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Stuart Ford's IM Global is launching pre-sales in Berlin via its Opus label on the new Sylvester Stallone pic 'Headshot.' The $40 million-plus action thriller, currently in pre-production, is helmed [...]

Deals were plentiful at Sundance this year for smaller distribs and minimajors adept at platform releases. Hot titles that got snapped up include dark comedy 'The Details' (the Weinstein Co.), [...]

Vera Farmiga and Mia Wasikowska will join Anthony LaPaglia in 'A View From the Bridge,' a feature adaptation based on Arthur Miller's 1955 play of the same name. Sam Neill [...]

'The Last Exorcism' creators Eli Roth, Eric Newman and Paris-based StudioCanal are reteaming on a genre follow-up, suspense pic 'Psycho Killer,' written by 'Seven' scribe Andrew Kevin Walker. Pic will [...]

While the advent of digital rollout has promised to provide cheaper deals for studio distribution in the long run, Blighty's independent distributors are facing an uphill battle that could shake [...]

From its shiny new downtown home, the Toronto Film Festival launches what may be its most ambitious edition tonight with a rousing chorus of 'O Canada' ('Score: A Hockey Musical' [...]

Uma Thurman and Almorah Services, which acquired Brit shingle HandMade, have settled the pending litigation over pic 'Eloise in Paris,' and the star will continue to go ahead with the [...]

Joe Drake's new financing, production and sales outfit Good Universe has made an impression at its first Cannes, locking multi-territory deals with Universal Pictures Intl. for 'Oldboy' and 'Last Vegas.' [...]

U.K.-based film financier Prescience has joined forces with finance specialists Lee Vandermolen and Peter Dale to develop sources of institutional funding and private investment. Vandermolen and Dale will work with [...]

Cohen Media Group has snapped up U.S. distribution rights for Omid Nooshin's 'Last Passenger,' toplining Dougray Scott. The low-budget thriller, which is being shopped by Pathe Intl., is produced by [...]

Pierce Brosnan's production company Irish DreamTime has entered into a multipicture financing and distribution deal with the Solution Entertainment Group, with 'November Man' set as the launch title and potential [...]

Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro have boarded action-laffer 'Agent: Century 21,' which Exclusive Media is producing and financing and will unveil to buyers in Cannes. Danish helmer Adam Hashemi [...]

Alison Klayman's Sundance award-winning documentary 'Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry' has locked a slew of sales ahead of Cannes. Pic, which is being shopped by Independent, sold to Haut et Court [...]

David Garrett, Summit co-founder and former prexy of international, has joined forces with Germany's Constantin Film to launch sales and financing entity Mister Smith Entertainment. The move comes less than [...]

Disney U.K. and Ireland has inked a deal with video-on-demand company Blinkbox that will see a selection of the distrib's titles become available on the service. Pics such as 'War [...]

The Weinstein Co. is nearing a deal for U.S. rights to Paul Andrew Williams' 'Song for Marion,' toplining Gemma Arterton and Vanessa Redgrave. Pic, which also stars Christopher Eccleston and [...]

George Isaac has launched his directorial debut 'All Things to All Men,' starring Gabriel Byme, Rufus Sewell and Toby Stephens. Isaac, who produced Brit pics 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' will direct [...]

The Works U.K. Distribution has snapped up Brit rights to Jeff Nichols' thriller 'Take Shelter,' which preemed at Sundance and won Cannes Critics' Week grand prize plus the Fipresci award. [...]

Sweden's Yellow Bird is in development with Andy Harries' Left Bank Pictures on helmer Kenneth Branagh's 'Italian Shoes,' based on Swedish author Henning Mankell's book. Yellow Bird producer Marianne Gray, [...]

In yet another sign that the digital sphere in Blighty is picking up the pace, YouTube has launched its movie rental service in the country. More than 1,000 feature pics--including [...]

Rebecca Hall starrer 'The Awakening' was acquired for U.S. distribution in Toronto Tuesday by Cohen Media Group. European heavyweight Studiocanal sold rights for a seven-figure sum and screen commitment. The [...]

European heavyweight StudioCanal has snapped up French distribution rights to Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' and Derek Cianfrance's 'Place Beyond the Pines.' The Vivendi-owned outfit also has U.K. rights to 'Place [...]

Peter Mullan, the helmer and co-star of 'NEDS,' and '4..3.2.1 .' thesps Michelle Ryan and Ashley (Bashy) Thomas are set to star in action thriller 'The Man Inside.' Pic, which [...]

Trinity Films has snapped up U.K. rights for Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes competish title 'This Must Be the Place,' starring Sean Penn, from Pathe Intl. for a 2012 theatrical release. Penn [...]

Arts Alliance Media is teaming with Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London to distribute films of its performances to theaters in the U.K., Ireland and the U.S. More than 250 U.S. [...]

