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Automatik, the production company behind “La La Land,” is merging with Range Media Players, TheWrap has confirmed. As part of the merger, Automatik executives Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger have been named partners and co-presidents of film and production at Range.

EXCLUSIVE: The prolific film/TV production company Automatik has completed a merger with Range Media Partners, a deal that will further expand Range’s production capabilities and slate ambitions.

Tony Award-nominee Domhnall Gleeson is set to join the cast of Apple Original Films’ Echo Valley, a new dramatic feature and original screenplay by Brad Ingelsby, and starring Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore and multi-Emmy Award-nominee Sydney Sweeney. Hailing from Apple Studios, and produced by Scott Free Films and The Walsh Company, the film will be directed by BAFTA Award-winner Michael Pearce.

Apple Original Films have set up the new film Echo Valley from a script by Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby with Sydney Sweeney and Julianne Moore attached to star. Hailing from Apple Studios, and produced by Scott Free Films and The Walsh Company, the film will be directed by Michael Pearce.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Get the dialect coach on the line — we’re going back to Southeastern Pennsylvania with “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby. The writer-producer has set the new feature film “Echo Valley” at Apple Studios, and recruited Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney as his stars. “Echo Valley” will follow Oscar winner Moore as Kate Garrett, a woman reeling from a personal tragedy who spends her days boarding and training horses on the secluded and picturesque Echo Valley Farm. Late one night, her wayward daughter Claire (the Emmy-nominated heat-seeker Sweeney) arrives at her doorstep, frightened, trembling and covered in someone else’s blood. From that simple premise, “Echo Valley” becomes a heart-pounding thriller about just how far a mother will go to save her child. 

EXCLUSIVE: Brennan Keel Cook (The Pale Blue Eye) and newcomer Cat Shank are the latest additions to the cast of Suretone Pictures and Lionsgate’s horror film Creepers, marking the feature debut of veteran music video and commercial director Marc Klasfeld. They join an ensemble which also includes the previously announced Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Laurence O’Fuarain, Nicholas Hamilton, Javier Botet, Kai Caster and Shane Paul McGhie.

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Baryshnikov (Dickinson) will join Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart in A24’s romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding from double BAFTA Award-nominated director Rose Glass (Saint Maud).

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed English actor Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Barbie) for representation.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— Fresh off his Oscar nomination Riz Ahmed teams up with “Beast” director Michael Pearce for "Encounter,” an alien invasion/family drama hitting Amazon Prime Video on Friday.

Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer arrive at the premiere of their new film Encounter at the Directors Guild of America on Thursday Night (December 2) in Los Angeles.

Riz Ahmed‘s star began its ascent with breakout roles in 2014’s “Nightcrawler” and the 2016 HBO miniseries “The Night Of.” Now, fresh off his second Golden Globe nomination and first Oscar nom for last year’s “The Sound Of Metal,” Ahmed is a full-fledged A-lister. READ MORE: Riz Ahmed Can’t Save A Very Messy ‘Encounter’ [Telluride Review] Now, Ahmed looks to continue his success with another intense character study from Amazon Studios.

Riz Ahmed scored a worthy Oscar nomination earlier this year in Sound Of Metal as a heavy metal drummer stricken with hearing loss, and in the latest film by Beast director Michael Pearce he shows even more range. In Amazon’s Encounter he stars a Marine who sets out on a secret mission to save his two pre-teen sons (Lucian-River Chauhan and Aditya Geddada) from a mysterious alien threat.

Riz Ahmed and wife Fatima Farheen Mirza hit the red carpet together for the premiere of Encounter during the 2021 BFI London Film Festival held at The Curzon Mayfair on Friday night (October 8) in London, England.

Encounter is more of a promising indication of things to come from rising star Riz Ahmed and British director Michael Pearce than a satisfying work in its own right. A not-entirely-felicitous combination of family melodrama and sci-fi bug invasion, the roots of this Amazon feature stretch straight back to the paranoia-saturated fantastical thrillers of the 1950s, albeit with more realistic effects, violence and profanity.

“Encounter” star Riz Ahmed says he was drawn to Michael Pearce’s film because he wanted to add an “extra layer” to the portrayal of an American marine who might not “look like” him.“I think the script in its original form was conceived for a different kind of actor than perhaps someone like me, because in a nutshell when you think of an American marine, you might not initially think of an actor who looks like me,” Ahmed said in a virtual interview with TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman

British director Michael Pearce has come up with a bold and nervy puzzle in “Encounter,“ a sci-fi/character study hybrid that premiered at Telluride last week and came to the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday.

British actor Riz Ahmed is leading a new sci-fi pic “Encounter” from director Michael Pearce (“Beast“), where he plays a decorated Marine who goes on a rescue mission to save his two sons from an alien threat. As things get more dangerous, the youngsters will have to leave their childhoods behind them.

TELLURIDE – A good twist can be the hallmark of a compelling narrative. For instance, you may think the movie you’re watching or the novel you are reading is set in one genre or about a particular subject matter until, well, it’s not.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Young actor Lucian-River Chauhan is set to play opposite Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer in Amazon Studios’ sci-fi thriller Invasion,  which is being directed by Michael Pearce.The film, written by Pearce and Joe Barton, follows two young brothers who go on the run with their father, a decorated Marine (Ahmed), who is trying to protect them from an unhuman threat.

Invasion.The Amazon-produced feature will be directed by Beast’s Michael Pearce and the script will be produced by Dimitri Doganis (Three Identical Strangers).The film will follow two young brothers on the run with their father (Ahmed), a decorated Marine, who is on a rescue mission to save his boys from an inhuman threat.They must come to grips with several hard truths about the world they live in, so they can leave their childhood behind.Production is slated to begin in the United States later

There is some exciting casting news for sci-fi fans coming from Amazon today. It’s been announced that Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer will star in the upcoming sci-fi thriller “Invasion.” The film is written and directed by promising new director Michael Pearce.

Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer will star in a new film!

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer have been cast in Invasion, a sci-fi thriller pic from BAFTA-winning UK filmmaker Michael Pearce (Beast).I can also reveal that Amazon Studios has taken worldwide rights to the project and will produce alongside American Animals outfit Raw and UK funder Film4, which backed development.The script is written by Pearce with Joe Barton (The Ritual).