EXCLUSIVE: Utopia has acquired U.S. rights to feature documentary Jerry’s Last Mission. Directed by Louisa Merino (Managing to Win: The Story of Strat-O-Matic Baseball) and produced by Melissa Hibbard (The Glass House) and Oscar winner Ed Cunningham (Undefeated), the film tells the remarkable story of a World War II…

BUFF Awards Honor Menelik Shabazz Burning An Illusion filmmaker Menelik Shabazz will be posthumously handed the Honourary Award at this year’s 16th British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) Awards. Barbados-born Shabazz, who died in June, was a pioneer of Black British cinema, best known for 1981 feature Burning An Illusion…

EXCLUSIVE: Yomi Adegoke, the author and host of the Slay In Your Lane book and podcast series, has signed for CAA in all areas outside of books/publishing. The London-born commentator has become one of the leading voices on race, feminism and pop culture over the past few years and is pushing into TV, having created…

EXCLUSIVE: Redbox Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to thriller film Assailant. Assailant follows British couple, Zoe and Jason, whose marriage is on the rocks as they sail to the Caribbean in hopes of saving their marriage. After a seemingly harmless bar fight between the husband and a mysterious…

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Bava’s cult crime movie Rabid Dogs is getting an English-Language remake from in-demand Hollywood scribes Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. The film’s original producer Alfredo Leone is aboard as exec-producer. Franco and Kilgore have acquired the remake rights to the 1974 feature which follows the…

Good afternoon International Insiders, Max Goldbart here with the headlines and major talking points of the week. To get this sent to your inbox every Friday, sign up here. South Korean Takeover CJ’s Endeavor: In a deal valuing the equity at almost $1BN, Endeavor Content has sold the majority of its scripted business…

BIFA Rewards ‘Boiling Point’/’Souvenir 2’ Philip Barantini's Boiling Point and Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II have bagged three awards apiece in the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) craft categories, with the former winning for Best Cinematography, Best Casting and Best Sound and the latter for Best Costume…

EXCLUSIVE: The Outlaws producer Big Talk has secured a two-hour UKTV feature about aliens invading the Earth from Ghosts’ Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond. Airing next year on Dave, We Are Not Alone is set six weeks after an alien invasion and explores the culture clash between humankind and its new alien masters…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie) has been joined in action feature On Fire by Fiona Dourif (Tenet), Asher Angel (Shazam!) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens). We can unveil a first look at the movie, which is three weeks into shoot in Austin, Texas. As we revealed last month, the film follows a family who get caught…

Adam McKay will receive the Volta Award from the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) in recognition of his contribution to film. The filmmaker will travel to Dublin to pick up the prize during an out-of-festival screening of his latest pic, the Netflix comedy Don’t Look Up, on December 16 ahead of its Netflix…

Helen Mirren will receive this year's SAG Life Achievement Award and will be presented with the prize during the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 27. The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the "finest ideals of the acting profession". Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winning actress Mirren…

EXCLUSIVE: Seoul- and Los Angeles-based Bound Entertainment (AppleTV+'s Dr. Brain), is teaming with YA author Marie Lu to develop a series adaptation of her dystopian fantasy novel, Legend. The best-seller is the first of a trilogy and was originally published in 2011, going on to sell over 3M copies worldwide. It’s…