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EXCLUSIVE: Palisades Park Pictures (PPP) will be representing global sales for action-thriller Duchess from director Neil Marshall (Hellboy). Post production recently wrapped with PPP screening for buyers at the Cannes market next week.   Duchess stars Charlotte Kirk (Vice) in the titular role…

EXCLUSIVE: Anna-Maria Sieklucka (365 Days) has been tapped to star opposite Charlotte Kirk (The Lair) in the psychological thriller Compulsion. The film which is set to start shooting next week in Malta hails from Neil Marshall (The Descent), who will direct from his own script. Related Story …

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ business unit RLJE Films and its genre streaming service Shudder have acquired North American rights to the Neil Marshall-directed horror film The Lair from Highland Film Group, with the latter also picking up the rights for UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. RLJE Films will release the…

Highland Film Group has boarded Neil Marshall’s new horror action thriller The Lair, which the Hellboy filmmaker is writing, directing and producing, and will be repping the pic’s worldwide sales at this year’s virtual AFM. Casting is underway with a production start eyed for Spring 2021. The pic tells the story about…

Deadline has confirmed that Hellboy filmmaker Neil Marshall has been dropped by Verve. He signed with the agency last November. The director, who recently made the period horror film The Reckoning with his  fiancé Charlotte Kirk, has been in the crosshairs of a recent scandal involving the actress, and former NBC…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Neil Marshall has provided Deadline with a statement which he made today, refuting and smashing the alleged reports out there that he was involved in attempting to extort NBC Universal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer on behalf of fiancée, Charlotte Kirk, whom the executive had a reported consensual affair…

Leading genre festival Fantasia has pulled a Q&A with director Neil Marshall and actress Charlotte Kirk amid intense media scrutiny concerning their alleged involvement in Ron Meyer’s sudden exit from Universal. The zoom Q&A for the Canadian festival’s opening film The Reckoning was due to take place tonight but the…

Fantasia's upcoming virtual edition, which will run August 20 – September 2, will kick off with the first showing of Neil Marshall's horror The Reckoning. Set in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague, Charlotte Kirk leads the cast of the movie about the witch hunts that followed the crisis. The fest has…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated director Neil Marshall has signed with Verve. Marshall has directed the pilots/pilot episodes for Black Sails (Starz), Constantine (NBC), Timeless (NBC) and Lost in Space (Netflix). He directed two Game of Thrones episodes, “Blackwater” and “The Watchers of the Wall.” Marshall received a Hugo…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Neil Marshall has firmed his next action thriller, The Reckoning. He has set Joe Anderson (The Crazies), Steven Waddington (The Imitation Game) and Sean Pertwee (Gotham) to star alongside Charlotte Kirk (Vice). Marshall, whose films include The Descent and Dog Soldiers, also has set Leon…

EXCLUSIVE: MoviePass Films has greenlit the horror title The Reckoning which Neil Marshall will helm. Marshall co-wrote the script alongside Edward Evers-Swindell and Charlotte Kirk, the latter who will star in The Reckoning and serve as EP. Production will begin on Jan. 15 in Wales. A female-driven story, The Reckonin…

This is the 25th anniversary of Mike Mignola’s first Hellboy comic book and, unlike the work-for-hire creators of Batman, Iron Man, the X-Men and most other comics properties, he actually owns his creation. On Saturday, the writer-artist and his scarlet-hued brainchild will step into the spotlight at New York Comic…