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AGC Studios has closed several multi-million dollar territory sales for Neill Blomkamp’s next sci-fi movie, Inferno, which is set to go into production this March in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Inferno, Taylor Kitsch plays a cop who is called to investigate a seemingly ordinary murder in the New Mexico desert. The…

Andrea Riseborough (Birdman) will lead the cast of Geechee, a supernatural thriller from debut writer-director Dubois Ashong. Stuart Ford's AGC Studios will finance and produce the pic and is repping sales rights. CAA Media Finance is co-repping domestic rights. Riseborough will star as Wren, a successful New York…

Taylor Kitsch (21 Bridges) is attached to star in Neill Blomkamp (District 9) sci-fi thriller Inferno for Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios. Lone Survivor and Waco actor Kitsch will play a cop who is called to investigate a seemingly ordinary murder in the New Mexico desert. The arrival of the FBI confirms his suspicions that…

Taken filmmaker Pierre Morel has been set to direct action-thriller The Blacksmith, screenwriter Ben Ripley’s (Source Code) adaptation of the graphic novel by Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman. Jon Shestack (Air Force One) will produce with Jason Netter (Wanted), and Jeremy Stein, with AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford…

AGC Studios is launching sales on and co-producing Twisting My Melon, a music biopic of Shaun Ryder, frontman for UK band the Happy Mondays. Jack O'Connell (Unbroken), and Jason Isaacs (Hotel Mumbai) are in advanced negotiations to star as Ryder and his father, Derek Ryder, respectively. Also in discussions to join…

EXCLUSIVE: AGC Studios has picked up Jay Martel’s spec screenplay The Present, Deadline has learned. The Present tells the story of a young boy who figures out a way to repeat the day leading up to his parents’ separation so he can relive the same day and try to keep them from splitting up. Martel will serve as an…

AGC Studios, CNN Films, and BBC Arts are co-financing documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story about the eponymous English romance novelist. Laura Fairrie is directing the doc biopic which is being produced by John Battsek and Lizzie Gillett of Searching For Sugar Man and One Day In September outfit Passion…

EXCLUSIVE: Tate Taylor (The Help) has gathered an all-star cast for his upcoming comedy-drama Breaking News In Yuba County, including Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Mila Kunis (Bad Moms), Regina Hall (Girls Trip), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) and Samira Wiley (Orange Is The New Black). Bridget Everett (Patti Cake$)…

EXCLUSIVE: In what looks to be the biggest deal of the Cannes market so far, we understand Roland Emmerich’s $150M sci-fi project Moonfall has pre-sold to Germany and Switzerland in a low eight-figure deal. Taking the plunge, I hear, are the newly formed and as-yet unnamed German indie conglomerate comprising key…

Black-ish star Anthony Anderson is attached as a lead and producer on Football Or Me, a romantic comedy which is being produced and fully financed by AGC Studios, the independent content studio launched by former IM Global CEO Stuart Ford. Black-ish and Superior Donuts writer Robb Chavis has been brought on to write…

Roland Emmerich was at the helm of one of the biggest movies at last year’s Cannes market in the shape of WWII action pic Midway, which is due for release later this year. Make that back to back Croisette biggies for the Independence Day director who will be on the Riviera to drum up support for big canvas feature Moon…

EXCLUSIVE: AGC Studios and John Wick outfit Thunder Road are pulling together an impressive ensemble cast for Voyagers, the upcoming sci-fi pic from Neil Burger (Divergent). Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Tye Sheridan (X-Men Apocalypse), Lily-Rose Depp (The King) and Fionn Whitehead…