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Echo Lake Entertainment is out with MESS by Paul Soter. When an obsessively tidy man and his family become the victims of a home invasion by a gang of violent (and filthy) thugs, his spiraling OCD….

Broken Road Productions, Unique Features, and Alexa Faigen are all among the producers taking this into studios!

The untold true story about the rivalry between painting gurus Bill Alexander and Bob Ross; after Alexander’s long-running show “The Magic of Oil Painting” was cancelled by PBS and replaced with Ross’s show “The Joy of Oil Painting,” Alexander accused the soft-spoken, afro’d Ross of stealing his act, inciting a bitter dispute that changed the lives of both men forever. AMADEUS set in the world of 1980s TV painting culture.

Lawrence Grey, DeVon Franklin, Bill Gerber & Matt Tolmach amongst the producers taking this one into every studio!

When his plane is shot down over Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Commander John McCain fights to survive as a POW at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison.

A widower living a simple but lonely life in an English village, follows the same predictable routine he did when his wife was alive. When he stumbles upon a beautiful, but unfamiliar charm bracelet belonging to his late wife, life unexpectedly changes.

The studio will set-up a specific label for the genre films curated and produced by del Toro with Scott Cooper’s Antlers being the first film under the deal.

The former member of The State comedy group previously co-wrote and starred in Wet Hot American Summer and directed Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris.

The story of Erwin van Haarlem, a Cold War secret agent whose stolen identity broke the heart of an innocent woman who thought she’d found her long-lost son. To maintain his cover, the spy deceived the woman, Johanna, for 11 years, until MI5 agents caught him red-handed transmitting coded messages.

When fourth grade teacher Julia Grey tries to help a troubled boy in her class, she discovers he’s been hiding a nightmarish secret. Now something terrifying is coming for the boy, and Julia has to protect him.

While most of the Hollywood contingent at Sundance has already left Park City, there are still plenty of festival deals being made, chief among them one for Dee Rees’ acclaimed drama Mudbound, which is the hottest acquisition title left on the board.

The Sundance Film Festival has reached its halfway point and the sales market has been brisk thanks to streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, who as expected, have been as active as anyone in Park City.

The highly publicized spec Keeper of the Diary from Evan Kilgore and Samuel Franco has sold to Fox Searchlight for a six figure amount. Matti Leshem and Lynn Harris will produce under their Weimaraner Republic Pictures shingle.

The remarkable true story of two strangers from two very different worlds who fight to get Anne Frank’s diary published. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and Barbara Zimmerman, a young editor at Doubleday Press and a fiercely independent woman determined to make her mark on the world and change it for the better.

The remarkable true story of two strangers from two very different worlds who fight to get Anne Frank’s diary published. Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and Barbara Zimmerman, a young editor at Doubleday Press and a fiercely independent woman determined to make her mark on the world and change it for the better.

A satirical take on the world of the super-rich with Baron Cohen playing a cut-throat retail billionaire

As the Toronto market starts to heat up in the festival’s final days, Fox Searchlight in closing a deal to buy the North American distribution rights to A United Kingdom, director Amma Asante’s romantic drama starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.

A major deal has been brokered at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival, with Fox Searchlight picking up the U.S. distribution rights to Jackie starring Natalie Portman.

In a competitive situation, Fox Searchlight has won The Aftermath, the adaptation of the 2013 novel by Rhidian Brook. Ridley Scott is producing, with Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard in talks to star.

In the British Occupied Zone of Hamburg in 1946, an English colonel who has requisitioned a house for his family agrees to share it with the German owners, which creates a charged atmosphere.

A British sportsman sets out to assassinate a European dictator, but when he’s caught, he is tortured, thrown off of a cliff, and left for dead. What follows is a survivalist thriller through which the sportsman must evade enemy agents as he escapes back home to England through the countryside.

Michael Shannon is being eyed to join the cast of Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming otherworldly Cold War drama with working title The Shape of Water.

Domhnall Gleeson is in talks for the role of AA Milne in Goodbye Christopher Robin. Milne was the creator of Winnie the Pooh, the famous and honey-obsessed bear from the classic children’s books.

Michael Stuhlbarg is currently in talks to join Guillermo del Toro’s untitled Cold War love story at Fox Searchlight.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw has signed on to star in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of Roxane Gay’s debut novel, An Untamed State.

A privileged Haitian-American woman is kidnapped for ransom in front of her family and is forced to survive and reclaim her life.

Guillermo del Toro’s untitled Cold War movie is gearing up as Octavia Spencer is currently circling a role in the project.

Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is quickly revving up as it adds Abbie Cornish and Caleb Landry Jones to the cast. They join previously cast Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell.

Director Martin McDonagh has tapped Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell to star in his third feature film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The director’s follow up to Seven Psychopaths also stars Frances McDormand.

Tells the story of a 50-year-old woman who takes on the local police force after her daughter gets murdered because they seem more interested in torturing black people than serving justice.