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EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange has announced a licensing and partnership deal with DDL Entertainment producers Daniele Di Lorenzo and Stefano Corti, who have optioned the rights to develop a TV series adapted from Federico Fellini's 1960 Oscar-winning classic La Dolce Vita. The series will be inspired by the themes of the…

Brian O'Shea's The Exchange has promoted Nathaniel McCormick to the position of President of Worldwide Sales & Distribution. McCormick, who joined O’Shea at The Exchange in 2012, was previously Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Distribution at the company. In a career spanning two decades in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Next Productions, a subsidiary of sales agency The Exchange, has boarded production, financing and sales of concentration camp survival and escape drama Untold, with Oscar-winning director Aaron Schneider attached to direct. Untold is based on the autobiography I Escaped From Auschwitz by Holocaust survivor…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Root (Barry) and Tim Blake Nelson (Old Henry) have signed on to star alongside Oscar and Emmy winner Kathy Bates, two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner John Malkovich and Lewis Pullman in Thelma, an upcoming indie to be directed by two-time Emmy nominee Ken Kwapis (#BlackAF, The Office). The Exchang…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon, Lovecraft Country) and Christopher Abbott (Black Bear, Catch-22) are attached to lead Fear is the Rider, a chase thriller from BAFTA-nominated director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary, The Forgiven) that The Exchange is introducing to international buyers at the 2022…

EXCLUSIVE: Fluke Studios has wrapped production on a prison break thriller, Bosco, which is based on a true story. Leading the cast are Aubrey Joseph (Cloak & Dagger), Theo Rossi (True Story), Thomas Jane (Troppo), Tyrese Gibson (Fast And Furious franchise), and Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill) alongside Nikki Blonsky (Hairsp…

EXCLUSIVE: In an unusual move, but one that speaks to fluidity in the distribution landscape and increasing demand for foreign-language series, LA-based film firm The Exchange is launching world sales (excluding Iran) at the upcoming Cannes virtual market on hit Iranian TV series The Frog. The series follows Ramin, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli has signed on to direct his third feature film Headhunter, a crime thriller  distributed by The Exchange. The film tells the story of a twisted murder who sends three detectives on a whirlwind investigation revealing dark secrets and turning everyone into a possible suspect. The Exchange…

EXCLUSIVE: The Exchange is to introduce to buyers at the upcoming virtual EFM to feature Our Last Summer, executive-produced by Oscar-winner and True Blood and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball (American Beauty). Set in Westchester over the summer of 1991, the film will follow closeted teenager Daniel Rosen who travels…

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based sales firm The Exchange has boarded world sales rights to timely documentary The Reunited States, which follows unsung heroes on the journey to bridge the political and racial divides in the U.S. Subjects of the new film include Susan Bro, who's daughter Heather Heyer was killed when a car drove…

Saban Films has bought North American and UK rights to Jared Cohn's Reactor starring Bruce Willis as the leader of a gang of mercenaries who holds a nuclear power plant hostage. Casting is underway for the lead role, a former soldier who takes down Willis and his crew. Cohn wrote the script with Cam Cannon and Stephen…

EXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille. Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French…