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The WWE, whose lucrative live events business was neutralized for more than a year by the coronavirus pandemic, has set a 25-city schedule as it gets set to resume touring on July 16. Texas, which has been one of the most aggressive states in loosening Covid-19 safety restrictions, will be the first state to host…

EXCLUSIVE: A team of prestigious documentary makers are teaming on what should be a hotly anticipated factual project – a feature doc coming to Netflix based on serial killer Dennis Nilsen's recent posthumously-published autobiography, in which he confessed to three more attacks. Nilsen, who killed at least 12 young…

TIFF Drama Gets Canada Deal EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, levelFILM has acquired Canadian rights to crime noir Akilla’s Escape by director Charles Officer, who co-wrote the script with Wendy 'Motion' Braithwaite. Produced by Jake Yanowski & Officer of…

WWE Monday unveiled a new virtual experience called WWE ThunderDome with fans cheering real time on video boards, pyrotechnics and other bells and whistles as the company continues to transition during COVID-19. ThunderDome interactive events will launch from the Amway Center in Orlando this Friday to kick off SummerSl…

EXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer have been cast in Invasion, a sci-fi thriller pic from BAFTA-winning UK filmmaker Michael Pearce (Beast). I can also reveal that Amazon Studios has taken worldwide rights to the project and will produce alongside American Animals outfit Raw and UK funder Film4, which backed…

The Night Manager producer The Ink Factory has hired UK producer Katherine Butler (American Animals) in the newly-created role of Creative Director. Butler joins from Raw, where she was Creative Director for scripted. She was previously Deputy Head of Film at UK public funder Film4. At Raw, this year Butler wrapped…

Here's a first look at Toni Collette and Damian Lewis in Dream Horse, Euros Lyn's story of a cleaner and bartender (Colette) who recruits her husband and a local accountant to help her bring together a syndicate of local people to breed a foal – which they name Dream Alliance. Cornerstone Films is handling sales and…

American Animals and Three Identical Strangers outfit Raw has hired Sara Murray from UK producer Studio Lambert to serve in the newly created role of head of scripted TV. Murray will be tasked with growing the company’s TV scripted division. At Studio Lambert, which like Raw is owned by All3Media, she was an executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Hereditary star Toni Collette and Billions star Damian Lewis are to lead cast in UK race horse feature Dream Horse for American Animals and Three Identical Strangers outfit Raw. Euros Lyn, director on Sherlock, Happy Valley and Black Mirror, is helming the true story about a woman's dream to breed and raise…

EXCLUSIVE: Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger’s Cavalry Media has tapped Marco Polo creator John Fusco to write, executive produce and showrun another drama about a famous explorer, Hispaniola, a historical epic series based on the Hans Koning book Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth. Hispaniola, on which…

Raw, producer of Sundance breakout documentary Three Identical Strangers, is partnering with Film4 and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) on a narrative feature version of the picture. The Sundance title, about three strangers who inadvertently discover that they are identical triplets separated at birth, won the…

Filmmaker Wong Kar-wai has been set as the recipient of this year's Prix Lumière. A tribute to the director will be held at the Lumière Festival in Lyon on October 20. This is the fest that's organized by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and which each year welcomes big-name talent for a…