Following another streamer-dominated Sundance, where deal-making soared past $120 million, the onus at the European Film Market in Berlin is expected to shift back to a more traditional scene of single-territory theatrical acquisitions, largely by European buyers.
EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd Films has closed a UK deal with Bulldog Film Distribution on its thriller Muscle.
We can also reveal the first trailer for the film, which WestEnd will market screen at EFM this week.
Written and directed by Gerard Johnson (Hyena), the movie stars Cavan Clerkin (The Last Kingdom) and Craig Fairbrass…
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Schreier's Dreamfactory, the period romantic drama that grossed close to $1m in its local market last year, has sold to the U.S. with German company Capelight partnering with MPI for the North American release.
The deal, struck with Berlin-based agent Picture Tree International, is a similar one to…
As the European Film Market gets underway in Berlin, here's a last minute project that should stir some buyer interest. Liam Neeson will lead the cast of Memory, an action thriller from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell.
Pic is based on the 2003 Dutch film The Memory Of A Killer, Dario Scardapane (The Bridge) has…
EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the EFM in Berlin, Ivan Kavanagh's supernatural horror Son, starring Halloween breakout Andi Matichak alongside Emile Hirsch and Luke David Blumm, has locked North American and UK distribution.
AMC Networks-owned genre streamer Shudder has taken all rights for the UK and Ireland, and has also…
In another sign that the film and TV industry’s appetite for podcasting is growing in Europe as well as the U.S., German movie distributor SquareOne Entertainment is getting into the podcast game with the launch of digital business SquareOne Unlimited.
The company has hired former EMI Music Germany and ProSiebenSat…
Paris-based Pulsar Content has boarded sales on Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Greyeyes thriller Wild Indian.
Eisenberg is starring in and executive producing the film, which is currently in post-production. Written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., the film follows two Anishinaabe men who are inextricably bound…
EXCLUSIVE:Vertical Entertainment has swopped on U.S. rights to Open Source, the upcoming action thriller starring Bruce Willis and Jesse Metcalf.
Pic is being directed by Matt Eskandari, from a screenplay by Chris LaMont and Joe Russo. Also starring are Natalia Eva Marie (Inconceivable) and Lala Kent (Trauma Center)…
Omar and The Mountain Between Us director Hany Aby-Assad is lining up Arabic-language thriller Huda’s Salon, which Paris-based Memento Films International is launching at the EFM in Berlin.
The feature, which is due to shoot in Palestine this year, will follow a woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare…
Two shootings in the western town of Hanau, Germany, have left at least 11 people dead and others injured, according to local police.
Nine people died in the attacks on two shisha bars at around 10pm on Wednesday night. A massive hunt was launched for the perpetrators and the suspect was found dead at his home, along…
The Democratic presidential debate wasn’t even over and many had declared a winner: President Donald Trump.
It’s perhaps a bit too easy to say that the president, reviled by Democrats, can only be happy by the way that things played out. The candidates at the Las Vegas debate went after each other like no previous…
The former boyfriend who authorities believe killed Dr. Amie Harwick on February 15 is back behind bars and facing the death penalty for the Hollywood therapist's death.
Less than 24 hours after posting a $2 million bond and walking free, Gareth Pursehouse was arrested for a second time today by the LAPD and will face…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from the series finale ofCriminal Minds.
After 15 seasons, CBS’s long-running procedural created by Jeff Davis is coming to an end. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the gang at the BAU said farewell tonight with back-to-back episodes. Like many series, it ended with a gathering…
