EXCLUSIVE: Madelaine Petsch, who plays queen bee Cheryl Blossom on the CW series Riverdale, is set to star and executive produce the horror-comedy pic Clare at 16, which is based on the upcoming Don Roff novel from Baker & Taylor. Mark Pavia, who directed Stephen King's The Night Flier, will write the feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Caine is joining Ben Foster in historical action-drama Medieval, about 14th century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka. Czech filmmaker Petr Jákl's (Ghoul) has written and will direct the film with shooting due to begin this fall in and around Prague. Jákl produces alongside Cassian Elwes…

EXCLUSIVE: Movie Collective, the crowdfunding film venture set up by Mudbound producer Cassian Elwes and Papadopoulos & Sons director Marcus Markou, has raised £100,000 (US$138,000) ahead of its Crowdcube equity drive. The pair have raised the initial amount from private investors ahead of the launch of the Crowdcube…

Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway is in negotiations to star in Mudbound director Dee Rees’ political thriller, The Last Thing He Wanted. The story is based on the 1996 novel by Joan Didion and will be produced by Elevated’s Cassian Elwes. The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones will produce and finance. Bloom…

Lionsgate announced today that they have inked a multi-year first-look television deal with producer Cassian Elwes. Under the new deal, Elwes will develop and produce scripted and unscripted series for television and streaming platforms under Elwes' newly-created Elevated TV banner. This marks the first television…

Dee Rees, whose much buzzed-about film Mudbound will be available to stream on Netflix in November, has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 best-selling political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. Cassian Elwes of Elevated, a producer on Mudbound, optioned the book last year to develop it in…

Selling for a pricey £12.5m at Sundance this year, Dee Rees's Mudbound received a hearty welcome at the Toronto film festival in advance of its November 17 debut on Netflix. Adapted from Hilary Jordan's 2008 novel, with a cast including Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund and…

Streaming’s dominance of the film industry is imminent, per producer Cassian Elwes, so we might as well get used to it, as companies like Apple, YouTube and Facebook are poised to invest in independent film-making. The producer made his statements yesterday at a Toronto International Film Festival moguls…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Cassian Elwes have unveiled John C. Hoffler and Keely Wise as the 2017 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellows. As part of the fellowship, the two will join the organizations on an all-expense paid trip to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival happening this month. Said Elwes , "I'm…

EXCLUSIVE: In what marks the fourth year of the program, Cassian Elwes and the Black List founder Franklin Leonard have decided to expand the Independent Screenwriting Fellowship to sponsor not one but two unrepresented screenwriters this year with an all-expense paid trip to Sundance. The eligibility requires that…

EXCLUSIVE: Cassian Elwes and Andre Gaines are producing a remake of the 1972 classic revenge thriller Fear is the Key after closing a deal to acquire the rights from StudioCanal. The story, based on a book by Alistair MacLean, takes place in Louisiana and follows the character of John Talbot as he plots an elaborate…

Cassian Elwes and Armory Films partners Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros, are launching Zeal Media Co., an indie film company aiming with a goal of financing and/or producing up to eight films per year. The company will focus on sophisticated, thought-provoking and talent-driven material to stand in the marketplace. The…