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Exclusive: Verve Ventures, Verve’s film financing and sales division, has boarded Good Boy to represent worldwide rights, ahead of the horror-thriller’s SXSW world premiere. Verve has also just signed Ben Leonberg, the film’s co-writer and director, who with the project, makes his feature directorial debut.

Good Boy sees Leonberg direct his family pet through the performance of a lifetime, resulting in a frightening, innovative paranormal thriller. The film was shot over a period of three years and is told from the perspective of Indy — a loyal, everyday dog thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and the only one who can see the forces that haunt us.

The film is set to launch as part of SXSW’s Midnighter section at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX at 9:30 p.m. Ct on March 8. In a statement to Deadline, Amy Beecroft, Head of Verve Ventures, called Good Boy “a...

Fallout star Ella Purnell is headed back to the small screen for another season of serial killing in Sweetpea.

Per Deadline, the hit Sky/Starz series Sweetpea has officially been renewed for a second season. Although there is no planned release date as of yet, star and executive producer Ella Purnell has already expressed her excitement at returning to the leading role of Rhiannon Lewis. Purnell said, "Being part of Rhiannon’s coming-of-rage journey has been a career highlight for me, and to see fans engage with and relate to our oddball Rhiannon, in all her complexity, feels truly special. I cannot wait for audiences to see what she does next. Stay tuned."

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It’s a good time to be a basketball fan. With the NBA’s postseason kicking off on Tuesday, April 11 with the 2023 Play-In Tournament, the next two months will be jam-packed with hardcourt action. But, the entire 2022-23 season has seen record engagement for the Association as the NBA set a number of records and crossed multiple milestones during the regular season.

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The NBA’s out-of-market game package, NBA League Pass saw substantial growth this season, fueled in no small part to exciting new content options alongside the traditional game broadcasts that fans have come to expect from the service. Earlier this year, League Pass launched “Throw it Down with Bill Walton,” a unique and eclectic alternate broadcast for select games featuring the iconic Hall of Famer, Dead-Head, and general basketball on vivant.

Also a big part of League Pass’ success this season was “NBA CrunchTime,...

Exclusive: Dromgoole to direct Ché Walker script Dead Head.

Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.

According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.

Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.

The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.

The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).

Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...