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Above is a first shot of two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern in Hellblazers, Justin Lee's upcoming action-horror film that recently shot in California. Also starring are Billy Zane and Tony Todd. The story, set in the late 1980s, follows a satanic cult that has singular focus of unleashing hell on Earth. With the help…

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Jemaine Clement (What We Do In The Shadows) lead cast in writer-director Kris Rey’s (Unexpected) under-the-radar comedy feature I Used To Go Here, which has recently wrapped production in Chicago. Myriad will launch international sales at the Toronto Film Festival. UTA…

Kirk D’Amico’s LA-based sales and production outfit Myriad Pictures has hired Paul Wilamoski, former TWC EVP of International Servicing & Marketing, as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations. Wilamoski will oversee all of Myriad's servicing, deliveries and post-production activities, working closely with…

Seville International said Tuesday it will sell international rights at the upcoming American Film Market to Advantages of Traveling by Train, the upcoming Spanish comedic horror pic being directed by Aritz Moreno and written by Javier Gullón (Enemy). Production is set to start in December with a cast that includes…

Olivia Thirlby (The Stanford Prison Experiment), Alan Ritchson (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), Megan Fox (Transformers franchise), and Jim Gaffigan (Chappaquiddick) are set to star in Shadow Girl, a magic realist tale written and directed by Claudia Myers. Set in a timeless metropolis, the pic…

Myriad Pictures has hired Brian Nitzkin as SVP Business Affairs to oversee contracts and legal work for its slate of films, as well as oversee all business affairs with Myriad’s international distributors. He joins the indie production, financing and distribution company from IM Global. “Brian’s many years of…

Zosia Mamet and Scott Speedman are set to star in Claudia Myers' romance Shadow Girl. Myriad Pictures is launching sales on the title to buyers in Cannes. The story follows Holly (Mamet), who has faded to the point of becoming literally invisible after the death of her mother as a teenager. After more than a decade of…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a clip from Fernando Trueba's The Queen of Spain, starring Penélope Cruz, which premieres February 13 as part of the Berlinale Special Series. Ricardo Mario Darin Bas and Antonio Fernandez Resines also star in this pic about Spanish actress Macarena Granada, who returns home to Spain in the mid-1950s…

Adam Brody and The Book Thief‘s Sophie Nelisse are aboard to help develop and star in Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective from Brightlight Pictures and Myriad Pictures. They are eyeing a 2017 production start. Written and directed by Morgan, the feature is described as “a darkly satirical murder mystery based on the…

The upcoming political thriller Drone has expanded its ranks, with Mary McCormack and Joel David Moore joining the cast. The Myriad Pictures film stars Sean Bean along with Patrick Sabongui and follows Neil (Bean), a high-level private drone contractor who divides his time between his work flying covert drone missions…

EXCLUSIVE: Das Films, Myriad Pictures and Bowery Hills Entertainment’s dance pic Heartbeats has just begun production in India ahead of the start of sales at the EFM in Berlin. Professional dancer Krystal Ellsworth (Fame, Iron Man 2), Indian actor Amitash Pradhan and Paul McGillion and Daphne Zuniga are headlining the…

Myriad Pictures has taken all U.S. rights to the Emily VanCamp headliner The Girl In the Book and will release the film in the US with Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media. This includes a 10 city U.S. theatrical and ultra VOD release starting this December. Directed and written by Marya Cohn, The Girl in th…