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Martin Scorsese will pay personal homage to influential British filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in an upcoming feature doc. Altitude is attached to handle sales of the as-yet untitled doc and has secured a release in the UK and Ireland. The Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Casino director will narrate…

Lia Devlin Upped At Altitude Lia Devlin, the former Head Distributor at Altitude Film Distribution, has been upped to Managing Director. Since joining the UK sales outfit in 2014, Devlin has led distribution for several titles including award-winners Minari and Moonlight. She was previously MD of Momentum Pictures…

Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones will lead the cast of Two Wolves, a Vietnam War-set thriller being helmed by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. The pic tells the story of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who, during the Wwr, turned against his fellow soldiers to halt the massacre of unarmed civilians in the…

Clio Barnard took inspiration from two people she met while filming previous films for Ali & Ava, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. “I knew I wanted it to be a love story,” Bernard said to Anna Smith at Deadline’s Contender’s Event: London. She also described the idea behind the film as a “bio-fiction.&#8221…

Titane filmmaker Julia Ducournau didn't just make history this year as the first female director to win Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or solo, she was also the first to find out she had won the prize twice during the ceremony. Jury president Spike Lee famously inadvertently lifted the lid on the film's triumph at the…

Ella Balinska, who stars in Netflix’s upcoming Resident Evil TV series, is to lead cast in sci-fi thriller The Occupant. Balinska will play Abby who, during a desperate quest for her dying sister’s survival, finds herself stranded and alone in the icy Russian wilderness where a mysterious helper may or not be her…

Altitude Film Sales has closed a selection of international territory deals on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone's new documentary that re-examines the assassination of John F. Kennedy some 30 years after the release of Stone's Kevin Costner-starring thriller JFK. The company screened a sales…

Sam Worthington and Phoebe Tonkin are starring in Matt Nable's directorial debut, Transfusion. The thriller, which also features Nable, is about a former Special Forces operative thrust into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him. Production began in Sydney earlier this week and Altitude…

Altitude and Lightbox, the production outfit run by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmakers Simon and Jonathan Chinn, are combining for what they claim will be the first theatrical documentary on Princess Diana. Directed by Ed Perkins (Tell Me Who I Am), Diana will draw on thousands of hours news reports, previously unseen…

Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged became the most high-profile UK cinema release in the pandemic era this week, taking a provisional $230K (£174,901) from 250 sites, an average of around $920, with venues still to report. That number may look fairly minor on first glance but in the current context it offers reason for…

EXCLUSIVE: There's been some confusion this week about whether Unhinged, the Russell Crowe thriller that was recently pushed by its U.S. distributor Solstice Studios from July 10 to July 31 due to continued coronavirus disruption, would also be moving in the UK from its planned July 17 date. I can clear that up now by…

Altitude Media Group, the UK outfit run by Will Clarke that works across production, distribution and sales, has officially opened a natural history-focused factual wing that will make film and TV docs. Former Channel 4 exec Paul Sowerbutts joined the company late last year to drive the move into non-fiction content…