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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has preemptively purchased Hit the Gas, a spec script from Chris McCoy for Neal Moritz to produce. Described as a propulsive thriller, the film’s logline is under wraps. Tania Landau will oversee for Moritz’s Original Film, with Vanessa Joyce overseeing for Paramount…

Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures will co-release Love Me, a cosmic romance starring Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding) and Steven Yeun (Minari) that world premiered at Sundance at top of year, where it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Written and directed by Sam & Andy Zuchero…

After serving as the U.S. distributor for Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winning 2021 body horror Titane, Neon is getting back into business with the filmmaker as the North American distributor for her next genre-bending feature, Alpha. Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)…

EXCLUSIVE: Plan B Entertainment has acquired an original project from How To Have Sex writer/director Molly Manning Walker. The plot of the irreverent comedy is under wraps. The deal comes as Manning Walker is about to serve (among six filmmakers chosen) as part the Cannes Film Festival’s annual La…

EXCLUSIVE: Leviathan Productions has acquired the remake rights to L’Homme de la Cave (The Man in the Basement), the French psychological thriller from director Philippe Le Guay, which was released just last year. Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Nour Films has acquired French rights to Saudi director Tawfik Alzaidi's first feature Norah ahead of its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard. The film will make history as the first ever Saudi feature to play in Cannes' Official Selection just six…

EXCLUSIVE: International and indie film distributor Well Go USA Entertainment acquired North American rights to Little League baseball film You Gotta Believe directed by Ty Roberts (12 Mighty Orphans) and starring Luke Wilson (Horizon: An American Saga) and Greg Kinnear (The Present). In addition to…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of last year’s Sundance breakout Talk To Me, A24 reunites with Causeway Films as well as Ari Aster’s Square Peg to team up with debut filmmaker Masha Ko on an adaptation of her horror short The Looming which premiered at Sundance this year. Ko will write/direct the…

UPDATED with VOD release details. EXCLUSIVE: The American Psychiatric Association urges "ethical practitioners" to "refrain from attempts to change individuals' sexual orientation" and it supports legislation that would ban "reparative" or conversion therapies that purport to be able to change someone…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Susanna Fogel’s Winner, a political dramedy based on the true story of NSA whistleblower Reality Winner (Emilia Jones), which world premiered at Sundance 2024. Also starring Connie Britton (Nashville), Zach Galifianakis (A Wrinkle in Time)…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has re-acquired the previously held worldwide home entertainment, broadcast and digital distribution rights for Paul Reubens' Pee-wee’s Playhouse. In addition, the studio has newly acquired AVOD (advertising supported video on demand) rights, bringing the show to AVOD and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding, Linden Productions has acquired the rights to Alice Sadie Celine, the adult debut novel of NYT-Bestselling author, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright. Jen Silverman will adapt the script with Linden Productions on board to develop and produce the feature film…