EXCLUSIVE: He may be at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to preside over the jury, but Park Chan-Wook will also be heating up the market with a movie package that has serious firepower behind it. […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood producer Mark Johnson is known for his two-decade collaboration with AMC, including on the Breaking Bad and Anne Rice universes, as well as a string of hit movies such as Oscar winners Rain Man […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ireland’s Bow Street Academy acting school is heading to LA’s West Hollywood with Bow Street Academy Los Angeles, its first overseas campus. At the center of the expansion is Gerry Grennell, the veteran and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this week we brought you news that Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells drama Miss You, Love You had been picked up by HBO for the U.S. Today, we can update that the film is headed to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 has acquired North American distribution rights to the drama Bull Street, with plans for a summer 2026 release. Written and directed by Lynn Dow, the film is a character-driven drama set in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Independent film producer Tomik Mansoori, whose recent films include One In A Million, starring Ashley Greene and Lou Diamond Phillips, and Blood Behind Us, with the late Michael Madsen and Jaime King, has launched […]
EXCLUSIVE: Harland Williams’ comedy Wingman has set a theatrical release next month in Canada via Andromedia and in Australia via Bounty Films ahead of a U.S. streaming debut on Apple TV on May 26. Cast […]
EXCLUSIVE: Filming is underway in Arkansas on Jeff Nichols’ Southern gothic King Snake, starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Drew Starkey (Queer), and Michael Shannon (Take Shelter). The supernatural horror “follows a young couple (Qualley and Starkey) who inherit a farm […]
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is in advanced negotiations to land worldwide distribution rights to Hello & Paris, the rom-com set to unite Oscar winner Javier Bardem and two-time nominee Kate Hudson. Production is due to begin […]
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to The Birthday Party, from director Miguel Angel Jimenez and adapted from Panos Karnezis’s novel of the same name. Starring are Willem Dafoe, Vic Carmen Sonne, Joe […]
EXCLUSIVE: Psychological sci-fi thriller April X, starring Connor Storrie (Heated Rivalry) and Lilly Krug (Plane), has secured distribution in the U.S. and a host of international markets. The near future thriller “follows twins Bax and April. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in Norway on psychological thriller movie Dark Skulls, starring Thor Rosland (The Pendragon Cycle), Ragga Ragnars (Vikings), Christopher Rygh (The Head Hunter), and The Last Kingdom actor and World’s Strongest Man […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Wing, a post-production and film financing company with specialism in international co-productions with New Zealand, is launching ahead of the Cannes market. Co-founded by Tavake Limited and Be Hope Films, the company says […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) are leading cast in Oscar winner István Szabó’s (Mephisto) under-the-radar period drama Embers, which has begun filming in Budapest, Hungary. Also joining the […]
The critics are weighing in on big-budget Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which releases globally this weekend. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, the movie covers the Jackson 5 period in the early […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment has entered into a distribution partnership with V10 Entertainment for the latter to sell the pay-1 window and downstream rights to Ketchup’s movies, including the upcoming Coyote vs. Acme. John Cena and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Bernstein, the American artist associated with pop art and the circle ofAndy Warhol, is the subject of new documentary Gloss and Grit: The Man Who Made Art Pop. The film, directed by Maria […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cyrus Nowrasteh, the director of Jair Bolsonaro biopic Dark Horse, has described the film as a “tense political thriller about power, media, and faith under fire.” With post-production nearing an end on the project, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Macfarlane (Platonic), Samantha Brown (From), Bryce Wynter (We Were Liars) and Colm Feore (Landman) have joined the cast of Constantin Film’s YA romance Into The Deep Blue, which is now filming in Ontario, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales outfit Media Move has boarded The Unlucky, the sci-fi thriller set to star and be produced by Mortal Kombat actor Ludi Lin. Quentin Lee is aboard to direct and produce. Media Move […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Cannes market, VMI Worldwide has picked up sales rights to action-thriller Complex Texas. Cast comprises Kevin Dillon (Entourage), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Danielle Vasinova (The Madison), Kelly Lynn Reiter (Deadlock), Brian Austin […]
EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Disney exec Brigham Taylor (The Jungle Book, 2016), indie producer Dave Hunter (Nitro Circus: The Movie), former SPC, Samuel Goldwyn and Epix exec Ian Puente and indie producer Tom Goodall have joined forces […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mexican actress Adriana Paz, co-star of Cannes and Oscar winner Emilia Pérez, has signed with UK and U.S.-based management and production company 42. A three-time winner of Mexico’s Ariel Awards — including Best Actress for La […]
EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith (House Of The Dragon) and Imogen Poots (Chronology Of Water) are attached to star in mystery-thriller The Salamander Lives Twice, which Embankment Films has boarded for sales ahead of the Cannes market. […]
