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EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Signature has picked up five movies including recent Frank Grillo crime-thriller Body Brokers and noughties Brit comedy Scenes Of A Sexual Nature. Also new to the slate are Korean crime caper Lucky Grandma, Julie Delpy tear-jerker My Zoe and true-story drama Miss Virginia. Body Brokers…

EXCLUSIVE: UK indie film distributor Signature Entertainment and Australian releaser Rialto Distribution have acquired UK and Australian rights respectively to war drama A Call To Spy. The pic is directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher, who was Oscar nominated in 2014 for documentary Cutie & The Boxer and is also a two-time…

EXCLUSIVE: Home entertainment specialist Signature Entertainment releases 90-120 movies every year, making it the UK’s most prolific independent distributor. Recent releases have included Mr. Jones and The Peanut Butter Falcon. Upcoming on the slate are Liam Neeson actioner Honest Thief, Jamie Dornan-Anthony Mackie…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up a raft of film and TV content for the UK market, including Drake Doremus drama Endings, Beginnings with Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, Sebastian Stan and Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jake Gyllenhaal-produced Sundance horror Relic. The company has also struck deals for…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired global rights, excluding North America, to crime-thriller Blood And Money, starring Tom Berenger (Platoon). Oscar-nominee Berenger plays a retired veteran who, whilst hunting in the snowy outback of Northern Maine, discovers a dead body and a bag full of cash. Violence…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Irish rights to action-thriller Honest Thief, starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos and Robert Patrick. Directed by Mark Williams, co-creator and producer of Netflix series Ozark and producer of Warner Bros’ The Accountant…

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…