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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks' RLJE Films has picked up U.S. rights to 2067, the sci-fi thriller starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), and will release in theaters, VOD and digital on October 2, 2020. Written and directed by Seth Larney, the movie is set on an Earth ravaged by climate…

Saban Films has acquired North American rights to John Berardo's Initiation. The horror crime thriller was previously selected for a world premiere in the Midnighters section at SXSW under its original title Dembanger. XYZ Films is on international rights and is introducing the pic during the Cannes virtual…

Elisabeth Moss is set to re-team with The Handmaid’s Tale director Daina Reid on the Australian thriller Run Rabbit Run, on which XYZ will launch world sales at the Cannes virtual market. The modern-day ghost story will follow Sarah, a fertility doctor, with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has signed on to handle worldwide sales rights to Oz sci-fi thriller 2067, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (X:Men) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood). Previously with Content Media, the film marks writer-director Seth Larney's (Tombiruo) English-language directorial debut. The movie takes place in a world…

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing Berlin EFM addition, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins has been set to star in Cus And Mike, the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato and how he moulded the fighter into becoming the youngest heavyweight title winner ever and one of the most ferocious boxers of his generation. The…

LA-based production, sales, financing and management outfit XYZ Films has elevated three executives to VP status. Pip Ngo is getting promoted from Director to Vice President of Sales & Acquisitions; Maxime Cottray goes from Director to Vice President of Financing & Production; and Scott Freije will move up to Vice…

XYZ Films and Finland-based venture capital firm IPR.VC have joined forces on a $100m fund that will be utilized to back a slate of genre pictures. The money, which the VC outfit is providing, will fund 15-20 features and will focus on filmmaker-driven independent genre fare. It gives XYZ more muscle to fully-finance…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has taken on international rights to Zak Hilditch's thriller Airborne, which will star Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch) as a flight attendant who faces a mid-flight pandemic. When the deadly disease spreads throughout the plane, she must contain the infected passengers and against unlikely odds land…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a hot AFM package. I can reveal that Christoph Waltz and Lily Collins will star with Bill Skarsgard in Gilded Rage, a dramatic thriller about the real-life murder of a Manhattan hedge fund manager. Charlie McDowell (The Discovery, The One I Love) is directing. XYZ Films is financing and producing the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a seven figure-deal, Well Go USA has acquired all U.S. rights to the Toronto Film Festival sci-fi-thriller Synchronic, starring Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie. The deal with Patriot Pictures, Rustic Films & XYZ Films, which includes a theatrical commitment in 2020, was negotiated by Doris Pfardrescher…

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has struck a deal with XYZ Films for UK and Irish rights to the sci-fi film Synchronic starring Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless), the Toronto and London film fests title follows two New Orleans paramedics who encounter a…

XYZ Films has signed its inaugural group of clients for its new management division, which focuses on filmmakers with an emphasis on global talent. Among the inaugural signees as the Toronto Film Festival gets under way today are directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (TIFF world premiere Synchronic), director…