News from Deadline - February 22, 2025
 Chinese director Vivian Qu is in Berlin Film Festival’s competition this year with feminist, film studios-set thriller Girls on Wire, charting the fortunes of two cousins born into China’s economic miracle of the 1990s. Qu previously enjoyed success in Berlin... Read more... |
 The 27th Panorama Audience Award at Berlinale have been given out, with this year’s winners named as Sorda byEva Libertad (for best feature film) and The Möllner Letters by Martina Priessner (documentary). The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale section ... Read more... |
 Piers Morgan has shared that he has been harassed by a woman unknown to him in a case he likens to a real-life Martha from the Netflix show Baby Reindeer. The UK presenter told The Sun newspaper that, after he... Read more... |
 UK chart-topper Phil Collins has seemingly pulled down the curtain on his long career, saying he has no wish to make any further music. The former Genesis frontman and solo superstar, now 74, told MOJO magazine: “I keep thinking I... Read more... |
 Brendan Canty’s Cork-set drama Christy has won the Grand Prix in the Berlinale’s youth-focused Generation 14plus section. Based on Canty’s short film of the same name, the film follows two estranged brothers as they grapple with their past and resolve... Read more... |
 German director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s Hysteria has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. The film, which has received rave reviews, unfolds against the backdrop of a film shoot... Read more... |
 Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle has voiced her concerns about the rise of the far-right as Germany gears up for a general election this Sunday in which the extreme right-wing, Elon Musk and JD Vance-backed AfD party is projected... Read more... |
 George Armitage, the director known for Hit Man (1972), Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), has died. He was 82. The writer, director and producer died last Saturday, Deadline has confirmed with his former agency Gersh. A cause... Read more... |
 FRIDAY PM: Neon’s The Monkey is headed to the Oscar winning indie distributor’s second highest opening of all-time between $12M-$14M after what’s shaping up to be a Friday that’s north of $5M at 3,200 theaters. That’s good enough for second... Read more... |
 The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are set to take place Sunday, February 23 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, in a ceremony streaming live on Netflix. The ceremony, to be hosted by Kristen Bell,... Read more... |