Greenwich Entertainment Acquires Sundance Documentary ‘Assassins’

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: Virgil Films & Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Nasrin, a documentary about activist Nasrin Sotoudeh narrated by Oscar winner Olivia Colman.Sotoudeh is a human rights activists and an outspoken leader of Iran’s women’s rights movement. Last week, she cited serious health concerns in ending a six-week hunger strike in Evin Prison, where she has been serving a nearly four-decade sentence.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios and Echo Lake Entertainment are adapting the NY Times’ bestseller I’ve Got Your Number by author Sophie Kinsella. Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Jessica O’Toole are attached to pen the adaption.Dakota Fanning will produce along with Brittany Kahan Ward & Mary Jane Skalski of Echo Lake Entertainment as well Joey Plager and Freddie Highmore, through his Alfresco Pictures.

Also Read: 'Cuties' Director Blames Poster for Right-Wing Attacks: 'People Judged Without Understanding the Real Message'“DNA” stars Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Dylan Robert, Marine Vacth, Caroline Chaniolleau, Alain Françon, Florent Lacger, Henri-Noël Tabary, Omar Marwan and Maïwenn.Maïwenn directed from a screenplay she wrote with Mathieu Demy. “DNA” is a production of Why Not Productions and Arte France Cinéma.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerVertical Entertainment has brokered a deal for the North American distribution rights to The True Adventures of Wolfboy, starring Knives Out and It actor Jaeden Martell (formerly credited as Jaeden Lieberher), Sophie Giannamore (The L Word Generation Q), Chris Messina (Away We Go), Eve Hewson (Bridge of Spies), and John Turturro (The Night Of).

Will Thorne Staff WriterFresh off its first Emmy win for “I Know This Much Is True,” FilmNation Entertainment is continuing to drive into the TV space. The company has acquired Ken Liu’s sci-fi short story “The Hidden Girl,” with the intention of adapting it into a series.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentPicturehouse Entertainment has acquires U.K. distribution rights from FilmNation Entertainment for Justin Simien’s “Bad Hair,” which will be released in British movie theaters on Nov.

Naman Ramachandran Sundance winner and upcoming BFI London Film Festival title “Farewell Amor” will bow in December on curated streaming service Mubi.Mubi has acquired worldwide VOD rights, excluding North America, Africa, China and Israel, on the film. IFC has acquired the North America rights.Producer Huriyyah Muhammad won the Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for narrative features at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film received its world premiere in the U.S.

Japanese gaming giant Bandai Namco Entertainment (BNEE) is acquiring Montreal-based developer Reflector Entertainmentfrom Lune Rouge. The deal, which also includes the subsidiary Reflector Interactive, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year and will see Reflector founderAlexandre Amancio stay on as chief creative officer.

Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have acquired the North American rights to Chloe Grace Moretz’s “Shadow in the Cloud.”The two distributors plan to release the WW2 action thriller, directed by Roseanne Liang, next summer.More to come…

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment, producer of the Emmy-nominated HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, is signaling a further push into television, signing a multi-year TV development fund deal with Wishmore (The Personal History of David Copperfield), the company owned and run by Greek film financier and producer Christos V. Konstantakopoulos.

Also Read: 'Wander Darkly' Stars Diego Luna and Sienna Miller Had to 'Stop Looking Happy' During Filming (Video)At TheWrap’s studio at Sundance, Miele told TheWrap’s Brian Welk that the film was inspired when she and her husband survived a car crash six years earlier.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBleecker Street has secured U.S. rights to Alexis Bloom’s animated feature Nazi-hunting documentary thriller, The Klarsfelds.The docu follows the true history of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, a dedicated husband and wife team of agents who are still alive and living in Paris.

Rachael Ray, who will share how she was able to get out of her home safely before it was destroyed in a recent fire. ET will also be talking with Dog the Bounty Hunter and his new fiancée, Francie Frane, following the death of his wife, Beth Chapman, last year. We’ve brought you the best in pop culture news for FOUR.

dropping shade means.”He has since learned exactly what dropping shade means, and he has continued to do it. In fact, “The Way I See It,” a documentary that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features on Sept.

PMC administratorMere days after recently re-listing his vibrantly colorful, pop-art-filled waterfront spread in Miami for $24.5 million, American retail fashion tycoon Tommy Hilfiger has also hoisted his European-inspired estate in exclusive Greenwich, Conn.

Connections are everywhere, whether we like it or not. The very principle of missing out on the electronic kind of social influence plays out in the new film “Save Yourselves!”.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBlue Fox Entertainment has acquired She Is the Ocean, the new documentary from Inna Blokhina (On the Wave) that follows nine women from across the globe who share a deep and profound love of the ocean.

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to Assassins, director Ryan White's documentary about the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Greenwich plans a Dec.

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up North American rights to director Ryan White’s Sundance documentary “Assassins.”The film is a jaw-dropping exposé of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.