter to combat anti-Semitism has resulted in numerous high-profile figures opting to boycott the platform for 48 hours. The row was sparked by UK grime artist and rapper Wiley, who posted a series of tweets on Friday, as well as posts on other social media sites…

Suranne Jones, the star of BBC/HBO drama Gentleman Jack and Doctor Foster, is to feature in the second season of Channel 4’s female-led anthology drama series I Am. Jones will star in I Am Victoria alongside Top Boy actor Ashley Walters, as Channel 4 confirmed that it has commissioned another three episodes of the…

Fresh from splashing out $2.2BN on Endemol Shine Group, it seems that Banijay’s hunger for acquisitions is not yet sated, as it enters talks to acquire Australia’s Seven Studios. Deadline understands that France’s Banijay is in early talks with Seven Network's parent company Seven West Media over a potential deal. The…

Academy Award-nominated Luca Guadagnino’s TV series We Are Who We Are is to premiere on HBO on September 14, and will also be available to stream on HBO Max. Starring Chloë Sevigny and newcomers, including Jack Dylan Grazer and Jordan Kristine Seamón, We Are Who We Are is a coming of age story about two American…

ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) has expanded the roles of four executives in its youth and entertainment team, reporting to Kerry Taylor, executive vice president of youth and entertainment brands. Kelly Bradshaw, vice president and brand lead for MTV UK, Northern and Eastern Europe, will become vice president…

Netflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series from The Witcher universe. Blood Origin will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the streamer’s series The Witcher. Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, the show will chart the origins of the very…

(Press Association) Johnny Depp's memory of his "disgraceful conduct" towards Amber Heard is "so severely impaired by drug use" that he may not have been aware of the extent of his "violence and terrifying behavior," the High Court has heard. Lawyers for The Sun newspaper said there is a "wealth of evidence" to…

The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival will be announced tomorrow morning in Rome, but today it was unveiled that Chloe Zhao's upcoming feature Nomadland has been set to world premiere on September 11 on the Lido. It will also have a simultaneous screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, both of…

Paapa Essiedu, one of the breakout stars of BBC/HBO’s I May Destroy You, and Gangs Of London actor Joe Cole have joined the cast of ITV’s Black Lives Matter-inspired drama shorts series Unsaid Stories…. Deadline last week revealed the four-part anthology series, which will be made by Greenacre Films, the producer…

Shahid VIP, the premium Middle East streamer run by MBC Group, will begin premiering Arabic feature films prior to their theatrical release for the first time. The endeavor will star with the exclusive premiere of Mohamed El Adl's Saheb El Makam, which will debut on the platform on July 30, the first day of Eid…

A new version of RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming to the Netherlands later this year via format owner World Of Wonder, broadcaster RTL and Dutch firm Vincent TV. Drag Race Holland (8×60') will feature ten Dutch drag queens who take part in weekly challenges where the bottom two face-off against each other in a lip-synch…