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EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA has struck a deal with Arclight Films for U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg's (Antiviral) upcoming sophomore sci-fi thriller Possessor, I can reveal. As we broke in Cannes, the film is due to star Andrea Riseborough (The Death Of Stalin) and Christopher Abbot (Catch 22). Possessor centers on…

Louis Shaw Milito and Phil Conserva’s recently launched Boilermaker Entertainment has signed a multi-picture deal with Arclight Films. Under the pact, Boilermaker and Arclight will develop and produce a minimum of four films over the course of five years. The first project to come out of the partnership will be based…

EXCLUSIVE: In the second sassy project we can reveal this morning in Cannes, Birdman star Andrea Riseborough and fast-rising Christopher Abbott (First Man) will lead Brandon Cronenberg's sophomore feature Possessor. Cronenberg’s 2012 body-horror debut Antiviral played at festivals including Cannes, Toronto and London…

EXCLUSIVE: David U Lee’s Beijing and LA-based Leeding Media has entered a multi-picture deal with sales and finance company Arclight Films. The partners will start off the relationship with the English-language Safecracker. Leeding will co-finance and oversee production on the heist pic which is being produced by Andre…

A new initiative to develop official Australian-Chinese co-productions, Chinalight begins accepting submissions today. Hatched by Oz-based international sales outfit Arclight Films and supported by Screen Australia's Enterprise program, the scheme is seeking Australian talent, including writers, producers and…

Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga are set to star in Fatima, a project about three children who experience the supernatural and accept their quest to bring a message of peace to the world. Marco Pontecorvo is directing and Arclight Films is launching sales on the project to buyers in Cannes. Based on a true story…

The South Korea government says a man who defected from North Korea last year was a senior-level officer in the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the elite military spy organization that the FBI holds responsible for "overseeing" the 2014 hack attack against Sony. The RGB handles cyberwarfare for Pyongyang and is one of…

Arclight announced today it would be launching sales on World War I drama The Angel Makers, with Christina Hendricks, Emily Watson, Abbie Cornish, Max Riemelt And David Cross all in the cast. Jon Amiel directs the story, set in the Yorkshire Moors in 1917. Survival is key when the men leave to join the allied fight in…

The Runaways helmer Floria Sigismondi has been lined up to direct The Delivery Man, which Highland Film Group is financing and introducing to buyers here in Cannes. Based on the 2008 novel by Joe Mcginniss Jr, it’s being adapted by Jonathan Lemond, whose 2006 script The Professors, made the Black List. The Delivery Man…

Arclight Films and United Exhibitor Partners are launching 3D sci-fi adventure Lost In The Pacific. Brandon Routh and Zhang YuQi will star in director Vincent Zhou's futuristic project about a group of elite passengers on board an inaugural luxury, transoceanic flight in 2020. Zhou co-wrote the script with Peter…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian director Fred Schepisi's Simon Baker/Leslie Mann-starring romantic drama, The Olive Sisters, has added several cast members ahead of the EFM in Berlin this week. Anthony LaPaglia, Jacki Weaver, Melissa George, Gia Carides, Josh Lucas and Alexandra Schepisi have all boarded the adaptation of…

Arclight Films has acquired worldwide rights to the Chinese production The Deathday Party, a psychological crime thriller starring Archie Kao, Anita Yuen and Xiong Naijin. The film has already sold in Hong Kong to My Way Films and other parts of Southeast Asia and is being shopped to buyers at the Toronto Film…