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EXCLUSIVE: Like many indie distributors, Gunpowder & Sky are adapting quickly to the ever-changing theatrical landscape. The entertainment company is set to have the first-ever live streaming premiere with their horror Sea Fever on their sci-fi channel Dust. The premiere will allow the audience to participate in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired U.S. rights to the Irish sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, the Neasa Hardiman-directed pic that had its world premiere this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. It will now get a U.S. release in early 2020 via G&S’ multiplatform sci-fi label Dust. Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Je…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned New York Times-bestselling author Charles Pellegrino's environmental horror novel Dust, which Dan Berk and Robert Olsen will adapt for the screen. Published near the turn of the millennium in 1998, Dust is strangely prescient about the…

Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label DUST has taken the rights to the interstellar noir comic Hadrian’s Wall from Kyle Higgins (Nightwing, Batman: Gates of Gotham), Alec Siegel (Batman Beyond) and Rod Reis' (Winter Soldier). Higgins will adapt and direct the feature. It’s the first adaptation for the New York Times No. 1…

Gunpowder & Sky, the content studio, is expanding the reach of Dust, its science-fiction channel, with platform launches this month on Twitch, STIRR (the new Sinclair streaming service), NBC’s WatchBack and Vizio. Dust will also launch on Samsung Plus in December; it launched on Roku in August. The brand’s expanded…

The 17th Tribeca Film Festival has revealed two of its Audience Awards, tapping the Shawn Snyder-written and directed To Dust for its Narrative award, and the Dyana Winkler/Tina Brown directed United Skates for the Documentary award. Each award carries a cash prize of $10,000 Throughout the festival, which started on…

Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi brand Dust has announced that it will digitally premiere George Lucas’ 1967 student short film, Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB. The short will make its premiere on Dec. 11 to align with the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi — a franchise that started as a brainchild of Lucas. The news…