Benedict Cumberbatch is at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival this week for the MENA premiere of John Crowley's tragic romance We Live In Time, starring Garfield and Florence Pugh, which he exec produced under his SunnyMarch banner. After hitting the red carpet in the port city of Jeddah on…

Jeremy Renner has revealed he is doing the final edit on his book about lessons learned through his near fatal snowplow accident, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival. “It will be two years in January, and I am very proud to overcome a great adversity in my life,” Renner…

Spike Lee spoke warmly of his long-time working relationship and friendship with Denzel Washington in a conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival on Tuesday. Lee is currently in post-production on Highest 2 Lowest, his latest collaboration with Washington, and their fifth film together after Mo'…

"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.   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…

Based on the novel by Shuang Xuetao, My Friend An Delie marks seasoned actor Dong Zijian’s directorial debut. Dong has starred in Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart and Ash Is The Purest White, as well as Han Han’s Duckweed, among others. Dong tells Deadline that he spent nearly six years…

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Egyptian writer, director and producer Omar Hilal, director of feel-good drama comedy Voy! Voy! Voy!, which was Egypt's 2023 Oscar submission. The picture, which is Hilal's first feature, is inspired by the true…

Michael Mann has confirmed he is getting close to completing his screenplay for Heat 2 and that it will be his next movie, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Monday. "We have to have it finished very soon," he said, suggesting jokingly he would be doing that on "The…

Title: My Drvier And I Director: Ahd Kamel Red Sea Section: Arab Spectacular Logline: Salma is a young, privileged, and rebellious Saudi girl whose family hires a Sudanese man named Gamar to drive her to and from her day-to-day activities. Initially adhering to a simple…

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…

Brendan Fraser is coming off the back of shooting two films this year – Searchlight's Japanese comedy Rental Family and StudioCanal and Working Title's D-Day movie Pressure – and the Oscar-winning actor touched down at Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to talk about…

Red Sea Film Festival juror Daniel Dae Kim said he's enjoying being exposed to "great talent" from the region here in Jeddah when he stopped by the Deadline Studio for a chat this week. In the video above, he also speaks about "making the world a little bit smaller" through international…