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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has taken U.S. rights to a new feature documentary about screen icon Audrey Hepburn. Audrey, which is produced by Salon Pictures and distributed by XYZ Films' documentary division, has also been picked up by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group internationally. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Shudder, AMC Networks' genre streaming service, has picked up U.S., UK/Ireland, and Australia/NZ rights to zombie thriller Blood Quantum from XYZ Films. In Blood Quantum, the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its indigenous inhabitants who are immune…

U.S. sales and production outfit XYZ Films is launching a management division and has made former Universal executive and ICM agent Peter Van Steemburg its first hire. The division will focus on emerging filmmakers from across the world, working with them to generate opportunities for content creation in an…

Daniel Dae Kim is joining Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, along with Shamier Anderson, in Joe Penna's sci-fi thriller Stowaway. This is the second feature from Penna and Ryan Morrison, the duo behind last year’s Cannes Official Selection Arctic, which released domestically in February. Penna is directing and co-wrote…