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They say that dance can be healing. But, when pro dancer Hayley Erbert underwent an emergency craniectomy to treat a life-threatening brain bleed in December 2023, the last thing anyone expected was for her to return to the stage four months later. And yet, that’s exactly what she…

Actor Martin Short can go small, as in the movie Clifford, where he played a mischievous 10-year-old. Or he can go big, in a fat suit as Jiminy Glick, the portly entertainment journalist with the outsized appetite and outsized laugh. In fact, Short can do just about anything: sing, dance, sketch…

Joshua Seftel heads the Documentary and News jury at this year's Monte-Carlo TV Festival. Ahead of heading to the Festival, the Oscar-winning filmmaker spoke to Deadline about what he hopes to see from this year's competition entries, and the wider state of play in the sector. Seftel won a Best…

When Margaret Brown set out to direct a four-part docuseries about a horrific and then-unsolved quadruple homicide in Austin, Texas, she never expected that — just a few weeks after the final episode aired on HBO — detectives would crack the case. The Yogurt Shop Murders, which premiered last…

EXCLUSIVE: The Little Cult That Could is the new doc from producer-director Anthony Columbus and Tiger King and Chimp Crazy producer-editor Doug Abel. With the first installment of the series premiering in Tribeca’s TV sidebar, the pair gave Deadline the low-down on the project, which is nine years…

Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan may have thrown their full support behind John Candy: I Like Me, the Prime Video documentary on their famous father from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds. But would they entertain a scripted biopic of the man? Not likely. “As long…

If the film world has the Oscars and Cannes Palme d'Or as measures of excellence, the highest accolade in the restaurant world is the Michelin star. But as an interviewee in Adrian Choa and Michael Boccalini's Feast or Famine: The Quest for the Michelin Star points out early on in the…

UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket for those two years is falling into place. After the Oscars announcement, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor…

It’s that timeline of year again. We now have the date, venue and other details for the 2027 ACE Eddie Awards, presented by American Cinema Editors. The envelope, please. Honoring outstanding editing in film, television, documentaries, shorts and digital content, the 77th annual Eddies ceremony…

EXCLUSIVE:  Dutch companies SUPER7EVEN Productions and MN Media are joining forces to launch SuperIndie, an integrated studio focused on human-interest, nature and social impact driven documentaries and features with international appeal. The venture brings together two of the Netherlands’ most…

Tribeca Festival, which kicks off Wednesday, will be thumping to music from its opening moments. The 25th edition of the festival in Lower Manhattan debuts with the world premiere of Earth, Wind & Fire: To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World, the latest documentary from Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Singer-songwriter P!NK (Alecia Moore), author and producer Glennon Doyle, and Olympian, author and soccer star Abby Wambach are joining Sara Bareilles: Good Grief as executive producers ahead of the documentary's world premiere at Tribeca Festival. The film directed by Josh Alexander…