‘Stowaway’ & ‘7500’ Producer Augenschein Launches Financing & Sales Arm

Naman Ramachandran Producer Tendeka Matatu’s London and South Africa-based production company Ten10 Films is expanding and rebranding as Ten10 Entertainment.The Ten10-produced neo-noir thriller “Cold Harbour” is currently streaming on Netflix.The name change reflects the outfit’s rapidly growing global slate of original series and film projects, which will be overseen by new head of development Jafta Mamabolo, an actor, writer, director and producer from Johannesburg.Based out of South Africa,

Cartel Pictures, the company behind Shudder’s Creepshow and Syfy’s upcoming Day of the Dead series, is moving into global distribution.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Creepshow” and “Twelve Forever” producer Cartel Pictures is launching a global distribution outfit, with operations based out of Los Angeles and London.Former Endeavor Content executive Gary Marenzi is building out Cartel Studios International, working alongside former CBS and Viacom executives Giovanni Pedde and Stephen Tague.The new venture will focus on the international distribution and licensing of Cartel’s content, which spans independent movies and

Manori Ravindran International EditorNicolas Cage is lined up to play a buffalo hunter in an adaptation of John Williams’ novel “Butcher’s Crossing,” directed by “Red Army” helmer Gabe Polsky.The film, which is being shopped to buyers at this week’s Cannes virtual market by sales agent and financier Altitude, is set in the 1870s and finds the “Mandy” star playing Kansas buffalo hunter Miller, who takes on a young Harvard dropout seeking his destiny out West.

XYZ Films, the indie studio, financier, producer and global sales company, has expanded into distribution, launching on the first day of the Cannes market with a U.S. distribution arm that will be led by former Neon executive James Emanuel Shapiro.

K.J. Yossman Sam Worthington (“Avatar”) has signed on for crime thriller “Transfusion.” Altitude Media Group will represent the project at the upcoming Cannes Marche du Film (June 21-25).The feature is helmed by actor, writer and director Matt Nable (“Arrow”) and represents his directorial debut.

According to a report in Deadline, A New York judge on Tuesday ruled for the extradition of Harvey Weinstein from New York to Los Angeles where he could reportedly be facing a new set of charges while serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLondon-based financier Anton (“Greenland,” “His Dark Materials”) has boarded “No Place Like Kill,” an action-packed crime thriller from Mat Newman with Sam Riley (“Control,” “Maleficient”) and Charles Dance (“The Crown,” “Mank”) attached to star.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Vinyl record sales surged during the pandemic as music lovers fattened their collections, and audio cassettes began a comeback as well, keeping business spinning at record stores.Easing restrictions on indoor shopping and continued interest in vinyl records provide stores — and shoppers — something to cheer on Saturday, the first of two Record Store Day dates.

John Sacret Young, the writer, producer, director and author behind China Beach, The West Wing and Firefly Lane, died on June 3 in Brentwood, California. He was 75.

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment is launching global sales on Australian family-adventure film Don’t Go Below ahead of the virtual Cannes market.

The Hollywood Reporter.The studio preemptively picked up the pitch from writers Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani.While plot details about the project are being kept under wraps, “Emergency Contact” is described as being a high-concept, high-octane action film set in the underground music scene of Austin, Texas.Beau Flynn will produce “Emergency Contact” via his FlynnPictureCo. banner along with Johnson, Hiram Garcia, and Dany Garcia via their Seven Bucks banner.

Dwayne Johnson and his longtime collaborator Beau Flynn are teaming up to produce Yahya Abdul-Mateen II‘s upcoming action-thriller Emergency Contact.

Deadline has confirmed that Watchmen Primetime Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will headline Warner Bros. Emergency Contact, an action pic set in the Austin, TX underground music scene. Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks and Beau Flynn’s Flynn Pictures will produce.  Hiram Garcia, and Dany Garcia of Seven Bucks are also producing.

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Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground) has set his next project with The Tank, which will shoot in New Zealand in late summer this year.

Naman Ramachandran “The Frozen Ground” filmmaker Scott Walker will direct creature feature “The Tank” at New Zealand locations in the late summer.“The Tank” follows a young family who inherits a remote and long abandoned coastal property in Oregon, and awakens beneath it, a horde of ferocious and deadly creatures, that feed on the living. The film is produced by Matthew Metcalfe (“The Dead Lands”) with Walker and executive produced by Peter Touche, Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLeading German production banner Augenschein Filmproduktion, is launching an in-house worldwide sales and financing division that will be spearheaded by former Telepool executive Jonathan Saubach (pictured).The new division will be called Augenschein Sales and will focus on financing the company’s production slate through access to equity, market pre-sales and film funds in order to retain creative and financial control over projects.In this new role,

Jessica Sutta has given birth to a baby boy. The Pussycat Dolls star and her husband Mikey Marquart have welcomed their first child together, as the singer has now confirmed Michael Jesse "MJ" Marquart was born on May 25.