International

Sundance Film Festival is coming to Asia in 2021. The Park City event will launch a new offshoot in Indonesian capital Jakarta in late summer, showcasing a selection of titles from this year's fest in Utah. Sundance is teaming with local outfit XRM Media on the launch. A delegation of filmmakers will travel to the…

Sony Pictures Classics has taken world rights – excluding UK, France and Germany – to The Lost Leonardo, the feature documentary directed by Andreas Koefoed about the remarkable story behind the most expensive painting ever sold. The Salvator Mundi, a painting believed to be a rare work by Leonardo da Vinci, was sold…

EXCLUSIVE: AGC International has closed a raft of pre-sales on in-demand thriller Panopticon out of the virtual EFM. Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Anthony Mackie (Avengers), and Jacob Latimore (The Chi) are set to star in the Ridley Scott-execed feature, which is slated to shoot in New Mexico from July. Andrés…

BFI London Film Festival Dates The BFI London Film Festival has confirmed the dates for the festival's 65th edition, which will take place from October 6-17, 2021. Last year’s hybrid edition combined in-cinema experiences at partner venues UK-wide and an online edition for audiences at home via BFI Player. According…

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winner Marc Anthony and his Magnus Studios team are joining Sofia Vergara's animated feature comedy, Koati. The project's soundtrack, executive produced by Latin music icon Anthony and produced by Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Julio Reyes Copello, will include 10 original songs by notable…

The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal. Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed…

Prince William, the future King of England, has responded for the first time to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s brutally frank interview with Oprah Winfrey on CBS. On a visit to a school in London, Prince William turned to cameras and said: “We are very much not a racist family.” He also revealed that he has not…

EXCLUSIVE: As this week's animation event Cartoon Movie rolls on (virtually), sales outfit New Europe has picked up rights to the upcoming family animation YUKU And The Himalayan Flower. Directed by Rémi Durin and Arnaud Demuynck, with graphics by Paul Jadoul, the film is the story of the titular Yuku, a little mouse…

Indie production company Flying Fish, the newly-launched joint venture from the writers and producers of Fisherman's Friends, has signed a three-year, multi-picture distribution deal with theatrical releaser Entertainment Film Distributors (EFD). Flying Fish has been set up by Fred Films' James Spring and filmmakers…

BBC Royal Family & The Press Doc The BBC has ordered a new 2x60min BBC Two series about the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the media. The program will be accompanied by a Radio 4 podcast for BBC Sounds. Both programs will be fronted by the BBC’s Media Editor…

EXCLUSIVE: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London's Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen. The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Toumazis, a former Disney and Endemol Shine executive, is to become the non-executive chair of Snipple Group, the Philippines-based animation studio that has worked on series including Where's Waldo? and Dora And Friends: Into the City!. Toumazis’ appointment follows Deadline revealing in January that…