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Leonine Confirms U.S. Date For Spy City Leonine has confirmed that Odeon Fiction and Miramax's high-end spy thriller series Spy City has sold to AMC Networks and will launch on AMC+ in the United States on April 15, 2021. The six-part series from UK writer William Boyd was produced by Leonine Studios' production…

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based firm FilmRise has picked up global distribution rights to drama Broken Diamonds, starring Tony and Grammy-winner Benjamin Platt (Dear Evan Hansen), Lola Kirke (Mozart In The Jungle) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community). Produced by La La Land and Sicario backers Black Label Media, the film…

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based distributor FilmRise has struck a deal with sales firm WaZabi Films for U.S. rights to TIFF 2020 and Berlin 2021 drama Beans. The coming-of-age story about a twelve-year-old Mohawk girl forced to grow up fast during the 1990 Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, played at the Toronto…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmRise, the Brooklyn-based film and TV distributor, is launching its first original production, forensic investigative series Bloodline Detectives hosted by Nancy Grace with Peninsula Television in partnership with Sky Studios. Genesis TV will syndicate the 20-episode series, which features criminal…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year’s Tribeca Film Festival winning-title The Short History of the Long Road will be hitting VOD on June 16 via FilmRise. Written and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy, the film tells the story of Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), a teenager who grew up living out of a van with her beloved father Clint (Steven…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmRise has picked up North American rights to Independent Spirit nominee Driveways, starring Hong Chau (Downsizing), Lucas Jaye (Fuller House), Brian Dennehy (Cocoon) and Christine Ebersole (The Wolf Of Wall Street). The film follows the friendship struck between a young boy in a new neighborhood and a…

FilmRise has picked up the North American distribution rights for the BoulderLight Pictures release of Browse. Pic, from director Mike Testin stars Lukas Haas as a man who becomes convinced that his identity has been hacked and that someone is using it to manipulate and control him. Desperate for clarity, he seeks to…

In show business, some child actors don’t make the jump, with the industry stalling their careers by adulthood. But not Alex Wolff. Having enjoyed early success by the time he was 10 with his brother Nat on the 2007-09 Nickelodeon mockumentary series The Naked Brothers Band, which revolved around them and their band…

Former FilmRise director of acquisitions Faye Tsakas has been hired as VP Development and Production at Passage Pictures, the indie production company behind films including Marjorie Prime and the upcoming biopic Tesla starring Ethan Hawke. She will work with CEO Uri Singer to develop and produce new film and TV…

Endemol Shine North America is teaming with Michael Strahan's SMAC Entertainment to develop a new U.S. version of global game show The Money Drop. Strahan, the former NFL standout who is co-host of Good Morning America, will serve as an executive producer. Endemol Shine North America and SMAC announced at NATPE that…

Before diving into one of her latest screen roles, in Desiree Akhavan's Sundance hit The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Chloë Grace Moretz needed to take a break. Squaring off with herself, the actress reflected on the decisions she was making in her career, and how they did or did not align with her initial reasons…

FilmRise has acquired the North American rights to Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize-winning drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which will get a summer release this year. Directed by Desiree Akhavan, the coming-of-age film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, and Jennifer…