Industrial action ‘could come from UK actors’ union if productions move here’

Sophia Scorziello editor Midnight Pulp has acquired the North American rights to Reiki Tsuno’s debut feature “Mad Cats,” ahead of the film’s Canadian premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival on Aug. 4. Written and directed by Tsuno, “Mad Cats” tells the story of a young man named Taka (Sho Mineo), who embarks on a quest to search for his missing brother Mune (So Yamanaka).

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has picked up the BBC’s BAFTA-winning buzzy breakout comedy Dreaming Whilst Black from Big Deal Films and A24.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's first five years of marriage have been filled with family feuds, grief, career changes and a move halfway across the world to a new country.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Warner Bros. Japan released a statement on the country’s official “Barbie” Twitter account criticizing the studio’s U.S. branch for feeding into the “Barbenheimer” craze on social media.

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s new strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track. So we’re going to do the hard work for you.

EXCLUSIVE: David Cornwell, the British spy better known to the world under his pen name John le Carré, reveals secrets of his extraordinary life in a documentary directed by nonfiction filmmaking legend Errol Morris.

Idris Elba and Richard Madden has topped the Netflix UK film chart.Bastille Day, directed and co-written by James Watkins, was released on the streaming service this week and has quickly become a hit on the platform. In the US, the film is titled The Take.An official synopsis reads: “After a mix-up lands him in hot water, skilled pickpocket Michael Mason (Madden) is forced to help a no-nonsense CIA operative (Elba) track a terrorist group in Paris.”Other cast members include Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Reilly, Jose Garcia, Thierry Godard, Anatol Yusef, Eriq Ebouaney and Arieh Worthalter.When it was released in 2016, Bastille Day received a mixed reception from critics, with the film earning a 48 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes.Gonna check out BASTILLE DAY because Netflix keeps putting it in my face whenever I start up that app and I'm too weak to think for myself pic.twitter.com/HDKg2GdRd8— Jon Ẉalmsley (@ArghZombies) July 19, 2023Watched a great thing on Netflix last night with Iris Elba, Bastille Day.It was really good actually.— TFRM (@Bondson007) July 20, 2023The star appeal of Elba and Madden, however, is likely attracting Netflix subscribers to the film. Earlier this year, the former starred in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Grateful Dead fans and merch collectors alike will want to pick up a new Deadhead-inspired action figure, that features one of the band’s most enduring motifs. An officially-licensed collaboration between Grateful Dead and merch company Super7, the action figure highlights the Uncle Sam skeleton inspired by the band’s song, “U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Indonesian genre specialist Timo Tjahjanto has begun production on “The Shadow Strays,” a new action film project. Tjahjanto is one half of a writing-directing pair with Kimo Stamboel that are colloquially known as the Mo Brothers and previously delivered “Headshot.” However, it was as a solo director that Tjahjanto (“May the Devil Take You Too,” “The Night Comes for Us”) was signed to a multi-film deal with Netflix in 2022. He delivered his first picture under that arrangement later that year. “The Big 4” debuted in Netflix’s non-English language top ten.

Netflix has announced a second feature film with Indonesian action director Timo Tjahjanto, The Shadow Strays, starring a large ensemble cast of popular young actors. 

As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the American Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) fight for better wages and contracts, they’re also requesting better picketing conditions.

Lights, camera, solidarity.

UK actors union Equity is to rally in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA later this week in London and Manchester.

Today the fight to save our ticket offices hits full speed.

Andy Burnham and other regional mayors in the north are set to take legal action over the widespread closure of railway station ticket offices, it can be revealed tonight.

While playing in the American Century Championship golf tournament, Miles Teller and Chace Crawford took a break to let loose on the green.

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Grillo action film MR-9: Do or Die has struck a North American distribution deal with Canadian outfit Swapna Scarecrow.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Netflix is to release its Japanese live action film “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” on Aug. 3. The horror comedy film is based on the hit manga (comic book series) by Aso Haro and Takata Kotaro that debuted in the Shogakukan magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X in October 2018. It has also spawned an animated series that plays on Hulu in North American and other territories. The underlying comic is a wackily original melding of the salaryman gag manga – a popular genre in Japan seldom exported abroad – with the sort of zombie holocaust story that has become a Hollywood staple.

Stanley Kubrick’s great apocalyptic Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove is being brought to the stage by Armando Iannucci, best known for more recent shows Veep and Avenue Five. 

Rachel Zegler is not letting critics damper her mood toward her starring role in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake, “Snow White”.