Exclusive: Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Oscar nominee Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves), Martin Sensmeier (Yellowstone), Oliver Trevena (Plane) and DeVaughn Nixon (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) are joining Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers in thriller Ice Fall.
Also joining are Frida Gustavsson (Vikings Valhalla) and Will Fletcher (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power)
As we previously revealed, Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is directing from a script by George Mahaffey (Chief of Station). Filming is underway in Bulgaria.
The film centers on a young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the...
Also joining are Frida Gustavsson (Vikings Valhalla) and Will Fletcher (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power)
As we previously revealed, Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is directing from a script by George Mahaffey (Chief of Station). