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Netflix has closed a worldwide rights deal for the Kornél Mundruczó-directed drama Pieces Of A Woman. The film made its World Premiere at Venice and its Toronto premiere comes today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. This is the second big festival deal for Netflix, as yesterday it acquired worldwide rights to the Halle…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tax Collector, the gritty David Ayer-directed drama that stars Shia LaBeouf, has found a home. The film has been acquired for U.S. theatrical distribution by the AMC Networks division RLJE Films. The film is expected to be released in August 2020. Scripted and directed by Ayer, whose work includes Suicid…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro and Shia LaBeouf have committed to star in After Exile. Joshua Michael Stern is set to direct a script by Anthony Thorne and Michael Tovo. Latter wrote the story, based on true events from his life. The film is being produced by Anthony Thorne and Steve Snyder of Pacific Shore Films, which is…

The world premiere of Borg/McEnroe will be the Opening Night Gala film at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival. The screening will be held at the Roy Thomson Hall on September 7. Directed by Janus Metz and written by Ronnie Sandahl, the film stars Shia LaBeouf, Sverrir Gudnason and Stellan Skarsgård. Borg/McEnr…

Brad Pitt returns to World War II films, joined this…

The hot hot buzz titles at Sundance have been brokered, and while nobody involved in that festival seems to have yet caught up on sleep, the festival is fast fading in the rear view mirror. So what happens to the films that came in with big hopes but haven’t yet sold? Are they headed to the movie equivalent of the…

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not really a biopic; part of the plot involves an affair he had with a young woman in the…

EXCLUSIVE: A frenzied Saturday auction on the Croisette has ended with FilmDistrict in final negotiations for U.S. distribution rights to Looper, the Rian Johnson-directed science fiction film that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis. There were at least six bidders spanning major studios and…

The project that has the Cannes buying crowd most hot and bothered at the moment is the John Hillcoat-directed The Wettest County in the World. Hillcoat, who directed The Road, here covers a band of Depression Era bootleggers in the South, with Shia La Beouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Mia Wasikowska starring. I’m…