EXCLUSIVE: Dharma Productions is relaunching its talent agency after officially splitting with Cornerstone. The Karan Johar- and Adar Poonawalla-led Dharma confirmed it has acquired Cornerstone’s stake in Dharma Cornerstone Agency and is relaunching the business as Dharma Collab Artists Agency…

Alyla Browne (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) has signed on to lead the Aussie psychological horror From Below from Pathline Pictures, which Cornerstone has boarded to handle world sales. Written and directed by Sean Loch, From Below marks the filmmaker's feature debut. The film was financed through…

James Kermack (Knuckledust, Hi-Lo Joe) will direct Breathe Deep, an action thriller starring Ingrid Torelli (Late Night With The Devil, The End), Michiel Huisman (Echo 3, Game of Thrones, Age of Adaline, Rebel Moon), and TikToker Avani Gregg. Kermack wrote the screenplay with G.D. Wright…

BAFTA TV award winner Chris Cottam (The Problem with People) has signed on to direct the ballroom dance comedy The Light Fantastic, which Cornerstone will launch at this year's American Film Market.  The film, which is from a screenplay by Lee Warburton (Shameless), will star Jeremy Irvine (War H…

Cornerstone has closed worldwide distribution deals for Andrea Arnold's latest feature film Bird, which debuted at last month's Cannes Film Festival.  The film has been picked up by MFA (Germany), Lucky Red (Italy), Avalon (Spain), Benelux (Cineart), Cinobo (Greece), New Cinema (Israel), Front…

Olivia Cooke (Sound of Metal) and BAFTA Award winner Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers) have signed on to lead Italian filmmaker Nathalie Biancheri's latest pic Takes One To Know One.  Cornerstone has international rights to the pic and will co-rep the US with CAA Media Finance. The pair will…

Cornerstone has closed sales on multiple territories including North America and the UK for writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo's folk horror Starve Acre. The deals were finalized following the film's world premiere in Competition at the BFI London Film Festival. Brainstorm Media has…

Genre filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner has reteamed with Cornerstone for his latest pic, Beast Of War, which the company will launch at the upcoming American Film Market. Described as a "survival action thriller," the film follows a band of soldiers stranded in the open ocean who must face a…

Mafia Mamma and Knives Out star Toni Collette and Odessa Young (The Staircase, Mothering Sunday, Shirley) have signed to co-star in writer and director Nathan Silver's twisted revenge thriller The Prima Donna. Collette and Young previously worked together on HBO's award-winning series The Stairca…

The London-based Genesius Pictures, the producers of the Emma Thompson starrer Good Luck to You Leo Grande, and sales company Cornerstone Films have partnered to form GenStone, a new content management company.  GenStone will work with an "integrated approach to the development and production…

Writer-director Kaih Roache-Turner, who's behind projects such as Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead and Nekrotonic, has set his next project as arachnophobia horror Sting. Cornerstone is handling worldwide sales on the project and will unveil it to buyers at the Cannes market. The title, which is produced by Jamie…

EXCLUSIVE: Cornerstone is heading to the virtual EFM with New Zealand drama Whina, which stars Siren, Once Were Warriors and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones actress Rena Owen as revered Maori activist and female rights advocate Whina Cooper. See an exclusive first look image of Owen as Cooper…