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Dogwoof Boards Sales On ‘Rapinoe’ & ‘Hanging By A Wire’
EXCLUSIVE: Dogwoof is headed to MIPCOM having secured rights to a pair of buzzy festival titles, Rapinoe and Hanging By a Wire.
The London-based producer and distributor picked up international rights to Rapinoe, excluding North America, after the film opened the TIFF Docs program at the Toronto Film Festival last month.
The pic, directed by Rebeca Huntt (Beba), follows two-time women’s World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe from her working-class childhood in Redding, California, to international sporting fame and a prominent role in the fight for equal pay. It provides initiamate access to the soccer star and her family, exploring the personal cost of her public battles and transition out of the professional game.
Story Syndicate and Noah Media Group are producing Rapinoe, with Impact Partners presenting. Producers are Dan Cogan, Huntt, Zoe Potkin and Kate Barry.
Dogwoof has also taken international sales on Hanging By a Wire following its UK theatrical release, which the company also handled. The film was announced last week as Pakistan’s official selection for the International Feature Film category at the 2027 Oscars.
Directed by Mohammed Ali Naqvi, the Sundance 2026 doc tells the story of the high-stakes rescue of six schoolboys and two adults trapped in a cable car 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills of northern Pakistan. Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions, EverWonder Studio, Universal Pictures Content Group and 64th Street Media.
Paramount+ has rights in a number of territories, and Dogwoof will represent it elsewhere. In the U.S., Abramorama has sales rights.
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Ahead of MIPCOM Cannes next week, Dogwoof has also unveiled a batch of sales to TV stations and streamers. Vea Mafile’o and Gavin Fitzgerald’s Lomu, about the legendary late New Zealand rugby star Jonah Lomu has gone to ITV in the UK, Canal+ in France, Madman in Australia and New Zealand), Movistar in Spain), and RTÉ in Ireland. Unsurprisingly, the film has been a big box office success on Jonah Lomu’s home turf, grossing $440,545 from 28,695 admissions in New Zealand.
Further deals have been secured for Alex Gibney’s Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, another doc that premiered at Sundance 2026. Sales have been secured with ZDF/Arte in Germany and France, HBO Max in Central and Eastern Europe), Madman in Australia and New Zealand), Filmin and Movistar in Spain), NonStop Entertainment in the Nordics and Baltics), VPRO in the Netherlands), VRT in Belgium), and BBC Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa).
The film draws on author Salman Rushdie’s memoir to examine the assassination attempt on him and his subsequent recovery.
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Netflix has unveiled trailer for the second season of Canadian comedy North of North.
The show, which was the first original to come out of the streamer’s Canada office, follows a young Inuk mother, Siaja (Anna Lambe).
In Season 2, Siaja is still making bold decisions and even bolder mistakes in her effort to level up her life. The hardest part is proving to her tight-knit Arctic community and herself that she’s ready to take charge.
Lambe returns for Season 2 alongside Maika Harper (Neevee), Braeden Clarke (Kuuk), Jay Ryan (Alistair), Mary Lynn Rajskub (Helen), Zorga Qaunaq (Millie), Bailey Poching (Colin), Nutaaq Simmonds (Elisapee) and Keira Cooper (Bun).
Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s series is co-produced with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in partnership with APTN and represented a key milestone for Netflix in Canada, being its first original.
Season 2 is exec produced by Aglok MacDonald and Arnaquq-Baril for Red Marrow Media, along with Miranda de Pencier (Anne with an E, Beginners, The Grizzlies) for Northwood Entertainment, Mike Goldbach (Fleishman Is In Trouble, Heated Rivalry), Garry Campbell (The Kids in the Hall, Less Than Kind), Jessie Gabe (Workin’ Moms, One More Time) and Robin Gurney (Twin Peaks, Kidding).
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EXCLUSIVE: Eric Paquette‘s Meridian Pictures has picked up The Regulator, a western written by screenwriter Mike Maples (Backtrace).
Set in 1895, The Regulator follows “a legendary regulator on the verge of walking away from a life of killing who must protect the secret son he never knew existed when a vengeful cattle empire puts a price on both their heads”.
The project is currently in development. Former Sony and MGM exec Paquette (The Silent Hour) will produce with Aaron Barnett (In The Shadow Of The Moon).
Maples’ credits include Miracle Run, starring Mary-Louise Parker, Aidan Quinn and Zac Efron, as well as the Lionsgate thriller Backtrace, starring Matthew Modine and Sylvester Stallone. His action spec Padre was acquired by Sony’s Screen Gems. The LA-based writer has also written and developed projects with Warner Bros., Universal and Sony.
“Mike and I first worked together while I was at Sony, and I’ve always believed he writes movie-star roles as well as anyone,” said Meridian founder and CEO Paquette. “Taylor Sheridan has helped prove there is a worldwide audience for great Western storytelling, and Mike has written a character-driven, emotional Western with a tremendous role at its center. We’re excited to put this one together.”
Meridian’s slate includes The Line Between, with Jonathan Jakubowicz set to direct, and survival thriller The Edge, directed by Danish filmmaker Kasper Torsting. Both films are targeting production in the second quarter of 2027.
Maples is represented by Bryan Brucks of 831 Entertainment.
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Mark those digital calendars: The International Cinematographers Guild said today that its 64th annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon will be held March 12, 2027, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. As per usual, that’s the Friday before the Academy Awards.
The television nominations will be announced on Thursday, December 3, followed by the motion picture noms on Wednesday, January 13. Special award recipients will be revealed later. See the full timeline below.
The annual awards celebrate Local 600 publicists, unit still photographers, outstanding 2025 TV and film publicity campaigns, and the year’s best entertainment journalists.
Earlier this year, the 63rd Publicists Awards honored Noah Wyle as TV Showperson Of The Year. The teams behind Warner Bros.’ Sinners and HBO Max’s The Pitt won the top prizes. Other winners included Michelle Alt of Paramount Pictures, who took the Publicist of the Year Award, and Kevin McCarthy of On Film, who won the Press Award. Ali Plumb of BBC Radio in the UK took home the International Media Award. Late-night veteran and four-time Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel accepted the President’s Award — a rare honor presented only on occasion of “extraordinary circumstances.”
Entertainment publicists first formed a union in 1937 as the Screen Publicists Guild, later becoming the Publicists Guild. In 2002, the Publicists Guild merged with the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.
Here is the full timeline for the 2027 ICG Publicists Awards (dates subject to change, per the guild):
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Television Publicity Campaign Nominees and First Ballot Nomination Results Announced
Wednesday, January 13, 2027
Motion Picture Publicity Campaign Nominees Announced
Thursday, February 4, 2027
Final Ballot Voting Closes
Friday, March 12, 2027
Awards Luncheon, Results Announced
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