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…
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films is partnering with Matthew Metcalfe's GFC Films on historical thriller Immortal, written by Pete Dowling (Flightplan) and to be directed by Roger Donaldson (Species).
The film will be produced by Metcalfe (6 Days) and GFC Films out of New Zealand, with XYZ Films executive producing and launching…
EXCLUSIVE:XYZ Films has come aboard as an executive producer and co-financier with Grade 5 Films on You Don’t Nomi, the Jeffrey McHale documentary about the Showgirls movie phenomenon that will have its world premiere in the Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival next month. The move, which ramps up XYZ’s…
EXCLUSIVE:XYZ Films and Rick and Morty producer Starburns Industries are teaming to produce Welcome to My Daydream, a biographical feature-length documentary about Oscar-winning stop-motion animation icon Will Vinton. Marq Evans (The Glamour & the Squalor) is set to direct, with XYZ handling worldwide sales.
The docu…
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has boarded world sales rights to horror-thriller Color Out Of Space, starring Nicolas Cage and based on the H.P. Lovecraft novella. Also starring are Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Elliot Knight, Julian Hilliard and Q'Orianka Kilcher.
Currently in production, the film is being directed by Richard…
Tamir Ardon, who produced XYZ Films’ upcoming hybrid documentary Framing John DeLorean starring Alec Baldwin, has been hired as the company’s Head of Documentaries. The news comes as XYZ preps for its 10th year at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
Ardon, based in Los Angeles, will oversee original documentary…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Sundance and Rotterdam-bound drama Dirty God, about a mother dealing with the effects of an acid attack.
Writer-director Sacha Polak’s (Hemel) European co-production follows Jade, a young mother in the prime of her life who suffers an acid attack which leaves her severely burned…
XYZ Films is staffing up ahead of Berlin and has appointed former IM Global exec Tatyana Joffe as President of International Sales and Distribution.
Joffe, who spent eight years at IM Global, most recently as EVP, International Sales, will oversee XYZ's international sales department as well as handling a number of…
