The comedy-thriller Villains was a hit at SXSW earlier this year and Gunpowder & Sky took note. The global content studio announced today that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Villains from the BRON Studios genre arm The Realm. Gunpowder & Sky will partner with MoviePass Films to release the film on a…

A surprise hit at this year's TIFF was Neil Jordan's Greta, a female-centred thriller in which Chloë Grace Moretz plays a young girl who falls prey to an older lady named Greta (Isabelle Huppert) after finding her handbag on the subway. Although the reviews were kind, none exactly made claims for great art, so it was…

Good Deed Entertainment has procured the North American distribution rights to the Shotgun, the feature debut from Hannah Marks and Joey Power. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Maika Monroe, Gina Gershon, and Marisa Tomei, the pic recently had its world premiere at SXSW. The dramatic comedy follows a young couple’s…

The Maze Runner and Teen Wolf  lead Dylan O'Brien will star alongside It Follows actress Maika Monroe in Christopher MacBride's (The Conspiracy) mystery thriller The Education Of Fredrick Fitzell, I have learned. Due to shoot later this summer, O’Brien will play a man who begins to unravel a long hidden mystery about…

Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe have been set to star in Villains, a darkly comedic thriller to be directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, based on their screenplay which made the Black List in 2016. Tim and Trevor White are producing via their Star Thrower Entertainment with Allan Mandelbaum, along with Garrick Dion…

Netflix has acquired global rights outside of China to Tau, the sci-fi thriller starring Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein and Gary Oldman. The deal for the Federico D'Alessandro-directed pic was made during the American Film Market by Bloom, which is repping international sales, and its new parent Endeavor Content, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Maika Monroe has joined Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert in The Widow, the Neil Jordan-directed thriller for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. Ray Wright (The Crazies) wrote the script. SKE, Lawrence Bender, James Flynn and Karen Richards are producing. Moretz plays Frances, a young woman who returns an…

EXCLUSIVE: Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star in Shotgun, a romantic drama/offbeat comedy indie film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power in their feature directorial debuts. Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine will…

Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein have boarded Federico D' Alessandro’s sci-fi thriller Tau, with Waypoint Entertainment financing under their first look deal with Addictive Pictures. Noga Landau scripted the Black List project. David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) and Kevin Turen (The Birth of a Nation) will produce under their…

EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Brenner has set at The Firm her first project since leaving Relativity to become partner and film division president at Jeff Kwatinetz’s production/management company. And the film is one that she put together at Relativity, the company that is preparing to pull itself out of Chapter 11. Firm Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Maika Monroe, Maggie Grace, Brad Carter have been cast in the indie drama The Scent of Rain and Lightning, which has just entered preproduction. The film, an adaptation of the novel by Nancy Pickard, is the story of a young woman forced to confront old wounds and the destructive power of hate when she…

EXCLUSIVE: Maika Monroe, who starred in the Sundance 2015 horror pic It Follows, will star opposite Timothee Chalamet (Interstellar) and Alex Roe (The 5th Wave) in Imperative Entertainment’s Hot Summer Nights, the coming-of-age drama pic set in 1991 Cape Cod. This is the 2013 Blacklist script from Elijah Bynum about a…