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EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment’s newly formed production label Infrared has won a great package in a competitive bid, snapping up Drew Pearce’s action thriller pitch Cooler. Dune and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Dave Bautista will star. Production is expected to start in summer 2023, and Pearce is directing off…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment's (Arrival) newly launched film production label Infrared has signed a first-look movie production deal with Dave Bautista's (Guardians Of The Galaxy) recently formed Dogbone Entertainment. Infrared, led by President of Production Drew Simon, and Dogbone Entertainment, run by…

FilmNation Entertainment today announced the launch of Infrared, a new film production label that will look to finance and produce mainstream films with franchise potential, producing three to four mid-to-high level budget films each year across the action, thriller, comedy and sci-fi genres. The label will be led by…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment TV is developing a limited series based on R.O. Kwon’s critically acclaimed novel The Incendiaries. The series will be written by Lisa Randolph (Jessica Jones, Star Trek: Discovery) and directed by Kogonada (Pachinko, After Yang). FilmNation Entertainment will produce in association…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed (The Long Goodbye) have joined Christos Nikou's (Apples) anticipated English-language feature film debut Fingernails, we can reveal. FilmNation is launching sales on the hot package at the Cannes market next week and is co-repping…

Representation and production outfit Range Media Partners is teaming with production and sales company FilmNation Entertainment to co-produce and co-finance a slate of feature films. The companies will aim to make four-to-six films a year across a range of genres and budget sizes. In a release, they said they would…

We are hearing that the George Miller MGM-Film Nation movie Three Thousand Years Of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The fantasy drama romance, set in Istanbul, centers around a scholar and a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his…

Rose Byrne is set to play New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in upcoming title They Are Us. Andrew Niccol will write and direct the project, which focuses on the week following the 2019 Christchurch attacks on New Zealand's Muslim community.  Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment is shopping the project to…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment, producer of the Emmy-nominated HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, is signaling a further push into television, signing a multi-year TV development fund deal with Wishmore (The Personal History of David Copperfield), the company owned and run by Greek film financier and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what I believe will become one of the hottest film packages for the upcoming Cannes Virtual Market, Antoine Fuqua will direct Will Smith in Emancipation, a Willam N. Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the…

Seven women and minority writers have been selected to take part in the inaugural New York Screenwriters Workshop – a six-month intensive program that focuses on professional development for diverse, emerging screenwriters in the greater New York City area. The workshop is a partnership between the WGA East and FilmNat…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment continues to ramp up its television business, hiring former Marvel Television executive Courtney Saladino Gurney as its new Vice President, Television. In her new role, Gurney will source and develop material for the company, reporting to FilmNation's EVP, Television Stefanie…