Latest in Acquisitions

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crash, Crimes Of The Future) and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.  The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the…

EXCLUSIVE: ARP Sélection has acquired French distribution rights for Jiří Mádl's historical thriller Waves, which was recently announced as the Czech Republic's entry to the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. Set during Prague Spring of 1968, the drama follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Ebony and Ivory, the latest surreal comedy from writer-director Jim Hosking, ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. The move puts Drafthouse back in business with the filmmaker following their collaboration on the darkly comedic…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to the fantasy pic In the Lost Lands, reuniting Resident Evil filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich, from Constantin Film. Based on a short story by Game of Thrones‘ George R.R. Martin, the film also stars Dave Bautista of the Guardians of…

EXCLUSIVE: As we near TV trade confab MIPCOM, more high-profile deals are being struck off-cycle. Canadian pubcaster CBC has acquired streaming rights to Australian comedy Austin. The ABC show will launch on streamer CBC Gem on Friday, October 18, a week after the Sophie Turner drama Joan premieres…

EXCLUSIVE: Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights for Boaz Yakin's dance, rap and slam poetry-led romance Once Again (For The Very First Time) and will start rolling it out theatrically across the U.S. in October. Billed as a break-dance, hip-hop supernatural fantasy, the movie stars…

EXCLUSIVE: Nutcrackers opened the Toronto Film Festival and now is poised to become the first splashy acquisition deal on the ground since the festival began. Hulu is in final talks to pay eight figures for the family comedy directed by David Gordon Green and starring Ben Stiller, Linda Cardellini, Edi…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a huge summer with It Ends with Us, its adaptation of the bestselling novel from Colleen Hoover, Wayfarer Studios is on to another literary adaptation to watch, as the company has won the film rights to Kirsty Greenwood’s USA Today bestselling romantic comedy The Love of My After…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has revealed how much it paid to bolster its international production footprint earlier this year with the acquisitions of Australia’s Werner Film Productions and Spain’s Brutal Media. BBC Studios paid an initial consideration of AUD$6M ($4M) for 100% of Werner, the company…

EXCLUSIVE: HarperCollins imprint William Morrow has snapped up North American publishing rights to a new memoir from Jay Stratton, former Director of the U.S Government’s secretive UFO program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, who led investigations into UAP and non-human intelligence for 16…

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…