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This year’s market has been the toughest one to handicap in a good long time. It might well be quiet, meaning that the sums could be modest with dealmaking for most films lingering beyond the festival. But that doesn’t mean that the mart won’t pop with a handful of big deals.
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Comcast Buys Dublin-Based Blueface To Bolster Fast Growing Cable Biz Unit
Comcast has completed an acquisition of Blueface – a Dublin, Ireland-based global tech provider, as it continues to expand its business service sector and its international footprint.
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Alan Ball’s ‘Uncle Frank’ Acquired By Amazon In $12 Million Worldwide Deal: Sundance
Amazon acquired Uncle Frank, the Alan Ball-directed drama that has been one of the early buzz sales titles at 2020 Sundance. Deal was $12 million in a worldwide deal. This was done in competitive bidding with several other bidders in the mix.
That matches the amount Searchlight Pictures paid for The Night House.
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Lionsgate Closing U.S. Deal On Benedict Cumberbatch Cold War Thriller ‘Ironbark:’ Sundance
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is nearing a close on a deal for U.S. rights to Ironbark, the Dominick Cooke-directed drama that stars mid-seven figures and a significant theatrical release date commitment. I’m hearing that Roadside Attractions will execute the theatrical release. I’m hearing the deal is in the mid-seven figure…
‘The Iron Lady’ Writer Abi Morgan Reveals Cancer Battle: “It’s Been A Really Challenging 18 Months”
Abi Morgan, the Welsh writer whose credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and the Emmy-winning series The Hour, has revealed that she is fighting cancer.
Morgan made the news public during an onstage Q&A following a London screening of the second season of BBC and SundanceTV series The Split.
"I got cancer during this…
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Stephen Lang, Keith David & Chris Galust Join Guy Pearce In Exorcism Horror ‘The Seventh Day’
EXCLUSIVE: Cast has been rounded out on The Seventh Day, the horror pic starring Guy Pearce and Mexican actor Vadhir Derbez in the story of a renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training.
Joining them are Stephen Lang (Avatar), Keith David (The Thing), Chris Galust (Give Me…
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Love Productions Raids Condé Nast, Hiring Joe LaBracio & Al Edgington As U.S. Co-Presidents
EXCLUSIVE: Love Productions, the British production company behind The Great British Bake Off, has appointed Condé Nast Entertainment executive vice presidents Joe LaBracio and Al Edgington to lead its U.S. operation.
LaBracio and Edgington will be become co-presidents of Love Productions USA, effectively replacing Kev…
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‘How I Met Your Mother’ Director Pamela Fryman & Actress Ashley Williams Team With ‘Margin Call’ Producer Neal Dodson On ‘Killing It: An Education’
EXCLUSIVE: How I Met Your Mother director Pamela Fryman and actress Ashley Williams, Margin Call producer Neal Dodson and producer Alan Grossbard are teaming up on an adaptation of the Penguin Random House-published memoir Killing It: An Education.
Fryman, who directed all but 12 of the 208 episodes of Fox’s hit…
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Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor To Star In ‘The Intern’ Remake From Warner Bros & India’s Azure
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Broadway Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris & Matthew Lopez To Receive HRC’s LGBTQ Equality Award
Broadway playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play) and Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with each receiving this year’s HRC Equality Award.
HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, announced the honors today. The awards will be presented at the 19th Annual…
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Comcast’s British pay-TV broadcaster Sky is plotting a major return to unscripted television, with plans to invest around £30M ($40M) a year in the genre and launch two brand new channels.
Sky will pounce on audience research showing increased demand for factual content by launching Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature in…
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ITV Preps Crime Thriller ‘Viewpoint’, Co-Created By ‘Fleabag’ Director Harry Bradbeer & ‘Manhunt’ Writer Ed Whitmore From ‘Ripper Street’ Producer Tiger Aspect
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning Fleabag director Harry Bradbeer has co-created a Rear Window-esque crime drama with Manhunt writer Ed Whitmore for ITV.
The pair have devised five-part thriller Viewpoint from Ripper Street producer Tiger Aspect, ordered to series by the British commercial broadcaster.
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