A selection of films looking for buyers at AFM:
Boutique
Director: Jim Gavin
An American tourist (Paul Giamatti) travels to the eerie English seaside town that inspired the work of his favorite reclusive author (Simon Pegg), only to become entangled with a murderous secret society permeating the whole town.
Sales: Manifest Pictures (international); UTA Independent Film Group (domestic)
Darlington
Director: Sacha Gervasi
An original concept comedy-drama from Gervasi (“My Dinner With Hervé,” “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”) stars Renée Zellweger, Dominic Sessa and Peter Dinklage. Rocket Science, Monumental Pictures, and Portobello Electric produce.
Sales: Rocket Science
Elden Ring
The sci-fi fantasy video game adaptation from A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment has pre-sold to Amazon MGM Studios but the Alex Garland-led epic, reportedly with a budget ranging from $175 million to $200 million, is the biggest project hitting AFM. Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw and Cailee Spaeny top the cast.
Sales: A24
Falcon
Director: Marco Bellochio
Revered Italian auteur Bellochio’s “Falcon” is a biopic of charismatic Italian auto industry executive Sergio Marchionne, who saved Fiat and Chrysler from the brink of bankruptcy. Louis Garrel plays John Elkann, heir to Italy’s Agnelli family that is behind Fiat, while Pierfrancesco Favino (“Maria”) plays Marchionne. Cast also comprises Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Sales: Rai Cinema International Distribution
Found Alive
Director: Carlota Pereda
The English-language debut of “Piggy” director Pereda, psychological thriller “Found Alive” stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Rupert Friend. Based on Carla Norton’s book series “The Edge of Normal,” it opened the 2026 Sitges Film Festival.
Domestic sales: CAA Media Finance, XYZ Films
Found Alive
Kelly King
The Fun Lady
Director: Andy Tennant
Jessica Alba stars in a comedy based on a true story of a woman who starts to sell sex toys after her picture-perfect life falls apart.
International sales: Highland Film Group
Get Rid of It
Director: Ry Russo-Young
Producers: David Lancaster
Daisy Ridley, Sosie Bacon and Simon Rex star in horror pic following sisters on a cross-country road trip who find themselves fighting for survival as they discover the thing growing inside Harper following a one-night stand with a drifter, may not be human.
Sales: Upgrade, CAA and Range
Gods Don’t Give Gifts (pictured above)
Director: Zack London
London (aka Gossip Goblin) has built a film empire on YouTube and makes his feature debut with an animated sci-fi horror epic made with Al. Set in the Second Cycle of Humanity, transhumanism has accelerated so far that people barely look human. Across four unsettling stories, ordinary men and women reach for strange new tools to satisfy their most primal hungers —exposing a widening rift between body and mind.
International sales: AGC Intl.
High in the Clouds
Director: Toby Genkel
Paul McCartney is one of the producers behind this animated tale about the power of self-expression through music, with a soundtrack of original songs from McCartney and a voice cast boasting Himesh Patel, Celine Dion, Hannah Waddingham, McCartney, Idris Elba, Lionel Richie, Ringo Starr, Jimmy Fallon, Clémence Poésy, Pom Klementieff and Alain Chabat.
Sales: CAA Media Finance, Gaumont
Inferno
Written and directed by Bryan Hill (HBO Max’s “Titans”), this supernatural horror feature stars Vera Farmiga. She plays a former detective whose pursuit of a killer forces her back into the long-rumored special division of Britain‘s Scotland Yard that investigates the occult, the Black Branch, and on the trail of paranormal terror. ail of the paranormal terror she thought she’d escaped.
Sales: Manifest Pictures (international); CAA Media Finance, UTA Independent Film Group (domestic)
Josephine Baker
Director: Maïmouna Doucouré
FKA Twigs stars as the legendary performer who left the U.S. to become a superstar in Paris and also played an important role in the French Resistance during WWII. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Also stars in the film produced by Bien Ou Bien Prods. and Studiocanal.
Sales: Studiocanal
Making a Bridesmaid
Director: Molly Ratermann
Emily Kincaid, Molly Ratermann and Serra Naiman star in the comedy-horror feature about two outcast sisters who join a picture-perfect bachelorette weekend that turns into an ’80s-inspired sleepover from hell, where the guests must compete for four bridesmaid spots just to stay alive.
Sales: Belstone Pictures
The Reception
Director: Trudie Styler
Jeff Daniels leads this Scotland-set ensemble comedy about a lavish wedding reception that spirals delightfully out of control after the groom abandons the bride at the altar.
Sales: Beta Cinema
Seeker
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Grant (Cooper Tomlinson) is a man haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his fiancée Caroline (Mika Abdalla) five years earlier. Now a ride-share driver, his life is upended when he picks up a passenger who he is convinced is responsible for her disappearance.
Sales: north.five.six (international); CAA Media Finance (domestic)
Sketchbook
Director: Jamie Jones
Horror feature stars Woody Norman and Billie Piper in a tale in which 14-year-old Osian (Norman) struggles to find his place back home with his mother (Piper) after years in foster care. But when he’s introduced to a cursed sketchbook that makes anything drawn inside it come true, Osian finally finds a way to get everything he wants. Except when the drawings grow darker and more dangerous, he discovers that something inside the book is using him.
Sales: Westend
State of Emergency
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Brittany O’Grady stars as a Boston 911 emergency dispatcher who is still haunted by the death of her teenage brother and the missed call he placed to her in his final moments. What begins as an ordinary overnight shift soon takes a turn when callers report strange incidents connected to a mysterious event in Boston Harbor, and catastrophe looms.
Sales: FilmNation Entertainment
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