It seemed appropriate that the location for the annual Women in Motion dinner in Cannes should be at Place de la Castre, atop Suquet Hill where victors of yore could survey their domain. It was certainly the case that honored guest Dame Donna Langley had captured the castle. Cannes Film Festival…

CBS News announced the creation of a Medical, Health and Wellness unit, led by Senior Coordinating Producer Sara Kuzmarov. Leigh Ann Winick will be the lead producer and Sandra Temko will be producer. Adrienne Roark, president of content development and integration for CBS News and Stations…

The past year has seen Eva Longoria direct the Oscar nominated Flamin' Hot, form the Banijay-backed Hyphenate Media Group with Cris Abrego, and be awarded $50 million for her advocacy and charity efforts by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. That's along with the Desperate Housewives alum's other day jobs on…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Merchant has revealed that The Outlaws Season 3 could be the comedy crime thriller’s swansong. The creator of the BBC/Amazon hit said “never say never” on making more but “the problem at the moment is whenever I finish a project I feel a bit burned out and need to take some time…

Julian Assange is not yet being extradited to the U.S. The Wikileaks founder has in the past few minutes won the right to appeal against the extradition following a ruling by the UK’s High Court. Today was a big one in Assange’s ongoing legal battle and his wife Stella Assange told the BBC in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Ariane Labed, best known for her eclectic collection of performances in titles like The Lobster and Attenberg, launches her feature directorial debut, September Says, this evening at the Cannes Film Festival. We can share a first-look clip from the film above.  Directed by Labed…

French film finance, production and distribution group Logical Pictures is out in force in Cannes this year with connections to 11 films, including Competition titles Emilia Perez, Limonov and Parthenope. The company helped bankroll the Palme d'Or contenders through its three-year co-production and…

Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot, was in Berlin when news broke on February 16 of the sudden death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony.  Two days later, she was protesting in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin…

Filming Underway On New Alan Partridge BBC Series Filming is underway on new Alan Partridge mockumentary And Did Those Feet. Deadline revealed the BBC series several months back and cameras have rolled on the latest Steve Coogan conception. The mockumentary follows the beloved comedy creation…

Scandi podcast major PodX has bought the UK’s Platform Media in an eight-figure deal. The highly-acquisitive PodX said the move for a majority stake in Platform will be the UK podcast market's “most significant deal ever by the time it completes in full.” The deal is also the Stockholm-based company…