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EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired U.S. rights to the Irish sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, the Neasa Hardiman-directed pic that had its world premiere this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. It will now get a U.S. release in early 2020 via G&S’ multiplatform sci-fi label Dust. Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Je…

Gunpowder & Sky has hired development executive Paul Evans as its head of unscripted in the UK. Evans joins the studio immediately and will oversee all unscripted output from development to sale. He reports to Pasa Mustafa, Gunpowder & Sky's UK creative director. Evans has more than 15 years experience in the British…

Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones, Dark Phoenix) and Corey Hawkins (BlacKkKlansman, Straight Outta Compton) are set to star in the Quibi thriller Survive from EMH Consulting Group, Inc and Gunpowder & Sky. Directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, Mothman Prophecies) and based on the novel by Richard Abate, Survive…

Gunpowder & Sky has hired David Gale as EVP Development and Production, a role that will see the former MTV Films chief lead a team to develop and produce content across all platforms for the millennial-focused digital studio. The move, effective June 1, reunites him with G&S CEO Van Toffler, his former boss at Viacom…

A documentary on the life and career of rapper Lil Peep, who died of an accidental overdose at age 21 just as his career was taking off, has had its worldwide rights acquired by content studio Gunpowder & Sky. Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silyan's SXSW music documentary Everybody’s Everything details the genre-bending…

The comedy-thriller Villains was a hit at SXSW earlier this year and Gunpowder & Sky took note. The global content studio announced today that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Villains from the BRON Studios genre arm The Realm. Gunpowder & Sky will partner with MoviePass Films to release the film on a…

Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label DUST has taken the rights to the interstellar noir comic Hadrian’s Wall from Kyle Higgins (Nightwing, Batman: Gates of Gotham), Alec Siegel (Batman Beyond) and Rod Reis' (Winter Soldier). Higgins will adapt and direct the feature. It’s the first adaptation for the New York Times No. 1…

Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s Flavor Unit production company is teaming with Gunpowder & Sky for the teen comedy Paper Chase, in which the Oscar-nominated actress also will appear. The comedy follows Alicia, an ideal-driven, well-meaning New Orleans teenager ready to reinvent herself at the fictional Kensington…

Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the rights to Cristin Terrill's award-winning suspense novel Here Lies Daniel Tate to develop into a feature film. They are also partnering with screenwriters Nora Kletter (Queen Sized) and Grainne Belluomo to adapt the book but are changing the protagonist from male to female. The…

Oscar-nominated BlacKkKlansman co-writers Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz are teaming with Gunpoweder & Sky to develop Madness, a TV drama series set in the world of college basketball. The series will follow the corrupt inner workings of a prestigious college basketball program through the eyes of its new…

Gunpowder & Sky has teamed up with Working with Weinstein producer Tigerlily Production to develop a comedy series about women in the world of corporate banking. The two companies are working on Assets, which follows five female interns, who must decide whether to fight, play or change the game as they struggle…

Gunpowder & Sky has acquired the rights to John David Anderson’s popular children’s novel Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. The studio will partner with Walden Media to adapt the book into the feature film with Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark (I Put A Hit On You, Mr. D) writing the screenplay. The story follows the heartwarming…