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EXCLUSIVE: UK sales company Parkland Pictures is at the virtual EFM with Paul Morrison rom-com drama 23 Walks, which has been picked up for North America by Vertical Entertainment. Pic stars Dave Johns from Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Secrets & Lies and Olivier Award-winner Alison Steadman. The actors play…

EXCLUSIVE: Japanese major indie Gaga will launch sales on 3D animated feature Ryoma! The Prince Of Tennis at the upcoming Filmart in Hong Kong (March 15-18). The movie is the first 3D computer-generated title that the company has produced and distributed in its 35-year history. Gaga entered the animation business in…

UPDATED WRITETHRU: The Berlin Film Festival revealed its 2021 awards in a virtual presentation this afternoon with Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn scooping the top prize Golden Bear. Also among winners are debut filmmaker Dénes Nagy who took the Silver Bear for Best Director with Natural Light. Maria…

David Beckham is in talks to front a show for Disney+ in which he will mentor a team of young soccer players in London. Deadline understands that the show is yet to be greenlit, but conversations are taking place after The Sun reported that producers have been casting at Hackney Marshes, a mecca for grassroots soccer…

Mr Turner and Summer Of Rockets actor Timothy Spall has joined Lesley Manville to headline PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders, which goes into production next week in Suffolk and Ireland. The five-time BAFTA nominee will star as the clever and complex detective Atticus Pünd in the six-part series about editor…

Disney+ suffered more technical difficulties as subscribers rushed to watch the season finale of Marvel series WandaVision. Downdetector, a website that monitors web outages, showed that there had been a big spike in people reporting problems with their Disney+ service — just as the latest episode of WandaVision…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 5 is revisiting classic UK lifestyle show You Are What You Eat and giving it a contemporary twist by installing presenter Trisha Goddard as host. The original show broadcast on Channel 4 between 2004 and 2007, with presenter Gillian McKeith helping people improve their diets by, among other things…

Imax sales slumped last quarter but beat Wall Street estimates and it swung to a loss. The stock popped in late trading as the company highlighted a strong box office in China and Japan, upbeat outlook and continued sales of its big-screen systems despite the pandemic. Revenue of $56 million was down from $124 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right) is set to star in Oscar-winning duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s (Free Solo) narrative directorial debut Nyad. Heralding from The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear and American Sniper producer Mad Chance, the hot package has come…

EXCLUSIVE: 300: Rise Of An Empire and The Departed producer Gianni Nunnari of Hollywood Gang Productions and producer Andre L III of MiLu Entertainment have acquired rights to Cuban author and journalist Armando Lucas Correa's well-received novel The German Girl, which they are developing as an international TV…

News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said Thursday "the terms of trade for content are changing fundamentally," citing a global news sharing deal the company signed last week with Google. That deal was announced as Facebook banned news for users and publishers in Australia, to protest a law requiring a more balanced…

The Pantani Affair Gets International & U.S. Sales Deals EXCLUSIVE: The Pantani Affair (Il Caso Pantani), about iconic Italian cyclist Marco Pantani, is launching for international sales at the virtual EFM via Italian firm Iuvit Media Sales. The biographical drama, written, directed and produced by filmmaker and…