DR Sales Scores Deals on Hit Danish Drama ‘Cry Wolf’ (EXCLUSIVE)

on Netflix, playwright August Wilson’s celebration of Black lives once again takes center stage. The film, produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo, chronicles the day in the life of the legendary blues singer and her backing band as they record music one afternoon in the 1920s.

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to the next film from Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast,” which he wrote and directed and stars Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and newcomer Jude Hill.The film is described as a humorous, tender and a film that Branagh describes as his most personal film yet about a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh-directed feature drama Belfast.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorScoring a film can feel like an isolated process — but scoring a film about isolation during a pandemic takes it to a whole new level.That was the situation for Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, who worked with The London Symphony Orchestra on the score for George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky.”In the film, Clooney, who directed and stars, plays Augustine, a lone astronaut who is left in the Arctic after a global catastrophe.

, and the Netflix film adaptation of . It’s undoubtedly a long way from his days impersonating Maya Angelou on Logo’s a decade ago. But for the multi-hyphenate performer, who has appeared in everything from to the long-delayed sequel and has written for and performed on Broadway, it’s been a journey worth taking.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMGM Television has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the hit Danish format “The Five Senses,” produced and created by Monday Media’s Palle Strom.Under the multi-year pact signed with Monday Media, MGM Television will have exclusive distribution rights to the format, and will develop and produce the game show adaptation in the U.S.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterProducers Stephen Robert Morse and Max Peltz are joining forces to launch a new production entity, Lone Wolf Studios.The full-service production, sales and financing film and television company will have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Jim Keller has left Hulu to head up digital and advanced ad sales at Discovery for its upcoming streaming service. Keller, who worked at Hulu for seven years and most recently served as vp, head of national ad sales, becomes executive vp of digital ad sales and advanced advertising at Discovery, based in New York City.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLevelK has boarded “Checkered Ninja 2,” the sequel to the hit animated feature co-directed by Anders Matthesen (“Terkel In Trouble”) and Thorbjørn Christoffersen (“Ronal the Barbarian”).The sales company has acquired world rights excluding the Nordics on “Checkered Ninja 2,” which is the film adaptation of Matthesen’s bestselling eponymous children’s book.

Cyber Monday. It's holiday shopping season, and these are the rules.As the winter holidays inch closer, so do the deals on everything from wellness and beauty products and designer shoes to home decor, kitchen tools and electronics.

Cyber Monday. It's holiday shopping season, and these are the rules.As the winter holidays inch closer, so do the deals on everything from wellness and beauty products and designer shoes to home decor, kitchen tools and electronics.

Cyber Monday. It's holiday shopping season, and these are the rules.As the winter holidays inch closer, so do the deals on everything from wellness and beauty products and designer shoes to home decor, kitchen tools and electronics.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It's holiday shopping season, and these are the rules.As the winter holidays inch closer, so do the deals on everything from wellness and beauty products and designer shoes to home decor, kitchen tools and electronics.

Different countries have different traditions and members of the Danish royal family are celebrating an anniversary that’s very unique to Denmark.

Pennsylvania Gov.Tom Wolf, whose administration said last week that masks are now required indoors, announced new rules on Monday to combat resurgent coronavirus cases. Among them was a ban on alcohol sales for on-site consumption.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Feras Fayyad, the Syrian filmmaker who helmed Emmy-winning National Geographic film The Cave, has told Deadline that he would never knowingly cause “worry and sorrow” to a woman after becoming embroiled in an alleged sexual harassment scandal in Denmark.The Scandinavian country has been gripped by a #MeToo reckoning in recent weeks and Fayyad is among a number of high-profile individuals who have been accused of inappropriate behavior after living