The Sundance Film Festival is less than a week away, but films are already starting to sell in the days leading up to the highly anticipated Park City fest. The latest to be acquired is the Cate Shortland-directed psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. Vertical Entertainment secured the North American theatrical rights, while Netflix nabbed the streaming rights.
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Molly and Sam are at a crossroads: it’s their three year anniversary and they need to decide whether to move forward or call it quits.
An Australian photographer meets a charismatic local man while on holiday in Berlin. After a night of passion, she finds herself locked in his apartment and soon realizes he has no intentions of letting her go, ever.
An author who is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant puts her relationship with her husband on edge.
Streaming giant Netflix is currently in negotiations to acquire a new spec script, Yuba, from new writer Eamon O’Sullivan. Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, and Peter Kiernan of Free Association are co-producing with Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Energy Entertainment’s Brooklyn Weaver.
A gritty western that follows two ambitious adventurers during the Gold Rush era as they set out to conquer and prosper in California’s Yuba river valley – a place that would go down in history as being one of the most dangerous, lawless, and wealth-fulfilling areas in the whole world. There Will Be Blood and Legends of the Fall.
Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein has RSVP’d for Wet Hot American County: Ten Years Later, the Netflix sequel series to the cult comedy Wet Hot American Summer. The first limited series, First Day of Camp, was a prequel to the original film.
Summer hit Stranger Things from Netflix is gearing up for season two as they add Sadie Sink and Dacre Montgomery to the cast. They are also promoting Joe Keery and Noah Schnapp to series regulars from recurring. The show stars Wynona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and breakout star Millie Bobby Brown.
A mute bartender goes up against his city’s gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner.
K’un-Lun saved him. Lei Kung trained him. And now, Danny Rand is back to fight for what’s his.
Online network Netflix continued its shopping spree over the weekend as it picked up romantic-heist feature Tramps. The film from writer-director Adam Leon had several interested parties including A24, Sony Pictures Classics, and The Orchard.
Sci-fi thriller What Happened to Monday? is in final negotiations to land at Netflix. The project, which will close in the mid-seven figures, stars Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, and Glenn Close.
In the process of organizing a fourth of July surprise party for her boyfriend, the “perfect” sister of the family sees her plans derailed when she discovers her brother has relapsed on heroin while caring for his two-year-old daughter, and must now convince him to go into detox at any cost.
The true story of Robert The Bruce, the Scottish Outlaw who used his cunning and bravery to defeat the English army of King Edward I.
Paradigm is on a roll this summer as they hit the town with their latest prospect Glass from Calvin Starnes. As the piping hot spec has made its way into a dozen territories, some A-list talent is already circling what could become the summer’s next great bidding war.
Based on the reporting of journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer , the story explores how, using their anonymous source, they teamed with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to release the documents from Panamaniam law firm Mossack Fonseca.
A talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business. His single-minded devotion is put to the test when he falls in love with his newest client, a tremendously talented singer who he discovers at an amusement park.
Starting July 1, seven movies written and directed by Albert Brooks will be made available for streaming on Netflix for the first time.
Marty McFly, Axel Foley, Jack Burton and Martin Riggs are all coming to the streaming giant this month. That and more in our picks for what to watch on Netflix in July.
A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York City, only to find that she must write a guide to the city – for the undead!
A determined fourteen year-old wrestler, the only girl on what has been the all-boys wrestling team, prepares for her first, co-ed high school match. But no amount of practice on the mat can prepare her for the challenge she faces at her first match.
Halfire Entertainment and CBC’s miniseries Alias Grace will stream globally on Netflix. The series is written and produced by Sarah Polley and directed by Mary Harron.
Part mystery, part comedy, the film stars The Goldbergs star Jeff Garlin as the titular Gene Handsome, a Los Angeles homicide detective trying to figure out his life while he solves crimes.
The mystery comedy follows Gene Handsome, an L.A. homicide detective trying to figure out life while solving crime.
Nick Kroll’s animated series Big Mouth has received a ten episode order from Netflix. Kroll created the series with his real-life best friend Andrew Goldberg.
The Charlie McDowell-directed sci-fi romantic drama is set to premiere on the streaming service and will get a theatrical release in 2017.
Described as The Godfather meets Eastern Promises. In the Russian Mafia, a “Vor” is a made man; an honor only given when the recruit shows loyalty beyond measure, with members of the Vor-world accept the code of the “Thief within the Law”.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps, but spec is being pitched as The Shining or The Conjuring on a boat
Logline kept under wraps, but being described as “Die Hard in a hotel.”
A fake documentary following the life of legendary soul singer from the ’60s Murray Murray.
