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EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films will handle world sales on Bloody Hell, the horror-thriller from Alister Grierson, whose 2011 pic Sanctum grossed $100M global for Universal. The new pic is written by Robert Benjamin and is set between Boise, Idaho and Helsinki, Finland, following Rex Coen, played by Ben O'Toole (Hacksaw Ridg…

Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2) have joined Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott in Brandon Cronenberg's (Antiviral) sophomore feature Possessor. The film is slated to begin production in April 2019 and will shoot on location in…

EXCLUSIVE– In one the splashiest deals of the Cannes market so far, the Weinstein Co. has acquired North American and UK rights to Hotel Mumbai, about the 2008 terrorist attacks on the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. Dev Patel and Armie Hammer are on-board to star in the film, along with Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland). The…

EXCLUSIVE: Dev Patel and Armie Hammer are in negotiations to star in Hotel Mumbai, about the 2008 terrorist attacks on the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. Also in negotiations for the film, which is set to go into production in August in India and Australia, are Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland), Teresa Palmer (Triple 9) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films has added psychedelic thriller Happy Birthday by concert films and music video director Casey Tebo to its EFM sales slate. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler appears in the horror pic about two friends who venture across the border to Mexicali for a night of birthday revelry. Before they know it, their…

UPDATE, 6 AM Saturday: Schrader, ever the provocateur, had this to say on Facebook: EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine are teaming director Paul Schrader with Nicolas Cage for Dog Eat Dog, a gritty crime thriller based on the celebrated book by Eddie Bunker. The film, just acquired by Arclight, will be…