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UPDATE, 03/18, 4:30AM: Cannes just confirmed our scoop that the Marche will hold a virtual ‘pre-screenings’ event for industry this spring. It will be comprised of four days of online screenings at the end of May accompanied by virtual booths for sales, with access reserved for Marche badge holders, at no extra cost…

The Cannes Film Festival said Tuesday that Spike Lee will be its jury president in 2021, one year after he was due to preside over the festival but couldn’t due to its cancellation. The 74th edition of Cannes is due to run July 6-17 after being pushed back from its traditional May slot due to the pandemic. The…

Covid-19 sent most film festivals — and the rest of us — running for cover in 2020. This year, most upcoming fests are pushing their dates in hopes of running out the clock on Covid. Those that can’t are either canceling, going virtual or attempting some sort of hybrid model. With Sundance just out of the gate, we…

EXCLUSIVE: Organizers of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading film event, have told us they don’t intend to move off their usual July dates despite the new overlap with Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival this week moved off its traditional May dates to July 6-17. Popular Czech festival…

UPDATE, 01/29: The Cannes Film Festival has confirmed that the planned physical edition of its Marche du Film will run on July 6-15, concurrent with the new dates for the wider event. Registration opens March 15. Last year, the industry wing was held online in June after the cancellation of the festival. Organizers…

The Cannes Film Festival is continuing to weigh up a postponement of its traditional May kickoff until a date between late June and late July, organizers have told us. With the pandemic still causing havoc across the world and with the vaccine rollout in France not moving as quickly as hoped, a May 11 start date is…

Although the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers opted to showcase four films that were part of the 2020 Official Selection from Tuesday through Thursday this week, calling it "Spécial Cannes." It also got in just under the wire as France imposed another…

The Cannes Film Festival’s "Spécial" three-day event kicked off at the Palais this evening with the Lumière theater at half capacity, and fest chief Thierry Fremaux urging attendees to “applaud at 100%.” They did, despite muted proceedings given the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Earlier this year, the 73rd edition of the…

A government-mandated curfew that was set in place in France last week has been widely extended across the country, and will come into effect from Friday night. An estimated 46M people (69% of the population) will be impacted by the new measures announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex this evening. Residents of the 54…

In a sign of unity, Artistic Directors of several major European Film Festivals gathered for a press conference here in Venice this afternoon. Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera and the others will appear on stage at this evening's opening ceremony in solidarity with the global film industry, which has been…

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, the sequel to the hit 2016 Korean horror thriller and one of the 56 titles that was part of the official selection of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will embark in North American theaters on August 7. It also landed an exclusive streaming deal with Shudder, AMC’s horror streaming…

Deadline this week sat down with a group of leading German industry professionals to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the local and international marketplace in the aftermath of COVID-19. Germany was the first European major to re-open cinemas, while some productions have started back up, but what does…