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EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films is finalizing a deal to acquire The Exorcism of God, a horror drama from Alejandro Hidalgo (The House at the End of Time), which is set to premiere today at Fantastic Fest. The company will handle the film’s distribution in the U.S., as well as in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Ali Larter (The Rookie), Madison Wolfe (The Conjuring 2), Brec Bassinger (Stargirl), Skai Jackson (Bunk'd), Gavin Warren (12 Mighty Orphans) and Julianne Arrieta (Reagan) have signed on to star in The Man in the White Van, a true-crime thriller from Garrison Film Productions…

EXCLUSIVE: As part of Vince Totino and John Hegeman’s newly launched Wayward Entertainment and their new genre slate, we’ve learned that the studio will be going into a production on an English-language take on Erlingur Thoroddsen's Icelandic horror movie Rift. Oscar winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will…

EXCLUSIVE: Asia Argento (xXx), French rapper-actor JoeyStarr (Polisse) and Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2) are set to lead cast in French-language thriller Interstate (La Saveur De La Mort). The movie is a supernatural thriller in which a hitman (JoeyStarr), facing an existential crisis, decides…

XYZ Films has opened a domestic distribution wing and has hired former Drafthouse Films and Neon COO James Emanuel Shapiro as EVP U.S. Distribution. The new division will focus on releasing independent genre films from around the world, complimenting the company's production, sales and financing operations. The debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Mandy and The Prodigy outfit XYZ Films is re-teaming with Under The Shadow outfit Two & Two Pictures on a partnership to discover, develop and produce projects from first and second-time genre filmmakers from under-represented demographics. Two & Two's London and LA-based duo Lucan Toh and Babak Anvari were…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage from Night Raiders, which has its world premiere as part of this year’s Berlin Panorama program. The film, executive produced by Taika Waititi, is set in the year 2043, in a dystopian future where a military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has signed on to sell worldwide rights excluding Africa for the South African horror-thriller Gaia, which is set to debut in the Midnight section of virtual SXSW in March. The film follows a park ranger on a surveillance mission in a primordial forest who encounters two survivalists living a…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has boarded world sales, excluding Canada and Australia/NZ, on Berlin Panorama entry Night Raiders, the apocalyptic sci-fi exec-produced by Taika Waititi. Set in the year 2043 when a military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in North America and children are property of the state, the…

UPDATED with video: Nate Bolotin from XYZ Films says he was simply "blown away" by Jallikattu, this year's International Feature Oscar entry from India, when he first encountered the movie as it was being submitted to festivals in 2019. The company quickly moved to board the project as an executive producer and took…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has acquired North American rights to India’s Best International Oscar entry Jallikattu. The well-received genre pic charts the catastrophic events that unfold when a butcher's buffalo escapes and runs amok through a remote village in the hill ranges of Kerala. The film, directed by Lijo Jose…

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Duhamel (Transformers: The Last Knight), Abbie Cornish (Jack Ryan), three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (Warrior) and Mexican mega-star Omar Chaparro (Pokémon Detective Pikachu) are to star in the action movie Blackout, which is set to get underway tomorrow in Mexico City. Blackout will follow Cain…