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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, 20th Century Studios has won rights to Test Drive, an original action spec from Matt Venne, to be produced by Safehouse Pictures. While plot details are under wraps, sources said Venne secured a healthy mid-six against seven figure deal for his script. The spec…

EXCLUSIVE: Spain’s Movistar Plus+ has gone shopping at Sony Pictures Television. The streamer has acquired medical drama Doc, British crime drama Dope Girls, police thriller Long Bright River, Narrow Road to the Deep North and Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood. Each show will…

EXCLUSIVE: Department M, the independent studio founded by Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer, has acquired the film rights to the acclaimed nonfiction book Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War, by Marty Skovlund Jr. and Joe Kent and tapped Jessica Goldberg to adapt the script. Department M will…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canada distribution rights to Come Closer, which is Israel's submission to the Best International Feature Oscar race. From director Tom Nesher and based loosely on incidents from her own life, the film recounts the sometimes twisted, sometimes…

Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival unveiled the selection for its 4th edition on Monday as well as its new headquarters in the historic center of its home city of Jeddah. The festival, running from December 5 to 14, will open with Egyptian director Karim Shenawy's feel-good drama The Tale Of Daye's…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has picked up rights to bestselling author Eliza Jane Brazier's recently published novel It Had to Be You. Brazier will adapt the script and executive produce the project, which is in early development at the studio. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate UK has acquired Andrew Haigh's true crime story Belly of the Beast, starring Ben Stiller and Colin Farrell, and produced and developed by Village Roadshow Pictures. The distributor, which will release the film in cinemas in the UK and Ireland, joins a slew of buyers to have…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Sharp Corner, an indie psychological thriller, starring Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), which scored positive reviews out of the Rome Film Festival and TIFF, where the deal was completed. The film, based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales and production genre specialist WTFilms has boarded a revival of New Zealand 2006 cult classic horror-comedy Black Sheep, about a flock of sheep transformed into bloodthirsty predators by genetic engineering. The sequel, entitled Black Sheep 2, reunites key members of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Entertainment has acquired international rights to Little League Baseball drama You Gotta Believe, starring Luke Wilson, Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon, and Molly Parker, and will begin sales at the AFM. Directed by Ty Roberts (12 Mighty Orphans) from a script by…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Fifth Season and Makeready have acquired the rights to Final Score, a crime thriller spec from Will Hettinger, which Nick Rowland is set to direct. The project reunites the companies with Rowland after work on a project in a similar vein — the forthcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that Amazon MGM Studios has won the bidding war for Mattel’s animated feature Bob the Builder which had Netflix, DreamWorks Animation and others vying for the project. Not all deals are complete, I understand. Bob the Builder is being produced by Jennifer Lopez's Nuy…