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Beta Cinema has closed its first presales on period drama The Offing starring Helena Bonham Carter. Curzon, Cineart and Madman have joined forces to acquire all rights for UK/Ireland, Benelux and Australia/New Zealand in what is described as a competitive situation. The distributors will work on an…

EXCLUSIVE: Two time Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter is reteaming with The Crown director Jessica Hobbs on period drama The Offing, which Beta Cinema will launch sales on at next week’s EFM. Emmy winner Hobbs, who is currently directing HBO drama The Palace with Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, has…

EXCLUSIVE: Beta Cinema has unveiled a raft of first deals for German director Kilian Riedhof's drama You Will Not Have My Hate, inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 terror attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. The feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first international trailer for Piece Of My Heart, inspired by the tragic life of 1970s Dutch ballerina Olga de Hass, ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 11-27), which was announced on Thursday. De Haas may not be a name…

Fremantle’s Fiction Valley Ties With ‘Dirty Lines’ Creator Pieter Bart Korthuis Fremantle label Fiction Valley has struck a three-year deal with Netflix’s Dirty Lines creator and showrunner Pieter Bart Korthuis.  The agreement will see Fiction Valley, which is run by Annemike van Vliet, develop and produce a slate of…

Actor and activist Cara Delevingne will play a daredevil climber in The Climb, which follows six ordinary women who, as part of Greenpeace-led protest action against Shell Oil's plans to drill in the Arctic, scale the tallest building in Europe, London's Shard. Hayley Easton Street has written and will direct the…

BBC Royal Family & The Press Doc The BBC has ordered a new 2x60min BBC Two series about the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the media. The program will be accompanied by a Radio 4 podcast for BBC Sounds. Both programs will be fronted by the BBC’s Media Editor…

EXCLUSIVE: German sales firm Beta Cinema has revealed multiple deals for BIFA-nominated psychological-thriller Kindred. The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland…

Beta Film has appointed Koby Gal-Raday to the management board in the newly created post of Chief Content Officer. Based in Munich, Gal-Raday will spearhead Beta's international production strategy and activities, starting in July of this year. Gal-Raday joins Gomorrah outfit Beta from Yes, the Israeli satellite and…

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Oscar-winner Caroline Link's feature adaptation of the novel by Judith Kerr, has been boarded for U.S. rights by Greenwich Entertainment. German sales agent Beta Cinema brokered the deal at EFM. Pic was a local hit in German when it was released last year, grossing $5.8M. The movie is a…

Red Arrow Studios International has sold neo-noir crime drama Stella Blómkvist to AMC Networks' Sundance Now. The series has also been recommissioned for a second season by Síminn in Iceland. Produced by Sagafilm for Síminn and Viaplay, the series has been picked up by AMC Networks' Sundance Now SVOD platform for…

The Lives Of Others writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck returns to Venice, the setting for his second film The Tourist, with the world premiere of big-canvas European co-production Never Look Away (Werk Ohne Autor). Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch and Saskia Rosendahl star in the period epic…