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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its U.S. release on November 3, Eugenio Derbez-starrer Radical is off to a great start in Mexico. The film, which won the Festival Favorite Award when it premiered at Sundance in January, opened last weekend in Mexico, selling 631.7K tickets, outdoing the sophomore frame of Taylor Swift…

Hollywood loves sequels, but in the nonfiction space it's rare for a documentary to get a follow up. However, 15 years after Food, Inc. landed with huge impact, the sequel Food, Inc. 2 premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, bringing a fresh perspective on America's spoiled food system. "All of us…

EXCLUSIVE: Radical, the Mexican true-life drama starring CODA‘s Eugenio Derbez that broke out of Sundance as the 2023 Festival Favorite, has secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement that will permit publicity efforts ahead of its October 20 nationwide release, Deadline has learned…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant has partnered with TelevisaUnivision's Pantelion Films and 3Pas Studios on Radical, the Eugenio Derbez-led film written and directed by Chris Zalla. Radical will be released in U.S. and Mexico theaters on October 20. Additionally, international sales have been made in several…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant and River Road Entertainment have announced that they’re producing Food, Inc. 2 — a sequel to their Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., to be released later this year. The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s…

Emmy-winning documentary executive Courtney Sexton is returning to the esteemed production company Participant, CEO David Linde announced today. She will oversee all of Participant’s documentary content as Executive Vice President of Documentary Film and Television from the start of 2023, having…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired domestic theatrical rights to Participant's civil rights documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power. Greenwich plans a December 2 release of the film directed by Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir, which earlier this week earned a Critics Choice…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has released a trailer for the award-winning documentary Descendant, a day before the Margaret Brown film screens as part of the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival. The documentary, from Higher Ground – the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama – Participant, and Night Tide in…

EXCLUSIVE: Delhi, India is heading into a warm weekend, with temperatures expected to hit 93 F on Saturday, rising to 96 F on Sunday. Still, that's nothing compared to a record-breaking heatwave that hit in mid-May, when the temperature exceeded 120 F (49.2 C). That suffocating heat has been attributed to climate…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal a first clip for Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras' documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed ahead of its world premiere in competition at Venice this weekend. The work recounts the quest of renowned U.S. artist and activist Nan Goldin to hold the Sackler Family to account for…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant's Chloé Zhao-exec produced limited scripted series about Vincent Chin had found its writers and director. Kogonada, who directed Colin Farrell-fronted feature After Yang and a number of episodes of Apple TV+'s Pachinko, and Christopher Radcliff, who wrote and directed 2018 film The Strange Ones…

US-based Participant is developing scripted series Esperanza as  co-production with Brazilian activist production company Maria Farinha Films. The adventure drama follows the crew of the vessel Esperanza as they fight for environmental and social rights around the world. The series was created and written by Maria…