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EXCLUSIVE: Nicola Adams, the Olympic boxing champion and LGBT icon, will be the subject of feature documentary Lioness: The Nicola Adams Story. The project comes from Salon Pictures, the producers of the BAFTA nominated fashion doc McQueen, and director Helena Coan, whose credits include Audrey, about the screen icon…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has picked up African rights to Farewell Amor, Tanzanian writer-director Ekwa Msangi's feature debut that was well received at Sundance this year. The pact will see Netflix carry the movie across the entirety of the African continent, releasing shortly after the film's U.S. theatrical roll out via…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Constellation has boarded sales on Girls Can't Surf, a feature doc from Christopher Nelius (Storm Surfers 3D, Tough Conversations). Set during the 1980s in the world of professional surfing, it tracks a band of renegade female surfers who took on the male-dominated sport to achieve equality. Surf…

EXCLUSIVE: David Bowie origin story Stardust, which was due to debut at Tribeca next week, is instead to get a live ‘online red carpet’ and screening for buyers and press. London-based sales firm Film Constellation is making up for Tribeca’s postponement due to coronavirus with a digital launch through a bespoke online…

London-based sales firm Film Constellation has boarded international sales rights to Natalie Erika James’ well-received Sundance Midnight debut Relic, whose producers include AGBO and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories. Scheduled for theatrical release in the U.S. in Q4, 2020, with IFC Midnight, the film was to play at…

EXCLUSIVE: London-based Film Constellation has boarded world sales on doc He Dreams Of Giants, the behind-the-scenes look at Terry Gilliam’s passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce. The film heralds from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe and BAFTA-nominated producer…

Film Constellation has secured international sales rights to Sundance drama, Farewell Amor, the feature debut for writer/director Ekwa Msangi. The pic premiered at the film festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category on Jan. 25 and has received positive reviews. Endeavor Content is overseeing all North American…

Jeff Goldblum is attached to voice the lead in musical animation They Shot The Piano Player, the latest project from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, the directors of Oscar-nominated feature Chico & Rita. UK outfit Film Constellation has come on board to finance the project, which is in pre-production. Goldblum…

Film Constellation has boarded world sales on Stardust about a young David Bowie during his first visit to America in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Actor-musician Johnny Flynn (Beast) will play the young Bowie. Jena Malone (The Hunger Games) is attached to play…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit Film Constellation has picked up international sales rights to Sundance-bound drama The Sound Of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie) and Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation). Writer-director Michael Tyburski's feature debut, which will get its world premiere in competition at the Utah…

EXCLUSIVE: Buyers are high on Film Constellation’s weed-growing nun documentary Breaking Habits. Deals have closed for UK (Signature Entertainment), Italy (Wanted Cinema), Australia (Icon), Canada(Mongrel), Airlines (Captive), Thailand (Documentary Club) and Taiwan (Cai Chang). As previously reported, Good Deed…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Anna Paquin and My Cousin Rachel star Holliday Grainger in Toronto Film Festival romance-drama Tell It To The Bees. The story chronicles a lesbian romance in 1950s Britain between a single mother who is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage, played by Grainger, and a doctor…