EXCLUSIVE: The Jono McLeod directed documentary My Old School, which made its world premiere at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, has landed with Magnolia Pictures. The specialty cinema label has taken North American rights to the docu which features Alan Cumming. A July 22 theatrical release has been set.
‘The Lighthouse Witches’ Set For Limited Series After Studiocanal & The Picture Company Nabbed Rights To C.J. Cooke Book
16.03.2022 - 19:49 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: C.J. Cooke’s supernatural family novel The Lighthouse Witches is set to be adapted into a television series after Studiocanal and The Picture Company landed the rights to the book.
The two companies closed the rights to the book and are currently packaging the series.
Published last year by Penguin Random House, the book follows young mother Liv and her three daughters who arrive on a mysterious Scottish island to run a decrepit lighthouse.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.
Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she’s initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she’ll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn’t realize just how much the truth will change her.
The series will blend genre elements with a supernatural family drama spanning multiple generations.
The Picture Company co-founders Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will executive produce the series with Studiocanal’s Ron Halpern and Shana Eddy overseeing the production for
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02.04.2022 / 14:49
Cost of living crisis protesters set to gather in Manchester city centre - as demonstrations take place across the UK
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02.04.2022 / 13:55
Watch The Twilight Sad cover ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ with Frightened Rabbit drummer
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nme.com
01.04.2022 / 17:07
The Twilight Sad to be joined by Mogwai and Frightened Rabbit members in Glasgow this weekend
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01.04.2022 / 11:27
Dumfries movie fans set to enjoy new temporary cinema
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30.03.2022 / 17:25
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29.03.2022 / 18:13
Vandals set fire to new extension at Renfrew primary school
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29.03.2022 / 13:41
Snow set to hit Greater Manchester tomorrow - borough by borough weather forecast
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28.03.2022 / 10:55
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24.03.2022 / 18:21
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22.03.2022 / 19:15
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