EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has won a bidding battle for Black Bag, a package for a spy thriller film that Steven Soderbergh will direct this summer in Europe from a David Koepp script, with Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender attached to star.
Casey Silver and Greg Jacobs are producing. This marks the second deal this week for Soderbergh and a Koepp-scripted project.
The director made a triumphant return to Sundance, where 35 years ago the $1 million deal for sex, lies, & videotape changed the game.
His ghost story Presence sold to Neon in a splashy deal with multiple bidders in an auction that followed the film’s premiere earlier this week.
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