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Four-time Oscar nominee Saorise Ronan is set to join the ensemble of Steve McQueen’s next film Blitz from Apple Original Films. McQueen will write, direct and produce the film, which tells the stories of Londoners during the Blitz of World War II. It is scheduled to begin filming later this year. McQueen's Lammas Park…

Searchlight Pictures has dropped the first trailer for its 1950s murder mystery, See How They Run. You can see it above. Starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, the movie is set in London's West End where plans for a film version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is…

Saoirse Ronan is to star in and exec produce Nora Fingscheidt’s highly-anticipated adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun.  Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales and will introduce at the European Film Market, co-repping North American sales with CAA Media Finance. Ronan stars as Rona, who, fresh out…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has completed its worldwide acquisition of Garth Davis sci-fi thriller Foe in a deal we understand to be north of $30M. The package was one of the hot titles at the Cannes market this year and we had already broken news that Amazon was in exclusive negotiations with sellers FilmNation, CAA…

Searchlight Pictures has titled its previously untitled murder mystery See How They Run, and released its first image from the project with stars Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell. Besides Ronan and Rockwell, the all-star ensemble includes David Oyelowo, Adrien Brody and Ruth Wilson, with Tom George directing. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: On one of the hot Cannes Virtual Market packages, Amazon Studios has moved into exclusive talks on a worldwide rights deal for Foe, source said. Bidding was ferocious all weekend. This is the Garth Davis-directed thriller that stars Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and LaKeith Stanfield in an adaptation of Iain Re…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and LaKeith Stanfield will star in Foe, an adaptation of the Iain Reid bestselling science fiction novel. Lion helmer Garth Davis will direct a script he wrote with the author and filming will get underway in January in Australia. Pic takes shape as a hot title in the upcoming Cann…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell and David Oyelowo have signed on to star in a new untitled murder mystery thriller from Searchlight Pictures. This Country director Tom George is on board to helm from a script by Mark Chappell. Iron Lady producer Damian Jones will produce following his work with Searchlight on…

The temptation will be too great for some critics to resist proclaiming, "Ammonite is dynamite!," as in some respects it is, specifically in the way it resembles a hand grenade thrown into the midst of an otherwise decorous, serious-minded 19th century British period piece. James Ivory might be proud and even jealous…

Neon has released the first trailer to Francis Lee’s Ammonite, a romantic period drama starring Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan. Set in 1800s England, the plot follows acclaimed but unrecognized fossil hunter Mary Anning (Winslet) who works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. When a…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

EXCLUSIVE: While we wait for the Sundance acquisitions market to get going, I’ve learned that a coveted title not in the festival has sold in a substantial preemptive deal after a bidding battle. Tom Quinn’s NEON has landed Ammonite, a Francis Lee (God’s Own Country) scripted and directed drama that stars Kate Winslet…