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Highland Film Group has boarded Neil Marshall’s new horror action thriller The Lair, which the Hellboy filmmaker is writing, directing and producing, and will be repping the pic’s worldwide sales at this year’s virtual AFM. Casting is underway with a production start eyed for Spring 2021. The pic tells the story about…

EXCLUSIVE: In the starriest new package announced so far for this year’s virtual AFM, we can reveal that Tye Sheridan (Mud), Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Golden Globe-nominee Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Bill Skarsgard (It Chapter One & Two), Pete Davidson (The King Of Staten Island), As…

EXCLUSIVE: Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan have been set to lead Not Bloody Likely, a romantic comedy exploring the true story of the 1914 West End production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. In the movie, Shaw (Brosnan) has written his masterpiece Pygmalion (which would later be adapted into the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. We can reveal that Lily James (Baby Driver), Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and Emma Thompson (Beauty And The Beast) have been set to star in a new Working Title rom-com: What’s Love Got To With It?, which will start next month. Written and produced by Jemima Khan (Impeachment: America…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm The Mise En Scene Company launches this week ahead of the virtual AFM with a slate including thriller What Lies Ahead starring Rumer Willis, Emma Dumont, Kelly Blatz and Katie Keene. Based in London, the company will represent between 5 – 20 new low to mid-budget ($3-10M) films per year and…

EXCLUSIVE: Terence Davies’ (A Quiet Passion) Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction has wrapped in the UK, with joining cast including Geraldine James (Downton Abbey), Kate Phillips (Downton Abbey), Gemma Jones (Ammonite), Anton Lesser (Game Of Thrones), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Ben Daniels (The Crown), Lia Williams (T…

EXCLUSIVE: You've Been Trumped, the 2011 documentary chronicling Donald Trump's disruptive efforts to build a golf course in the middle of a treasured Scottish nature reserve, has been optioned for a TV series dramatization by Bulletproof and Britannia outfit Vertigo Films. The show will retell how the Trump…

Banijay Executive Team Banijay has set its leadership plans for Creative Networks, with James Townley and Lucas Green remaining in the business to lead the central content…

A UK court has ruled against the actor Johnny Depp in his explosive libel case with The Sun, saying that the tabloid was justified in its use of the phrase “wife beater” in a 2018 article about his relationship with ex-wife Amber Heard. The judge, Justice Andrew Nicol, decreed that the allegation was “substantially…

Cinemas in England will close their doors once again on Thursday (November 5) as the country enters a second national lockdown to combat rising coronavirus cases. Phil Clapp, chief executive of the UK Cinema Association, says the government must announce additional funding for venues beyond the furlough job retention…

MONDAY UPDATE, writethru after Sunday 10:16AM post: Asia continues to power international box office with local titles atop the charts. This is a trend we can expect to carry on as the Hollywood studios have widely vacated the rest of 2020, and as Europe begins a re-closing process amid coronavirus spikes. In just the…

Altitude and Lightbox, the production outfit run by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmakers Simon and Jonathan Chinn, are combining for what they claim will be the first theatrical documentary on Princess Diana. Directed by Ed Perkins (Tell Me Who I Am), Diana will draw on thousands of hours news reports, previously unseen…