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Archstone Entertainment has appointed veteran sales exec Scott Freije as Vice President of Worldwide Sales ahead of next month’s Cannes market. Freije spent eight years at XYZ Films, latterly as Vice […]
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. firm Epic Pictures Group has acquired Film Seekers, the UK and France-based sales and production company. The acquisition is intended to expand Epic’s sales and production footprint and grow its catalog. As part of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: A sequel to the Danny Trejo-starring 2013 boxing film Counterpunch is in the works. Counterpunch 2 will see the return of co-writer, producer and star Alvaro Orlando under his production banner Unbreakable Studios. Alexis […]
EXCLUSIVE: South Africa-set action-comedy Boyz Trip has added Osas Ighodaro (Tinsel), Woody McClain (Power Book II: Ghost), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), record producer and songwriter Honorable C.N.O.T.E. and Peter Lee (Invasion). They join the previously announced Rome […]
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Tom Cruise starrer Digger, which wowed at CinemaCon on Tuesday, is unlikely to debut at a fall festival, we can reveal. The film’s October 2 release date has […]
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton, who recently starred with Daniel Day-Lewis in Anemone and in Starz series The Serpent Queen, is set to headline rescue thriller Love And War. Alliance Media Partners (AMP) is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot (Superwoman) and Isla Fisher (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) have joined Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in Doug Liman-directed thriller Bitcoin. Ahead of the Cannes market, Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tom McCarthy‘s untitled Sony Pictures Classics drama has now wrapped with joining cast including Noah Robbins, Zach Woods, Nina Arianda, Mary Catherine Garrison, Michael Chernus, Dylan Baker, Michael Cerveris, and Alan Aisenberg. Also aboard are Eli Bildner, Jim Klock, Bryan Batt and Christopher Denham, Zak Orth, Billy Slaughter, Joey […]
EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Irish rights to Bryan Cranston crime-comedy Chili Finger from Archstone. The feature stars Judy Greer (13 Going On 30), Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings), Bryan Cranston […]
Neon has made a series of hires and promotions in the marketing department. Joey Monteiro has been elevated to President of Worldwide Marketing, where he will oversee both domestic and international marketing for the mini […]
SNL UK cold opened with comic Emma Sidi as Melania Trump reassuring BBQers in a borough of south London that she definitely isn’t buddies with disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In an echo of the First […]
Neon has nabbed its fifth film in the Cannes Competition with Na Hong-Jin’s Hope. Neon has taken North American and English-language rights to the next film by the The Wailing director. Neon is said to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse is launching production label Mother Bare Productions with the first project a movie adaptation of popular American novelist Sherrilyn Kenyon’s upcoming urban fantasy book series Infernal Affairs, which […]
EXCLUSIVE: I Love LA star and writer Rachel Sennott has booked a key supporting role alongside Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin in Matt Ross’ feature Kockroach, which begins filming in Australia next […]
Alfre Woodard, J.K. Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, André Holland, Noémie Merlant, Golshifteh Farahani, Teddie Allen, and Felicity Jones have been set for Arnaud Desplechin’s The Thing That Hurts, which is now underway in France. Written by Kamen Velkovsky and Arnaud Desplechin, the film is being executive-produced by Wes Anderson and financed by […]
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie (Captain America) and Dafne Keen (Deadpool & Wolverine) are starring in action-thriller Barracuda, which gets underway this week in New Mexico. Divergent, Limitless and The Illusionist filmmaker Neil Burger is directing the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Gotham Award nominee Sebiye Behtiyar (Preparation for the Next Life) and Emmy nominee Sonja O’Hara (Snare) are to star in writer-director Zachary Allard’s horror feature debut, The Scorpion. The Scorpion follows Kit (O’Hara), “a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s first ever film, Evangeline (1914), is the inspiration for a new feature of the same name heralding from production company Ocean Playground Productions. Based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, the story of silent […]
EXCLUSIVE: Psychological thriller Dr. Q, starring and produced by Tara Reid, has secured distribution with X4 Pictures, which will release digitally from May 4 on platforms including Amazon Prime, Fandango at home, Cox and Comcast. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Former Concourse executive Grant Mohrman has launched U.S. sales and production firm Gravel Lake Entertainment with Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin’s upcoming film The Thing That Hurts as its debut sales title. Filming is due to begin […]
EXCLUSIVE: MediaHedge, the parent company of Atlanta-based finance platform FilmHedge (Dead Man’s Wire), is launching a film and TV joint venture fund with a New York asset management firm. FilmHedge, which lends money against pre-sales […]
EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed Colombian filmmaker and Cannes Film Festival regular Simón Mesa Soto for representation in all areas. Mesa Soto’s latest feature, Un Poeta, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at […]
John Travolta‘s directorial debut will have its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May, before launching on Apple TV on May 29. The under-the-radar Apple Original Films project, called Propeller One-Way Night […]
Here’s your first teaser for Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie, which Paramount releases August 14 this year. Based on the hit TV show and following on from multiple successful movies in the franchise, this latest […]