cannes market 2026

Highland Film Group has locked distribution deals in key international territories in all media for Just Play Dead, the new crime thriller Samuel L. Jackson (Argylle, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Pulp Fiction), Eva Green (Casino Royale, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, 300: Rise Of An Empire), and Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s “Money Heist”). Highland co-financed the film and is handling international rights at Cannes, with CAA Media Finance overseeing domestic rights. Just Play Dead is directed by Martin Campbell uhand written by Dan Gordon (Rambo: Last Blood, The Hurricane), and follows wealthy criminal mastermind Jack Wolfe (Jackson) who is cornered by the Feds and plans to fake his own death and claim the $30 million life insurance payout with his “grieving” wife Nora (Green), while framing her surfer lover Chad for his murder. But Nora is cooking up a scheme of her own: kill Jack for real, frame Chad and keep […]

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