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‘American Doctor’: Healthcare Workers To Receive Free Tickets

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1 day ago

August 18, 2026

Watermelon Pictures got off to a buzzy start last weekend at the Angelika in New York City with American Doctor, Poh Si Teng’s documentary feature about three U.S. physicians who volunteered to treat grievously wounded Palestinian children in Gaza.

Watermelon reported a cume of $41.1k at the Angelika. The film expands this week, and Watermelon is offering healthcare professionals complimentary tickets to two screenings in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Doctors, nurses, physician assistants, EMTs, and medical students can apply to see the film for free via Watermelon’s registration form. The Los Angeles screening takes place on Sunday at 1 pm and the Chicago screening is next Wednesday at 6:30 pm.

American Doctor won the Tom Rankin Audience Award at the Full Frame festival in Durham, NC, and the audience award and the Michael Sullivan Frontline Award for Journalism at Salem Film Fest in Massachusetts. The film also picked up honors at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece and CPH: DOX in Copenhagen.

The physicians profiled in the doc risked their lives to perform emergency surgeries on children who had been gravely injured in shelling, bombing, and other attacks by the Israel Defense Forces.

The film is a Tiny Boxer Films production and is produced by Poh Si Teng, Oscar nominee Kirstine Barfod (The Cave), and Reem Haddad. The film is edited by Christopher White and Oscar nominee Ema Ryan Yamazaki (Black Box Diaries, Instruments of a Beating Heart).

Co-producers are Mohammed Sawwaf and Kasper Lykke Schultz, with executive producers Simon Kilmurry, Hamza Ali, Glennon Doyle, Rasha Mansouri, Hassan Elmasry, Poh Si Teng, Rami Elghandour, Andreas Dalsgaard, Mehdi Hasan, Juan Pablo Raymond and Kiran Alvi. The original score is composed by Suad Bushnaq, and the original song “Astral Light” is composed and performed by Suvo Sur, featuring Poh Si Teng on vocals.

At the Sundance Film Festival, where American Doctor premiered, Teng and the physicians came to Deadline’s Studio. You can see that interview here.

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Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Mr. Scorsese’ Director Rebecca Miller Interview

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August 19, 2026

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Director Rebecca Miller calls Martin Scorsese “the maestro,” and who would disagree with that? Scorsese has been making cinematic masterpieces for many decades now – Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, Casino, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, to name only a few.

Miller explores the filmmaker’s complex personality and extraordinary career in her Apple TV documentary series Mr. Scorsese, which is nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing For a Documentary/Nonfiction Program. Miller (who is married to one of Scorsese’s on-screen collaborators, actor Daniel Day-Lewis) joins the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to share insights from her five-part examination of Scorsese and his work.

Miller explains why 1972’s Boxcar Bertha became pivotal in the director’s career – not because of the film’s quality but rather its pointlessness (she relates how a conversation with John Cassavetes about Boxcar Bertha set Scorsese on a new course). Many of his later films became noted for their depiction of violence; Miller traces that preoccupation to the director’s youth in New York City where it wasn’t unusual for Marty and his pals to stumble across a body dumped in an alley (the youngsters once used a pencil as a forensic instrument to assess a corpse).

Among the many people Miller interviewed for her series is Robert De Niro, an integral part of Scorsese’s success (Miller tells us why she thinks De Niro’s facial expressions during their conversation communicated more than his words). Miller delves into how one of the many films Scorsese and De Niro made together – The King of Comedy – became such an ordeal for the director, and why a scene from another of their films – GoodFellas – tells us so much about the director’s approach to cinema. She also touches on one of the roughest times in Scorsese’s life when a serious drug addiction nearly killed him.

That’s on the new episode of Doc Talk hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s senior documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.

Listen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple.

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Nicola Coughlan On Smaller ‘Bridgerton’ Season 5 Role

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August 19, 2026

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As Bridgerton fans prepare for a new social season, one fan-favorite will be stepping back from the main ensemble.

