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EXCLUSIVE: Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired sales rights to the documentary A Sisters' Tale ahead of its international premiere Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the documentary, Iranian filmmaker Leila Amini trains a lens on her sister Nasreen, a gifted singer-songwriter…

A24 acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Brutalist, the Brady Corbet-directed film that just won the Silver Lion award at Venice before bowing at the Toronto Film Festival. Corbet wrote the immigrant story with Mona Fastvold, and pic stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn…

EXCLUSIVE:  Alex Gibney-produced Benjamin Netanyahu doc The Bibi Files, directed by Alexis Bloom, has set sales with Goodfellas ahead of a work-in-progress screening in Toronto.  With the global spotlight on Netanyahu as the death toll continues to rise in the Israel-Gaza war sparked by the October 7…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Hamm's action-packed adaptation William Tell, starring Claes Bang and Golshifteh Farahani, has sold to the UK & Ireland and Germany-speaking territories ahead of its world premiere in Toronto next week. Munich-based sales company Beta Cinema unveiled the all-rights deals to Altitude…

EXCLUSIVE: Pulsar Content has acquired world sales rights for Joséphine Japy's upcoming feature The Wonderers following a family navigating the severe disability of the youngest daughter. Produced by Cowboys Films, the feature marks Japy's first time in the director's chair. The actress was…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights to Laura Piani’s Jane Austen Wrecked My Life ahead of the pic’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. SPC took rights in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe as well as worldwide airlines.  The movie will…

EXCLUSIVE: Content creators posing as mastermind thieves: That’s the concept behind Banijay Entertainment’s latest format acquisition. The Infiltrators is a gameshow in which contestants seek to infiltrate an eccentric billionaire’s home and navigate its complex security system through a series a…

Ahead of its premiere at Telluride, Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, a new documentary on famed Democratic political consultant James Carville, has been acquired by CNN Films, Deadline can confirm. The company specifically picked up television and SVOD rights for the U.S. and Canada. Directed…

Parvinder Shergill To Front Film On First Asian-British Female Police Officer EXCLUSIVE: Parvinder Shergill will lead an indie movie about a pioneering Asian-British female police officer. Shergill play PC Karpal Kaur Sandhu in The Winters Lion, with shooting set to go ahead in spring 2025 in the UK…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the September theatrical release of Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory, an award-winning feature doc from Daytime Emmy-winning director Justin Johnson (aka Justinsuperstar), Mayim Bialik has boarded the project as an executive producer. Along with Hayley Lozitsky Weisser and Alyssa…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to The Last Rifleman, a WWII veteran drama starring Pierce Brosnan (The Great Lillian Hall). Written by Kevin Fitzpatrick and directed by Terry Loane, the film will be released in theaters on November 8. Other titles set for that…

The Match Factory has boarded international sales on An Urban Allegory, the new short film by Alice Rohrwacher and JR, ahead of its world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Out of Competition. The work marks the second collaboration between Italian filmmaker Rohrwacher (La Chimera, Happy as Lazzaro, Th…