Lionsgate UK and Idris Elba's Green Door Pictures are partnering to launch the Write To Green Light competition, designed to discover new creative voices for television in the returnable drama space. Lionsgate's Zygi Kamasa and Elba will judge the entries alongside a panel of industry experts. The winner receives a…

EXCLUSIVE: In what may be one of the bolder casting exercises in some time, Joaquin Phoenix is being eyed to play Jesus Christ in Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene opposite Rooney Mara. A deal is still some way off being done, with scheduling believed to be one concern, but if this goes down it would be a clear statement of…

The Mark Gordon Company, Koch Company, China’s Pegasus Media Group and the China Film Group are teaming with The King’s Speech scribe David Seidler and Jacqueline Feather on English-language feature Edge of the World. Pegasus and China Film Group will finance the action-filled transcontinental love story, which will…

Film financier Prescience has launched subsidiary Ignition Media Finance to provide short term media finance and pre-production funding for producers. During the last decade, Prescience, directly or via Hindsight and Bridgeworks, has lent in excess of $100m to film and TV companies in the US, UK and Europe, including T…

Similar to the way that the Weinstein Co. has a knack for eyeing awards-worthy films to acquire or produce, the company has continually excelled with platforming titles to higher grosses and crossing them over from New York and Los Angeles arthouse-goers to mainstream auds. It’s a B.O. strategy that goes back to Harvey…

'Tis the season. For prognostication, that is.

The other day someone interviewed me and asked if I would like to be identified in the article as an "Oscarologist." Say what?

Certainly the term has been used for some time on websites such as Gold Derby, but I wonder what the dictionary definition would be. "Oscarologist…

Unrepped writer Richard Galazka’s romantic comedy Matinee Idol and Malachi Smyth’s Gateway 6 topped the annual Brit List of best unproduced screenplays. Both projects received nine votes. The list is compiled by UK producers, agents, distributors and sales companies, who aren’t allowed to vote for their own projects…

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