As the BAFTA TV Tea Party makes its return to Los Angeles, the Student Academy Awards are headed to London for the first time. Normally hosted at its Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that the 51st annual international student…

The 2024 Venice Film Festival kicked off August 28 with the long-awaited Tim Burton-Michael Keaton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening the 81th edition, which runs through September 7 on the Lido. Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films.  The lineup for the world’s oldest fest also…

Produced by El Deseo, the company owned by Almodóvars Pedro and Agustin, Luis Ortega's last film, El Angel (2018) was the gloriously kitsch, sexually mischievous, and very loosely fictionalized true story of a notorious Argentine serial killer known for his baby-faced looks and crimes so hideous that…

Pablo Larraín's Angelina Jolie-starring Maria was met with a 10-minute ovation following its Venice Film Festival world premiere Thursday night. The biopic of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, which is playing in Competition here in Venice, is a story about a woman who burned her voice and her…

Angelina Jolie has staked her claim to be part of the Best Actress Oscar conversation here at the Venice Film Festival following her well-received performance in Maria. Pablo Larraín’s biopic follows the life story of the world’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days in 1970s…

Christine and the Queens was the headline act at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympics in Paris on Wednesday evening, performing stirring versions of Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien” and 1970s disco hit “Born To Be Alive.” But the real stars of the three-hour ceremony unfolding around…

The first four episodes of Alfonso Cuarón's limited series Disclaimer world premiered Thursday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. Oscar winners Cuarón, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline were in the audience, which gave the show 6-minute, 24-second ovation at the Sala Grande. The series marks…

Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Maria, a biopic of legendary opera singer Maria Callas directed by Pablo Larraín and starring  Angelina Jolie in the title role. Attending the premiere were members of the film’s ensemble, including Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has dismissed viewer complaints about an episode of Doctor Who featuring a historic gay kiss between Ncuti Gatwa and Jonathan Groff. Two disgruntled audience members took issue with the “inappropriate sexual innuendo” that developed between Gatwa’s Time Lord and Groff’s bounty…

Sigourney Weaver is passing through the Venice Film Festival, speaking with the press and fans, after receiving a career achievement award at the Italian fest's opening ceremony on Wednesday.   This afternoon during a masterclass session with young students and journalists, Weaver shared a nugget…

Julián Ortega, an actor who starred in Netflix’s recently wrapped Spanish hit Elite, has died after reportedly collapsing on a beach. He was 41. Spain’s national union of actors and actresses confirmed Ortega’s death in an obituary this week. “From the Unión de Actores y Actrices, we send our most…

The freelance press corps at the Venice Film Festival is not happy. There's growing discontent among its ranks over the decision by a handful of big productions – such as Pablo Larraín's Maria and Luca Guardagnino's Queer – not to offer wider interview opportunities outside of the main press…