Nicola Coughlan, who plays Penelope Bridgerton in the Netflix/Shondaland series, emphasized that she’ll “always pop back to Bridgerton” but will be in less episodes this season as she pulls double-duty on Season 6 of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.

“I feel very lucky,” she told E! News. “It’s the best of both worlds, because I’m currently filming on Only Murders, but I still get to pop back to Bridgerton now and then and see everybody, and it’s just like coming home. You’re like, ‘Oh, hey guys, how you doing?’”

Coughlan noted that while she had an “incredible experience” leading Season 3 alongside Luke Newton’s Colin Bridgerton, it was “so nice and low pressure” taking step back in Season 5.

“It’s bittersweet. I feel like, God, I had such an epic run. I think that’s part of the beauty of that world is it keeps reinventing itself. Every season being a new story—it takes on a different guise,” said Coughlan, adding, “I’ll always pop back to Bridgerton if they want me. If I can be set dressing, I’ll be there. No problem.”

In June, Coughlan was one of several British talents announced for Season 6 of Only Murders in the Building, which takes Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez to London, following the mysterious death of Tina Fey’s Cinda Canning.

On Tuesday, Coughlan wrapped production on Only Murders. “Oh @onlymurdershulu how I’ve loved being a part of you! Has been so special to watch the trio trade The Arconia for Big Tesco (may or may not have made up that plot point). This girl, and her curls are wrapped,” she wrote on Instagram.

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Alison Hurbert Burns & Made Up Stories Launch The Set Up

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30 minutes ago

August 19, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one out of Australia.

Former Binge content chief Alison Hurbert-Burns, who commissioned Colin From Accounts, is teaming with Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky‘s Made Up Stories to launch a production business.

Respected Australian commissioner Hurbert-Burns will be CEO of The Set Up, with Papandrea and Hutensky joining her as co-founders, we can reveal. Made Up Stories execs Casey Haver, Jeanne Snow and Katie Amos will round out the leadership team.

The plan is for The Set Up to package premium series with IP, talent and financing out of Australia and sell them to broadcasters and streamers in the country and internationally.

The new-look management team already has a close-knit relationship. Papandrea produced record-setting drama Strife and Liane Moriarty adaptation The Last Anniversary for Hurbert-Burns when she was leading Aussie streamer Binge.

Made Up Stories will continue to build a slate of TV and film projects in the U.S. and internationally, while Sydney-based label The Set Up will focus purely on Australian titles, “pairing a commissioner’s eye for what audiences want with world-class producing at the source of some of the most distinctive stories, talent and locations in the world,” the founders said in a statement.

Hurbert-Burns is known for launching Foxtel SVoD Binge and overseeing its slate, commissioning the likes of Colin From Accounts, Mix Tape and The Twelve. She exited the DAZN-owned Foxtel in 2025 after six years at the helm as Executive Director for Commissioning and Content, during which time she ordered 25 original series. Further back, she worked in content acquisitions for Nine Network and its streamers 9Now and Stan.

“Alison is that rare combination — a true tastemaker and a brilliant operator — and one of the most highly regarded people in the Australian TV industry. Teaming up with her is a dream,” said Papandrea and Hutensky. “Australian creatives and stories are world-class, and the opportunity to produce a slate of shows that resonate both locally and globally is incredibly exciting. We’re passionate about bringing top Australian television to audiences everywhere.”

Made Up Stories is one of the better known production companies born out of Australia, and is behind the likes of HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Undoing, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, Prime Video Australia’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and Peacock’s The Good Daughter. On the film front, it produced The Dry, which is one of Australia’s highest-grossing pics, its sequel The Dry 2 and Addition, which released this year.

Hurbert-Burns added: “Bruna, Steve and the Made Up Stories team are simply the best in the business at making television the world wants to watch — and this new company is a business and creative partnership in every sense.

“We’re bringing a commissioner’s lens and a targeted approach to our slate, finding stories that travel across borders and appeal to broad audiences. Having been on the buying side, I appreciate that streamers and broadcasters need reliable, consistent access to highly engaging, premium-quality content in a landscape that’s changing fast.”