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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks' streamer Shudder has picked up rights on Brandon Christensen's Z and will premiere the movie May 7. The film follows a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son's imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. The release is being timed for Mother's Day. Pic stars Keegan Connor Tracy…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit AMP International has boarded international sales on horror film Z, about a family who finds itself terrorized by the eight-year-old son's imaginary friend. The genre pic, which completed principle photography last month in and around Calgary, marks the second collaboration between…

Francoise Bonnot, a film editor who won an Oscar for Z and a BAFTA Award for Missing among dozens of credits, died Saturday in Paris. She was 78. The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Ha…

Gael García Bernal is perhaps still best known for his film work (Y Tu Mamá También, Motorcycle Diaries), but his first foray into television with Amazon's comedy Mozart in the Jungle has certainly garnered him plenty of acclaim, since he won a Globe this year for his portrayal of Rodrigo, conductor of the New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal and Jonás Cuarón are coming together again — this time for the reboot of Zorro in a film entitled Z. Cuarón's Desierto, which stars García Bernal, will be released by STX Entertainment later in the year. The new pairing on Zorro is being brought to Cannes after Cuarón introduced the…

EXCLUSIVE: Shane West is set to star opposite Leslie Bibb in Z, co-writer/director Jonathan Wright’s thriller about a couple that gets in over their heads with a serial killer. The project is set up at Sony Pictures Worldwide and is being produced by Michael Baker and Jeff Sackman. Co-written by Michael Horrigan, the…

Jonás Cuarón, who penned Gravity and recently wrote and directed the Toronto Film Festival pic Desierto, has been tapped to write and direct a new take on Zorro. The pic, titled Z, will be produced by Lantica Media and Sobini Films, and principal photography is set to start in the summer at Pinewood Dominican Republic…