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The American Film Market (AFM), one of the key international film events on the calendar, has decided to move online for 2020 in the face of continued coronavirus disruption. It had started to look inevitable in recent weeks that the market would need to change up this year, with virus spikes in the U.S. and continued…

Joel McHale and Thomas Lennon have joined the cast of Treat Street, a Halloween-set family adventure film that will be the directorial debut of Stimson Snead. The pic, produced by North By Northwest, will shoot next spring in Spokane, WA. The plot centers on a group of kids out trick-or-treating who run into the most…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured English-speaking world rights to the neo-noir thriller Blood on Her Name, with an aim for a day-and-date release in early 2020. Bethany Anne Lind (Reprisal, Ozark), Will Patton, (Remember The Titans, Armageddon) and Elizabeth Röhm (American Hustle, Joy) star in the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights to Dirty God, the Sacha Polak-helmed drama that screened in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The deal comes out of the American Film Market, with Dark Star aiming for a March 2020 theatrical release in time for…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a buzzed-about presentation at AFM last week, Dog, the road movie starring Channing Tatum and a Belgian Malinois, has sold around the world for FilmNation. Deals at the market were inked for: Germany (Leonine); Italy (Notorious); Spain and Latin America (Sun Distribution Group); France (Amazon)…

EXCLUSIVE: Intercut Capital, founded this year by producers David Pomier and R. Bryan Wright and which is a co-financier on the upcoming Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, has added $125 million in new funding in a partnership with TinRes Entertainment. The private lender plans to expand its scope worldwide eyeing projects…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has taken U.S. rights on Resistance, Jonathan Jakubowicz's Second World War-set drama starring Jesse Eisenberg. Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, and Matthias Schweighöfer are also in the movie, which is the true story of a group of girl and boy scouts who created a network that saved the…

Vision Films has taken North American distribution on 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up, the romance pic starring Christina Ricci (Casper) and Hamish Linklater (The Big Short). Film was written and directed by Galt Niederhoffer, it stars Ricci as a single mother who meets an irresponsible man. The pair believe…

EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Reed, who recently starred in Warner series Swamp Thing, will lead the cast of thriller pic Escape The Field. Emerson Moore is directing from a screenplay he wrote with Sean M. Wathen and JD Dobkin. Story follows six strangers who wake up trapped in an endless cornfield only to discover something…

Saban Films has bought North American rights for writer-director Jason Lei Howden's Guns Akimbo, the comedic sci-fi thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe. Pic premiered at Toronto. It follows a nerdy video game developer (Radcliffe) who becomes the next contestant in an illegal live-streamed death match. Samara Weaving (R…

Green Book producer Participant has entered a multi-year output agreement with Japanese distributor Gaga Corporation. The tie-up, announced at the AFM, strengthens a relationship that saw Gaga release Participant's Oscar-winning Green Book in Japan in March, grossing a chunky $20m. Now, Gaga will release all of…

Christian Parkes, Chief Marketing Officer at I, Tonya distributor Neon, has claimed that video games are the greatest threat to the future of the indie film industry. "I am frankly terrified about what's going on in the marketplace today," Parkes said on a panel at the American Film Market's finance conference today…