EXCLUSIVE: Netflix wasn’t alone in cooking up a storm at the recent Toronto film market. STX International, now known as ErosSTX International as a result of the merger between Indian major Eros and U.S. studio STX, says it has secured cumulative international deals worth north of $100M during and after the virtual…
Stuart McBratney’s Don't Read This On a Plane, which had its world premiere and won the Audience Award at the just-wrapped Dances With Films, has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures. The dramatic comedy is getting a digital release in the U.S. beginning Tuesday.
The pic, a Australia/Romania co-production, stars Sophie…
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have just closed a deal to acquire North American distribution rights to Shadow in the Cloud, the raucous Midnight Madness Toronto Film Festival title that might hold the distinction of being the first drive-in theater movie acquisition ever. Deadline hears…
By my reckoning, Werner Herzog became the first feature director to have shot films on all seven continents when he made it to Antarctica in 2009 for Encounters at the End of the World. He's back there again, and to nearly every other continent as well, for his latest documentary, Fireball: Visitors from Darker…
Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor David Oyelowo marks his feature directorial debut with The Water Man, a sci-fi adventure tale about a boy in search of a legendary creature with the ability to cheat death, which just had its premiere at TIFF.
“I would describe it as life-affirming,” Oyelowo told Deadline of his…
IFC Films said Tuesday that it acquired North American rights to MLK/FBI, the Sam Pollard-directed documentary that premiered today at the Toronto Film Festival and will play at the New York Film Festival too. IFC Films will release the film on January 15, 2021, ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and the…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominee Tim Roth (Rob Roy) is attached to star in New Zealand drama Punch, which European sales firm The Yellow Affair is introducing to world buyers during the Toronto virtual market.
Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight actor Roth, who is currently starring in Sky and Amazon series Tin Star, will play…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first clip for Toronto Film Festival Discovery section drama Wildfire, the debut feature from Irish writer-director Cathy Brady.
Pic stars Nora-Jane Noone (Brooklyn), Nika McGuigan (Philomena), Kate Dickie (The Witch) and Martin McCann (The Survivalist).
Wildfire centers on sisters Lauren and…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a slow burn but striking first clip for Cannes, Toronto, San Sebastian and New York entry Beginning, the in-demand debut film from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili.
Kulumbegashvili wrote the script with Rati Oneli. Starring are Ia sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Producers…
Concrete Cowboyis about a different kind of urban cowboy — in this case, an outcast Black teenager who finds an unlikely home amongst a group of horse aficionados in a Philadelphia ghetto. Nicely acted and sympathetic in every way, Ricky Staub's directorial debut has nonetheless bridled himself with an entirely…
EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to conspiracy thriller Wander starring Aaron Eckhart (Midway), Katheryn Winnick (Vikings), Heather Graham (Desperados) and Oscar-winner winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country For Old Men).
The completed film follows Arthur Bretnik (Eckhart), a mentally unstable…
The temptation will be too great for some critics to resist proclaiming, "Ammonite is dynamite!," as in some respects it is, specifically in the way it resembles a hand grenade thrown into the midst of an otherwise decorous, serious-minded 19th century British period piece.
James Ivory might be proud and even jealous…
