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Middle East-based distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment has joined the team of producers on satirical coming-of-age comedy feature Abdelinho. Front Row will also represent all MENA rights. International sales are with Urban Sales. The Arab-language feature stars Ali Suliman (Jack Ryan, The Last Planet…

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to Gianluca Chakra, founder and managing director of pan-Arab distribution outfit Front Row Filmed Entertainment. The…

Netflix has boarded the upcoming Arabic-language version of hit movie property Perfect Strangers, which becomes the streamer’s first Arabic-language Original movie. The 18th national remake of the smash Italian movie stars Lebanese icon Nadine Labaki, Egyptian star Mona Zaki, Eyad Nassar, Georges Khabbaz, Adel Karam…

Perfect Strangers, the 1980s sitcom starring Mark Linn-Baker and Bronson Pinchot, is the latest classic comedy to get a reboot – with Robin Thede and London Hughes set as leads. The project, which is in development as a series at HBO Max, will be written by A Black Lady Sketch Show creator and star Thede. The streamer…

Director Álex de la Iglesia is re-teaming with producers Telecinco Cinema and Pokeepsie Films after their smash hit 2017 pic Perfect Strangers (remade from the Italian film of the same name) on El Cuarto Pasajero (The Fourth Passenger), a road movie in the rom-com vein. Cast will be led by Blanca Suárez (The Skin I Liv…

Cast has been set and shoot scheduled for the Arabic-language remake of Italian box office smash hit Perfect Strangers. Lebanese actress and filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum) has been cast alongside Egyptian star Mona Zaki (30 Years Ago), Adel Karam (The Insult), Eyad Nassar (The Looming Tower), Diamand Bou Abboud (T…

EXCLUSIVE: Some international box office markets that are up and running — even if not at full steam — saw increases this weekend while others faced drops given good weather in some spots and an overall lack of new product. However, Disney floated Kristen Stewart-starrer Underwater into Korea for the first time with a…

Germany's Constantin Film has been awarded the Federal Film Board's Branchentiger prize for the top local producer and distributor of 2019. This is the 13th consecutive year that the Resident Evil and Perfect Strangers maker has won the award. With it comes 3.1M euros in funding for seven new in-house productions as…

Rome-based international sales outfit True Colours is launching a new platform which will enable festivals and event organizers around the world to program its films during the COVID-19 lockdown. Titled True Colours Virtual Cinema, it will be available to festivals, cultural and educational institutions, film clubs…

Thomas L. Miller, who produced several hit TV comedies over many decades in the business, died April 5 of complications from heart disease in Salisbury, CT. He was 79. Through the years, Miller produced Full House, Bosom Buddies, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and Step by Step as co-founder of Miller/Boyett…

Insecure star Issa Rae has signed on to write, produce and star in Perfect Strangers, a comedy film that will be produced by Spyglass Media Group, LLC, Eagle Pictures, and 3 Marys Entertainment. The pic is an English language adaptation of the 2016 Paolo Genovese-directed Italian feature Perfetti Sconosciuti, which…

EXCLUSIVE: More than three years ago, Netflix successfully opened a new area of original programming, the family sitcom, with a reboot of Warner Bros TV’s TGIF comedy Full House. The sequel series was a breakout hit, tapping into nostalgia for those who had grown up with the original series while also drawing  a new…