Sacha Jenkins, a hip-hop journalist and documentarian known for Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019) and Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (2022), has died. He was 53. Deadline can confirm the Emmy nominee’s death after his wife Raquel Cepeda asked fans to “please respect our family’s privacy during…

Call them a barometer, clairvoyant, or just god damn shrewd when it comes to choosing award-winning movies, but Neon has just scored its sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row with It Was Just an Accident. Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman first reported two days ago that Neon scooped up North American rights to…

Mara Corday, the showgirl, Playboy Playmate and cult movie star of Tarantula, has died at age 95. The Golden Age actress died of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease on Feb. 9 at her home in Valencia, California, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Her cause of…

Ivor Leslie ‘Les’ Dilley, the Oscar-winning production designer of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), has died at age 84. A rep for the art director told Deadline the Dilley died on Tuesday, May 20 from complications with Alzheimer’s disease, surrounded by…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon is closing up a North America deal for rights to Natalie Portman-voiced animation Arco, which recently launched at the Cannes Film Festival. French director Ugo Bienvenu's animated feature, which has been described as “France’s answer to Studio Ghibli”, is about a boy who uses…

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: As anticipated, this will be the best Memorial Day weekend ever for the motion picture industry at the domestic box office with all movies grossing around $322M+, burying the previous benchmark held in 2013 when Fast & Furious 6 led the frame, all titles then grossing $314.3M per…

Even after his death in 2004, there's still only one Russ Meyer, and this, the second solo outing from the Coen brothers' Ethan, is a sad reminder of the talent he took with him to the grave. Meyer gave big parts to big women in films that shouted about SEX…

When Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev came to Cannes with his new documentary Imago, he felt very uncertain about how it would be received. After all, it's a personal story and it's set in a place far from the experience of most people – a remote enclave in a corner of Georgia called Pankissi…

Before the Palme d'Or gets dished out and after power cuts took down the town's electricity for a day, Cannes was abuzz with the burning question: qui a gagné le Palm Dog? The answer came yesterday afternoon at a star-studded-collar event on the beach at The Members Club. In a woof-and-ready ceremony…

Foul play is suspected in a massive power outage across the South of France on Saturday that has hit the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. Local media is reporting that a fire at an electricity station outside the town of Tanneron overnight, followed by the downing of pylons close to the towns…