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EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streaming platform MUBI has acquired all rights to well-reviewed Cannes 2020 Official Selection Sweat for the U.S., Latin America, India and Turkey. Magnus von Horn's Polish-Swedish co-production follows three days in the life of a fitness motivator and social media influencer, played by breakout…

The British Film Institute has put in place a $620,000 (£500,000) fund to help the country's film sales companies cover costs arising from the pandemic. With film distribution upended, and major markets disrupted and cancelled, this has been a challenging time for the entire industry ecosystem. Business has ticked…

EXCLUSIVE: Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana movie Spencer, which is set to star Kristen Stewart as the former royal, was a hot seller for FilmNation out of the Cannes virtual market. The New York-based firm all but sold out on the project, closing deals for the UK, France, Italy and Benelux (STX Entertainment), Germany…

EXCLUSIVE: Chernobyl the big-budget Russian action drama about the titular nuclear disaster, has been acquired by Capelight Pictures for North America and German-speaking territories, with the company partnering with MPI Media Group on the U.S. release. Moscow-based sales agent Central Partnership continued sales…

The Cannes Marche du Film Online, which hosted its first ever digital edition last week, has revealed that it had 10,002 participants take part in its virtual marketplace. The largest delegation came from the U.S., which saw 1,500 participants log on, followed by France (1,400) and the UK (950). The majority of the…

Oscar nominated director of feature documentary The Betrayal, Ellen Kuras, will direct Oscar winner Kate Winslet as Vogue cover model turned war correspondent, Lee Miller. Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter Liz Hannah (The Post, Long Shot) is adapting the project from the Anthony Penrose (Lee’s son) book The Lives of…

A restart for film and television is bearing down but looming uncertainty around COVID-19 insurance has the business on edge. Pandemic insurance disappeared in March. Three months later there's still no viable alternative to put many independent producers back on a path to completion bond backed financing. It's…

EXCLUSIVE: Following news last week that Stage Mother, Thom Fitzgerald's comedy starring Jacki Weaver and Lucy Liu, had sold to Momentum Pictures for North America and Altitude for UK, sales agent Film Mode Entertainment has inked a series of further Cannes deals on the title. The pic has now gone to Australia and New…

EXCLUSIVE: Soccer ace Wayne Rooney, England’s all-time leading goal scorer, is to be the subject of an official documentary biopic from Maradona producer-financier Lorton Entertainment. Production is underway on the film about the life and career of the former Manchester United, Everton and DC United star, who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mickey Rourke, Sean Stone, Eric Roberts and Sarah Alami crime drama Night Walk has secured North American distribution via Grindstone Entertainment Group, with Scatena & Rosner Films taking global sales rights, Deadline can exclusively report. Directed and produced by Moroccan-born filmmaker Aziz Tazi, N…

AGC has closed a raft of Cannes virtual market deals on Nick Jonas-Laurence Fishburne action-thriller The Blacksmith. Sizeable pre-sales have closed in Germany & Switzerland (Constantin), France (Metropolitan), UK (Entertainment Film), Latin America (CDC & CVT), Russia (Paradise/MGN) and South Korea & Vietnam…

Michael Shannon, Kate Hudson, Don Johnson and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are to star in director Michael Maren's comedy Shriver, with Jimmi Simpson, Zach Braff, Mark Boone, Jr. and Aja Naomi King rounding out the cast. Fortitude is launching sales this week at virtual Cannes and CAA reps domestic. In the film, a small…