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EXCLUSIVE: Rainfall , the action sci-fi starring Ken Jeong, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies and Jason Isaacs, has sold around the world for Film Mode Entertainment . The movie has been picked up for: North America (Saban), UK (Signature); CIS (Paradise); France (Metropolitan); Germany (Splendid); Japan (New Select); Middle East (Eagle Films); Pan-Asia PTV (Disney/Fox); Scandinavia (Smile Entertainment); South Korea (Scene&Sound); Taiwan (Moviecloud); Singapore (Shaw); Spain (Flins & Piniculas); and Vietnam (Noori). The film, which features VFX from artists behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Blade Runner 2049, takes audiences two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, with the last survivors fighting back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. Producers are Carly & Carmel Imrie ( Occupation ) and U.S. co-executive … [Read more...] about Sci-Fi Action Pic ‘Rainfall’ Amasses Key Sales Including U.S., UK & France For Film Mode – EFM

BBC Casts ‘ My Name Is Leon ’ My Name is Leon . Malachi Kirby ( Small Axe ), Monica Dolan ( A Very English Scandal ), Olivia Williams ( Counterpart ), Christopher Eccleston ( The A Word ), Poppy Lee Friar ( In My Skin ), and Sir Lenny Henry CBE ( The Lord of the Rings ) headline the drama special. Cole Martin will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role. Set in 1980s Birmingham, the drama tells the uplifting and incredibly moving story of nine-year-old Leon, a mixed-race boy, and his quest to reunite his family after being taken into care and separated from his blond and blue-eyed baby brother. My Name is Leon is produced by Douglas Road Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios, and Vicarious Productions. It is executive produced by Lenny Henry and Angela Ferreira for Douglas Road Productions, Gub Neal and Edward Barlow for Ringside Studios, Mona Qureshi for the BBC. The director is Lynette Linton. Ingenious Media provided funding … [Read more...] about BBC Casts ‘My Name Is Leon’; Red Arrow Locks-In CPL; ITV Renews ‘Finding Alice’; ITV Orders ‘Britain’s Tiger Kings’ — Global TV Briefs

EXCLUSIVE: Aubrey Plaza is joining Oscar winner Michael Caine in Lina Roessler’s feature directorial debut Best Sellers . The story follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor, Plaza, trying to save her father’s boutique publishing house. Caine’s miserable and sharp-witted author just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar and his orange Tabby cat, but Plaza’s hopeful editor pulls him out of his reclusion. The project is based on Anthony Grieco’s original screenplay, which won a 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and will be an official Canada-UK co-production, produced by Arielle Elwes ( Braid ), Cassian Elwes ( Mudbound, The Butler ), Petr Jákl ( xXx, Ghoul, Medieval ) and Wayne Marc Godfrey ( The Foreigner, Wind River ) on the UK side and Jonathan Vanger ( Wishing Tree Productions: Miss Sloane ) and Pierre Even ( Item 7: War Witch, The Hummingbird Project ) on the … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Joins Michael Caine In ‘Best Sellers’

Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine will star in Best Seller s , the directorial feature debut of Lina Roessler ( Little Whispers: The Vow, Mustard Seed ). Pic follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor trying to save his boutique publishing house. Caine’s author is miserable and sharp-witted and just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar, and his orange Tabby cat. The project is based on Anthony Grieco’s original screenplay which won a 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and will be an official Canada-UK co-production, produced by Arielle Elwes ( Braid ), Cassian Elwes ( Mudbound, The Butler ), Petr Jákl ( xXx, Ghoul, Medieval ) and Wayne Marc Godfrey ( The Foreigner, Wind River ) on the UK side and Jonathan Vanger (Wishing Tree Productions: Miss Sloane ) and Pierre Even (Item 7: War Witch, The Hummingbird Project ) on the Canadian side.  EPs include Martin Barab, Jere … [Read more...] about Michael Caine Sets ‘Best Sellers’, Foresight Unlimited Selling At Cannes

EXCLUSIVE : Mammoth Screen, the British producer behind series including The Serpent and Poldark , is developing a television drama based on the 18th Century slave uprising in Haiti. The story will be told through the eyes of Toussaint Louverture — who helped turn the tide against slavery internationally through his actions in Haiti — after Mammoth optioned Sudhir Hazareesingh ’s biography Black Spartacus : The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture . The Baillie Gifford Prize longlisted book is a comprehensive look at the life of Louverture, a former slave, who became the leader of the colony’s black population, the commander of its republican army, and eventually its governor until he was seized by Napoléon Bonaparte’s invading army in 1802. Related Story ITV Studios Takes Control Of Denmark's Apple Tree Productions Hazareesingh describes Louverture as a warrior, philosopher, nation-builder, and founding father of Haiti, characterizing him in the book as … [Read more...] about ‘The Serpent’ Producer Mammoth Screen Develops Slave Uprising TV Series Based On Sudhir Hazareesingh’s ‘Black Spartacus’