LONDON -- Fresh out of Cannes, Goldcrest Films Intl. has secured a raft of sales on Todd Solondz's 'Dark Horse' and Donald Rice's 'Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.' 'Dark Horse' [...]

Entertainment One has snapped up U.K. rights for Stephen Frears' 'Lay the Favorite,' toplining Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall and Vince Vaughn. Movie, shopped and co-financed by Wild Bunch, has already [...]

Martin Scorsese has boarded Hong Kong helmer Andrew Lau's 'Revenge of the Green Dragons' as an exec producer. Pic adapts Fredric Dannen's New Yorker article about a murder investigation involving [...]

Summit has snapped up U.S. distribution rights to action thriller 'Snitch,' helmed by Ric Roman Waugh. Pic, which stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, is co-financed by Exclusive Media, Participant Media [...]

Blighty's Intandem Films has joined forces with L.A.-based Mary Alice Prods. to finance, produce and sell a slate of pics each budgeted in the $20 million-S40 million range, including 'Section [...]

Julie Andrews, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode and Gabriel Byrne will star in helmer Neil LaBute's bigscreen version of Agatha Christie's 'Crooked House,' adapted by 'Gosford Park' scribe Julian Fellowes and [...]

Content Film has picked up international sales rights for Derick Martini's 'Hick,' starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Alec Baldwin. The coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old's life on the [...]

In advance of what looks set to be a strong year for indies at the Cannes Film Festival market, Stuart Ford's IM Global announced a slate of nine pics it [...]

Bill Murray is set to play Franklin D. Roosevelt in the historical drama 'Hyde Park on Hudson,' which Focus Features Intl. is unveiling to buyers at Cannes next week. Pic, [...]

A slew of Brits. including model-thesp Agyness Deyn and Richard Coyle ('Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'), have joined the cast of 'Pusher,' an English-language remake of the 1996 [...]

K5 Intl. has snapped up foreign sales rights to Paul Walker starrer 'Vehicle 19,' which it is shopping to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival next week. Walker also exec [...]

Entertainment One has acquired U.K. rights to Ken Loach's 'The Angel's Share,' a bittersweet comedy due to lense in Scotland this week. The project reunites Loach with a slew of [...]

Artificial Eye has snapped up U.K. rights to 'Days of Grace,' from Mexican helmer-scribe Everardo Gout, which has been selected for the midnight out-of-competition screening in Cannes. The Franco-Mexican coproduction, [...]

Kevin Macdonald's global YouTube experimental documentary 'Life in a Day' will be self-distributed by producer Ridley Scott's Scott Free in Blighty. Pic, which preemed at Sundance, will be released on [...]

LONDON Prime Focus, the Indian-owned vfx and post-production facility, has launched Prime Focus Prods., which will work on TV drama. Rod Brown, former Mob Film partner, will head the shingle [...]

Ireland's Cartoon Saloon has tied down European partners on 'Song of the Sea,' Tomm Moore's followup to 'The Secret of Kells.' In 'Sea's' first distribution deal, Optimum Releasing has nabbed [...]

The Doha Film Institute will co-produce two Arabic pics, Jean-Claude Codsi's 'A Man of Honor' and Nadine Labaki's sophomore feature 'Where Do We Go Now?' 'Honor,' set in Lebanon and [...]

Annette Bening and Morgan Freeman are set to topline director Rob Reiner's family-oriented 'The Third Act.' Nicolas Chartier's Voltage Pictures is financing and selling international rights for the pic, skedded [...]

Thesp-turned-helmer Richard E. Grant will direct comic Western 'In With the Outlaws,' from writer-producer Nicholas Sercombe. The $10 million pic is to lense in late spring and will be shot [...]

Jason Statham is in talks to star in 'Echelon,' a thriller based on 'Firewall,' one of Brit Andy McNab's Nick Stone espionage tomes. Pic, which Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Intl. [...]

Glen Basner's FilmNation has sold Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth starrer 'Gambit' to Alliance Films for Canada, Spain and Blighty, one of the first major deals at the Berlinale this [...]

As deals start to wind down at Sundance, Roadside Attractions finalized an agreement to partner with HBO Documentary Films for the U.S. theatrical release of James Marsh's 'Project Nim.' Leading [...]

Paramount Pictures Intl. has snapped up German and Swiss rights to Brit romantic comedy 'Chalet Girl,' starring Felicity Jones and Ed Westwick. Pic, which is being sold internationally by Metropolis [...]

Universal Pictures Intl. has picked up French rights to thesp Christian Clavier's helming debut, 'On ne choisit pas sa famille' (You do not choose your family). UPI will co-finance and [...]

Scribe Jez Butterworth, whose recent credits include 'Fan: Game' and 'The Last Legiori' is joining forces with Mick Jones and Paul Simon on of the Clash to make a feature [...]