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EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) has been set to direct and stars in The Semplica Girl Diaries, written by Ayoade and Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders. Ayoade and Lydia Fox (The Souvenir 1 & 2) will lead cast and we hear from sources in the market that there are early…

Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne are set to co-star in Polly Steele's upcoming drama Four Letters Of Love as the parents of fated lovers played by up-and-coming actors Fionn O'Shea and Ann Skelly. Cornerstone, which is handling worldwide sales and distribution, will launch the…

Damian Lewis has been tapped to star in supernatural black comedy The Radleys, based on Matt Haig's popular novel of the same name. The film has Heartstopper director Euros Lyn at the helm and is produced by Debbie Gray (Good Luck To You Leo Grande) through Genesius Pictures with Cornerstone Films…

Richard E. Grant bags guest role in ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ retelling Withnail & I star Richard E. Grant has joined Disney+'s live-action drama Nautilus, with Muki Zubis (This is Going to Hurt) Benedict Hardie (The Luminaries), Jacob Collins Levy (Young Wallander) and Luke Arnold (Black Sails) also signing up…

Elizabeth Banks is to star in writer-director Christine Jeffs' medical suspense drama A Mistake, based on the novel by Carl Shuker. Cornerstone Films will launch international sales in Cannes on the GFC Films production, and is co-repping the U.S. together with UTA Independent Film Group. Principal Photography starts…

Kevin Macdonald (The Mauritanian, Whitney) has been set to helm The Iceman, which will star Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) as the larger-than-life extreme athlete Wim Hof. The pic reunites producer Debbie Gray, who is producing alongside Fiennes, with sales agent Cornerstone Films following their recent…

Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground) has set his next project with The Tank, which will shoot in New Zealand in late summer this year. Pic is the story of a young family that inherit a remote and long abandoned coastal property in Oregon. They don't know that beneath the property, a horde of ferocious and deadly creatures…

Here's the first image from Aisha, the drama starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor that recently wrapped filming in Ireland. Cornerstone has boarded worldwide sales rights ahead of the Cannes virtual market this month. Frank Berry (Michael Inside) directed and wrote the pic, which charts the experiences of a young…

EXCLUSIVE: Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan have been set to lead Not Bloody Likely, a romantic comedy exploring the true story of the 1914 West End production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. In the movie, Shaw (Brosnan) has written his masterpiece Pygmalion (which would later be adapted into the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Mark Rylance is set to make his big-screen comedy debut in The Fantastic Flitcrofts, a golf movie written by Paddington 2 scribe Simon Farnaby. Bridge Of Spies and Dunkirk actor Rylance will play Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, who managed to gain entry to The British…

Cornerstone Films is launching world sales on UK director Jon Wright's (Grabbers) creature feature The Little People. Described by Wright as "Gremlins meets Straw Dogs", the film is based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay (Robot Overlords) and Wright. The feature followers Londoners Maya and Jamie who escape…

UK sales firm Cornerstone Films, Genesius Pictures (Mrs. Lowry and Son) and distribution executive Lisa Garner have formed The Reset Collective, an Australian distribution and film and TV production firm. Acquisitions and distribution will be the immediate focus for the new company with plans for the development and…