EXCLUSIVE: Utopia, the newly launched sales and distribution company, has acquired world rights to Mickey and the Bear, the father-daughter drama written and directed by Annabelle Attanasio in her feature debut. Robert Schwartzman’s company plans a fall theatrical release timed to awards season. The pic, set in…

EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale (13 Hours) is set as the male lead opposite Monica Raymund in Hightown, Starz’s drama series from Rebecca Cutter, Gary Lennon and Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Written and executive produced by Cutter, Hightown is a crime drama set amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, touched off when a body washes…

RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the thriller written and directed by first-time feature director Henry Dunham that is making its world premiere tomorrow in the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. An early 2019 theatrical and VOD release is planned. James Bad…

EXCLUSIVE: Common is in advanced negotiations and James Badge Dale has closed his deal to join Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss in New Line’s film adaptation of The Kitchen, based on the DC/Vertigo female-led crime comic book series. Jeremy Bobb (Godless, Manhunt: Unabomber) and Myk Watford (No Coun…

Actors James Badge Dale (Only The Brave) and Brian Geraghty (The Alienist) have been tapped to star in the indie drama, The Incident At Sparrow Creek Lumber from writer, director Henry Dunham. The script, which was featured on 2015’s Black List under the title Militia, is described as a locked-room paranoia of Reservoi…

Rules of Engagement alum Adhir Kalyan is returning to CBS as one of two leads in Brothered Up, the network’s multi-camera buddy cop comedy from CBS TV Studios. Written and executive produced by Mark Gross, sitcom veteran James Burrows is set to direct and executive produce. Brothered Up centers on Calvin, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson and Lily James are set to star in upcoming indie title Little Woods, with James Badge Dale, Luke Kirby and Lance Reddick also joining the cast. The film, which is written and directed by Nia DaCosta, is produced by Rachael Fung and Gabrielle Nadig. CAA is handling sales. Little Woods marks…

The second trailer for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi has arrived, and it’s as kinetic as the first. Based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi, the film is set during the September 11-12, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in…

Michael Bay is back with 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Bengazi, a film whose topic is sure to make holiday dinners civil, polite affairs. Based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff, the film follows a group of US special forces who find…

Confirming the news Deadline reported back in April, Paramount said today that its Benghazi drama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi will land in theaters January 15, 2016 during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account Of What Really Happened In Bengh…

ARC Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Echoes Of War, the James Badge Dale-starring Western thriller that now has a May 15 theatrical and VOD release date. Directed by Kane Senes and co-written by Senes and John Chriss, the pic is set in post-Civil War Texas where two neighboring farm families are grieving…

EXCLUSIVE: James Badge Dale has been set for one of the leads in the Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours, a chronicle of the deadly assault on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, told from the perspective of the six-member security team that fought to protect the other people stationed there. He…