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Brian O’Shea’s The Exchange has acquired worldwide sales rights for the comedy Dotty And Soul on the eve of the virtual EFM and will jointly represent US rights with Endeavor Content.

Adam Saunders of Footprint features is currently directing the feature in Oklahoma City and New York (with pick-ups in Dallas and Los Angeles) from his screenplay about an entrepreneur who must step down after becoming embroiled in a social media scandal. Looking for a person of colour to take over he enlists the only possible candidate he knows – a 71-year-old snack cart...

Exclusive: Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why) and Gregg Sulkin (Marvel’s Runaways) are the latest additions to the cast of Melissa Miller Costanzo’s indie The List, starring the previously announced Halston Sage.

The comedy penned by Rob Lederer and Steve Vitolo centers on Abby (Sage), a woman who is about to get married, for whom everything is perfect. Until she finds out her fiancé has slept with a celebrity from his “free pass” list. To get her mind off things, Abby and her best friend Chloe come up with a crazy idea: Abby should pursue a celebrity from her own list. But things become complicated when she meets Jake (Navarro), who gives her a fresh perspective.

Sulkin will play Cooper Shaw, a humble sex symbol that cuts across comedy and drama movies. He does it all: acts, dances, sings. Even though he has been on the Sexiest Man Alive list...

Exclusive: Filming has begun in Thessaloniki, Greece, on noir thriller movie The Enforcer with cast additions including Mojean Aria (See), Zolee Griggs (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), Alexis Ren (Deported), and Aaron Cohen (John Wick: Chapter 2).

Previously announced as starring are Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and rapper 2 Chainz.

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Directed by Richard Hughes (Found) and written by W. Peter Iliff (Point Break), the film is produced by Rob Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger and Les Weldon of Millennium Media and Natalie Burn of Born to Burn Films. Executive producers for Millennium Media Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson and Trevor Short.

Russell Peters, one of the planet’s most well known and highest earning standup comedians, is looking to get $8.5 million for a lavish spread in the guard-gate and heavily celebrified Hidden Hills enclave near Calabasas in L.A.’s far western suburbs.

The Canadian jokester, who hauled in around $19 million in 2015 and shares the sprawling eight-bedroom and 8.5-bathroom mansion with his girlfriend, Honduran former Miss Universe Jennifer Andrade, acquired the estate not quite three years ago for a smidgen under $6.5 million. Listings held by Desiree Zuckerman and Benn Zuckerman of Rodeo Realty, which make no secret the property is celebrity owned, show the nearly 12,000-square-foot mansion sits on almost 1.5 manicured acres in the prestigious Ashley Ridge section of the famously high-priced enclave where some of the other residents include Drake, several members of the Kardashian-Jenner family, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, Kaley Cuoco, and makeup mogul Jeffree Star.

The driveway passes under a grand,...

Raoul Peck is bringing his four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes” to HBO.

The project is described as an exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism. It will feature documentary footage and archival material as well as original animation and interpretive scripted scenes. Josh Hartnett will play the lead role in the scripted portions.

“This project has been my biggest challenge so far,” Peck said. “It forced me to question not only our common knowledge but also my own experience as a filmmaker. I’m excited that HBO is supporting that vision.”

The series is based on three works by authors and scholars: Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous People’s History of the United States,” and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past.”

“Exterminate All the Brutes” is produced by Velvet Film. Peck and Rémi Grellety serve as executive producers. Velvet...

Amazon Prime Video is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in January 2020.

New Prime Original, “Troop Zero,” is out Jan. 17. It stars Viola Davis and Allison Janney and “tells the story of a misfit girl dreaming of life in outer space but living in rural 1977 Georgia. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on Nasa’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond,” according to Amazon.

Other Prime Originals include the five-part docuseries “Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer,” out Jan. 31, and new standup special “Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning,” out Jan. 3.

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Here is the full list of titles coming to Amazon Prime Video in January.

January 1

Amores Perros (2000)

Arbitrage (2012)

Captivity (2007)

Cinderfella (1960)

The Conspirator...

First introduced as a national proclamation by Congress in 1981, Women’s History Month has been celebrated every year since then, using the 31 days of March to promote and amplify the voices of women across the country — and around the world.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we asked nine actresses to tell us about the books, films and television shows that have inspired them, as women, over the years. Many of their selections were written by female writers, or star strong female leads. The shared goal of these actresses is to not only commemorate the achievements of women this month, but to celebrate their voices — and the stories they continue to tell — all year long.

Michaela McManus, “The Village” (premieres March 19 on NBC)

I read “Just Kids” by Patti Smith about seven years ago and it has stayed with me ever since (read it here). I moved to New York...

Exclusive: Yoram Globus, half the team that generated 300 pictures through Cannon Films, has returned to finance Rebel Way Entertainment, a company that gets underway with Deported, a film that will try an intriguing way to reconnect web-crazy young audiences with the theatrical experience. The idea is to take talent that has built huge viral followings through YouTube, Vine, Facebook and other web portals and package them into features surrounded by more experienced…...