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EXCLUSIVE: Enderby Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Julie Cohen’s novel, The Two Lives of Louis & Louise, with plans to adapt it into a feature. Enderby’s President and CEO Rick Dugdale is producing the pic which is slated to begin pre-production in Summer 2020. Swedish filmmaker Lisa James Larsson…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired the worldwide rights to Ninian Doff’s debut feature Boyz In The Wood which stars Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, Georgie Glen, James Cosmo and a up-and-comers Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon and Lewis Gribben. The horror-comedy made its world premiere as the opening…

EXCLUSIVE: Legion M has acquired Brian Staveley’s bestselling fantasy epic The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne and brought Weta Workshop aboard to begin the visual concept work for a one-hour fantasy drama series that will share the title of the bookshelf trilogy’s first entry: The Emperor’s Blades.  The fan-owned…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streaming service Shudder has acquired rights in North America, the UK and Ireland to Scare Me and La Llorona. The deals come ahead of both films landing at the Sundance Film Festival next month. Scare Me, written and directed by Josh Ruben in his feature debut, is a comedic thriller…

Giant Pictures has secured U.S. distribution rights to the Bruno de Almeida-helmed drama Cabaret Maxime, starring Michael Imperioli, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Christopher Moltisanti on HBO’s The Sopranos. Cabaret Maxime is slated to open at the Metrograph in New York City on February 21 before its…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to Emily Ting's second directorial feature Go Back to China, starring Anna Akana. The film will have a limited theatrical release and be available on VOD starting March 6, 2020. The semi-autobiographical film made its world premiere at SXSW earlier this year…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired North American television and streaming rights to Welcome to Chechnya, the documentary by David France, the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague and The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. The deal was struck in advance of the film making its world premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment (Arrival, The Big Sick) is expanding its television slate with the acquisition of Susan Choi’s 2019 National Book Award winner Trust Exercise for development as a limited TV series, with Choi attached to pen the adaptation. Based on the book, Trust Exercise the series is set in an…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired rights to Kara Richardson Whitely's memoir Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, and is developing it as a movie with This Is Us star Chrissy Metz, who will produce and possibly star. The producing team also includes PatMa Productions' Denise Di Novi, Nina Tassler and…

101 Studios has acquired film and TV rights to Paradise Found, the nonfiction book written by Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke about the small town of Paradise, CA, which was ravaged by the Camp Fire of 2018 but which found hope in its high school football team and longtime coach, Rick Prinz. The…

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to Elsewhere, a dramedy starring Rectify alum Aden Young. The digital distribution unit of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will release the film from writer-director Hernan Jimenez (About Us) day-and-date in select theaters and VOD on January 24. Here’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Bernard Kira and director-producer Batan Silva have acquired the film and television rights to Alfredo Corchado's best-selling true crime book, Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country's Descent Into Darkness. Published by Penguin, it was selected by Time Magazine in 2018 as one…