Kristen Stewart, Hell Or High Water star Ben Foster and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney are to lead cast in a movie inspired by the early works and letters of iconic U.S. writer William Burroughs. This will be a hot one at the Cannes market next week. Foster will make his directorial debut on the film and has also…

Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to Oz pic Babyteeth, which will star Ben Mendelsohn (Ready Player One) and Essie Davis (The Babadook). Production is due to get underway this summer on the Screen Australia-backed movie which is set to be directed…

International sales, production and financing company Celluloid Dreams has hired former Mongrel Media and eOne exec Charlotte Mickie as VP as it gears up for the Toronto International Film Festival. Mickie’s first acquisition for sales on behalf of Celluloid is 1%, director Stephen McCallum’s Aussie feature about…

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has closed a number of key international territory deals in Toronto for Scott Mann's Final Score, starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan. Alexandra Dinu and Julian Chen also star in the thriller written by the Brothers Lynch and Jonathan Frank. The story sees an ex-soldier forced to…

EXCLUSIVE: Andorra, the romantic thriller from Roxanne helmer Fred Schepisi, has added further cast to join the previously-set Clive Owen. Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson, Joanna Lumley and Riccardo Scamarcio have all become attached to the pic that’s based on Peter Cameron's novel of the same name. Production is…

EXCLUSIVE: Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams is having a typically busy Cannes, locking down deals for Kurt Russell-starrer Bone Tomahawk and Daisy Ridley-narrated The Eagle Huntress. Bone Tomahawk has now virtually sold out, closing deals with Latin America (California Filmes), Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia…

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has released a statement to the press in defiance of his official ban by the Iranian government from making films or speaking to journalists. “I'm a filmmaker. I can't do anything else but make films. Cinema is my expression and the meaning of my life," wrote Panahi, whose latest feature…