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Netflix is buying the Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones drama Train Dreams out of the Sundance Film Festival. Sources tell us that the deal is in the high-teen millions. The pic made its debut in the Premieres section of the fest. Train Dreams is based on the 2011 Denis Johnson novella and…

EXCLUSIVE: Pulsar Content has board worldwide sales on U.S. directorial duo Justin Powell and David Charbonier’s horror feature Push for a European Film Market rollout next month. The deal was brokered with UTA which boarded U.S sales rights ahead of the movie"s well received premiere at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Awesomeness TV has acquired TV rights to That Friend, the debut audiobook created by rising comedian Sabrina Brier, which was released by Simon & Schuster yesterday. Set against the vibrant, Gen Z-driven energy of New York City, the TV series will follow a 20-something aspiring…

EXCLUSIVE: Federation Studios has launched a JV with acclaimed French director-producer Jérôme Salle. The studio has taken a 51% majority stake in Syzygy, the new outfit opened by the Anthony Zimmer, The Odyssey and Zulu helmer. Syzygy will develop and produce premium international films…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has emerged from a days-long bidding battle near a deal to acquire worldwide rights to Together, writer-director Michael Shanks’ Sundance crowd-pleaser that stars Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman. The film premiered in the Midnight section on January 26 at the Eccles…

EXCLUSIVE: Rumors have swirled that Federation Studios is on the block for more than a year now and today we can exclusively reveal that a hefty chunk of the French powerhouse producer-distributor is up for grabs. Bosses at the Around the World in 80 Days and The Bureau studio told us that they…

Sky has taken all seven seasons of the remastered Homicide: Life on the Street. The iconic cop show adapted from The Wire creator David Simon’s book was recently remastered in HD and UHD by NBC and Fremantle, launching on Peacock last year and comprising a major part of Fremantle’s MIPCOM…

EXCLUSIVE: Comic Kelsey Cook has announced that her second special, Mark Your Territory, is set to premiere globally on Hulu and YouTube on February 11. Cook came to tape her new hour at Comedy on State in Madison, WI after moving to Minnesota in the dead of winter to live with her boyfriend…

EXCLUSIVE: AI studio Asteria in collaboration with Documentary+ has acquired documentary short The Reality of Hope ahead of its world premiere Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. Joe Hunting directed the film, which focuses on VR artist and game developer Hiyu as he faces kidney failure…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to animated feature Into The Wonderwoods, in a deal struck with Paris-based Urban Sales. The movie brings together the talents of Vincent Paronnaud, co-director of Cannes Jury Prize winner and Oscar-nominated, Iran-set work Persepolis…

Sydney-based production company Aurora Films is developing an adaptation of late French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert"s 1989 novella Crazy for Vincent. The autobiographical work charts the author"s infatuation with the titular Vincent Marmousez, a young tearaway who came in and out of…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures is taking North American rights to Kevin Macdonald’s documentary One to One: John & Yoko, which after making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and playing at Telluride is making a pit stop in the Spotlight section this week at the Sundance Film Festival. One t…