Screen International is keeping track of the key packages launched before and during the 2025 European Film Market, which runs February 13-19. R
Screen International is keeping track of the key packages launched before and during the 2025 European Film Market, which runs February 13-19.
Refresh the page for latest updates. Listed in alphabetical order.
Arctic Skies
Morfydd Clark and Ariyon Bakare star in this UFO thriller, to be shot at Steven Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham. Writer-directors Elliot and Zander Weaver. Their Elliander Pictures are producing with Lowkey Films.
Int’l sales: Independent Entertainment
Bad Boy
From the producers of Longlegs and M3gan comes a serial killer project financed by C2 in which a dog is the hero. Ke Huy Quan from Everything Everywhere All At Once and Lili Reinhart star for director Jacob Chase. Production is scheduled to begin in August in Canada. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group jointly represent US rights.
Int’l sales: Black Bear
Diamond Shitter
Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola star in this thriller from filmmaker and actor Antonia Campbell-Hughes about a adolescent intern stealing diamonds from her host family who are part of an affluent ex-pat community in Geneva. Sleeper Films is producing.
Int’l sales: Beta Cinema
Eddington
Ari Aster thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, revolving around a couple stranded in a tiny New Mexico town. A24 is financing and producing.
Int’l sales: A24
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez star in Bill Condon’s reimagining of the book, film and stage play about two prisoners during the Argentinian dictatorship in the 1980s who bond over the story of a woman attempting to outrun a mythical predator. WME and CAA Media Finance jointly represent US rights.
Int’l sales: AGC International
Old Pals
Henry Winkler, Brian Cox, Emma Roberts, and Evan Rachel Wood are being lined up to star in the comedy about widowers whose daughters set them up as friends. Wendey Stanzler (Sex And The City) will direct. CAA Media Finance and Verve Ventures jointly handle North American rights.
Int’l sales: Neon International
The Rage
Matthew McConaughey will star in the reconfigured Paul Greengrass project about the early 19th Century English famers revolt. Benedict Cumberbatch was previously attached to star in what was then called The Hood. Jason Blum is producing and CAA Media Finance and WME Independent represents US rights.
Int’l sales: FilmNation
Safe House
Action thriller starring Lucien Laviscount from Emily In Paris and Hannah John-Kamen from Marvel’s Thunderbolts. Jamie Marshall directs from a screenplay by Leon Langford. Lucas Jarach of Green Light Pictures is producing Safe House, which shot in Los Angeles and is in post.
World sales: Voltage Pictures
Sleeping Lions
Jonathan Pryce and Nick Mohammed lead the cast of Mat Whitecross’ comedy murder mystery, a contemporary adaptation of Cyril Hare’s 1951 novel An English Murder. Developed and to be distributed by Sky in the UK and Ireland, the film will shoot in the UK later this year.`
Int’l sales: Mister Smith Entertainment
The Shitheads
Road trip comedy starring Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr and Peter Dinklage. Written and directed by Macon Blair. WME Independent is handling domestic sales with CAA Media Finance. Gramercy Park Media is co-producing and financing.
Int’l sales: WME Independent
Tinsel Town
Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson star in a Christmas comedy, about a Hollywood star who is blindsided when his action franchise is cancelled, and finds himself in a Cinderella production in a tiny, quirky English town. Sky releases in UK-Ireland.
Int’l sales: Mister Smith Entertainment.
Untitled Mike Leigh project
Mike Leigh’s next project is set to shoot later this year, with backing from Film4 and Desmar on board as an equity financier. As is customary, plot and casting are yet to be determined. Bleecker Street releasing in the US and Studiocanal in UK-Ireland.
Int’l sales: Cornerstone
Wed Wabbit
An adaptation of the book by Lissa Evans about a 12-year-old girl plunged into the absurd world of her sister favourite pop-up book from UK animation studio Locksmith Animation. Olly Reid directs the feature which has been developed with Sky. Julie Lockhart, co-founder and president of production at Locksmith Animation is producing with Andrew Baker for Cantilever Media.
World sales: Timeless Films
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