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Daniel Brühl and Macaulay Culkin have joined the cast of the Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia directed thriller, Rich Flu, which we told you about back at EFM with Rosamund Pike attached to star. Production is expected to start in the fall. In the film, a strange disease is killing off some of the richest and most influential…

Jacob Tremblay (Room) and Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon) are starring in The Skeleton Tree, which Sierra/Affinity is selling at the Cannes Market. Paul Barry's directorial debut is based on Iain Lawrence's 2016 book of the same name and comes from 87North and 3Fifty Fifty. The Skeleton Tree follows two boys, whose lives…

A biopic of model, actress and TV personality Anna Nicole Smith is in the works, we can reveal. Oscar winner Holly Hunter (Succession) is in talks to co-star in the project called Hurricanna, which Sierra/Affinity is launching for the virtual EFM. ICM Partners and Elevated Film Sales are co-representing domestic…

Another hot American Film Market package being unveiled today: Jessica Chastain will play a troubled artist in comedy-drama Losing Clementine. Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo has been enlisted to helm the feature, which Sierra/Affinity will be shopping at the Santa Monica market this week. As we revealed last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Sierra/Affinity will be selling foreign on Charlie Day’s feature directorial debut El Tonto later this month at Cannes. The Hollywood comedy, produced by Armory Films and Wrigley Pictures stars Day as an outcast mute who after arriving in Los Angeles by bus, becomes catapulted into becoming a celebrity…

Atomic Blonde, the $30 million-plus graphic novel film adaptation starring Charlize Theron as a kick-ass super spy, bows this weekend from Focus Features and Sierra/Affinity and is expected to bring in somewhere around $20M in its opening weekend. That would be a good start for the film if word-of-mouth is strong, and…

Sierra/Affinity is bringing Stan & Ollie to Cannes for sales. The project, which stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the beloved comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy who rose to fame in the 1930s, was written by screenwriter Jeff Pope. Coogan and Pope last worked together on Philomena which garnered four Oscar…

Amid last year’s shake-up at Focus Features, the group’s international sales arm was shuttered. Focus is now turning to Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity to handle rights outside North America on select titles from the company. The formalized relationship will complement the activities of Universal Pictures International…

Refresh for latest… Rebecca Hall has been cast in the romantic comedy Tumbledown, directed by Sean Mewshaw from a screenplay by Desi Van Til. We’re The Millers’ Jason Sudeikis, Blythe Danner and Joe Manganiello are already aboard the pic, which Kristin Hahn is producing with Aaron L. Gilbert and Margot Hand of Bron…

Los Angeles, CA – January 13, 2014 – Lakeshore Entertainment announced the launch of their partnership with Sierra/Affinity to acquire worldwide distribution rights from independent film producers. The new venture will provide producers and financiers with a unique one-stop-shop alternative to license all or a portion…

Refresh for latest… Sierra/Affinity has added two titles to its lineup for the AFM, both directed by Mike Flanagan, and both originally with the soon-to-shutter Focus Features International. The first is Flanagan’s Oculus, which premiered in Toronto and was acquired by Relativity for U.S. distribution. The other is…

EXCLUSIVE: Winter’s Discontent is the 2008 Black List script by Paul Fruchbom which Sony acquired for Atlas Entertainment a few years back. The well-liked project, which taps into the current zeitgeist of adult comedies, is moving forward with Billy Crystal attached to star as a widower who moves into a reputed…