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FilmNation Entertainment said Tuesday that it will handle international sales for Lyrebird, Dan Friedkin’s directorial debut that had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this past weekend. FilmNation will now launch the pic at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday. 30West is already aboard…

EXCLUSIVE: The Shailene Woodley serial killer thriller Misanthrope has presold around the world for FilmNation here in Cannes following a buyer presentation that included the Big Little Lies actress and director Damian Szifron (Wild Tales). Woodley will star as a talented but troubled cop recruited by the FBI to help…

Arrival and The Big Sick studio FilmNation Entertainment is launching a UK-based television production business after partnering with Nordic Entertainment Group, the company behind Keanu Reeves comedy series Swedish Dicks. The two companies are forming a joint venture under the FilmNation brand to develop, produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan, most recently known for her Golden Globe and Emmy winning performance on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series, is set to co-star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Cold War drama, Ironbark. On Chesil Beach helmer Dominic Cooke is on board to direct the feature from a screenplay by The Hi…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment is putting Grant Ginder’s comedy nuptial novel The People We Hate at The Wedding in development with three-time Oscar nominated producer Michael De Luca set to produce. Emmy-winning comedy writers Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux of Fox’s animated series Bob’s Burgers will adapt the novel…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that will surely swing some of the focus from awards season launches to the acquisitions market at this week’s Toronto International Film Festival, U.S. and foreign distributors will be bidding for Knives Out, a contemporary murder mystery that will star Daniel Craig as a detective assigned to…

Hulu is in early stages of development on a TV series adaptation of Isabel Allende’s critically praised novel The House of the Spirits. FilmNation Entertainment (Arrival), which had landed rights to the book in a competitive situation, will serve as the studio on the project, with Allende on board as executive…

FilmNation Entertainment said it has negotiated $120 million in capital via a revolving multi-bank credit facility, which will give the indie producer, financier and international distribution company cash to invest in more film, TV film, theater, digital and VR content as well as other strategic investment areas…

30WEST and FilmNation Entertainment are partnering to finance comedy Late Night, the Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling-starrer that’s written by Kaling. Nisha Ganatra (Transparent) is directing. Kaling will also produce with Howard Klein, alongside Imperative Entertainment and FilmNation, who will launch international…

FilmNation Entertainment has come aboard to finance Goodnight Mommy helmers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s upcoming indie The Lodge. The drama, which marks the first English-language feature for the directors, is about young woman and her new stepchildren who are menaced by a terrifying supernatural force while…

After crossing $100M at global turnstiles in early December, Denis Villeneuve’s lyrical and pensive sci-fi pic, Arrival, has now traveled over the $150M mark worldwide. The Amy Adams- and Jeremy Renner-starrer is expected to finish the four-day domestic weekend with $92.4M and has an international box office total of…

Director Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral sci-fi pic Arrival has crossed the $100M mark at the worldwide box office. With $65.78M in North America and $35.13M internationally through Thursday, the current gross is $100.9M. The lyrical twist on the genre kicked off at the Venice Film Festival in September and has continued…