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R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired the UK and Irish rights to British romantic-comedy This Time Next Year, starring Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Lucien Laviscount (Emily in Paris).

Alex Ritman Distribution and production banner Signature Entertainment has promoted two of its most senior execs. Elizabeth Williams, previously director of acquisitions and TV, has been upped to chief commercial officer.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Ireland and Australia & New Zealand rights to Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2) rally racing film Race For Glory: Audi vs. Lancia from HanWay Films.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has pre-bought UK & Irish rights to Damien Leone’s horror sequel Terrifier 3 from The Coven, having released the first two movies in the franchise.

Naman Ramachandran Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to action comedy “Bride Hard,” starring Rebel Wilson (The Pitch Perfect franchise). In the film, badass secret agent Sam is tasked with one of her hardest missions to date – being maid of honor for her childhood best friend.

Naman Ramachandran Signature Entertainment has snapped up U.K. and Ireland rights to Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy “You Hurt My Feelings” from FilmNation Entertainment. Directed by Nicole Holofcener, the film stars Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”) as a couple whose marriage is thrown into turmoil when she overhears his honest reaction to her latest book. The cast also includes Owen Teague, David Cross, Arian Moayed and Michaela Watkins. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will close Sundance London. Reviewing the film for Variety, critic Owen Gleiberman said: “The key to ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ is that the entire movie turns into a satire of what has become our fetishistically supportive and oversensitive therapeutic culture of positivity. All these things, in a way, are necessary. But maybe, the film suggests, we have tried to heal ourselves a little too much. Maybe we need a little more naked honesty mixed in with the wellness.”

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Irish rights to J.K. Simmons thriller You Can’t Run Forever from Voltage Pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has made one of its highest-profile acquisitions to date with UK & Irish rights to Elegance Bratton’s well-received military drama The Inspection from A24.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Irish rights to Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman from AGC Studios.

K.J. Yossman “The Never Ending Murder,” an investigative true crime docu-series about the disappearance of 18-year-old British woman Nicola Payne (pictured above right), has been picked up by Signature Entertainment. Signature have acquired the global rights to the series, which was made by Fulwell 73, StudioPOW and Picnik Entertainment, and will be selling international rights at upcoming major markets. The series will be released in the U.K. and Ireland in 2023. “The Never Ending Murder” re-examines Payne’s disappearance in 1991 in Coventry, U.K., which led to one of the West Midlands Police Force’s largest ever investigations. The series includes interviews with family and friends, including her father John Payne (pictured above left) and eldest brother (and family spokesperson) Nigel Payne, as well as those closely involved with the case, including retired detective Malcolm Ross and Martin Slevin, both of whom were lead investigators at one time.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Irish rights to Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Robert De Niro road-trip comedy Inappropriate Behavior from Mister Smith Entertainment.

Federal prosecutors say embattled R&B star R. Kelly should spend at least 25 years in jail for sexually abusing women and girls. The recommendation comes after a New York City jury found the "I Believe I Can Fly" singer guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, and other counts at a sex-trafficking trial last year.

EXCLUSIVE:UK producer and distributor Signature has secured global rights to British true crime docs Bellfield and The Search for a Serial Killer.

EXCLUSIVE: Roger Michell’s last movie, the documentary Elizabeth about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, has been picked up by Signature Entertainment and set for a Friday 3 June theatrical release to coincide with the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee.

NEW YORK -- As Ghislaine Maxwell strode into the courtroom for the first day of her sex-trafficking trial, no photographer was allowed to catch it. Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams, however, was at the ready and before the hour was up, the curtain-raising scene was transmitted to news outlets around the world.Cameras are generally prohibited in federal court.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, UK horror film A Banquet has sold to Signature for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

store into a dream home by the seaside. Elizabeth Williams had big ideas for the derelict shop, which is situated in Porthcawl on the coastline in the south of Wales.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Joining the ranks of Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco, 22-year-old native Angeleno and activist Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet to help mark the transition of presidential power in U.S. history.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Aus/NZ rights out of the Toronto virtual market to Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones) horror The Owners and Aus/NZ rights to Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch) thriller Lost Girls & Love Hotels.The deals were negotiated by the company’s Director of Acquisitions and Development Elizabeth Williams.Directed by French filmmaker Julius Berg (Netflix’s The Forest and Osmosis), home invasion chiller The Owners is is

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe WNBA has postponed its three games scheduled for tonight. The league’s move follows the postponed of today’s NBA playoff games in the wake of Jacob Blake’s shooting by police in Kenosha WI.“The consensus is to not play in tonight’s slate of games and to kneel, lock arms and raise fists during the national anthem,” said Elizabeth Williams of the Atlanta Dream.