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Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International has taken international sales on the feature adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan. Pic is currently in the final stages of post production. The Seagull was previously represented by K5. Pic is directed by Michael Mayer, who…

Expanding its global presence in time for this year’s Berlinale, Hyde Park Entertainment has hired London-based Carl Clifton as the president of its international division. Clifton, a 26-year film industry vet who previously worked at PolyGram and Universal, was recently a partner and head of sales at K5 Media Group…

EXCLUSIVE: After building Hyde Park Entertainment Group with an overseas specialization, chairman and CEO Ashok Amritraj is forming a U.S. theatrical and worldwide digital distribution company. Hyde Park Global will release four to six films per year. Amritraj, whose Hyde Park was behind such films as 99 Homes, Blue Va…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment Group, Skady Lis' Getaway Pictures and United Channel Movies have greenlit the epic adventure film Samson and Delilah based on the best-selling novel from Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Director Sergei Bodrov, whose Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan was up for a 2007 foreign…

EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park-Image Nation and Blumhouse Productions are beginning principal photography next week on Prey, a horror-thriller film directed by Franck Khalfoun ( Amityville: The Awakening). The logline for the pic, which is written by MTV Scream series scribe David Coggeshall, is being kept under wraps. Logan Mi…

Hyde Park International closed deals at the Cannes Film Festival on Midnight Sun and the Untitled Elmore Leonard Project starring Jennifer Aniston and Dennis Quaid. Ashok Amritraj’s company sold the Italian rights to Midnight Sun to Medusa. The Canadian rights to Midnight Sun were purchased by Alliance, Pa-dora…

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull has promoted Jon Jashni to president, a new post. Jashni, a veteran executive and producer who joined Tull six years ago, will continue to function as chief creative officer and has been a big part of Legendary’s evolution from a co-financier of Warner…

Patrick Aiello, longtime exec veep of creative affairs and production for Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment, is leaving after eight years.  A Hyde Park spokesman said his contract wasn’t renewed. Aiello joined in 2003 in a producing deal that transitioned into the creative post. Aiello’s credits at Hyde Park…

EXCLUSIVE: A pre-Cannes domestic distribution deal was closed last night by Image Entertainment for The Double, the Hyde Park/Imagenation thriller that marked the directing debut of Michael Brandt. Brand wrote the script with Derek Haas, his writing partner on such films as Wanted and 3:10 To Yuma. The film was…