Sian Heder’s ‘CODA’ Sells to Apple After Bidding War

Manchester Evening News reported yesterday how police raided nine addresses on Friday morning. Six men, aged between 16 and 31, were arrested on suspicion of firearms offences and criminal damage.

direct to your inboxPolice raided nine addresses and made six arrests as they investigate a feud between two gangs.Officers struck this morning after a number of shootings have occurred in Harpurhey since the start of the month. The latest happened on Tuesday, when police were called to reports of shots being fired and criminal damage being committed to two addresses and two cars.

Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay after of Rachael Kirkconnell attending an “Old South” party at the University of Georgia resurfaced. (Kirkconnell  is a contestant on 's season of The Bachelor.) During the interview with Lindsay, instead of saying that participating in a party that romanticizes the racist South is unacceptable, he asked for people to show Kirkconnell “grace.” It's important to point out that Lindsay was the .

Last week, a onetime flight attendantlanded a seven-figure book deal -- this week, she nabbed a seven-figure film one. Screen rights to T.J.

Newman signed a seven figure two book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press last week. Newman “used everything from an iPad to the backs of napkins while writing ‘Falling.'”Also Read: Blumhouse Wins Bidding War for NY Times Miriam Rodriguez Kidnapping Revenge Article“Falling” centers on a crowded flight from New York to L.A., with 140-plus passengers who don’t know that their pilot’s family was kidnapped a half-hour before takeoff.

A familiar face will be returning to Port Charles, with actor Chad Brannon being brought back to “General Hospital” nearly 20 years after his character kicked the bucket.

Heather Rae Young is sporting some cheeky new ink!

This girl went above and beyond for Valentine’s Day!!

It was in Venice and Cate Blanchett was playing hooky. Escaping from her duties as jury president for the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, the Oscar-winning actress snuck off to check out some of the films screening outside the festival's main competition.

The Marvel universe is expanding and about to cross-pollinate itself in a major way. “WandaVision” is on Disney+ now and will lead into “Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness,” and five additional Marvel limited series are scheduled to hit this year.

Sophie Turner has extended her praise to Blake Lively after the actress opened up about feeling 'insecure' when she was told brands had no clothes available for her after she gave birth last year. Lively welcomed her third child - believed to be called Betty after a name drop in a Taylor Swift song - with husband Ryan Reynolds in the autumn of 2019.

Christos Nikou’s feature debut Apples was already a buzzed about title heading into its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last September, and ultimately emerged with a very notable champion in that edition’s jury president Cate Blanchett. Her company, Dirty Pictures, boarded the movie not long after as executive producers for what is Greece’s entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race. Cohen Media Group has North America distribution rights.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“CODA” is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome Seydoux.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“CODA” is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome Seydoux. The executive producers are Ardavan Safaee and Sarah Borch-Jacobsen and the film is a production of Vendome Pictures and Pathé Film.More to come…Deadline first reported the news.This year's Sundance is shorter, virtual, national instead of local and has a new director for the first time in years.

EXCLUSIVE: In the first big deal of the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival, Apple has landed worldwide rights to CODA, for a number just north of $25 million. That sets a new a Sundance acquisitions record — above the $22.5 million that Palm Springs received last year from Hulu/Neon. But this time, all the premiere watching and all night auctioning was done far from the slopes of Park City. It came down to a pitched battle between Apple and Amazon.

CODA was the right film to start this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. Writer-director Siân Heder’s coming-of-age drama about a girl who is the only hearing person in her deaf family premiered last night in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. The pic was well received among buyers, and we hear there have been multiple offers already.

CODA,” a drama about a teenage girl who is the only hearing person in her family, is sparking an intense bidding war following its crowd-pleasing debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The movie has been praised for featuring deaf performers in key roles, and saw emotionally-charged social media reactions.

Seattle Seahawks player Chad Wheeler was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony domestic violence after allegedly trying to kill his girlfriend because she wouldn’t bow to him. Yes, seriously.

If you haven’t seen or heard of the recent film “Apples,” you probably should seek it out. It’s the film by the first-time director, Christos Nikou, who is a sort of protege to Yorgos Lanthimos.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is set to star in Fingernails, the English-language feature film debut for Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou, whose current movie Apples premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and is Greece’s submission in the International Feature Oscar race. The new pic reteams Nikou and Dirty Films and partners Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton, all executive producers on Apples.