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EXCLUSIVE: With AMC’s Preacher coming to a close this summer, Dominic Cooper is set to star in the six-part espionage Cold War series Spy City from Miramax and Germany’s H&V Entertainment and ZDF. Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd (the James Bond novel Solo, A Good Man in Africa and the 1992 movie Chaplin) is…

EXCLUSIVE: Since news dropped last week about Qatar’s beIN Media Group’s interest to unload a portion of the Miramax library, Deadline has come to learn that there’s certain interest chiefly by Viacom and Lionsgate. Meanwhile, Sony we understand is not considering any purchase of the 700-title library which boasts a…

BeIN Media Group is looking to sell part of Miramax, Deadline has confirmed. We hear this is a strategic move, and one that was initiated because BeIN was approached by interested parties. The studio is being valued at $650M, and BeIN is trying to sell as much as 50%, one in which they would retain…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has preemptively secured the rights to Peter Hoare's pitch, The Twenty Year, a comedy about two females who, 20 years after raising money to go toward their class' eventual 20-year reunion, reluctantly reunite in order to access that bank account.  Unfortunately, they also need to track down the…

Miramax has secured the film rights to I Won’t Be Home For Christmas, a holiday film written by Lauren Iungerich, who is also set to direct the feature as her first directorial outing. Iungerich is best known as the creator behind MTV’s Awkward series, which ran for five seasons, and co-creator of Netflix’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Industry veteran Michael Lachance has joined Miramax as EVP of its newly created Family & Animation division. He will oversee the creative direction of the unit, reporting to COO and general counsel Bob Osher. Lachance had been SVP Creative Development at Sony Pictures Animation, where he developed such…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has acquired screen rights to the Erica Ferencik novel The River At Night. The project will be shaped by Kevin Williamson and Eli Roth, teaming for the first time after each had an illustrious genre past with the original Miramax. Williamson and Ben Fast will produce through their Outerbanks banner…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…

UPDATED with reaction. Mark Urman, a prominent figure in the independent film business who headed Paladin Film for the past decade, has died at age 66 after battling cancer. Word of his passing circulated over the weekend, especially among the many film and media professionals who live (as did Urman) in Montclair…

EXCLUSIVE: Belgium-born actress Lyne Renee is joining Guy Ritchie’s Toff Guys and will play Jackie, the wife of Jeremy Strong’s Cannabis Kingpin character. Written by Ritchie, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, the Miramax pic explores the collide between old European wealth and the modern marijuana industrial complex…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Block, CEO of Miramax, announced today that Jeremy Strong has signed onto Guy Ritchie's Toff Guys joining Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Henry Golding, and Kate Beckinsale.  Ritchie wrote the script with Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson. Toff Guys will explore the collision between old European wealth…

EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Grant is boarding Miramax’s Guy Ritchie-directed gangster feature Toff Guys.  Written by Ritchie with Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, Toff Guys returns the British filmmaker back to his Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch roots. The pic explores the collision between old-money European wealth…