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Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Dakota Johnson (Bad Times At The El Royale) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie) are set to star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, we can reveal. Endeavor Content will launch world sales at the upcoming EFM on Gyllenhaal’s…

Roadside Attractions and Gravitas Ventures are teaming on the U.S. distribution The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck that world premiered at Toronto. The pic is based on Matthew Teague’s autobiographical essay published in Esquire. The companies…

EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Johnson and former Netflix development executive Ro Donnelly have formed TeaTime Pictures to develop feature film and television projects. The company has inked a first-look television deal with Platform One Media and has set a YA musical as the first title under the pact. "We are thrilled to partner…

When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…

Deadline on Saturday kicked off this year’s edition of Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama that had its world premiere last night as a TIFF Special Presentation. The film is based on the true story related in…

Writer-directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson were visiting a camp for disabled actors when they came upon Zack Gottsagen, a unique young man with Down syndrome who was determined to be an actor no matter what life has thrown in his way. Schwartz and Nilson left with the idea that they would write a movie in…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK rights to SXSW Audience Award winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and newcomer Zack Gottsagen. LaBeouf plays as a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach who joins forces with Zak, a young man with Down syndrome on the run from a…

Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Peanut Butter Falcon, the road trip comedy that stars Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen and won the SXSW audience award this year after its world premiere there. The pic will now hit theaters August 9. The film was written and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) and Cherry Jones (Boy Erased) are among cast to have joined Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite's (Blackfish) feature drama The Friend, which is now underway in Fairhope, Alabama. Country artist Jake Owen, Denee Benton (Hamilton: An Am…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Black Bear have set Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck to star in The Friend, a fact-based touching drama that STX International will launch for offshore sales at the European Film Market. Directing is Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose Blackfish was a BAFTA nominee for…

With his second film out of Sundance in the last few years, Babak Anvari had a lot to live up to. His first effort, 2016's Under the Shadow, drew critical raves, winning a BAFTA Award, two British Independent Film Awards, and other accolades, and winding up as the British entry for Best Foreign Language Film that same…