AFM 2026 major market projects – latest updates | News

Screen is tracking the key packages launched before and during this year’s AFM, which runs November 10-15 in Los Angeles at Fairmont Century Plaza and surrounding venues.

Refresh the page for the latest updates. Most recently announced projects appear at the top.

Breakwater
Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer star in a crime thriller set in a clear coastal paradise, where two women are desperate to find an escape. Production will take place in Malta in April 2027. 
International sales: WestEnd Films 

It’s Alright 
Paul Bettany plays an aging popstar, alongside Asha Banks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Colin Firth. CAA reps US. 
International sales: Protagonist Pictures 

Believe 13
Liam Neeson reteams with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz to play renowned ice hockey training psychologist Jack Blatherwick, who helps a top teenage player overcome a major injury.  UTA Independent Film Group jointly represents US sales rights.
International sales: The Solution Entertainment Group

Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
Josh Hartnett, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins, Danny Huston and Robert Aramayo have joined previously-announced Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore on Rebecca Miller’s drama about children’s author Margaret Wise Brown, set in 1930s New York. CAA Media Finance handles US rights.
International sales: The Veterans

John Daniel
Based on the true story of an unlikely friendship between a woman and a baby gorilla in the aftermath of First World War England. Dominic Cooke directs and Debbie Gray produces for Genesius Pictures. 
International sales: Cornerstone

Untitled Armando Iannucci Project
James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander and Taron Egerton star in a conspiracy thriller, with Kevin Loader producing. 
International sales: FilmNation/UTA

Safe Space
Joey King and LaKeith Stanfield are set to star in a sci-fi comedy about toxic relationships. A US shoot is planned for Q2. CAA Media Finance and WME Independent also jointly represent sales.  
International sales: Lucky Number

Sketchbook
UK stars Woody Norman and Billie Piper lead Jamie Jones’s supernatural horror, about a misfit teenager who is introduced to a cursed sketchbook that makes anything inside it come true. A Wales shoot is scheduled for early next year. 
International sales: WestEnd Films 

Elden Ring
A24’s sci-fi fantasy video game adaptation from the UK’s Alex Garland’s reportedly carries a $175m-$200m budget and has already pre-sold to Amazon MGM Studios for multiple international pay-1 rights.
International sales: A24

Gods Don’t Give Gifts
YouTuber Zack London aka Gossip Goblin used AI to render his sci-fi extravaganza, set in the Second Cycle of Humanity as transhumanism has taken root and the physical limits around humanity have begun to disappear. 
International sales AGC International