Mona Tabbara

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EXCLUSIVE: UK-based sales outfit Capture has added historical action epic Tamerlane: Rise Of The Last Conqueror to its Cannes slate. The feature, based on a true story, is directed by US filmmaker Jacob Schwarz and written by Matthew Greene. Capture launched earlier this year as a joint venture between Capstone Global and Signature Entertainment. The film is about a fearless warrior named Timur who rises from the harsh deserts to command an unstoppable army and change history forever.

5 days ago | screendaily.com | Mona Tabbara

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit Screenbound International has added two documentaries to its slate heading into Cannes, Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos and Stand Together As One. US filmmaker Rex Miller’s Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos world premiered at DOC NYC last November, and follows the tumultuous life of hardcore punk icon Harley Flanagan and his life in New York from the 1970s onwards, including his darker experiences of drugs, violence and PTSD.

5 days ago | screendaily.com | Mona Tabbara

Source: Blue Finch Film Releasing EXCLUSIVE: UK based sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has boarded world sales for US writer-director Brock Bodell’s feature debut, horror Hellcat, ahead of its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival (July 17 to August 3), and will introduce the project to buyers at Cannes. A woman wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound.

5 days ago | screendaily.com | Mona Tabbara

Source: Billie Scheepers/PiP/David Reiss/Alexandra Cameron EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Dockery and Eva Birthistle have joined Imelda Staunton in the cast of Ita Fitzgerald’s UK-Ireland drama West The Road  for Bankside Films. Produced by Matthew James Wilkinson and James Harvey for the UK’s Stigma Films and John Wallace of Ireland’s Cowtown Pictures, the film will start shooting in western Ireland later this year.

5 days ago | screendaily.com | Mona Tabbara

Source: Festival de Cannes The UK’s film sales agents are heading into Cannes in a mood of steely determination, trying their best to not let US President Donald Trump’s threats of 100% tariffs on all films imported from “foreign lands” dampen their spirits. Largely because ,at time of writing, no one quite understands what it all could mean. “I don’t have a clue, and I’m not sure if anyone has a clue, what it means,” said David Garrett, CEO of Mister Smith Entertainment.