Melanie joined Deadline in 2022 as Senior International Film Correspondent. She came from UK trade Screen International, where she spent a decade covering film and TV news out of France, Europe and the Middle East. She has also worked for Variety and Moving Pictures as well as the UK broadsheet The Independent, entertainment magazine Heat and Japan’s The Daily Yomiuri, working out of London, Rome, Brussels, Tokyo and Jerusalem. Melanie originally trained in journalism at Reuters and spent four years there in the mid-1990s as a reporter.
France goes to the polls on Sunday for the second round of a snap parliamentary election in which far-right National Rally (RN) party looks set to come out on top.
With less than 48 hours until the booths open, polls are forecasting RN is on course to win between 200 to 230 seats in France's 599-seat…
EXCLUSIVE: Désirée Nosbusch's emotionally raw drama Poison, pairing award-winning actors Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm on the big screen, world premieres at the Munich International Film Festival on Friday and Deadline can reveal a first clip.
The feature, which heads afterwards to Ireland's Galway Film…
France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) has announced it is increasing the size of the country's Oscar selection committee to reinforce its independence.
The move follows controversy over the CNC-run committee's recent choices of film to represent France in the Best International Feature Film…
Match Factory has sold a raft of key territories for Miguel Gomes’ feature Grand Tour, following its buzzy world premiere in Competition in Cannes in May where it won the Best Director prize.
The company has closed deals to Spain (Avalon Distribucion Audiovisual), Benelux (Imagine Film Distribution)…
A Paris court has denied a request that Netflix’s hit shark thriller Under Paris be taken off the platform for the duration of a legal case brought by a director who says the feature was developed without his knowledge from an original idea he registered in 2011.
The movie, about a massive shark that…
EXCLUSIVE: Boxing mother-and-son drama Undercard, starring comedian Wanda Sykes in her first big dramatic film role, has begun principal photography in Puerto Rico for Catalyst Studios.
Emmy Award-winning Sykes plays Cheryl "No Mercy" Stewart, a two-time former boxing champion and recovering…
French prosecutors have requested rape charges against director Benoît Jacquot in relation to allegations by actresses Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy, according to French media reports.
Jacquot was taken into police custody on Monday for questioning on Le Besco and Roy's accusations as well as…
Zaid Abu Hamdan has begun principal photography in Jordan on new film Boomah (The Owl), which is being positioned as an Arab world thriller with a similar gritty edge as City of God, Gomorrah and La Haine.
Boomah marks Jordanian director Abu Hamdan's second feature after his critically acclaimed…
Kevin Spacey will be honored with the Nations Award for Lifetime Achievement at a special gala evening in the historic southern Italian town of Taormina in July.
The organizers said The Usual Suspects and American Beauty Oscar winner will also give a short on-stage performance at the event, taking…
Peter Farrelly's ‘Balls Up’ With Mark Wahlberg & Paul Walter Heads To Queensland
Peter Farrelly's Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance-backed action comedy Balls Up, starring Mark Wahlberg (The Family Plan) and Paul Walter Hauser (The Instigators), has set the Australian state of Queensland as its…
The investigative office of the Paris Appeals Court has rejected a request by the lawyers of French Culture Minister Rachida Dati for an end to prosecution procedures related to the Carlos Ghosn affair.
In charges dating back to 2021, Dati is under investigation for payments totalling $950k (€900K)…
EXCLUSIVE: Santa Monica-based The Kennedy/Marshall Company has optioned the feature adaptation rights to breakout UK racehorse documentary It's Showtime!.
The real-life tale of a group of friends from Darlington in the Northeast of England who collectively bought a bargain racehorse without any sort…