Matthew Carey joined Deadline fulltime in 2020, after a long association as a freelancer, to specialize in coverage of the nonfiction film landscape. Matthew is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. He has written extensively about documentary film for CNN and CNN.com, Documentary magazine, NBCNews.com and TheWrap.
U2's Bono is seen as a successor to a very small fraternity of world-conquering rock stars – the likes of Springsteen, Jagger and Bowie. He's less recognized as a successor to a literary tradition: the Irish pantheon of Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Heaney, and O'Brien.
But his impressive gift of…
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin serving as the opening-night pic.
This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard…
"Special military operation." "Department of Government Efficiency." "Enhanced interrogation techniques." "Alternative facts."
We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian…
After running a gauntlet in 2023, with dual strikes thwarting the recovery from Covid, Hollywood has entered a different phase with respect to AI.
Perhaps not a radically different phase — plenty of anxiety and doubt remains in the wake of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA's fight with studios and streamers…
Bono's greatest achievement as an activist must be considered his work on HIV-AIDS prevention and treatment. In the early 2000s, he lobbied then President George W. Bush to dispatch urgently needed antiretroviral medicines to sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and Bush responded by creating the…
Stanley Tucci has an appetite. Not just for food but for culture, conversation, travel, exploration – all the things that make life enriching.
The actor gets to indulge those passions, and take us along with him, in the new National Geographic documentary series Tucci in Italy, now in…
The Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas will kick off June 16 with the drama East of Wall, one of many highlights of the 11th edition of the cinematic showcase led by Oscar winner Geena Davis.
East of Wall, which premiered at Sundance, is written and directed by Kate Beecroft. "Inspired by the…
EXCLUSIVE: On a Tuesday morning in August 2023, a group of kids set off for school, climbing into a makeshift cable car for the journey across a mountain pass in northwest Pakistan. What happened next would make headlines around the world.
Suddenly, 900 feet above the ground, two cables snapped…
Some doors are portals to discovery.
One on Kredytowa street in Warsaw, Poland bears a sign that reads, "The door is heavy, but it's worth the effort." Manage to pull it open and inside the 19th century building you'll find exhibits of the National Museum of Ethnography. During the Millennium…
As any fan of Shakespeare – or of romance – can tell you, Romeo & Juliet takes places in Verona, Italy. Turns out the lovelorn everywhere are well aware of the play's setting.
For over 50 years, "people from around the world have sent their heartaches, hopes, and confessions" to the city in…
The South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles has wrapped its 20th edition with the presentation of jury and audience awards.
DJ Ahmet, directed by North Macedonian filmmaker Georgi M. Unkovski, won SEEfest’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film.
"A lyrical coming of age story set…
The nonprofit behind the prestigious True/False documentary festival in Columbia, MO got its notice by email last Friday night: your National Endowment for the Arts grant has been terminated.
Hours after President Trump announced his intention to eliminate the NEA, grant recipients began…
