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Harry Potter franchise alum Jason Isaacs will be joining Vanessa Redgrave and Freida Pinto in The Boy at the Back of the Class, the family feature based on the bestselling children's book written by Onjali Q. Rauf. Stephen Herek (101 Dalmatians, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) is directing. The…

Indie producer Daisy Allsop has joined WestEnd films to oversee acquisitions and development across the company's slate of films and TV shows. Allsop takes over from Toby Hill and has already started her new role. She will attend the Berlin film festival, where WestEnd will debut Traitor, a new…

WestEnd Films is launching international sales in Cannes on Sinner V. Saints, a comedy based on the true story of the so-called "manacled Mormon" sex scandal. Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are lined up to star. Tim Kirkby (Fleabag, Veep, The Pentaverate) is directing with shooting due to begin in the first…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at footage from The Score, a musical heist movie with an all-star British cast that premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Monday. Will Poulter, Johnny Flynn, Naomi Ackie and Lydia Wilson lead the pic, which is directed by Malachi Smyth (Sentinel). The story combines a…

Loki star Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Girl on the Train’s Edgar Ramírez are to star in passionate love story Nobody’s Heart from The Bookshop director Isabel Coixet. London sales house WestEnd Films has this week launched international sales on the pic, which enters production in January in Portugal and is being introduced at…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising British-Nigerian actor Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (His House, Gangs of London) is set to lead the cast of Uncle, a revenge thriller being directed by Joe Marcantonio (Kindred). After the brutal murder of their family, barely teenage Millie and her uncle John (Dìrísù) embark on a brutal mission of revenge and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off wrapping season one of Amazon's mega-budget The Lord Of The Rings series, Saint Maud star Morfydd Clark is attached to star alongside Sam Riley (Control) and Dominic Cooper (Preacher) in revenge thriller The Duchess Of Malfi. Guillem Morales (Julia's Eyes) is helming the project from Miriam Segal's…

Following the departure of Cinephil founder Philippa Kowarsky, who joined the BBC as Storyville Commissioning Editor last week, the Tel Aviv-based sales outfit is joining forces with fellow sales company WestEnd Films to form a joint venture. The companies will collaborate on development, financing and sales of…

Control filmmaker Anton Corbijn has boarded Dancer II, a follow-up to the documentary Dancer again starring ballet superstar Sergei Polunin. The second film will be a visual exploration of dance and will include multiple extended performance sequences as well as an intimate look into how those are crafted. Producers…

EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd Films has acquired international rights on Dismissed, the buzzy new satirical comedy-drama Israeli TV series about a group of female army recruits. The show was created by Israeli Television Academy winner Nir Berger (Dead End) and Atara Frish (Heroine), who also directs. It is produced by Naomi…

EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton (Their Finest) and Jason Tobin (Warrior) will lead the cast of comedy Enter The Dragons for Oscar-nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Radioactive, Persepolis), with the film shooting this summer in the UK. Set in the small English town of Coalshaw in 1979, the film follows Gloria Grimshaw…

Production and finance outfit Anton and sales and production company WestEnd have entered a deal to co-fund a development slate of TV series. The first project under the pact will be a thriller series from writers/producers Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, whose credits include the war drama No Man's Land, which Hulu is…