Latest in Acquisitions

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has snapped up North American rights to Skincare, a crime thriller starring Elizabeth Banks (A Mistake), on which we were first to report. Also starring Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Luis Gerardo Méndez (Charlie’s Angels), Nathan Fillion (The Rookie) and Michaela Jaé…

EXCLUSIVE: Limonero Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Blue Carbon, an innovative environmental-themed documentary produced by MAKE Waves Media that features the participation of Grammy-nominated music producer and DJ Jayda Guy, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, and Brazilian musician Seu Jorge…

In a highly competitive situation, Apple Original Films has acquired The Wives, a murder mystery film to star Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, who will also produce. The project will be co-produced by Apple Studio and A24, with additional producers to include Justine Ciarrocchi for Lawrence’s…

After seeing Cord Jefferson win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his work on American Fiction, the widely acclaimed adaptation of his 2001 novel Erasure, author Percival Everett has set up his latest book, James, at Universal Pictures, with Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) in talks to direct, Deadline can…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to the adventure comedy Bookworm, starring Elijah Wood (Yellowjackets) and Nell Fisher (Evil Dead Rise). Directed by Wood’s frequent collaborator Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy), who penned the script with Toby Harvard, the film is slated for release later this…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, an award-winning documentary from Michael Selditch about the famed costume designer of the same name. On the heels of its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, the film will open at…

UCP is teaming with Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices and Sue Naegle's and Ali Krug's Dinner Party Productions to develop a series adaptation of Chris Whitaker’s new novel All the Colors of the Dark.  Sarah Gubbins (Pam & Tommy, Better Things) will adapt the project that got a boost from Hager's…

Channel 4 has picked up the detective series starring Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser about a neurodivergent self-taught criminologist. Patience has just wrapped filming and was made by Couple Next Door producer Eagle Eye drama for PBS Distribution and Beta Film, as part of Eagle Eye’s long-running…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer. Ethan Hawke is…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Girl You Know It’s True, a music biopic chronicling pop sensation Milli Vanilli’s meteoric rise and tabloid-fueled fall in the late ’80s to early ’90s. Written and directed by Simon Verhoeven, and starring Tijan Njie and Elan Ben Ali, the film will…

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Weiss and Michelle Nader, collaborators on Hulu’s Dollface, have sold a romantic comedy pitch to New Line Cinema, sources tell Deadline. Set against the backdrop of the NFL playoffs, the as-yet-untitled film will watch as two veteran “players” in the game of love, who typically…

EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights for filmmaker and actress Nicki Micheaux's coming-of-age love story, Summer of Violence. The film stars Kasey Inez, Jahking Guillory, Madhulika Krishnan, Pedro Correa, and Damon Gupton, and will next appear at the Black Girls Rock! Film…