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.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can unveil a first-look trailer for rising Japanese director Masaaki Kudo's new feature A Far Shore ahead of its world premiere in the main competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, running July 1-9.
The timely contemporary tale taps into themes of gender inequality and female…
Staff at French state broadcasting companies France Télévisions, Radio France and France Media Monde were due to strike today in protest of government plans to phase out the TV license fee which traditionally finances their services.
From early morning, 24-hour cable news channel France Info was re-running feature…
Cannes Directors' Fortnight has appointed former arthouse sales agent Julien Rejl as its new delegate general and tweaked its French name in a move to usher in a new era of inclusivity for the 60-year-old parallel sidebar.
Rejl replaces outgoing Directors’ Fortnight head Paolo Moretti who took up the role in September…
Longtime friends and collaborators Antonio Banderas and Andrew Lloyd Webber are joining forces under the banner of new company Amigos Para Siempre (APS), aimed at producing theatre, musicals and live entertainment shows, including some of Webber's best-loved works, for major Spanish-speaking markets.
Under the…
Channel 4 Hires Charlie Perkins As Head Of Comedy
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has hired Charlies Perkins as its new head of comedy, replacing Fiona McDermott, who recently left to join Apple TV+ after delivering series such as Derry Girls, We Are Lady Parts and Big Boys. The hire brings to an end a lengthy search for…
EXCLUSIVE: Here is a first-look trailer for Canadian director Emmanuel Tardif's psychological drama In Broad Daylight ahead of its premiere in the new Proxima competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 1-9).
It revolves around a reclusive wealthy family, the fragile equilibrium of which is…
The San Sebastian Film Festival will fete Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg with its prestigious Donostia Award at the 70th edition, running 16-24 September.
The filmmaker will receive the career achievement prize on September 21 at a ceremony in the festival's main Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed…
UK LGBTQ+-focused distributor Peccadillo Pictures has claimed that Amazon Prime Video UK is refusing to make Canadian artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce's provocative dark comedy Saint-Narcisse available on its online store.
Company MD Tom Abell said its request to list the title on Amazon's UK online offering had…
Berlinale Calls For Acquittal Of Filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga Following Protest Arrest
The directors of the Berlin International Film Festival are calling on the Zimbabwe government to clear filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and journalist Julie Barnes or drop the case before an upcoming trial begins. Both women were…
An Italian investigating judge Wednesday ruled that director Paul Haggis will remain under house arrest amid ongoing investigations into allegations of sexual assault against him.
Haggis, the Canadian film director whose Crash won the Best Picture Oscar in 2006, has been under police detention in a hotel in the town…
Canadian film director Paul Haggis maintained his innocence today [Wednesday] at a first court appearance in the southern Italian port city of Brindisi where he is answering questions related to allegations of sexual assault.
Haggis has been under house arrest in a hotel outside Brindisi since Sunday following…
Matt Dillon To Receive Locarno Award
Matt Dillon is to receive the Locarno Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony on Thursday, August 4 in Piazza Grande will be accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, 1989) and City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon, 2002), and a Q&A with the actor on…