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EXCLUSIVE: Sierra/Affinity has boarded rights to novel sci-fi Slash/Back about a group of girls in the Arctic fjords who must fight off an alien invasion. Pic will follow Maika and her ragtag group of friends who discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet. It’s up to them to fight back using makeshift…

Sierra/Affinity is handling foreign on Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, the upcoming film from eOne, Tucker Tooley’s Tooley Entertainment, Atmosphere Entertainment and G-Base. Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr are reprising their roles as Big Nick O’Brien and Donnie Wilson. In the sequel, being written and directed by…

Entertainment One has come on board to co-finance comedy Lexi with CBS Films. Sierra/Affinity is launching international sales at the 2019 European Film Market in Berlin. The film stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Ron Funches, Charlyne Yi, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Michael Peña and Rose Byrne, and has been…

Oscar winners Sam Rockwell, Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney have been set to star in The Heart, which will be the next film from writer-directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. The duo, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Alexander Payne for The Descendants, will also helm this one next and start shooting at year’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal (Baby Driver), Evan Peters (X-Men: Apocalypse), Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete)and Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast) have been set to star in darkly comedic action film Snow Ponies. The film will chart the journey of a crew of seven hardened men who travel across a vicious landscape to deliver a…

Rhea Perlman, Pam Grier, and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why) have joined Poms, the comedy starring Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver, which is in production in Atlanta. Celia Weston, Phyllis Somerville, Charlie Tahan and Bruce McGill are part of the cast for the film, which Sierra/Affinity is producing and financing.also The…

Entertainment One has broadened its film operation through acquisition for a second time this year. eOne has acquired the remaining stake in Sierra/Affinity and named its principals, Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg, to film president and exec veep film/global operations, respectively. eOne president/CEO Darren Throop…

France is set to get three new Imax theaters after Imax Corp struck a deal with French exhibitor CinéAlpes. The move will see screens erected in the cities of Tours, Quetigny and Aubière in central France. The move will mean that France has 24 Imax theaters with 17 currently open and seven set to open. "CinéAlpes…

Sierra/Affinity is set to rep international sales rights to Donnybrook, the actioner from writer-director Tim Sutton based on Frank Bill’s 2013 novel. Frank Grillo, Margaret Qualley, James Badge Dale and Jamie Bell star, and shooting is underway in Cincinnati. The pic is from Rumble Films and Paris-based Backup Media…

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Stevens (The Bold Type), Will Brittain (Everybody Wants Some!!) and Lauryn Alisa McClain (Daddy’s Little Girls) will co-star in Sierra/Affinity’s Haunt, a horror thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Andrew Caldwell and Shazi Raja have also been cast in the film, which is…

Sierra/Affinity, which brought us the action-packed espionage pic Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron, has entered into a first-look agreement with Scott Bernstein’s SMB Films. The deal calls for Sierra/Affinity to be SMB's first stop as it develops and produces feature films for a global audience. Bernstein and…

Sierra/Affinity is set to produce and finance the feature film Dangerous Ground. Janus Metz will direct a script by Kario Salem (The Score, Chasing Mavericks), which is based on the true story of war veteran Johnnie Porche. Dangerous Ground follows a decorated war hero who returns home to join the family business as a…