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…

EXCLUSIVE: Captain America: Civil War star Anthony Mackie and A Private War star Jamie Dornan are in talks to topline sci-fi thriller Synchronic from The Endless directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.   The pair will play two New Orleans paramedics, whose lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has boarded North American sales rights to Toronto-bound thriller The Dig, whose gritty first trailer we can reveal today. Vikings actor Moe Dunford leads cast in the pic alongside Francis Magee (Game Of Thrones), Emily Taaffe (BBC’s War & Peace), and Lorcan Cranitch (Fortitude). Dunford plays a…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot SXSW title Number 37, a Hitchcockian South African crime thriller, is heading to theaters in the U.S. after Dark Star Pictures picked up all North American rights. The film, which is the directorial debut of Nosipho Dumisa, is to get a fall theatrical release, starting in New York and L.A., followed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are set to star in Vivarium, a sci-fi thriller from Without Name helmer Lorcan Finnegan. XYZ Films is exec producing and handling world sales which kick off in Cannes next week. Production starts in Ireland in July. Poots will play a young woman who, along with her fiancé…