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Moviefone was sold last week and now we know who bought it. Producer Cleveland O'Neal was the winning bidder for the iconic movie listings service that was on the auction block as part of the liquidation of Helios and Matheson Analytics – the bankrupt holding company that also owns MoviePass. The Moviefone sale for…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms is closing a high seven-figure multi-territory pre-buy for the Scott Cooper-directed psychological horror A Head Full of Ghosts, which will star Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). STX will distribute in the U.S. and UK and, like it did on Gunpowder Milkshake last month, teamed with…

Neon has acquired worldwide rights to She Dies Tomorrow, the apocalyptic existential thriller from Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience co-creator Amy Seimetz, which was an official selection of this year’s SXSW Film Festival before the Austin event was canceled. The movie stars Seimetz's frequent collaborator Kate Lyn…

A New York bankruptcy judge Thursday approved the sale of the iconic Moviefone movie listings service for $1 million as part of the bankruptcy of its parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics. That oddly-named holding company shot to fame by starting, growing and ultimately badly bungling the MoviePass subscription…

Peter Chernin’s investment firm The Chernin Group has boosted its investment in interactive entertainment company Scopely, which announced that TPC and media giant Advance have just injected $200 million to help it grow its business. Scopley said that brings its latest round of funding – Series D – to $400 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Shaked Berenson and Jonathan Barkan’s genre distribution label The Horror Collective has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Jesse O’Brien-directed horror-comedy Two Heads Creek. The pic is slated for a summer release. Written by Jordan Waller (Victoria, Darkest Hour), who also stars in…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Berkowitz and Max Berkowitz and their company Not A Billionaire (NAB) has optioned the book rights to the storied life of Danish renaissance man Peter Freuchen. NAB will co-produce a limited series based on the life of Freuchen with the legend’s grandson Peter Ittinuar Freuchen. The Berkowitz Brothers…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has secured all North American distribution rights to Misbehavior, the Philippa Lowthorpe-directed beauty pageant drama starring Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show, Belle), Jessie Buckley (Judy, Chernobyl ), Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, The M…

IFC Films has secured the U.S. rights to Sean Durkin’s The Nest, the period drama, which premiered at Sundance, starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, and Oona Roche. The film, Durkin’s first following his 2011 film, Martha Marcy May Marlene, will be released in theaters sometime this fall. The pic revolves…

Media entrepreneur Byron Allen has made an all-cash bid for Tegna and is said to be one of three potential buyers circling the Tysons, Va.-based broadcaster, according to a source familiar with the situation. Allen's Allen Media Group offered $20 a share, or about $8.5 billion, the source said. It is going up against G…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Relic, the thriller that world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was slated to be part of the Midnighters section of the recently canceled SXSW. The directorial debut of Natalie Erika James stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote and Australian…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed Rawson Marshall Thurber and Kyle Ward’s heist pitch Kingdom Come. Ward’s writing, and the film will be directed by Thurber. The idea came from Thurber, who developed it with Ward before they pitched it. It’s the second big film in the heist genre at Netflix for Thurber, who is currently…