EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights for Canadian filmmaker Reza Dahya's Toronto-set drama Boxcutter which made its international premiere at SXSW earlier this year. Ashton James (Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Youngblood) stars as Rome, an aspiring rapper whose laptop is…

Horror director Mike Flanagan has opened up about how his work has helped him deal with grief and loss. Closing the inaugural SXSW London before a premiere of his new movie The Life of Chuck, Flanagan said the creation of his Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House was a coping mechanism…

A right royal visit occured at SXSW London today. King Charles III spent the morning at the Shoreditch festival, meeting the likes of musician and John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon, Yellowstone star Mo Brings Plenty, director Jean Paul Mertinez and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker…

Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay were once ex-finance people trying to make their way in the TV game and throwing ideas around. At that point, they revealed today they were developing a Tarantino-esque series titled Highway for HBO-owned Cinemax about a Black female highway woman in…

The BBC and Working Title are developing an adaptation of EM Forster’s epic period piece A Passage to India. Working Title exec Surian Fletcher-Jones has just revealed the news about the new five-part series on an SXSW London panel. We understand Nisha Parti is also producing and her Parti…

“The vast majority of talent today do not need management.” That was the verdict this afternoon of Jordan Schwarzenberger, who runs a company that has a single client, The Sidemen. Speaking on a Deadline-moderated panel at SXSW London with a trio of top UK agents, Schwarzenberger made the…

EXCLUSIVE: Utopia has acquired North American rights to Idiotka, the fashion comedy that premiered at this year's SXSW and stars Anna Baryshnikov, Camila Mendes, Julia Fox, Owen Thiele, Benito Skinner, Gabbriette and Saweetie. Nastasya Popov directed the pic and penned the script. "I've long…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has used the opening day keynote of the inaugural SXSW London to criticize an “inward-looking mentality,” “uncertainty and political turmoil” in the U.S. As he laid out why London is a “creative hotbed, a gateway to the world and a hub for talent, trade, tech and…

EXCLUSIVE: Shudder has acquired the distribution rights to the supernatural thriller Good Boy in the U.S,, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand following the film’s premiere at SXSW in March. Good Boy, which redefines the haunted house genre by telling its horror tale through the…

Although Satisfaction isn’t always an easy film to watch, it remains steeped in uncomfortable beauty even at its darkest moments. In writer-director Alex Burunova’s feature debut, Emma Laird and Fionn Whitehead star as couple Lola and Philip, two British composers struggling to get through a…

As Hollywood finds its footing in a post-strike world, indies like The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick are shattering the industry’s arbitrary rules of filmmaking. Following the film’s SXSW premiere this month, the film’s star and co-writer Zoë Chao told Deadline she felt “really baked…

BUNNYSection: Narrative Feature CompetitionDirector: Ben JacobsonScreenwriter: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Stefan MarolachakisLogline: Bunny is a hustler out on a job when things go sideways and he’s thrown into a fight for his life. With the help of his best friend Dino, this fight kicks off one hot…