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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its premiere out of competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Count of Monte Cristo, a new French film based on the classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, which it will release later this year. Pic is directed Matthieu…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite) has wrapped production on Trouble Man!, an action comedy that he directed and stars in for Samuel Goldwyn Films. Those starring alongside him are Method Man (Power Book II: Ghost), Gillian White (Take Back), Mike Epps (The Upshaws), Orlando Jones (Drumline)…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon's Cobweb, starring Song Kang-ho, which had its world premiere Out Of Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.  Barunson E&A is handling international sales on the film, which has also been sold to most of the rest…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has locked down North American rights to the British feel-good comedy Bank of Dave, starring Joel Fry (Our Flag Means Death), Rory Kinnear (Men), Jo Hartley (After Life) and Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton). The film featuring music and performances by English rock band Def…

Diane Warren is heading back to the Dolby Theatre. The legendary songwriter garnered her 14th Oscar nomination on Tuesday recognizing her work on “Applause” — an original song penned for the Samuel Goldwyn Films / ILBE anthology, Tell It Like a Woman. Related Stories …

Writer-director Tarik Saleh’s latest film Cairo Conspiracy follows Adam, the son of a fisherman, who is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power in Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university's highest religious leader, the Grand Imam…

After its well received premiere at Tribeca Festival in June last year, Pan Nalin's love letter to cinema Last Film Show went on to capture the hearts of festivalgoers all over the world. Starring newcomer Bhavin Rabari, it tells the story of Samay, a country boy whose life is changed forever during a…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has announced its promotion of Miles Fineburg to VP, Acquisitions and Sales.  In his new role, Fineburg will oversee the company’s transactional and subscription VOD footprint and liaise with key home video partners, also continuing to run film acquisitions and…

Diane Warren’s songwriting job for Tell It Like a Woman was simple: create a hymn for female empowerment. “We tend to beat ourselves up a lot,” the veteran tune scribe said during a panel at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event. “Every now and then you have to just give yourself some f*cking applause…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American rights on Tarik Saleh's Cairo Conspiracy, which formerly was known as Boy from Heaven. Sweden's submission for the Best International Feature Oscar made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, where Saleh won the Best Screenplay prize. Samuel Goldwyn…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up North American rights to Kyra Sedgwick's second feature directorial, Space Oddity, based on Rebecca Banner’s Black List script. Planets and lives collide as Alex (Kyle Allen) longs to travel to outer space and finally gets the opportunity to do so thanks…

Pan Nalin's Last Film Show, produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Nalin, Dheer Momaya and Mark Duale, has been selected as India's official entry for the Best International Feature Oscar race. The Gujarati-language Last Film Show (Chhello Show) is a semi-autobiographical drama that pays homage to the cinema of the past — a…