Saban Films Takes North America On Horror Thriller ‘Initiation’; XYZ Launches Offshore Sales – Cannes

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.

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.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the production company behind series including Netflix’s Narcos and Apple TV+’s Stillwater, is shaking up its U.S. division with Nicolas Atlan taking over and Gene Stein exiting.The French company has handed oversight of its 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.

Filming on the latest Mission: Impossible movies will be able to resume in England as the Government looks to exempt high-end stars from quarantine.

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If you have Apple TV+ and haven’t watched the critically acclaimed anthology series “Little America,” make it a priority in your binge list. Based on a collection of real-life stories published in Epic Magazine, the eight-part program chronicles unexpected stories of first-generation immigrants in the United States.

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Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has taken North American theatrical and home ent rights to feature documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President.The film chronicles the role of popular music in propelling the relatively unknown candidate from Georgia to the White House, and the significant role music has played in Carter’s life and work.

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.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Well Go USA Entertainment has snapped up North American distribution rights to Paraguayan box office hit “Morgue” from Buenos Aires-based sales agent FilmSharks.The deal caps a string of sales across the globe for the supernatural thriller.

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 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.

Jamie Lang A bit of luck and a bit of good planning has seen Spanish arthouse production company Potenza Films board upcoming historical drama “The Cardinal” in a now four-country co-production with Chile’s Storyboard Media, Argentina’s Magma Cine and Brazil’s Gullane.Already a massive period drama proposal from the Latin American producers, the COVID-19 pandemic would have been a much greater threat to production had Potenza not joined.“This was key because it allowed us to complete our