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Nine months after launching its new theatrical distribution operation, Japanese pay TV broadcaster Wowow has made its first theatrical film acquisition, closing an all-rights deal for pandemic thriller Songbird, starring KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul…

STX’s acquisition Songbird will be skipping theaters in exchange for a premium VOD release starting Friday, December 11. STX picked up the KJ Apa-Sofia Carson pandemic thriller produced by Invisible Narratives back in August. The movie was one of the first to shoot in Los Angeles during the pandemic under COVID-19…

Songbird producer Invisible Narratives is in development on a comedic feature starring TikTok and YouTube creator Larray. In the yet-to-be-titled feature, Larray is set to play a fictionalized version of himself. When he accidentally time-travels back to 1992, he goes from being recognized on every street corner in…

“Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want, to survive,” says Demi Moore’s enigmatic baddie in STX and Invisible Narratives’ upcoming pandemic thriller Songbird. The movie was one of the first features to shoot this past summer in Los Angeles during quarantine, paving the way for production safety protocols (listen…

EXCLUSIVE: With the major studios still sorting through COVID-19 safety protocols with the guilds, they haven’t been able to get any feature productions up and running here in Southern California. However, independent productions, such as Invisible Narratives and Catchlight Films’ pandemic thriller Songbird starring…

STXfilms has acquired the North American and UK rights to Invisible Narratives’ pandemic thriller Songbird starring KJ Apa and Sofia Carson. While most major studios movies have been unable to get rolling here in California and Los Angeles during the lockdown, Songbird, produced by Michael Bay, Adam Goodman and…

FilmLA said Wednesday that it has received more than 570 film permits for 422 film, TV and commercial projects since mid-June, when the City of Los Angeles and L.A. County got the OK to begin the process of resuming film and TV production amid the coronavirus lockdown. Still photography and commercials permits make up…

Riverdale‘s KJ Apa and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists‘ Sofia Carson have landed the lead roles as star-crossed lovers in the Adam Goodman and Michael Bay pandemic thriller production Songbird which started filming last Wednesday in Los Angeles. Told from street level through the eyes of the characters, Songbir…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Get Out star Bradley Whitford and Jane the Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega have boarded the pandemic thriller Songbird, which begins principal photography today. The movie from former Paramount production chief Adam Goodman and former Disney exec Andrew Sugerman's Invisible Narratives, with…

UPDATED, JULY 3, 8 PM Just one day after SAG-AFTRA put the kibosh on producer Michael Bay’s Songbird, the guild rescinded its Do Not Work order for the feature, produced by On a Lark Productions, LLC. Guild members are now free to work on the production effective immediately. PREVIOUSLY, JULY 2, 2 PM SAG-AFTRA today…

Berlin was buoyant. Surprisingly so. Netflix’s splash for The Good Nurse and Searchlight’s deal for Perfect were among the biggest deals the European Film Market had ever seen. Things were looking up ahead of Cannes. It didn’t take long for the mood to unravel. Just a few days after the festival and market ended, it…