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EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK rights to SXSW Audience Award winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and newcomer Zack Gottsagen. LaBeouf plays as a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach who joins forces with Zak, a young man with Down syndrome on the run from a…

EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Signature Entertainment has appointed Andrew Nerger as Head of International Distribution and Marek Steven as Senior Publicist in newly created roles. Nerger joins Signature after a six-year stint as Head of Sales for UK digital aggregator The Movie Partnership where he worked with all major…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Gary Oldman has joined Olga Kurylenko in UK action-thriller The Courier, which is due to begin shoot in London next month. Kurylenko will play a courier whose daily deliveries are interrupted when she discovers that her latest package is a bomb aimed at killing a witness who is about to testify…

Signature Entertainment has picked up a quartet of movies for 2019 release: Russian Submarine pic Kursk, starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Colin Firth, from Europacorp; Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace thriller Stockholm from Sierra Affinity; Kate Winslet and Willem Dafoe-voiced animation Manou The Swift from Sola Media…

Warwick Davis, Gemma Arterton, Charles Dance, Julie Walters and Richard E. Grant are among the voice cast for animated TV special Master Moley. UK outfit Signature Entertainment is selling the 30-minute family special, marking a rare foray into shorter form content for the feature distributor and producer. The show…

FFI Holdings, the parent vehicle of well known film and TV completion guarantee specialist Film Finances Inc., has bought UK distributor Signature Entertainment in a deal worth $5M in cash followed by four smaller annual payments. Expanding LA outfit FFI provides completion contracts, risk insurance and more recently…

UK distributor Signature Entertainment has finalized deals for three movies, including Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike thriller Beirut and Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd comedy Ideal Home, I can reveal. In Beirut, which Signature picked up from Trumbo and Captain Fantastic production outfit ShivHans Pictures, a U.S…

Upstart UK indie Signature Entertainment has inked a six-film slate deal with Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films. The first project to come out of the gates will be Shadow Warrior, but no other project details were forthcoming. The agreement follows on from the two parties working together on the upcoming Bruce Willis actioner P…