Ahead of the virtual Cannes market, Metro International is launching sales on WWII drama Late In Summer, which will star BAFTA winner Emily Watson (Chernobyl) and Farming and Suicide Squad actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between...
UK-based sales firm Metro International Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Jordy Sank’s documentary I Am Here, about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal. Metro will launch sales on the title at next week’s online European Film Market (EFM, March 1-5). The South African film is...
Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories. The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (levelFILM), CIS (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and...
The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has revealed the programme for its 2021 edition (Feb 24-March 7), which includes several award-winning festival favourites and a focus on South Korea. The 17th edition of GFF, which recently announced it would shift online-only due to the ongoing virus crisis,...
The first teaser for Alan McGee biopic Creation Stories has landed. The upcoming film, adapting McGee’s acclaimed autobiography of the same name, will star Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) as the notorious music producer. Trainspotting scribe Irvine Welsh has written the script, with Nick Moran set to direct. “It’s like ‘Trainspotting does Creation’,...
As AFM presents its inaugural virtual edition (November 9-13), Screen profiles a selection of key titles that are looking to tempt buyers during the market Altitude hopes buyers will dig for Gold, its Zac Efron survival thriller. Directed by Anthony Hayes and based on a screenplay he co-wrote...
UK sales outfit Metro International has sealed several key deals for interrailing comedy Off The Rails, including for the US and Canada. The film has sold to Screen Media Ventures in the US, with a release planned for Mothers’ Day 2021 (May 9). Further sales include Canada (Vortex),...
Screen Media has bought all U.S. rights to the comedy-drama “Off the Rails,” starring the late Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Ben Miller, Franco Nero and Judi Dench. Screen Media plans to release the film in theaters and on demand in the first...
The Independent Film & Television Alliance, which produces the annual American Film Market, has elected eight new members to its board. The new directors include executives from such companies as Lionsgate, Myriad Pictures and XYZ Films. The latest additions to IFTA’s board are J.D. Beaufils (VMI Worldwide), Scott Bedno (Myriad...
Angus Macfadyen, who first played the medieval Scottish king in “Braveheart,” reprises his role in this introspective historical drama. I could have forgiven the non-Scottish actors in “Robert the Bruce” for torturing my native tongue had the filmmakers not also wrapped this sort-of appendage to Mel...