Penelope Cruz & Luis Tosar To Star In Social Thriller ‘On The Fringe’, Bankside To Launch Sales — Cannes

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentPedro Almodóvar and his favorite female lead Penelope Cruz look set to re-team on feature “Madres paralelas,” a Madrid-set drama that returns to Almodóvar’s biggest creative inspiration — motherhood — and an industrial model that has served him very well over the last 30 years.Set to go into pre-production in October, “Madres paralelas” is scheduled to shoot from February next year and bow commercially in Spanish theaters by the end of 2021,

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.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerForesight Unlimited has announced key international territory sales for the Nicolas Cage-led thriller Willy’s Wonderland (working title), including U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany and Latin America. Directed by Kevin Lewis, the film follows The Janitor (Cage), an out-of-towner, who is forced to clean a family entertainment center in exchange for having his car serviced after it breaks down.

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

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAGC has closed a raft of Cannes virtual market deals on Nick Jonas-Laurence Fishburne action-thriller The Blacksmith.Sizeable pre-sales have closed in Germany & Switzerland (Constantin), France (Metropolitan), UK (Entertainment Film), Latin America (CDC & CVT), Russia (Paradise/MGN) and South Korea & Vietnam (Joy’N’Content).Pacts have also been sealed with Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Middle East (Salim Raima), Eastern Europe (Prorom), Asian Pay TV

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: Vertical Entertainment has picked up North American rights to mystery-thriller Viscous, starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty). XYZ is selling the completed movie at the Cannes virtual market.Debut writer-director Braden R.

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.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ruth Wilson (The Affair), Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) are in negotiations to star in Greatest Days, the film adaptation of the hit stage musical The Band, about record-breaking UK pop group Take That.Sierra/Affinity has come on board to handle international sales on the film and will be introducing it for the first time at this week’s Cannes virtual market.

To mark Father’s Day, Cher Lloyd shared some adorable snaps of her daughter, Delilah-Rae, and husband, Craig Monk.The former The X Factor contestant posted the snaps to her Instagram account to be seen by her 2.1 million followers.This will be the third Father’s Day that the little girl has been able to celebrate with her dad, considering Delilah-Rae had her second birthday last month.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: The big Cannes virtual market deal-making is underway. I understand German major Leonine has closed a multi-million dollar deal with STX International for black ops thriller Violence Of Action, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Gillian Jacobs.Currently in post-production, the film follows James Reed (Pine), who joins a paramilitary organization in order to support his family after being involuntarily discharged from the Marines.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Mark Rylance is set to make his big-screen comedy debut in The Fantastic Flitcrofts, a golf movie written by Paddington 2 scribe Simon Farnaby.Bridge Of Spies and Dunkirk actor Rylance will play Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.Craig Roberts,

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Star Wars star Daisy Ridley and Brit national treasure Stephen Fry have boarded the voice cast of The Inventor, a feature stop-motion animation about Leonardo da Vinci written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Oscar-nominated scribe of Ratatouille.Fry will voice da Vinci and Ridley will be the French Princess Marguerite.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg canine adventure pic Arthur The King has moved from Paramount Players to Lionsgate for domestic and will enter the Cannes virtual market on the slate of eOne-backed international sales firm Sierra/Affinity.The film re-teams Wahlberg with his Contraband and 2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur and is likely to be among the most in-demand projects at the virtual event, not least because international buyers will have the security of knowing

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Lily James is set to star in The Paris Trap, a thriller that Pablo Trapero will direct for Studiocanal. The film will be presented to buyers during the virtual Cannes Market and it will shoot in Paris early next year.James is the star of Cinderella and Baby Driver, and Trapero the acclaimed Argentinian director of El Clan, which won the Golden Lion at Venice.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Elijah Wood is to star as Ted Bundy’s FBI analyst in crime-thriller No Man Of God, which XYZ will be launching at next week’s Cannes virtual market.Set largely in a single interrogation room, the film is based on real life transcripts culled from conversations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and serial killer Bundy that took place between 1984 and 1989.

Netflix comedy sketch show W/ Bob & David has been removed from the streaming platform due to the use of blackface.The show ran for one four-episode season, and the episode in question, episode three, sees Cross in blackface in a sketch called ‘Know Your Rights’.Cross flagged the upcoming removal on Twitter on Monday (June 15), saying: “The point of this was to underscore the absurdity.”Odenkirk added his own comments: “We considered every choice we made doing our show, and always aimed to make

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pathé will launch sales at the Cannes virtual market on Notre Dame On Fire, a big-canvas movie drama about the iconic Notre Dame fire of 2019, which shocked people around the world.Wolf Totem, Enemy At The Gates and Seven Years In Tibet director Jean-Jacques Annaud is teaming up with A Prophet and Rust And Bone scribe Thomas Bidegain on the ambitious French-language feature, which will combine archive footage with filmed drama to tell the story of