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The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche have been set to lead Uberto Pasolini’s Odysseus retelling The Return, which will launch sales next month in Cannes. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales of the feature film, which is described as a “gritty retelling” of the timeless story of Odysseus…

Here's first footage from Music, which marks the directorial debut of musician and multihyphenate Sia. Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Maddie Ziegler star in the movie, which follows the newly sober Zu as she receives news that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the…

Minamata, Andrew Levitas's drama starring Johnny Depp as celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith, has sold around the world for HanWay Films. Vertigo Releasing has acquired the film's UK and Ireland rights, while the sales co has also locked deals with Eagle Pictures (Italy), Swift Distribution (France), Odeon…

EXCLUSIVE: HanWay, 47 Meters Down outfit Tea Shop and Riverstone Pictures (Wind River) are among the team on UK genre pic A Banquet, which will star Resident Evil franchise actress Sienna Guillory. Recently wrapped in London, the psychological horror also stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks) and…

Lily James will play Peggy Jo – a bank robber who committed her heists while dressed as a man – in a true-crime story from Salt director Phillip Noyce. Loosely based on the true story of the real-life Peggy Jo, the pic is being pitched as 'Bonnie but without the Clyde' and has been adapted for screen by Appaloosa…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is set to re-team with Paul Schrader on the First Reformed director's next movie The Card Counter. Fresh off his latest Oscar nominations for The Irishman, Scorsese will executive-produce the revenge thriller pic, marking his fifth collaboration with Schrader after Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, T…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) is relocating his revered Recorded Picture Company and HanWay Films labels from Soho to a new west London home. The Hanway Street office has served as the HQ for RPC and HanWay for more than 25 years, during which time Thomas has produced movies…

Alamode Film has acquired German and Austrian rights from HanWay Films to Lone Scherfig's drama The Kindness of Strangers, which will open the Berlin International Film Festival next month. Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim, Caleb Landry Jones, Jay Baruchel and Bill Nighy star. The deal was negotiated by…

Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock and Laura Linney lead an impressive cast for The Party and Orlando writer-director Sally Potter’s latest film. Production is underway in Spain on the untitled feature, which is being repped worldwide by HanWay and Bleecker Street. The pic will chart a wild day in…

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Howard’s AFM buyer presentation for documentary Pavarotti, about iconic opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, was one of the hot tickets at last month’s market. Distributors have responded well to the project with a string of key deals inked by White Horse Pictures and HanWay Films. Deals have closed for…

Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) has been set to star as Geppetto in Gomorrah and Dogman director Matteo Garrone’s live action version of Pinocchio. Garrone will direct his own screenplay, an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic about a living puppet who with the help of a cricket as his conscience…

After a storm of deals hit Sundance last month with Netflix and Amazon leading the charge, foreign buyers are descending upon the European Film Market — and into uncharted waters — as the independent sector becomes more competitive than ever. There are some hot packages here in Berlin where the mercury is below…