‘The Long Shadow,’ About Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe, Sells to Sundance Now in U.S., Buyers Worldwide

The Golden Bachelor ended on quite the cliffhanger following Leslie's, Faith's, and Theresa's . (Spoiler warning: Stop reading now if you haven't seen the November 2 episode).After giving Theresa a half-baked ‘love you’ in response to her declaration, he really went there with Faith and Leslie, thereby basically telling all three ladies that he was in love with them, or loves them, or whatever you want to call it when you're on a reality TV dating show.

For almost a century, exactly 100 convicted criminals were hanged in Manchester at Strangeways Prison. The last execution at the prison, and in England, took place in 1964 - almost 60-years ago.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Cornerstone has closed sales on multiple territories including North America and the U.K. for writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo’s “Starve Acre,” a brooding and atmospheric folk horror. “House of the Dragon’s” Matt Smith and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” actor Morfydd Clark star in the film, which is produced by House Productions.

"All alone now." These were the only three words written by Robert Maudsley in a final letter to a psychiatrist in the 1990s.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Before Sam Raimi landed the directing gig on Sony’s 2002 comic book tentpole “Spider-Man,” it was David Fincher who met with the studio to try and get his own spin on the web-slinger to the big screen. In a new interview with The Guardian to mark the release of his latest movie, “The Killer,” the director remembered not seeing eye to eye with the studio over what a “Spider-Man” movie could be. They wanted an origin story, but he wanted to skip over the whole “bitten by a radioactive spider” part and focus on a grown-up Peter Parker.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Exchange has acquired the world sales rights for romantic comedy “The Islander,” starring Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning musician and actor Harry Connick Jr. The film features two original songs by Connick. The Exchange will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s American Film Market.

EXCLUSIVE: After circling rights for weeks to the buzzy Vanity Fair article “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” Amazon MGM Studios has locked them down, Deadline understands.

Bruce Jones was famed for his role as Les Battersby on the hit ITV soap Coronation Street.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Sales agency Sola Media is set to present its new project “The Sloth Lane” to buyers at the American Film Market. The animated film, an addition to the “Tales From Sanctuary City” franchise, is described as “a story of self discovery, family and friendship.” Australia’s Like a Photon Creative is producing the film and Sola Media is handling world sales, after recently acquiring international distribution rights for the next three animated feature films in the Sanctuary City franchise.

Colin Jost and Michael Che were back at the “Weekend Update” desk on Saturday Night Live to take jabs at politics and pop culture.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Una Gunjak’s debut feature “Excursion,” which is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entry for the Oscars’ international feature film category. Salaud Morisset is handling international sales. HBO Europe has just picked up the SVOD and pay TV rights to the movie in 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has snapped up U.S. rights to He Went That Way, a true-life serial killer tale that stars Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek franchise), and Patrick J. Adams (Suits). Marking the first and final feature from Australian director and DP Jeffrey Darling, who passed away in March 2022, the thriller will release exclusively in theaters early next year, having world premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

George Kay looks conflicted. Speaking to Deadline before the resolution of the writers strike, the British WGA member had put down his pen on an Amazon Studios movie project and ducked a U.S. publicity round for his Apple TV+ series Hijack. But it’s fair to say that the strikes coincided with Kay having a serious moment.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Germany’s RTL has acquired royal drama “Maxima” from Beta Film. The show follows the life of Argentinian born Maxima Zorreguieta, who later became Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. The first six-hour season of the show has just wrapped shooting.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The second season of the tropical noir crime drama “Troppo” has completed production in Queensland, Australia, with Thomas Jane (“Boogie Nights”) and Nicole Chamoun (“Safe Harbour,” “On the Ropes”) reprising their roles as private investigators Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell. A director known for “The Expanse” and “Dark Country,” Jane also serves as a director for two episodes of Season 2.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Beta Film’s Channel4/Starz drama series “The Couple Next Door” is moving across European neighborhoods, being sold ahead of Mipcom to Movistar Plus+ in Spain and throughout the Nordics. Public broadcasters NRK for Norway, YLE for Finland, SVT for Sweden, DR for Denmark and RUV for Iceland snagged the thriller, starring Sam Heughan (“Outlander,” “Suspect”) and Eleonor Tomlinson (“Poldark,” “The War of the Worlds”). The show explores the stultifying claustrophobia of suburbia and the fallout of chasing one’s darkest desires.

Paul McCartney is spilling the tea about The Beatles‘ time spent with singer and activist Yoko Ono, who was married to the late John Lennon.

He might be best known for his 'bad boy' character Warren Fox in Hollyoaks but Jamie Lomas is also making waves when it comes to working behind the camera.The 48 year old recently produced and starred in Lead Belly, a hard-hitting short film which raises awareness about the ex armed forces personnel living on the streets, and is now back with another about online grooming.This time around though, Jamie enlisted the help of his good friend Peter Andre and son Junior for the project and exclusively told OK!: "This project is really important to me so I contacted Peter Andre - a good friend of mine - to help spread awareness on the dangers of online grooming. "I knew that his son Junior was really interested in acting as well, so I asked if he'd take part." Jamie, who recently got engaged to girlfriend Jess Bell following an elaborate Mexican proposal, then revealed that the Mysterious Girl singer jumped at the chance as it was a subject he felt strongly about.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director With “Moonlighting” now available on streaming for the first time thanks to Hulu, series creator Glenn Gordon Caron spoke to the New York Post and confirmed he was able to tell series star Bruce Willis about the show’s streaming resurgence amid the actor’s ongoing frontotemporal dementia (FTP) diagnosis. “Moonlighting,” the Emmy-nominated ABC dramedy that ran for five seasons and 67 episodes in the late 1980s, served as Willis’ acting breakthrough.

Timothee Chalamet is back as Willy Wonka in the trailer for Wonka!