Latest in Acquisitions

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s one for your weekend. Apple TV has acquired worldwide rights to Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets. Following a deal with Sphere Abacus, the global streamer will launch the series on October 7, excluding UK, where it will be made available next year. The show debuted on the BBC…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Primal, the studio’s new genre label led by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, has acquired rights to The Troop, the 2014 horror novel by Nick Cutter, enlisting Chris Basler to pen the feature adaptation. The Troop follows a troop of boys who, while on their annual scout…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired Grandmasters, a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Liza Mandelup that uncovers drama roiling the world of top-tier chess. Grandmasters premiered as a documentary series at Tribeca Festival in June but will launch in theaters as a nonfiction…

EXCLUSIVE: Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to South African director and writer John Trengove's Apartheid era drama The Smell of Apples and released a first trailer ahead of its world premiere in Toronto. Based on Mark Behr's eponymous 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is excited for screenwriter John August’s graphic-novel retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” Wolf’s Belly, and beat several studios for the IP including Amazon, we understand. August will adapt his work for the big screen, with four-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón…

EXCLUSIVE: Before the Toronto International Film Festival even kicks off on Sept. 10, Roadside Attractions and Vertical are teaming on the first U.S. acquisition of a world premiere out of the fest that being Lauren Miller Rogen’s Babies. A theatrical release is being eyed for 2027. The movie…

HBO Max is to search through Diabolical: The Epstein Files. The streamer’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, has acquired international rights to the 90-minute doc, which comes from Australia’s ABC. HBO Max will begin rolling out the true crime program from September 3 across its…

EXCLUSIVE: Stéphane Brizé's A Good Little Soldier, starring Alba Rohrwacher as a high-powered exec confronted with a case of toxic management, has sold to a number of key territories ahead of its world premiere in competition in Venice and North American debut in Toronto. Gaumont has sealed…

There will be no settlement talks meeting Monday between Paramount and a coalition of state attorneys general after all. “My office was scheduled to meet with Paramount on Monday, August 24th,” California AG Rob Bonta said late late Sunday. “I have pulled down this meeting.” Bonta…

EXCLUSIVE: A meeting Monday between Paramount brass and state attorneys general over sussing out settlement talks between the parties in David Ellison’s contested $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has turned into a “game of PR chicken,” an industry insider says. “Ellison and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park International has picked up foreign sales rights to Jaco Bouwer’s sci-fi thriller Orion starring Andrew McCarthy, Debby Ryan and Drew Van Acker. Orion is set for a nationwide U.S. release through Blue Harbor this fall. In the pic, McCarthy plays Jim, a NASA…

The results of a court hearing in Oakland on Wednesday might be a little to close for comfort for Paramount and David Ellison. Additionally, the findings of a report submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors might prove very scary in terms of potential job losses and more if the $111 bi…