STXinternational has locked up international rights to I Care A Lot, a thriller from Black Bear Pictures that stars Rosamund Pike and is being directed by J Blakeson based on his original screenplay. As part of the deal, STX will distribute the pic in the UK and Ireland, and the company will launch overseas sales…

EXCLUSIVE: Gone Girl and A Private War star Rosamund Pike is set to lead cast in thriller I Care A Lot for The Imitation Game and Ben Is Back producer Black Bear Pictures. J Blakeson (The 5th Wave) has scripted and will direct with shoot scheduled for June of this year. Oscar-nominee Pike will play Marla Grayson, a…

When it comes to an independently-financed movie, is it meant for a theatrical release or streaming? It’s a question that The Imitation Game Oscar-nominated producer and Black Bear Pictures CEO/President Teddy Schwarzman assesses frequently in the current climate, and he expounded on that at Winston Baker’s Script to…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear Pictures has partnered with Under the Shadow director Babak Anvari and Two & Two Pictures to develop an untitled feature drama set in the deadly Syrian crisis zones. Christian Contreras is set to write the untitled project, which Anvari will direct. The drama is based on true stories about female…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Roberts and Manchester By the Sea Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges are set to star in Ben Is Back. The drama is scripted and will be directed by Peter Hedges, the What’s Eating Gilbert Grape novelist-screenwriter, About a Boy scribe and Pieces of April and Dan In Real Life director who is the father of…

EXCLUSIVE: After getting a Best Picture nomination for a movie about the race to crack the Enigma Code, The Imitation Game producer Black Bear Pictures will now make a film about the race to cure the polio epidemic in the ’50s. Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear won an auction and will pay mid-six figures to team with…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed worldwide rights to Barry, the Vikram Gandhi-directed film that drew high praise at the Toronto Film Festival for actor Devon Terrell in his role as a young Barack Obama. This was a hot property and I’d heard several distributors chased it and Netflix went out in front with an initial bid…

EXCLUSIVE: Teddy Schwarzman's Black Bear Pictures has set Eddie Redmayne to star in The Last Days Of Night, joining director Morten Tyldum and screenwriter Graham Moore to tell the story about the battle between industrial age titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to electrify America. Redmayne will play famed…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear Pictures has acquired the Matthew Orton spec script Reason Of State and will produce and fully finance a taut political thriller unfolding over 24 hours inside one of the world’s most famous addresses: 10 Downing Street. Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Ben Stillman will produce with Silvertown…

EXCLUSIVE: Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures has won an auction that puts him back together with Graham Moore and Morten Tyldum, with whom he made the Oscar Best Picture-nominated hit The Imitation Game. Schwarzman has acquired a package for  The Last Days Of Night, which Moore (who won an Oscar for adapting The I…

Canadian distrib Elevation Pictures has signed a multi-year slate co-financing deal with Anton Corp. Under the deal, Anton will partner on the Elevation slate which includes 20-25 pictures per year, made up of elevated commercial and prestige driven films, from its output deals with Black Bear Pictures, Bleecker…

EXCLUSIVE: In a mid-six figure deal made in a competitive auction, Parkes+MacDonald and Black Bear Pictures have partnered to acquire and produce Undone, a spec script by first time writer Melissa London Hilfers, who was a litigator at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Parkes+MacDonald (through their Image Nation…