Flick through almost any travel magazine these days and you’re bound to come across an article hailing Iran as the next big destination. Prompting the spike in interest in the Islamic Republic is ...

The filmmaker is known for helming the Oscar-nominated feature that stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Deadline, which broke the news, ...

“Holy Spider,” Ali Abbasi’s Iranian thriller that has earned rave reviews after premiering at Cannes in the main competition on Sunday, has had its North American rights acquired by Utopia, the U.S.

“I always had a very specific sense of urgency with this idea,” said Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi of wanting to make a film noir based on the true story of the “Spider Killer” Saeed Hanaei, who saw ...

Abbasi was recently accused of groping an unnamed A-list actor at a Golden Globes after-party, a fact that he says does not correlate with him separating from his U.S. representation. “I want to ...

He continued, “I had spent time with the person concerned on multiple occasions and had reason to think we had a friendly relationship. When I saw him at the Golden Globes party, I was excited to ...