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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan is set to star in The Penguin Lessons, with The Full Monty's Peter Cattaneo to direct the Jeff Pope-scripted adaptation of the Tom Michell nonfiction bestseller. The management/production company 42 partners Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh will produce alongside Robert Walak. Rocket…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian sales company APL Film has acquired international sales rights for Canadian-British writer and director Shamim Sarif's drama Polarized, a love story between two women separated by culture and religion. The film will screen in the market as part of the selection of Telefilm <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/canada/" id="auto-tag_canada"…

EXCLUSIVE: WME Independent has unveiled the first image of Haley Bennett in the upcoming 19th Century champagne drama Clicquot ahead of launching sales on the title at the European Film Market. Bennett stars in the titular role of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, who is popularly known in France as…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins will team with Top Gun: Maverick's Glen Powell in Locked, a remake of the Argentinian action thriller 4X4, for ZQ Entertainment and Raimi Productions. David Yarovesky is set to direct. He and Sam Raimi collaborated recently on Nightbooks. Michael Arlen Ross…

Black Bear International has further bolstered its team with the hire of Luane Gauer as SVP, International Production & Acquisitions. The former Protagonist Pictures exec will report to Black Bear International President John Friedberg and Llewellyn Radley, EVP International & UK Managing…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based genre specialist has boarded sales on Belgian black comedy Krump about a down-on-his-luck ex-porn actor who embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission to raise 50,000 euros when his daughter is kidnapped. The film is the debut feature of French-born, long-time Brussels resident…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Tree Int'l (PTI) has boarded sales on German Sophie Scholls – The Final Days Oscar-nominee and hitmaker Marc Rothemund’s heart-warming family drama Weekend Rebels, inspired by the true story of a father who forged a special bond with his autistic son through the search for a perfect…

Mafia Mamma and Knives Out star Toni Collette and Odessa Young (The Staircase, Mothering Sunday, Shirley) have signed to co-star in writer and director Nathan Silver's twisted revenge thriller The Prima Donna. Collette and Young previously worked together on HBO's award-winning series The…

Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Romola Garai (Suffragette, Becoming Elizabeth) are set to star in Joanna Coates’s gothic horror Virtue, which Hanway Films will launch sales on at the EFM later this month.Set in England in 1350, Coster-Waldau will star as heroic knight St. Peter who returns…

Ellie Bamber (Willow, The Serpent, Nocturnal Animals and The Trial of Christine Keeler) will star as supermodel Kate Moss in Academy Award-winning writer and director James Lucas' upcoming feature film Moss & Freud. Two-time Emmy Award winner and BAFTA Award nominee Derek Jacobi (Murder on the Orient…

EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch International (WBI) has boarded sales on buzzy Portuguese director, artist and producer Gabriel Abrantes' upcoming English-language feature Amelia's Children.  The film is among half a dozen new titles being launched by WBI at the EFM, alongside a raft of previously announced…

Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Doctor Who and Victoria actress Jenna Coleman have been announced as key cast on Northern England-set action thriller Jackdaw, the debut feature of Jamie Childs, whose drama directing credits include The Sandman and His Dark Materials. Jackson-Cohen, whose recent credits…