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EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films is launching international sales rights (minus Australia) at the virtual AFM on zombie action thriller Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, which the company will also release in the U.S. next year via its new domestic distribution division. The film, which recently played at the Sitges, Sydney and Brisbane film…

EXCLUSIVE: Sales firms XYZ and AMP are launching new thriller Old Man, which will star Avatar actor Stephen Lang. The chamber thriller is set to go before cameras this January in upstate New York. Lucky McKee (The Woman) will direct from a script by Joel Veach, whose play of the same title is being workshopped at the…

STX has snapped up worldwide distribution rights to genre pic Run Rabbit Run, which will re-team Elisabeth Moss with The Handmaid's Tale director Daina Reid. STXfilms will directly distribute in the U.S., UK and Ireland with STXinternational now aboard for international sales at the Cannes Virtual Market. The deal was…

EXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood is to star as Ted Bundy’s FBI analyst in crime-thriller No Man Of God, which XYZ will be launching at next week’s Cannes virtual market. Set largely in a single interrogation room, the film is based on real life transcripts culled from conversations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and…

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films will handle worldwide sales (except Canada) on zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which they also executive produced, at the upcoming Cannes Marché. 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…