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This is a packed weekend for new specialty rollouts, one of the most crowded of the summer. Neon/Topic Studios is opening writer-director Julius Onah's drama Luce with New York and L.A. runs in its opening frame. The company picked up the title starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer and Kelvin Harrison Jr…

Julius Onah’s thriller Luce has sold to NEON and Topic Studios at the Sundance Film Festival. Both studios have taken domestic rights to the feature, which is based on JC Lee’s play and premiered Sunday in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Luce marks NEON's fourth acquisition at Sundance this year, having previously…

Bloom became more than the average foreign sales company last fall when Endeavor Content acquired a majority stake from co-owners Alex Walton and Ken Kao. While agencies have held cozy relationships with different sales agents in the past, this was the first to be openly and directly connected to a holding company…

EXCLUSIVE: BLOOM will launch international sales at Cannes for the Julius Onah-directed Luce. The just-wrapped film stars Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Mudbound‘s Kelvin Harrison Jr. The film is based on J.C. Lee's play, which was adapted by Lee and Onah. John Baker, Onah and Andrew Yang are producing…

Fresh Off The Boat actor Ian Chen and Jovan Armand (Bella and the Bulldogs) have joined the cast of New Line's David F. Sandberg-directed DC superhero film Shazam! The pic stars Zachary Levi as the title character, Asher Angel as Billy Batson, and Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman. Chen will play Eugene and Armand…

EXCLUSIVE: Dream Factory Group has launched as a new production company with financing from China and the U.S. Co-founded by CEO Rob Feng and co-chairmen Amber Wang and Andrew Yang, the company launches with Luce, a Julius Onah-directed drama that stars Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison…