‘Second Chance’ Clip: First Look At Subhadra Mahajan’s Debut Feature Ahead Of Karlovy Vary Premiere

Naman Ramachandran “Second Chance,” the directorial debut of Indian filmmaker Subhadra Mahajan, has been picked up for international sales by Thailand-based Diversion ahead of its world premiere at the 2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film is set to debut on July 2 in the festival’s Proxima Competition section. The film tells the story of Nia, a young woman from the city who returns to her family home in the western Himalayas after a decade-long absence.

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Singaporean writer and director Nelicia Low ahead of the world premiere of her debut feature Pierce at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Narrative Pictures has wrapped production on Christmas at Plumhill Manor, a rom-com set in the heart of the UK countryside.

KJ Apa and Maia Reficco go on a motorcycle ride in one of the just released stills from their upcoming action movie One Fast Move!

My Old Ass is coming soon!

EXCLUSIVE: Following the huge success of Michael Showalter‘s Prime Video rom-com The Idea of You, Showalter and Jordana Mollick‘s Semi-Formal Productions has entered into a multi-year first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

Death in Paradise's Ben Miller will be playing the character of Detective Superintendent Richard Groves alongside Anne-Marie Duff and Dominic Cooper.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent France’s Les Films du Losange is taking international sales outside Italy on “Sicilian Letters” (“Iddu”), the hotly anticipated drama about Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro – who was dubbed “the last godfather” – directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (“Sicilian Ghost Story”). “Sicilian Letters” pairs two top Italian actors — Elio Germano, who plays Messina (see first-look image above) and Toni Servillo (first-look image below) as his antagonist Catello, a shady secret services operative — working in tandem for the first time.

A new luxury hotel is set to open its doors in Prestwick next month.

Kym Marsh has told her mum she 'knows' her dad is with her as she kicks off her latest role. The actress and presenter has recently started her stint playing iconic Disney villain Cruella De Vil in the stage version of 101 Dalmatians.

Claim to Fame season three will be premiering in just a couple of short weeks!

UPDATED: We’re seeing the first footage of Batman: Caped Crusader, the new series from Matt Reeves, JJ. Abrams and Warner Bros. Animation. We’re also hearing for the first time, the voice of Hamish Linklater as the Dark Knight himself.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Peruvian director Paolo Tizón‘s documentary “Night Has Come,” which has its world premiere Sunday in the Proxima competition section at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below). The film centers on a group of young men, many of them teenagers, who sign up for one of the most challenging military training courses in Latin America. The objective is to turn them into fearsome fighters operating in the dangerous VRAEM region, an area plagued by various armed groups, guarding their coca plants and engaged in narcotics trafficking.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Noaz Deshe‘s “Xoftex,” which has its world premiere July 1 in the Crystal Globe Competition of Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below). MAD Solutions is attached as the film’s sales agent. “Xoftex” is Deshe’s second feature film.

Ethan Shanfeld Alfonso Cuarón is returning to the small screen with “Disclaimer,” a psychological thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Apple TV+ released a first look image of the seven-episode series and announced an Oct. 11 premiere date.

EXCLUSIVE: Synchronicity Films is adapting Hanif Kureishi’s The Body as a series with the novelist and screenwriter on board as an exec producer and Emmy-nominated director Paul McGuigan attached. There are scripts from crime writer Robert Murphy and the producers will relocate the action from the UK to the U.S. for the series.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Actor-director Viggo Mortensen, actor Clive Owen and actor-director Daniel Brühl will be honored at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading movie event, which will open with Mortensen’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” The festival also revealed Wednesday that director-producer Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter-director Nicole Holofcener will attend the event. Mortensen, Owen and Brühl will each receive the Festival President’s Award.

EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov spent more than five years in prison in Russia for opposing its annexation of his native Crimea in 2014. 

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.

Jason Oppenheim, co-owner of the Oppenheim Group real estate agency and star of Selling Sunset, is open to having Christine Quinn return to the Netflix reality series.