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EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has landed the rights to High Wire, the thriller novel from international bestselling author Candice Fox, for development as a TV series, sources tell Deadline. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is set to produce under their first-look deal with Apple TV+. We hear the project is in…

EXCLUSIVE: Dead Mail, an acclaimed ’80s Midwest horror thriller from writer-directors Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, is set to make its exclusive streaming debut on Shudder as part of the streamer’s annual Halfway to Halloween celebration on April 18. The film hits streaming following a…

EXCLUSIVE: Badlands, the new indie genre label of longtime Sony exec Scott Strauss and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, has pre-emptively acquired Hivemind, a new spec script from Peter Gaffney. Hivemind is billed as an environmental thriller about the evolution of a new breed of…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to My Mother’s Wedding, the directorial debut of Oscar nominee and BAFTA Award-winning actress Kristin Scott Thomas. The film, inspired by her own family history, which she wrote with husband John Micklethwait, will be released in theaters this…

EXCLUSIVE: Frameline Distribution has acquired North American distribution rights to Doppelgängers³, a film directed by Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian that's described as a "freewheeling filmic essay-meets-documentary, which takes questions of gender, history, and free thinking to the frontiers of…

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it's interesting to recall the show's second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, 1975, she riveted the audience with a performance of her smash hit "At 17," a ballad of high school…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. and UK/IRE rights to Guns Up, a new action comedy starring actor and comedian Kevin James. Hailing from writer-director Edward Drake (Detective Knight film series) and Millennium Media, the studio behind the Hitman’s Bodyguard franchise, the film is set to hit…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to Thomas Ray’s novella, Silencer, enlisting Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) to adapt it for the big screen. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce as part of his first-look deal with the studio alongside NeoText Corporation, the publisher of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Badlands, the recently launched indie genre label of longtime Sony exec Strauss and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, has acquired Jayson Rothwell’s pitch for Lions, Tigers, and Bears, a film inspired by a true story from 2001, involving a lion, tiger, and bear rescued from a drug…

Netflix is in talks for the Geeta Gandbhir directed documentary The Perfect Neighbor which won the Documentary Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Neighbor made its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The film follows a minor…

EXCLUSIVE: L.A.-based Lion Forge Entertainment has closed a UK streaming deal with ITVX for its fantasy superhero animated series Iyanu, based on Nigerian mythology. The streaming platform for the U.K.'s free-to-air broadcaster ITV has acquired exclusive VOD (including AVOD) rights for the UK…

EXCLUSIVE: Magenta Light Studios, the recently announced production and distribution company of Crash producer Bob Yari, has acquired domestic rights from Arclight Films to Deep Water, a new thriller directed by Renny Harlin (The Strangers trilogy), which stars Aaron Eckhart (Sully) and Ben Kingsley…