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The opening scene of Dara Of Jasenovac, Serbia's submission to the International Feature Oscar race, gives a poignant hint of the horrors to come. The setting is rural Croatia in the 1940s. A large group of Serbian women and children are being marched to a train station by armed guards. Two Croatian women work in the…

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has acquired Janet Reitman’s 2017 New York Times Magazine article about the death of Marine Corps recruit Raheel Siddiqui that revealed a culture of brutality against Muslims at a South Carolina military training base. The article will be used as source material for a scripted limited series…

With Holocaust drama Dara of Jasenovac, executive producer Michael Berenbaum draws attention to the horrors that occurred at a little-known concentration camp in Croatia, where between 75,000 and 100,000 Serb, Jewish, Roma, Croat and Bosnian people died—at least 20,000 of them, children. Known as the "Auschwitz of the…

UPDATED with video: With Dara of Jasenovac, executive producer Michael Berenbaum spotlights a little-known concentration camp in Croatia, where between 75,000 and 100,000 Serb, Jewish and Roma people were killed—many of them, children. Directed by Peter "Gaga" Antonijevic, the first cinematic portrait of the Jasenovac…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been said that some movies aren’t necessarily born, rather they fight their way to life. A lot of that responsibility falls on the shoulders of a film’s producer, who well after the cameras have turned off, and the set striked, sees a movie through to its endgame. That person in the case of 101 Studios…

Netflix has acquired Matthew Carnahan’s Mosul and will release the movie in November, Deadline has confirmed. 101 Studios was set to release the movie this year, but theatrical plans did not pan out. The feature, which made its world premiere at Venice last year, followed by a TIFF debut, is based on the true events…

“This will never be spoken of,” says the naked grandpa whose protective towel just fell to the floor. “No idea what you’re talking about,” replies his adult son-in-law who witnessed the carnage. Here are a couple of clips from The War with Grandpa, starring Robert De Niro as a man with no plan who moves in with his…

UPDATED, 10:15 AM: 101 Studios is moving The War with Grandpa to Oct. 9. The Robert De Niro family comedy moves off the Sept. 18 weekend, where it was against Disney/20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man and to a weekend where there aren’t any wide releases. Given how movie theaters are reopening with auditorium…

101 Studios will produce, finance, and distribute the film adaptation of Daniel J. Boyne's biography The Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, and The Water. The pic will rep the first feature film from Sports Illustrated Studios, the new banner formed under 101 Studios and Authentic Brands Group. Alexis Ostra…

With demand surging for sports-themed films and TV series, Authentic Brands Group and David Glasser’s 101 Studios have launched Sports Illustrated Studios, an exclusive home for film and TV adaptations of the magazine’s work. Plans call for several scripted or unscripted feature films and TV series per year, as well…

Jason Hall, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, has been tapped write and direct Unstoppable, a feature based on the true-life story of inspirational wrestling star Anthony Robles. The pic will be produced by Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions…

Persistence is everything. It only took writer-director Andrew Heckler two decades and producer Robbie Brenner 15 years to get the strange but true story of reformed KKK member Mike Burden to the screen. But here, even another two years after taking the audience prize for dramatic feature at the 2018 Sundance Film…