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Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Armie Hammer (The Social Network) have been confirmed to star in writer-director Amma Asante's (Belle) The Billion Dollar Spy, which HanWay Films will launch sales on at the AFM. Based on the true story of how a Soviet engineer and his CIA handler risked their lives to…

HanWay Films is launching international sales on multi-Grammy Award-nominee Sia's feature directorial debut Music. The film stars Golden Globe-winner Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Tony-winner Leslie Odom Jr.(Hamilton), and Sia-protégé Maddie Ziegler (West Side Story). Hudson plays Zu, a free spirit estranged from her…

HanWay Films will handle international sales on Amos Gitai's Laila In Haifa, which was announced today in the Venice Film Festival's Competition line-up. With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, the pic interweaves the stories of five women. It is set over a night in a club in the Israeli port…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline sat down (virtually) today with Paul Schrader and Oscar Isaac to chat about their new movie The Card Counter, which is aiming to head back into production soon after a five-month delay. As we revealed today, the movie is aiming to resume shooting in Mississippi from July 6 after being on hiatus…

Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust And Bone) is set to star as bomb disposal specialist in Kim Mordaunt's (The Rocket) Wildlands, which HanWay will be selling world rights on at the upcoming Cannes virtual market. Inspired by Mordaunt's ten-year relationship with the bomb disposal world in Asia and Africa, the film is based…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Thomas’s Brit sales and production firm HanWay is rebranding catalog label HanWay Select to The Collections as part of a drive to highlight and propel its significant library of more than 350 movies. HanWay has struck a deal with UK distributor Arrow Films to handle distribution and restorations in…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has taken U.S. rights to 2019 Toronto premiere Sweetness In The Belly, which stars Dakota Fanning in the story of an English child abandoned in Africa. The distributor will release the film digitally May 8, with theaters set to be closed beyond that date due to the coronavirus…

HanWay Films will launch sales at the EFM on writer-director Jasmine McGlade's drama Fencer, which is set to star Zoe Saldana (Avengers: Endgame). Set in the competitive world of fencing, Saldana is attached to play Mae, an ambitious female athlete facing personal demons and childhood rivals as she vies for a spot on…

Johnny Depp is teaming up with documentary director Julien Temple on doc-biopic Shane about legendary Irish singer Shane MacGowan. HanWay is launching world sales at the EFM and will screen first footage. The film will deep dive on the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic…

Oscar Isaac will lead the cast of Paul Schrader's revenge thriller The Card Counter, which HanWay Films will launch sales on at AFM. Based on an original screenplay by Schrader, pic sees Isaac star as William Tell, a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus has pre-bought a handful of key international territories on Sally Potter (The Party) feature Molly, starring Elle Fanning, Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Laura Linney and Salma Hayek. Universal Pictures International will release the film for Focus next year in a collection of territories we understand…

EXCLUSIVE: HanWay Films has grown its sales team with the hire of former Protagonist and TF1 exec Marta Ravani who joins as director, HanWay Select. Ravani will oversee HanWay’s extensive library and upcoming slate of documentaries. The UK firm’s catalog includes classics from the likes of Bernardo Bertolucci, David…