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Sylvester Stallone (Tulsa King) is set to return for a sequel to the 1993 action thriller Cliffhanger, which Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen) will direct from a script by Mark Bianculli (Hunters). Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (Fast & Furious franchise) will produce with Rocket Science, as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a first look image from supernatural horror-mystery The Queen Mary, starring Alice Eve and Joel Fry. The title, which is from The Woman In Black outfit White Horse Pictures, is directed by Dracula Untold helmer Gary Shore. Rocket Science is shopping the title at the Cannes market this week and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Science has boarded worldwide sales on The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez, a film lifting the veil on one of surfing’s most enigmatic heroes, which will be introduced to potential buyers at the 2022 Cannes Market. While most famously known as “Mr. Pipeline” for his mastery of one of the most dangerous…

UK sales outfit Rocket Science has hired Patricia Arias as Director of Sales. Arias joins from Voltage, where she was Vice President of International Sales and Distribution. Previously, she was VP of Film Mode Entertainment, and had roles at Global Road and AMC Networks' Sundance TV. For Rocket Science she will be…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm Rocket Science has boarded world sales on Clean, the fly on the wall documentary from Lachlan McLeod (Big In Japan) which premieres in the Documentary Competition section at SXSW. The movie is a close-up insight into the world of ‘trauma cleaning’ through the journey of larger-than-life…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 and ACE Content have come aboard Jared Drake & Steven Siig’s award-winning documentary Buried as executive producers, with Rocket Science signing on to handle domestic and international sales. The film follows a California community’s effort to heal, after being confronted with a shared trauma on…

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Science is launching world sales ahead of the Cannes market on under-the-radar UK psychological thriller She Will, the debut film from UK artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert with an original score from Black Swan and Requiem For A Dream composer Clint Mansell. Starring are Alice Krige (Carnival Row…

Oscar-winning writer-director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) and Egyptian writer Mariam Naoum (Between Two Seas) have been attached to co-write the serial killer series The Alexandria Killings from Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Rocket Science's Middle East-based Yalla Yalla. Set in 1920 Alexandria when Egypt was…

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Science has scored a raft of international pre-sales on Michael Gracey's (The Greatest Showman) Better Man, based on the life of singer Robbie Williams. Significant deals have closed in the UK (Entertainment), Germany & Austria (Tobis), Australia (Village Roadshow), Italy (Lucky Red), CIS/Baltic…

Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) is to direct starry drama Rothko, which will chart how Kate Rothko, the daughter of revered U.S. painter Mark Rothko, was drawn into a well-publicised legal battle to honor her father’s legacy. We can reveal that the film will star rising actress Aisling Franciosi (The Nighting…

EXCLUSIVE: IRA thriller Borderland is set to feature an exciting cast of John Boyega (Star Wars), Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) and Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything). The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at…

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton (Loving) and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation star Sean Harris are set to star in crime-drama The Unknown Man for Lion outfit See-Saw Films and Anonymous Content. The project is based on a real-life Australian sting operation. The story follows two men who meet on a plane…