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The challenge and opportunity of transatlantic production was the subject of a session at the Zurich Summit this morning, with the panel comprising Bert Hamelinck, head of films and global MD at Belgian-U.S. film and TV group Caviar, CAA Media Finance's Benjamin Kramer, Elysian Film Group CEO Danny Perkins and Hype…

Zachary Wigon's Sanctuary stars Christopher Abbott as the heir to wealthy family ("A rich asshole," as he put it), and what happens to him as he tries to extricate himself from the clutches of a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) is the core of this ingenious two-hander. "I'd say that it's a film about role-playing," said…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ABC Studios SVP Creative Development Amy Hartwick has been named President of Television at Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Corporation of America, a leading supplier of holiday movies and producer of the popular Hallmark series When Calls the Heart and When Hope Calls. She will be spearheading the…

Spanish erotic thriller Instinto and Nordic Noir thriller Sanctuary are heading to streaming service Starzplay in the UK. The digital platform will launch the pair of acquisitions from Studiocanal and will launch the scripted series on December 5. Separately, Starzplay will air Starz original drama The Rook in the…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Entertainment 360 — the television studio formed by Management 360 and MRC — acquired film and television rights to Sanctuary. The novel by V.V. James — author of the Gilded Cage fantasy trilogy — will be published by Orion on August 8, 2019. Entertainment 360 will executive produce…

Sanctuary will be directed by Apollo 18 helmer Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego and produced by Atlas Independent, the company said today. Written by Ryne Douglas Pearson,  the horror pic follows three documentarians who travel to South America to investigate a town that mysteriously disappeared from the map. The trio is led to…

EXCLUSIVE: In his first deal since leaving WB, Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures has set up the supernatural-action script Sanctuary at Paramount Pictures. Scripted by Alan Trezza, Sanctuary focuses on a young woman who is possessed by a powerful demonic force. She seeks refuge within The Sanctuary, a Vatican-run secret…

Syfy has pulled the plug on drama Sanctuary after four seasons, while A&E has done the same with reality series Dog The Bounty Hunter after eight seasons. For Sanctuary, the writing has been on the wall as there had been no word on its future for five months, since the series’ fourth season finale in December. In the…

John Langley, the producer best known for creating and exec producing the long-running reality series Cops, has hired Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary to adapt the William Faulkner novel Sanctuary for a feature. Langley, who most recently produced the features Brooklyn’s Finest and Leaves of Grass, is teamed with Ali…

Syfy is going ahead with a fourth season of Sanctuary. The 13-episode Season 4 of the drama series, is slated to begin production in spring 2011 in Vancouver, for a fall 2011 premiere. Sanctuary, created by Damian Kindler, follows brilliant scientist Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) and her team as they track down…