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Rebecca Davis editorNew York-based distributor Cheng Cheng Films has bought the North American rights to “My Prince Edward,” the first feature written and directed by Hong Kong screenwriter Norris Yee-Lam Wong, from Hong Kong distributor Golden Scene. The news come as Wong announced Monday that filmmaking duo Mabel Cheung and Alex Law, the husband and wife behind films such as “An Autumn’s Tale,” will executive produce her second feature.

BTS is clearly on a rampage of sorts as the K-pop band; who recently commemorated their seventh anniversary on June 13, is breaking records left, right and center. Very recently, it was shared by Nielsen Music that the septet's album, Map of the Soul: 7, was the only one to sell 500,000+ copies in the US in 2020.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorTrain to Busan Presents: Peninsula, the sequel to the hit 2016 Korean horror thriller and one of the 56 titles that was part of the official selection of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will embark in North American theaters on August 7. It also landed an exclusive streaming deal with Shudder, AMC’s horror streaming site.The zombie horror sequel, which returns Yeon Sang-ho to the director’s chair, will bow on 150 screens across the U.S.

The 2020 Presidential race in the US is starting to get crowded again. Just when we thought we were down to two candidates before the November 3 general election—Donald Trump and Joe Biden—Kanye West entered the race, inspiring other celebrities to follow him.

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The S.H.U., a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame, has been picked up for world sales by Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group.The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSaban Films has bought North American and UK rights to Jared Cohn’s Reactor starring Bruce Willis as the leader of a gang of mercenaries who holds a nuclear power plant hostage.Casting is underway for the lead role, a former soldier who takes down Willis and his crew. Cohn wrote the script with Cam Cannon and Stephen Cyrus Sepher.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Mickey Rourke, Sean Stone and Eric Roberts crime drama Night Walk has secured North American distribution via Grindstone Entertainment Group, with Scatena & Rosner Films taking global sales rights, Deadline can exclusively report.Directed and produced by Moroccan-born filmmaker Aziz Tazi, Night Walk follows Frank (played by Oliver Stone’s son, Sean Stone), a Western traveler visiting the Middle East, where his girlfriend

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorSaban Films has acquired North American rights to John Berardo’s Initiation. The horror crime thriller was previously selected for a world premiere in the Midnighters section at SXSW under its original title Dembanger.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Menemsha Films has picked up North American rights to Tribeca Film Festival entry Asia, starring Unorthodox actress Shira Haas.The Israeli drama, directed by Ruthy Pribar and co-starring Alena Yiv, is a mother-daughter story of a young, free-spirited single mother named (Yiv) and her daughter (the fast-rising Haas), who is coming of age and living with physical disabilities.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorFilmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) have been set to direct Rebel, a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future.Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market.

fentanyl from production to local communities while uncovering disparities between racial and socio-economic status and bringing the American overdose epidemic to light.All eight episodes of “Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis” are co-produced by Vice News, hosted by Keegan Hamilton and available to stream at once on launch day. They examine fentanyl, which kills more Americans per year than any other drug and is much more potent than even heroin.