EXCLUSIVE: VMI International is launching TIFF market sales on thriller Cassi, starring Dove Cameron (Descendants) and RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad). From director-writer Josh Webber, the film follows Cameron’s character Cassi, “a waitress at a local diner whose life takes a dangerous turn when she romances a reclusive young mortician called Isaac (Mitte). Their love quickly […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Precious Metal Productions and Black Fawn Distribution, two of Canada’s buzziest indie film companies, are joining forces on a three-picture genre slate. Precious Metal Productions’ co-founding heads Canadian producer Christopher Giroux and actress-producer Ann Pirvu say the deal marks a milestone for their company which they launched earlier this year. The first project under the new agreement […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow14 Sept
“You can’t make this shit up… and most of it, we didn’t,” Courteney Cox’s latest directorial outing prefaces, an appropriate warning for the chaotic nature of the unbelievable true-crime saga at the center of Evil Genius. In Evil Genius, adapted by screenwriter Courtenay Miles from the 2018 Netflix docuseries, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (Patricia Arquette) orchestrates the […]
Deadline•Glenn Garner14 Sept
Oprah Winfrey’s AHA, a new live immersive experience created in collaboration with a global collective of musicians, artists and storytellers will debut at Sphere in Las Vegas for one weekend, April 2-4. The project will see Winfrey appear live on stage alongside a variety of performances in what the announcement calls a “brand-new visual, musically […]
Deadline•Jillg36614 Sept
Beta Cinema has unveiled a raft of new deals for Trudie Styler’s comedy Up Against It ahead of its world premiere as a gala presentation in Toronto later this week. The fresh deals include to Spain (Youplanet Pictures/Caramel), Greece (Spentzos Film), Turkey (Mars Production), Bulgaria (Beta Film) and Latin America (A2 Filmes). Beta Cinema reports […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow14 Sept
Tributes from across the industry have been rolling in this weekend following the death of veteran producer Jeremy Thomas. He died on September 11. He was 77 years old. His family announced his death in a statement on Saturday, September 12. “Jeremy Thomas, the celebrated British producer of The Last Emperor and of over 40 […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Taz Skylar, best known for Netflix’s One Piece and Amazon’s Brit gangster film Gassed Up, has joined Craig Fairbrass, who returns as Eddie Franks, in crime sequel Villains, which has wrapped principal photography in London. Canadian sales and production company Double Dutch International is launching sales at the TIFF market. The movie is a […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Evans (House of the Dragon) is set to lead upcoming British horror feature Pendle 1612, alongside newcomer Ella Moss and Gemma Laurie (Shetland). Written and directed by Lancashire-born twin filmmakers Liam Bashford and Kyle Bashford, the film is a docu-horror inspired by the history surrounding the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. Evans will […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Morgan (The Boy That Never Was), Madeleine Mantock (The Long Song) and Christian Cooke (Frauds) will lead the cast of BBC real-time thriller Nightsleeper Season 2. The trio assume the mantle from Season 1 stars Joe Cole and Ruth Madeley, and will appear alongside the likes of Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks), Ian McElhinney (Game […]
Deadline•Jesse Whittock14 Sept
Canada’s Heated Rivalry distributor Sphere Abacus has bought digital seller Rocket Rights/Rights Booster, renaming it Rocket Booster. Founder Matthew Frank has become executive director of the newly-named company while former COO Cat Davie is now MD. Both will report to Sphere Abacus boss Jonathan Ford. Founder by Frank with his late brother David in 2021, […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: After laying bare Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Jeffrey Epstein in a bombshell interview, Emily Maitlis is now delving deeper into the world of the deceased child sex offender. The former BBC presenter will host A Very British Epstein for UK audio company Global. It will trace Epstein’s ties to the UK through exclusive interviews […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter14 Sept
Jack Thorne, one of the UK’s most respected screenwriters, has alleged that some of his peers are using artificial intelligence to generate scripts. In a wide-ranging speech about AI on behalf of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), the Adolescence and Lord of the Flies writer said he was aware of fellow creatives turning […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter14 Sept
Amanda Seyfried’s sad school teacher is the heart and confused soul of Tim Blake Nelson’s latest directorial outing, The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd. The movie itself appears to have had a lot of “life and deaths” itself along the way as Nelson has been trying to get it made for years, and finally […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond14 Sept
Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to starring in a controversial ad — and her latest effort has infuriated female athletes, including Olympians. Sweeney posed for sports betting company Novig “wearing just sports,” meaning she was only covering her modesty with footballs, tennis rackets, and basketball hoops. The campaign dropped last week, prompting inevitable headlines about […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Industry vet Ziad Kebbi is taking charge at MForMedia with a remit to take the Dubai-based production biz in a new direction built on the ownership of IP. “The best stories from this region have not been told yet,” the exec said as he stepped into his new role. Kebbi becomes Managing Director at […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke14 Sept
All That She Wants is one of those cutesy titles that I can never quite remember right after seeing a movie. The good news is this one is refreshingly smart and funny with actors you would like to see get together despite their age difference. Plus this film, which had its World Premiere Sunday night […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: The Walsh Sisters are coming back. Irish pubcaster RTÉ has greenlit a Season 2, which the BBC will once again show in the UK. The new series, based on Marian Keyes’ novels, will stream on Stan in Australia. Peter Coonan (Bad Sisters) joins the Season 2 cast, as do Aislín McGuckin (Normal People), Art […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke14 Sept
Following the Silver Lion win for Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love at this year’s Venice film festival, Netflix is set to stream more of the director’s work worldwide. Lee’s earlier films Green Fish and Secret Sunshine are already available on Netflix, streaming from August in Italy, the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Peppermint Candy and […]
Deadline•Liz Shackleton14 Sept
Steve Ballmer seems to have gotten to the acceptance stage of grief. Less than two weeks after — his word — “vehemently” denying the results of a year-long NBA investigation that found the Clippers had circumvented the salary cap and paid superstar Kawhi Leonard millions through no-show deals with sponsors, the team’s billionaire owner posted […]
Deadline•Tomt14 Sept
The day after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor‘s bombshell Israeli documentary NAZA alleging the Israeli army targeted civilians in Gaza won the Special Jury Prize at Venice, Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced that he would “act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship” of the directing duo. According to a translation provided by X, Zohar went on to call […]
Deadline•Tomt14 Sept