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EXCLUSIVE: Westworld and Creed star Tessa Thompson is to star with Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin) in psychological thriller Balestra, which Mister Smith, Endeavor Content and CAA Media Finance will be shopping during next week’s Cannes virtual market. Thompson will also executive-produce the film, which will be directed…

John Hawkes (The Sessions) and Oscar winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) have come on board for roles in the real-life-inspired feature To Leslie with Andrea Riseborough (Birdman). Mister Smith has also boarded the project for international sales ahead of the Cannes virtual market. UTA Independent Film Group is repping…

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars and Truth Or Dare actress Lucy Hale will star with When We First Met and The Flash actor Robbie Amell in rom-com movie The Hating Game, based on the hit novel by Sally Thorne. The 2018 USA Today bestseller, published in more than 20 countries, tells the story of kind-hearted Lucy Hutton…

Mackenzie Foy and Kate Winslet have been set to star in Black Beauty, the feature film update of the classic Anna Sewell novel that is being written and directed by Ashley Avis. Bolt Pictures and Constantin Film are teaming to produce the pic, which will mirror the events of the original 1877 book while bringing them…

EXCLUSIVE: David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment has boarded international sales rights to drama Jungleland, starring Jack O’Connell (Unbroken), Charlie Hunnam (Sons Of Anarchy), Jessica Barden (End Of The F***ing World) and Jonathan Majors (White Boy Rick). CAA and Endeavor will rep U.S. In Jungleland, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Tucci is set to star in John Leonetti's upcoming feature The Silence from Constantin Film and EMJAG Productions. He'll join Kiernan Shipka, who was previously announced, in the title. David Garrett's Mister Smith Entertainment is shopping to foreign buyers this week. Project is produced by Robert…

EXCLUSIVE: Kiernan Shipka, who played Sally Draper in Mad Men, is set to star in horror director John Leonetti's next feature The Silence from Constantin Film and EMJAG Productions. David Garrett's Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales on the project in Cannes next week. Project is produced by…

Elle Fanning is set to star in Max Minghella's directorial debut Teen Spirit, which David Garrett's Mister Smith Entertainment is shopping to international buyers at the EFM. She'll star as Violet, a shy teenager living in a small European town who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her dismal surroundings and…

Max Minghella is set to make his directorial debut with Teen Spirit, an emotional underdog story set in the world of pop music that Mister Smith Entertainment is launching to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. Minghella, who has acted in such film as The Social Network and The Ides of March…

David Garrett's Mister Smith Entertainment has boarded international sales for Terrence Malick's upcoming WWII biopic Radegund (working title), and will be launching the project to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month. The film is based on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian farmer…

Stranger Things actress Shannon Purser has joined the cast of Broad Green Pictures' Wish Upon, which David Garrett's Mister Smith Entertainment is selling at the American Film Market next week. Purser joins Joey King (Oz The Great And Powerful, Independence Day: Resurgence) in the horror thriller title, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-American Film Market move, ambitious German distributor Square One Entertainment has acquired rights to Midnight Sun from Mister Smith Entertainment. Currently in production, the film stars Bella Thorne (The Duff), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Grown Ups 2) and Rob Riggle (22 Jump Street). Scott Speer (St…