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Melanie Goodfellow
Senior International Film Correspondent
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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.
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Lebanon’s Oldest Cinema Gives Shelter To Displaced As Cultural NGO Strives To Keep People & The Arts Alive
Kassem Istanbouli has been on a mission over the past decade restoring abandoned cinema theaters and converting them into cultural hubs for marginalized communities in Lebanon.
Working under the banners of NGO the Tiro Association for Arts (TAA) and his Istanbouli Theater company, the artist, actor…
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Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth D’Arvieu Talks First Projects With Plan B Including Mark Wahlberg-Starring ‘Weekend Warriors’: “It’s Just The Beginning” – Zurich Studio
Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth d'Arvieu stopped by Deadline's Zurich Studio this weekend to talk about her company's growing Hollywood footprint following the acquisition of a majority stake in Brad Pitt's Plan B and backing of Florian Zeller’s Blue Morning Pictures, which has offices in Paris and…
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‘Eternal Visionary’ Trailer: Luigi Pirandello Biopic World Premieres At Rome Film Festival
EXCLUSIVE: It will be 90 years this December since celebrated ‘Six Characters In Search Of An Author’ playwright Luigi Pirandello was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm in 1934.
Actor and director Michele Placido's Eternal Visionary uses the Italian playwright's trip to the…
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Thomas Vinterberg Named As Marrakech Jury President
Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been announced as president of the jury at the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, running from November 29 to December 7.
The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the international competition, recent…
MAD Solutions Boards Sales & Distribution On El Gouna Film Fest Opener ‘The Last Miracle’
EXCLUSIVE: MENA film distribution and marketing company and talent agency MAD Solutions has acquired worldwide rights to the short film The Last Miracle ahead of its world premiere as the opener of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival later this month.
Its subsidiary MAD Distribution will handle its…
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Former Wiedemann & Berg Execs Justyna Muesch & Sofie Scherz Join Forces With Director Alireza Golafshan To Launch Prodco Story Garden
Former Wiedemann & Berg Managing Director and producer Justyna Muesch is joining forces with ex-colleague Sofie Scherz-Fleischer (known as Scherz) and director Alireza Golafshan to launch Munich-based independent production company Story Garden.
They are being joined in the venture by Thomas Herberth…
‘Downton Abbey’ Star Leading Channel 5 Drama ‘The Puzzle Lady’; Freely Amazon Deal; Cannes Directors Fortnight; Directv October 7 Anniversary – Global Briefs
‘Downton Abbey’ Star Leading Channel 5 Drama ‘The Puzzle Lady’
Downton Abbey star Phyllis Logan is leading a pan-global Channel 5 drama based on Parnell Hall’s Puzzle Lady mysteries. The Puzzle Lady [working title] will see the BAFTA-nominee play Cora Felton, who takes on the eponymous moniker. When…
Awards Season: Campaign Veterans Talk Timing & Other Tips For Success: “You Don’t Want To Peak Too Early” – Zurich Summit
With awards season in full swing, a quartet of top publicity and marketing execs and campaign veterans took to the stage at the Zurich Summit over the weekend to discuss its evolution and tips for success.
PremierPR Director of Film Jonathan Rutter said the season had expanded considerably in terms…
Oscars: Tajikistan Re-Selects ‘Melody’ For Best International Feature Film Race After Missing Deadline Last Year
Tajikistan has selected Iranian director Behrouz Sebt Rasoul's drama Melody as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.
It marks the second time the central Asian country has chosen the feature to represent it in the Oscar race, after it selected the…
CAA’s Roeg Sutherland, Zurich Summit Game Changer Recipient, On Harnessing The Power Of The Independent Sector & Why He Didn’t Follow His Family Into Acting
Hollywood may be grappling with painful change but for Roeg Sutherland, co-Head of CAA's Media Finance department and its International Film Group, the disruption represents an opportunity for the independent film sector that he has supported for the past two decades.
“If there’s true disruption in…
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Neon, Searchlight Pictures, MK2 & Film4 Execs Talk Indie Film B.O. Optimism: “We’re Coming Out Of The Trench” – Zurich Summit
The pandemic and Hollywood strikes battered box office for independent cinema is turning a corner, distribution execs told a panel at the Zurich Summit industry conflab on Saturday.
"We’ve been in a trench trying to get out," said Rebecca Kearey, Head of International at Searchlight Pictures, which…
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AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford Says U.S. Theatrical Distribs Need To Rethink “Broken” Relationship With Independent Production World – Zurich Summit
AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford has called for a reset of the relationship between U.S. theatrical distributors and the independent production world, saying it is “the hot button issue of the moment”.
"If we want to return to a period of efficiency in the independent film world, there needs to be a…
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