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Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar hunt with Denmark’s rep, Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls "an embracement of life." The drama has an intriguing premise: four weary high school teachers test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has picked up worldwide rights to VW Scheich's romantic comedy Stars Fell on Alabama. The movie will hit on-demand and digital on Jan. 8, 2021. The deal was negotiated by Peter Goldwyn on behalf of Samuel Goldwyn Films and Uyen Le on behalf of the…

UK COVID Supervisor Program The Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) and the British Film Commission (BFC) are partnering to roll out a new accredited program of COVID supervisor training for film and TV production professionals. Backed by £100,000 investment from BFC, the new scheme is being developed in…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn has acquired the North American rights to Dating Amber from filmmaker David Freyne. The LGBTQ+ teen comedy is slated to debut on-demand and digital at a to-be-announced date in November. Written and directed by Freyne, the film stars Fionn O'Shea (Normal People), Lola Petticrew (A Bump Along t…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights Sean Cisterna's dramatic feature From the Vine for a PVOD and digital release this fall. The movie, written by Willem Wennekers, and adapted from Ken Cancellara's novel Finding Marco, follows Mark Gentile (Joe Pantoliano), an attorney and automotive company executive, who…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American rights to Paul Ireland's feature drama Measure for Measure starring Hugo Weaving. An on-demand and digital release is planned for Sept. 4. The Paul Ireland directed, written and produced movie is inspired by the William Shakespeare play of the same name and follows the…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that the North American rights for Drake Doremus’ CJ Entertainment movie Endings, Beginnings was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. The pic, starring two-time Golden Globe nominee and Divergent franchisestar Shailene Woodley, 50 Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan, Avengers star Sebastian…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Richard Wong's road trip comedy Come As You Are which made its world premiere at SXSW Film Festival. Pic centers around three young men with disabilities (Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, and Meet the Patels filmmaker Ravi Patel) who flee their…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American rights to Martha Stephens' feature film To the Stars, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Set in a god-fearing 1960s small town in Oklahoma, To the Stars follows bespectacled and reclusive teen Iris as she endures the…

Samuel Goldwyn has acquired the Goran Dukic-directed thriller Obsession about an out-of-work mechanic played by Mekhi Phifer who, after saving an older man (Brad Dourif), begins to falls for his wife (Elika Portnoy). Dourif’s George has plans to build a racetrack, and his wife forms a plot to murder him and rob him of…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken U.S. rights to Collin Schiffli's dramatic thriller All Creatures Here Below which stars Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Karen Gillan, Bird Box’s David Dastmalchian and Once Upon a Time‘s Jennifer Morrison. The film is having its international premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken domestic rights to Joseph Cross' feature directorial debut Summer Night for a release next spring. Cross is the star of such films as Lincoln, Milk and the HBO Emmy-winning limited series Big Little Lies.  Summer Night follows a group of young best friends confronted with a…