Diana has been working in global film journalism since 2005. Before returning to Deadline in 2021 to focus on features for international film and television, she was previously International Reporter for the site. She is based in London and has frequently covered all the major film festivals and markets including Cannes, Berlin, AFM, Toronto and Sundance. Prior to joining Deadline, Diana was the UK correspondent for Variety and also covered film news and box office at Screen International.
Minnie Driver has confirmed she will return to playing the role of Queen Elizabeth I for The Serpent Queen spinoff, in which she had played a supporting role as the iconic British monarch.
Stepping into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah this week, the actress said writer-executive producer Justin…
Shivani Pandya Malhotra, Managing Director of the Red Sea International Film Festival, stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio this week to reflect on the festival's fourth edition, which this year was relocated to Jeddah's Al-Balad district, and revealed why the festival amped up its star power this…
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Went Up The Hill directed by Samuel Van Grinsven (Sequin in a Blue Room).
The POP Film and Causeway Films production stars Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things).
Pic had its…
Title: Saify
Director: Wael Abumansour
Logline: At 40 years old, Saify Muhammed is a washed-up confidence trickster who owes money to everyone, including his ex-wife. Now he is trying his hand at blackmail. The year is 2000 and Saify has a dilapidated music shop selling cassette tapes…
Andrew Garfield touched down at Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to talk about his recently wrapped projects The Magic Faraway Tree and After the Hunt while also lifting the lid on his thoughts of Jacob Elordi replacing him as the iconic monster in Guillermo del…
Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we're talking to Alex GarcÃa López, a director on Netflix's epic adaptation of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's seminal novel One H…
Title: East Of Noon
Director: Hala Elkoussy
Red Sea Section: New Vision
Logline: Set in an industrial wasteland in the middle of nowhere, East of Noon is a folktale in which a bunch of brilliant youngsters finds ways to survive the autocracy of a childish tyrant whose currency is lottery…
Shraddha Kapoor, who starred in one of the biggest Hindi movies of the year, Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank (Woman 2: Terror of the Headless), stopped by the Deadline studio at the Red Sea Film Festival this week to discuss the horror comedy's success and the influence of growing up in a famous family.
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EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, Happy Go Lucky) and Éanna Hardwicke (Lakelands, The Sixth Commandment) are set to star in upcoming Irish thriller No Ordinary Heist, inspired by the largest cash heist in UK and Irish history.
Colin McIvor (Zoo) will direct from a script he co-wrote with debut…
"This is not a remake, this is a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's great film," said Spike Lee of his upcoming film Highest 2 Lowest, inspired by the Japanese director's 1963 crime thriller High and Low. Â
Kurosawa's original film follows an executive at a Yokohama shoe company who becomes a…
"Gregg Araki is such a singular filmmaker," said Olivia Wilde of working with the director for her latest acting role in I Want Your Sex. "It is the least Hollywood experience of my career in Hollywood because it is so true to his style, so experimental, so bold, so funny. It was no nice to make a movie…
Turkish star Tuba Büyüküstün said that female-led stories are prevalent in her culture and that has enabled her to play "strong" female characters throughout her prolific career.
"In Anatolian culture, we have really strong women stories and women are really important to our culture," she said at…