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Sandra Mae Frank and Mekhi Phifer have signed on to co-star with Joel Kinnaman and Mark Strong in the action thriller The Silent Hour. The film is set to start principal photography in late February and will shoot in Malta and Toronto. Brad Anderson (The Machinist) will direct from an original…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s AGC is launching international sales at the upcoming Cannes market on Anna Kendrick true-crime thriller The Dating Game, which was previously set up at Netflix but has now shaken free from the streamer. Oscar nominee Kendrick (Up In The Air) is in advanced talks to star in the feature about…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one that’ll spice up the virtual EFM this week. Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is launching sales on Chris Pine's directorial debut Poolman, which the Star Trek actor will star in alongside Oscar nominees Annette Bening and Danny DeVito. In the movie, Pine will play Darren Barrenman, a hapless…

AGC International, the sales arm of Stuart Ford's AGC Studios, has closed a raft of deals on John Cena action-comedy package Freelance at the virtual AFM market. Deals have closed with Splendid Film in Germany; Signature Entertainment in the U.K., Ireland, and Scandinavia; Vertice Cine in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and…

First Teaser For UAE-Shot Pierre Morel Action Pic AGC International and Image Nation Abu Dhabi have unveiled a slick first teaser trailer for Al Kameen (The Ambush), about the rescue mission of a small group of Emirati soldiers trapped by rebel fighters in a mountainous valley. According to producers, the film is the…

EXCLUSIVE: 300 and Atomic Blonde screenwriter Kurt Johnstad is joining AGC Studios’ adventure-thriller The Englishman. Based on the first novel in a new book series from author David Gilman, the feature will center on Raglan, a former soldier whose work in the French Foreign Legion taking on terrorists in sub-Saharan…

EXCLUSIVE: AGC International has closed a raft of pre-sales on in-demand thriller Panopticon out of the virtual EFM. Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Anthony Mackie (Avengers), and Jacob Latimore (The Chi) are set to star in the Ridley Scott-execed feature, which is slated to shoot in New Mexico from July. Andrés…

Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce big-budget sci-fi fantasy movie Universe’s Most Wanted, which is slated to go into production spring next year. The film will focus on a small town which gets a big surprise when a space ship carrying the universe's…

Production is underway in London on Doug Liman’s heist dramedy Lockdown, which will star Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Producers are in advanced talks with Ben Stiller, Lily James, Stephen Merchant, Dulé Hill, Jazmyn Simon and Mark Gatiss to join the cast. Set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 lockdown, the…

AGC International inked key territory deals during the virtual TIFF market on Donnie Yen action pic The Father. Pacts have gone down with Leonine in Germany and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; DeAPlaneta in Spain; Nordisk in Scandinavia; Rialto Distribution & Vertigo Releasing in Australia & New Zealand; and…

Ron Howard, Imagine Entertainment, AGC Studios and CAA are teaming up for the movie biopic of virtuoso Chinese pianist Lang Lang. Two-time Oscar-winner Howard will direct the currently untitled film with Oscar-winner Brian Grazer producing alongside Imagine’s President of Features Karen Lunder, and AGC Studios’ Stuart…

AGC International is launching international sales during the Toronto Film Festival on action thriller The Father, which will star Donnie Yen (Mulan) in the lead role alongside Alec Baldwin (Mission Impossible: Fallout) and Frank Grillo (Captain America: Civil War). Described as an ode to the revered action movies of…