‘The Painter And The Thief’: NEON, StudioCanal & Blueprint Pictures Teaming For Narrative Remake Of Docu

Fed up with the California governor’s coronavirus policies, San Diego’s Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer says he is “seriously considering” running for governor against Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorJust weeks after expanding its representation team, Armada Partners’ roster continues to grow.

Country singer-songwriter Caroline Jones has teamed up with New Zealand’s The Trenwiths to release a catchy new holiday track.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Russell Tovey (Looking), Steve Oram (End of the F**king World), Omid Djalili (His Dark Materials), Sofia Barclay (Defending the Guilty), Lydia West (Years & Years), Arinzé Kene (I’m Your Woman) and Celia Imrie (Better Things) have joined Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico), Sam Heughan (Outlander) and music icon and five-time Grammy Award-winner Celine Dion in Screen Gems’ romantic drama, tentatively titled Text For You, to be directed by Jim

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJennifer Jao is at the heart of many film-making conversations, both among locals and those concerning international productions. As vice chair and director of the Taipei Film Commission, Jao’s job makes her an eternal optimist.

Mexican producer, actress and activistOlga Segura has partnered with Exile Content to create a Latina Talent Incubator for the development of emerging female and non-gender binary Latinx content creators. Segura, whose most recent project is the Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp-starrer Waiting for the Barbarians, also signed afirst-look production deal with the film and TV studio, which centers on content aboutunder-represented groups for global audiences in Spanish and English.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-manager1091 Pictures has hired former XYZ Films executive Eric Min as the Head of Content where Min will spearhead content acquisition, client management, and release management for the film and series distribution label.“We are thrilled to have Eric join us to lead 1091’s fantastic Content team,” said Doug Shineman, Chief Revenue Officer for 1091 Pictures.

As we’ve been following, Jaime King isn’t going to just let her ex-husband Kyle Newman dictate their contentious co-parenting dynamic without a fight!

Indoor movie theaters in San Diego and Sacramento are among public-facing businesses ordered to close down again due to a spike in COVID-19 cases. California Secretary of Health and Human Mark Ghaly announced the edict on Tuesday in a setback for the film and exhibition industries as they try to mount a box office recovery despite the challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran Archery Pictures, the U.K. outfit behind the Julia Stiles-fronted Sky Atlantic series “Riviera,” has teamed with Danny Perkins’ Elysian Film Group Distribution to form comedy label Mews Films.Mews, a production label housed within Archery Pictures, will focus on developing a slate of comedy movies for the domestic U.K.

Dave McNary Film ReporterIndoor movie theaters in Sacramento and San Diego will have to close due to those counties being moved back into the state’s most restrictive “purple” tier due to higher case rates of COVID-19.On Tuesday, the state’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, announced 10 counties that are being required to move back to more restrictive measures.

First, the White House was in trouble in “Olympus Has Fallen.” Next, it was all of London in “London Has Fallen.” Then, it was God and angels and the Devil in “Angel Has Fallen” (Note: I didn’t see the movie, so I could very well be wrong about that description).

Mike Fleming Jr, Andreas Wiseman EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, The Picture Company and Jaume Collet-Serra’s Ombra Productions have set Nimród Antal to direct Liam Neeson in Retribution, a thriller that puts a businessman in a Speed-like dilemma when he discovers that a bomb has been planted in the car he’s driving by an unknown assailant, who tells the driver to execute a series of commands throughout the day or the bomb will be detonated.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures’ adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate book Our House has been picked up by British broadcaster ITV.Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to

Neon is plotting a narrative remake of the documentaryThe Painter and the Thief, with StudioCanal and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri banner Blueprint Pictures winning the rights for the remake. The Painter and the Thieffollows aCzech artist who, desperate for answers about the theft of her two paintings, seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them.