Deal Central
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Amazon Orders ‘Sun Valley’ Project From ‘Bates Motel’ Creator Anthony Cipriano (Exclusive)
Project follows a brilliant but violent street thug and his over-protective mother
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Mother Teresa Biopic ‘I Thirst’ Lands ’24’ Executive Producer, ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Writer
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Keir Pearson will pen the movie for Tony Krantz’s Flame Ventures and Origin Entertainment
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‘Go for Sisters’ Star Yolonda Ross to Join Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis in Indie Movie ‘Lila & Eve’ (Exclusive)
Charles Stone III (“Drumline”) is directing the drama, which is scheduled for theatrical release in 2015
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XYZ Films to Handle International Sales for Kevin Smith’s Horror Movie ‘Tusk’
The project will be introduced to international buyers at next month’s European Film Market before its domestic release later this year
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Robert Zemeckis Directing Philippe Petit Picture, Courting Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Star
Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions is in negotiations to acquire the 3D project based on the memoirs of the “Man on Wire” star
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Envision Media Arts Secures Rights to Action-Horror Spec Script ‘Red Ice’ (Exclusive)
Keith Ray Putman screenplay follows a truck who must survive an onslaught of mysterious, man-eating creatures
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Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics Nearing Deal for ‘Love Is Strange’ (Exclusive)
Ira Sachs wrote and directed the well-reviewed drama, which stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a married New York couple
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Sundance: A24 Acquires Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain Drama ‘A Most Violent Year’
The deal for J.C. Chandor’s next movie represents the biggest in the young distributor’s history
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‘Vampire Academy’ Star Zoey Deutch Lands Female Lead in Gregg Allman Biopic
She joins Tyson Ritter, Wyatt Russell and William Hurt in Randall Miller and Jody Savin’s “Midnight Rider”
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Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Icelandic Road Trip Comedy ‘Land Ho!’
The film was directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz
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Quentin Tarantino Scraps ‘Hateful Eight’ Over Script Leak: ‘I Gave It to Six Motherf—ing People’
As for who saw the Western screenplay, Tarantino named names: including Bruce Dern and “Reservoir Dogs” stars Tim Roth and Michael Madsen
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Sundance: Lionsgate, Roadside Nab U.S. Rights to Bill Hader-Kristen Wiig Movie ‘Skeleton Twins’
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired foreign rights
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Sacha Baron Cohen in Talks to Reteam With Johnny Depp on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Sequel
Mia Wasikowska will reprise her role in the James Bobin-directed sequel, which Disney will release on May 27, 2016
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Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele Lead ‘Captain Underpants’ Voice Cast (Exclusive)
Rob Letterman is directing the DreamWorks Animation film, which will also feature the voice of Thomas Middleditch
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Sundance: Fox Searchlight Acquires Brendan Gleeson Movie ‘Calvary’
The film hails from writer-director John Michael McDonagh