In one of the first deals out of Toronto, domestic distributor Bleecker Street is in final negotiations to acquire rights to “Fackham Hall,” a British spoof of “Downton Abbey” and other costume dramas.
Sales outfit The Veterans is pre-selling international territories.
And as international buyers face a potential drought of Hollywood product due to strikes, the market is offering other promising presale titles.WME Independent is pre-selling James Madigan’s “The Beast,” with Samuel L.
Jackson in negotiations to star.
He’ll play a U.S.
president who fights a coup in his battle-ready, bomb-proof limousine with grenades and shotguns.
As he rides through a violent wasteland of chaos and unrelenting carnage, he must learn to control The Beast — and the monster inside himself — to save his life, the life of a Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman of “Suicide Squad” fame) and his country.
Unified Pictures’ Keith Kjarval, Fifth Season,…
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