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One fish, two films. The massive 1975 hit Jaws will get a pair of documentaries to mark the 50th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster. One of them, Jaws: Making a Splash in Hollywood, tossed chum in the water at Sunny Side of the Doc last week – looking for a bite from potential buyers at…

Think of it as the Marché du Film, except just for documentaries. That's one way to picture Sunny Side of the Doc, the annual gathering of some of the top buyers and sellers of nonfiction content around the world. The four-day event got underway Monday in La Rochelle, the historic port city on…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ thriller series Liaison, which stars Vincent Cassel and Eva Green, has sold to TF1 in France. The Anglo-French show remains on Apple globally but has been sold non-exclusively in its second window by distributor Newen Connect. Produced by Newen Studios-backed Ringside…

Moresnet is a storied town and the setting for a European mystery thriller of the same name about a group of friends who dig up a time capsule buried two decades earlier, only to find their names listed inside with dates marked for their death. Boris Van Severen (Salamander) is the chain-smoking Ben…

EXCLUSIVE: More citizens will head to the polls this year for elections than any other in history, and the political fever has reached Series Mania. This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new…

EXCLUSIVE: Jude Law’s Riff Raff Entertainment has received “significant funding” via a new TV development deal with France’s Newen Connect. Unveiled at Newen’s London TV Screenings event, the deal sees Riff Raff, which the two-time Oscar nominee co-founded with Ben Jackson, handed a cash injection…

EXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve and Bérénice Bejo will be hitting the red carpet at the Berlin Film Festival this weekend in Italian director Piero Messina's Golden Bear contender Another End. Deadline can exclusively reveal the trailer which has just dropped on the eve of its world…

ITV Spent $68M On Diverse Shows In 2023 ITV invested £54.2M ($68M) of its Diversity Commissioning Fund last year on shows made by or about people from under-represented backgrounds such as Lenny Henry’s Three Little Birds. The fund was launched in 2022 with £80M to be spent across three years to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sea Beyond stars Giacomo Giorgio and Serena de Ferrari are among several Italian actors who have boarded Rai’s ambitious opera drama Bel Canto, which went into production this week. Notably, Caterina Ferioli (The Tearsmith) and Adriana Savarese have landed the key roles as teenage…

Directors UK Hires Industrial Relations & Public Affairs Bosses To Lead Negotiations Directors UK has signed an industrial relations boss alongside a public affairs and policy lead. Paul Evans, who has spent 10 years working as a trade union official in the film and TV industry, will lead on the…

BBC Taps Dragonfly For Commissioner The BBC has hired Tom Pullen from Then Barbara Met Alan producer Dragonfly. Pullen will become a commissioning editor on Clare Sillery’s documentaries team. He was previously Head of Documentaries at Banijay UK-owned Dragonfly and has spent the at Gold Rush…

EXCLUSIVE: The cameras will soon start rolling on the highest-profile French series to be remade in the U.S., ABC’s High Potential, with the show’s seller believing this latest remake will catapult it to “global brand” status. High Potential was recently taken from pilot to series in the U.S.…