EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired rights to Safer at Home, a pandemic thriller directed by Will Wernick that Voltage Pictures had introduced to buyers at last November at the virtual American Film Market. The pic, which went into production during the Covid pandemic, will now get a day-and-date release in…
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales firm Elle Driver has inked a slew of pre-sales on under-the-radar home invasion thriller See For Me, which was one of the sleeper hits at the virtual AFM.
Visually impaired actor Skyler Davenport, in their [Davenport identifies as non-binary] first leading film role, stars alongside Sons Of…
AGC International has closed a raft of sales on virtual AFM project Universe’s Most Wanted.
Deals have closed with Entertainment Film Distribution in the U.K. and Ireland; Constantin Film in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; Vertice Cine in Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal; Elevation…
EXCLUSIVE: Here's first footage from Death In Texas, the action-thriller starring Bruce Dern as a bloodthirsty cartel leader.
Also in the cast are Ronnie Gene Blevins, John Ashton, Lara Flynn Boyle and Stephen Lang. Blevins plays Billy Walker, recently released from prison, who in a last ditch effort to save his dying…
Cohen Media Group and Curzon have jointly taken all US, UK and Eire distribution rights to Uberto Pasolini's drama Nowhere Special. A theatrical release next year is being eyed.
James Norton (Little Women and Grantchester) plays John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his…
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Maya Erskine (PEN 15) and Michael Angarano (This Is Us) are set to star in road trip movie Sacramento, which Angarano will also direct.
Due to shoot early next year, the film will follow Rickey, an energetic and free-spirited young man who convinces Glenn, his long-time…
EXCLUSIVE: 123 Go Films has taken world rights to Boston George Famous Without The Fortune, a five-part docuseries about infamous drug trafficker George Jung, aka Boston George.
Johnny Depp played George in 2001 movie Blow, and the real-life man, now 76, lives off the proceedings of that film. Once a world-renowned…
Scott Eastwood has signed on to star alongside Tyrese Gibson, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand and Mel Gibson in action-thriller Dangerous, which is to be directed by David Hackl (Saw V).
Eastwood will play a reformed sociopath who, after the death of his brother, heads to a remote island which soon falls under siege from…
EXCLUSIVE: In a development that will chill those roaming the halls of the virtual American Film Market and putting film deals together, Lionsgate has exited The Plane, the Christian Gudegast-directed action film set to star Gerard Butler. The film was the big acquisition title at last year’s AFM, and it sold out to…
EXCLUSIVE: Miles Teller (Whiplash), Golden Globe nominee Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) and Oscar-winner William Hurt (Kiss Of The Spider Woman) are set to star in political satire The Fencefrom in-demand Icelandic director GrÃmur Hákonarson.
The film’s fun premise sees two liberal newlyweds increasingly at odds…
EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first look at Omar Chaparro (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu) in 7th & Union, in which he plays Mexican ex-fighter Raymundo who forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save…
EXCLUSIVE: Rome-based sales company TVCO has boarded world rights on Masha, Anastasia Palchikova's Russian drama which will screen at Tallinn Black Nights in Estonia and have its market premiere at AFM this month.
The film is a co-production between Moscow-based companies 1-2-3 Production, the creators of Netflix…
