EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes competition entry Paterson has locked a series of deals in key markets via K5 International. The pic, which Amazon is releasing domestically, stars Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ Adam Driver. Driver plays the title role, a bus driver in the city of Paterson, NJ. Each day he drives his…

Keshet International, the global distribution and production arm of Israel's Keshet Media Group, is embarking on a European Drama Initiative. The company, known for the original Homeland (Hatufim in Israel), DIG, Tyrant, Your Family Or Mine and Allegiance (aka The Gordin Cell), will look to fund three to four new…

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Junge's feature documentary Being Evel debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and was later acquired by Gravitas Ventures for North America. International sales rights to the story of the notorious stunt performer Robert “Evel” Knievel are now in the hands of Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur's…

Into The Storm and Hatfields & McCoys actor Max Deacon has been cast in The Call Up, a British action/sci-fi pic set in the world of computer gaming technology. Written and directed by commercials helmer Charles Barker, The Call Up topped the 2011 Brit List of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK. The story…

Shooting has begun in Ontario on Chet Baker biopic Born To Be Blue with Ethan Hawke as the legendary jazz trumpeter. Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Robert Budreau, the drama is inspired by Baker’s rise, fall and eventual resurgence. The story will chart his comeback in the late 1970s and the tumultuous…

Christopher Eccleston has been cast with Marsha Thomason (White Collar) and Paterson Joseph (The Leftovers) in ITV's new four-part drama series Safe House. Produced by Eleventh Hour Films, Safe House is a thriller set in the wilderness of England's Lake District. Eccleston plays Robert, a former detective who is asked…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys behind such parodies as The Starving Games, Date Movie, Meet The Spartans and Vampires Suck, are sending up yet another franchise. The duo will co-write and direct Who The F#@k Took My Daughter? a spoof of the Liam Neeson-starring series of box office hits…

Refresh for latest… In an eve of the market deal, Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur's K5 International has acquired international rights to psychological thriller Mine starring and exec produced by Armie Hammer. Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, the team behind award-winning short Afterville, are co-directing Mine from…

K5 International has boarded international sales on futuristic actioner Vice, starring Bruce Willis. K5 Media Captial has also come aboard to finance with Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films. Shooting starts in Alabama next month on the movie that’s set in a resort where the rich live out their most perverse fantasies via…

Superfast! is a send-up of the Fast And Furious movies from the team behind Date Movie, Meet The Spartans and Vampires Suck. K5 International has boarded sales on the comedy which it’s offering to buyers in Cannes. Written and directed by duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the film is produced and fully financed…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's another package that's come together just ahead of the EFM. K5 International will start sales and CAA and ICM Partners will co-rep North American rights in Berlin on Convention, the second feature from A Many Splintered Thing director Justin Reardon. Jennifer Aniston, Mark Duplass and Ben Kingsley…

Henry Selick, the genius behind THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and the Oscar® and BAFTA nominated CORALINE, is moving forward with Academy Award nominated producer Josh Penn (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD) and K5 International on his latest feature THE SHADOW KING. THE SHADOW KING is a…