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Focus Features has acquired all international rights from AGC International to Chloe Okuno’s Sundance horror Watcher.
The deal comes hot on the heels of IFC Midnight and Shudder’s move on North American rights over the weekend and comes after AGC moved up its screening of the film to international buyers, as first reported on Screendaily.
AGC president of worldwide sales and distribution Crystal Bourbeau and SVP of legal and business affairs Anant Tamirisa brokered the deal with Focus Features’ director of production and acquisitions Joe Toto...
Focus Features has acquired all international rights from AGC International to Chloe Okuno’s Sundance horror Watcher.
The deal comes hot on the heels of IFC Midnight and Shudder’s move on North American rights over the weekend and comes after AGC moved up its screening of the film to international buyers, as first reported on Screendaily.
AGC president of worldwide sales and distribution Crystal Bourbeau and SVP of legal and business affairs Anant Tamirisa brokered the deal with Focus Features’ director of production and acquisitions Joe Toto...
- 1/31/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Witchcraft Motion Picture Company announced today that they have acquired the rights to the psychological horror She Came Back from screenwriter Emily Renee Bennett. Witchcraft’s Rod Blackhurst (Director of Netflix’s Amanda Knox) and Noah Lang will fast-track the feature as the first project optioned under the company’s new underrepresented writer mandate. Blackhurst is set to direct.
Described as if The Haunting Of Hill House took place at The Overlook Hotel, She Came Back is a film about a young woman haunted by the childhood murder of her young sister, and who, upon returning to her hometown, discovers that her sister might not be dead after all.
“She Came Back is a film about mental illness, addiction, guilt, and a strong and vulnerable woman’s struggle for identity,” said Blackhurst and Lang in a joint statement.
Described as if The Haunting Of Hill House took place at The Overlook Hotel, She Came Back is a film about a young woman haunted by the childhood murder of her young sister, and who, upon returning to her hometown, discovers that her sister might not be dead after all.
“She Came Back is a film about mental illness, addiction, guilt, and a strong and vulnerable woman’s struggle for identity,” said Blackhurst and Lang in a joint statement.
- 7/10/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Blumhouse has acquired the rights to adapt the New York Magazine article “Worst Roommate Ever” about a serial squatter and murderer in what will be the first project developed simultaneously for both film and television. Chris Morgan from the Fast & Furious franchise is on board to develop the feature.
The story, written by William Brennan — who will serve as an executive producer on both projects — is about Alex Miller who let Jed Creek into her Philadelphia apartment, not having a clue he was actually Jamison Bachman, a notorious serial squatter and the ultimate Craigslist nightmare. In an expensive and frightening ordeal that dragged on for months, Bachman slowly laid claim to Alex’s apartment, using his intricate knowledge of tenancy laws to stay one step ahead of her. He kicked down doors, attacked her and left her feeling unsafe in her own home.
On the feature side, the...
The story, written by William Brennan — who will serve as an executive producer on both projects — is about Alex Miller who let Jed Creek into her Philadelphia apartment, not having a clue he was actually Jamison Bachman, a notorious serial squatter and the ultimate Craigslist nightmare. In an expensive and frightening ordeal that dragged on for months, Bachman slowly laid claim to Alex’s apartment, using his intricate knowledge of tenancy laws to stay one step ahead of her. He kicked down doors, attacked her and left her feeling unsafe in her own home.
On the feature side, the...
- 4/18/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After making his narrative feature directing debut on A Late Quartet, Yaron Zilberman has signed with UTA, marking his first agency representation. Zilberman helmed the drama that stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots, about a Gotham-based string quartet that confronts long-simmering tensions in preparing for its 25th anniversary season. That film is distributed domestically by eOne. Zilberman previously directed the documentary Watermarks, about the champion women swimmers of the Jewish sports club Hakoah, Vienna, which was banned by the Nazis in the late 1930s. That docu was released by Kino International and was seen on HBO. UTA will look to help Zilberman capitalize on the momentum of A Late Quartet. The filmmakers is still repped by attorney Iddo I. Arad.
- 2/5/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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