EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has set a Jan. 29, 2027 wide theatrical release for the Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos and Christine Ko starring Drag. The offbeat thriller comedy reps the feature directorial debuts of writers-directors Greg Yagolnitzer and Raviv Ullman. The movie…

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights to the Lewis Pullman-Maya Hawke starring Wishful Thinking, which made its world premiere at SXSW and won the top Narrative Feature prize there.     The film written and directed by Graham Parkes follows Julia, an ambitious game designer, and…

SXSW set up camp in London's East End last year with its first-ever edition in the UK. Deadline has been covering the announcements and news for this year's lineup. We also managed to pull the Director of Programming, Katy Arnander, away from the rigors of getting this year's festival in shape for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Vorteks, the genre label of Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon, has acquired international rights outside North America for Brea Grant and Ed Dougherty's horror satire Grind. The acquisition comes hot on the heels of the movie's buzzy debut in the Midnighter section of SXSW last…

Searchlight Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Matt Black and Ryan Polly's feature debut Monitor, the horror film that made its world premiere in the Mignighter section at SXSW. The film, one of the festival's buzziest, stars Brittany O’Grady, Viveik Karla, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Gunner Willis…

EXCLUSIVE: Nyle DiMarco has boarded Vanessa Joo Dumont and Nicolas Davenel’s feature documentary The Way We Move, chronicling the life and work of acclaimed American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter Amber Galloway, as executive producer. Galloway has made her mark specializing in live music…

EXCLUSIVE: Appian Way has signed on as an exec producer on Snow Leopard Sisters. The feature doc premiered at SXSW and follows snow leopard conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama as she mentors 17-year-old Tenzin Bhuti Gurung. Set against the backdrop of an isolated corner of the Himalayas, the film is…

South by Southwest Film & TV Film Festival is naming former Variety chief film critic, Peter Debruge, as Director starring April 6. He takes over for Claudette Godfrey, VP, Film & TV, who is stepping down from her role leading the SXSW Film & TV Festival after nearly 20 years with the…

The 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off March 7, in Austin and features 49 world premieres among debuts. It’s the first time the event has launched on a Thursday. Boots Riley’s sci-fi comedy I Love Boosters was the opening-night film, and other anticipated films include Searchlight's Radio…

Now that SXSW has concluded, one of the significant film trends has turned out to be movies with a strong familial connection behind the scenes. I previously reviewed Family Movie, which was directed and produced by spouses Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and featured the four main starring roles for…

SPARKSSection: Narrative SpotlightDirector-screenwriter: Fergus CampbellLogline: Cleo is new to Sparks, Nevada when she discovers a cigarette vending machine that inexplicably produces a book on Jean-Luc Godard. When she meets the Crop soon after, Cleo's morphed into a cinephile, and when she learns…

THE FOXSection: Narrative SpotlightDirector-screenwriter: Dario RussoLogline: Nick (Jai Courtney), affable heir to a wealthy rural landowner, discovers his fiancée, Kori (Emily Browning), is cheating on him and wants nothing more than to just fix the problem. One night, he captures a rogue Fox…