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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first teaser trailer for Sitges Film Festival horror The Old Ways, which has been picked up for sales by genre specialist XYZ Films and UTA Independent Film Group. The film follows Cristina Lopez, a Mexican American reporter who returns to her ancestral homeland of Veracruz chasing a story on…

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…