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EXCLUSIVE:  A24 has acquired U.S. rights to director Adam Smith’s anticipated feature debut Trespass Against Us, starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days Of Future Past) and Brendan Gleeson (Calvary). The heist pic charts the fortunes of the outlaw Cutler family led by father and son duo Gleeson and Fessbender. When…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicola Peltz (Transformers: Age Of Extinction) is joining the cast of the untitled Low Riders project for Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Imagine Entertainment. As previously announced, Demian Bichir has been tapped to play the lead in the pic, which takes place in the East L.A. world of lowrider cars and…

Huayi Brothers Media, China’s biggest private film company, has inked deals with two of China’s biggest internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent, that has seen it raise $590 million (RMB3.6 billion) through a private placing of new shares. The strategic agreement with online giant Alibaba,  which currently has a larger…

Alex Walton’s sales and financing company Bloom has racked up strong sales for director Michael Apted’s Unlocked, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom. The film, which also stars John Malkovich and Toni Collette, is a female Jason Bourne-style thriller produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura alongside…

Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp has signed a multi-year output deal with Canadian distributor VVS Films. The first project to come through the  deal, which will see VVS acquire and distribute all of EuropaCorp’s films in Canada, will be Transporter: Legacy, the franchise reboot scheduled for release June 19, 2015. EuropaCorp…

French sales agent-distributor-producer Wild Bunch has acquired international rights to sell Oliver Stone’s untitled Edward Snowden pic starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role. The project, currently in pre-production, starts principal photography in January in Munich. As previously reported by…

EXCLUSIVE: As Deadline told you, Summit Entertainment post-Twilight Saga is continuing to bet heavily on books for its future franchises. Most are conducive to young casts. Now I can report that another young actress to watch is making the transition from TV to movies: CW’s The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev has…

One day after making a deal to co-finance the next two James Bond films and other feature films over the next five years, MGM chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum solidified another piece of the reawakening studio’s puzzle by renewing its DVD deal with Fox through 2016. Here’s the official announcement: LOS ANGELES…

Relativity Media bought U.S. distribution rights to House at the End of the Street, the Mark Tonderai-directed drama that stars Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue and Max Theriot. The film’s about a mother and daughter who move into a new community and find themselves next door to a house in which a psychotic young…

Lionsgate picked up U.S. distribution rights to the Barry Levinson-directed eco-horror film The Bay from Alliance Films. Michael Wallach wrote the script, and among the producers is the Paranormal Activity team. The pic chronicles a biological disaster unleashed from the waters in Chesapeake Bay. It’s an isopod…

Bridget Jones’s Diary helmer Sharon Maguire has signed on with Scott Free to direct her scripted adaptation of Fly Me To The Moon, based on the Alyson Noel novel. The book takes a Bridget Jones-like approach to the misadventures of a young flight attendant looking for sex, love and hopefully the chance to find…

Bradley Cooper is in early negotiations to play the lead role in Relativity Media and Edward R. Pressman’s reinvention of The Crow, the 1994 adaptation of the James O’Barr comic book series that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) has been tapped to direct. Cooper would play the hero portrayed in the original…