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EXCLUSIVE: David Frigerio, one of the screenwriters behind the 2014 Sundance Film Festival title The Signal, has sold an untitled sci-fi pitch to Paramount Animation, which one source close to the project bills as “tonally Cars set in space.” Paramount provided no comment on the deal. Paramount Animation currently…

The sci-fi thriller that screened at Sundance will hit theaters June 13 before expanding the following two weekends. In the Focus Features pic, three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults…

Cutting Edge Group, which has invested in projects including Best Picture Oscar winner The King’s Speech and the Ryan Gosling-starrer Drive among scores of movies and TV series, has just come aboard two upcoming films: the Gavin O’Connor-directed Jane’s Got A Gun from Relativity and FilmDistrict’s sci-fi pic The Signal…

EXCLUSIVE: Indian Paintbrush has put the finishing strokes on a high-six figure preemptively acquire The Signal, a pitch by hot scribe Brad Ingelsby. The company is keeping the logline under wraps, but it is a contained family-adventure film that has a sci-fi element and is set over the course of a family’s weekend…