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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired Raindrop, a grounded sci-fi action thriller pitch by scribes Anna Halberg and Spenser Cohen. Automatik is producing. The pitch is a female two-hander sci-fi actioner as an estranged mother and daughter are forced to team up to unravel a conspiracy after a time travel mission goes…

EXCLUSIVE: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show), Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) and Riverdale's Cole Sprouse are attached to star in Blood Ties, a drama based on a Nathan Heller article in the New Yorker. Aaron Katz (Gemini) wrote the script and will direct. Automatik's Fred Berger (La La Land) is producing. Mbatha-Raw plays…

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting the fall film festival circuit of Telluride, Venice and Toronto with her edgy coming-of-age directorial debut Palo Alto back in 2013, Gia Coppola is returning to the Lido with sophomore effort Mainstream. The film will screen in the Horizons section on September 5 with star Maya Hawke and…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has acquired Shell, a spec script by Jack Stanley that comes with Max Minghella (Teen Spirit) attached to direct. Logline for the is the script is under wraps but sources said it is a satirical horror tale with sci-fi elements, set in the health and beauty industry. Pic will be produced by Automatik…

EXCLUSIVE: Midnight Special and Destroyer outfit Automatik is lining up a feature version of buzzed-about sci-fi short Construct from Thor: The Dark World VFX supervisor Kevin Margo. La La Land producer Fred Berger and Midnight Special producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones will produce the feature, which will tell the story…

EXCLUSIVE: Captain America star Sebastian Stan and Colette actress Denise Gough are set to star in classy-looking feature Monday. Produced by Christos V.Konstantakopoulos (Before Midnight) Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Loving), Fred Berger (La La Land) will executive produce. Faliro House and…

EXCLUSIVE: LuckyChap Entertainment and Automatik have teamed with Good Films to option Firefighters, based on Jaime Lowe’s New York Times Magazine article The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires. Script will be written by Carly Wray, the Westworld and Mad Men writer/producer who recently was tapped to…

Entertainment One has picked up television rights to Peter Nichols' best-selling novel The Rocks, with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper on board to direct. Laura Eason (House of Cards, Sex With Strangers) is attached to adapt the series. Harper, one of the hottest directors coming out of the UK at the moment, will…

Max Minghella is set to make his directorial debut with Teen Spirit, an emotional underdog story set in the world of pop music that Mister Smith Entertainment is launching to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. Minghella, who has acted in such film as The Social Network and The Ides of March…

It was a La La Landslide in the Musical/Comedy Feature category tonight at the Golden Globes as the picture won in every category in which it was nominated and won the most Globes ever for a film. Only One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won before in all the major categories it was nominated in before. That was at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Berger is joining Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Automatik as a partner. The move cements the duo’s close working relationship. They will focus on filmmaker-driven prestige films as well as high-end commercial fare. The move also gives Berger, who has Damien Chazelle musical La La Land starring Ryan Gosling…