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UPDATED, 4:12 PM: Following IFC Midnight and Shudder’s acquisition of North American rights to Chloe Okuno-directed Watcher, AGC International has closed a worldwide rights outside North America with Focus Features. AGC took the unusual step of moving its EFM screening forward to last week to accommodate extensive…

“I was really intrigued by a story that was actually very simple,” says director Chloe Okuno at Deadline’s Virtual Studio at Sundance. “Watcher is almost minimalist in its approach to narrative.” Okuno was joined by the stars of the film Maika Monroe and Karl Glusman to discuss their film, Watcher. Watcher follows…

The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery Rear Window looms large over Chloe Okuno's nail-biting Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition entry, Watcher — but this debut feature is much more than homage. In fact, quite a few other suspense classics get the nod in the film's trim 95-minute running time. Still, Wat…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a heated bidding war, Paramount Players has landed the package Significant Other with Maika Monroe and Jack Lacy on board to star. Dan Berk and Robert Olsen will direct and also penned the script. Dan Kagan is producing. The logline is under wraps, but the project is described as a sci-fi…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx (Ray), Emmy-nominee Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones), Golden Globe-nominee January Jones (Mad Men), Maika Monroe (It Follows) and Andrew Dice Clay (Entourage) are set to star in action-thriller God Is A Bullet, we can reveal. Written and to be directed by…

Cast has been set for Chloe Okuno's Watcher, with Maika Monroe (It Follows), Karl Glusman (Nocturnal Animals) and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes) signing on for the phycological thriller. The movie will begin shooting this month in Romania. It follows a young married couple Julia (Monroe) and Francis (Glusman) as they move…

UPDATE: Quibi has added one more series to be submitted for Emmys it’s Elba Vs Block, to compete in Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Category. Show stars Idris Elba and Ken Block as they go head to head to see who’s best behind the driver’s seat. EXCLUSIVE: Quibi has firmed the list of 19 shows, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap, Now Apocalypse), Dane DeHaan (ZeroZeroZero, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Maika Monroe (It Follows, Honey Boy) are set to star in Veena Sud’s (The Killing, Seven Seconds) upcoming Quibi series The Stranger. The thriller follows an unassuming young…

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…

For me, one of the joys of last September’s Toronto Film Festival was watching Isabelle Huppert go for broke playing a disturbed lonely woman in the suspense thriller Greta. It falls into a genre we don’t see as much anymore, at least on this scale, echoing movies like Fatal Attraction, Misery, The Hand That Rocks the…

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…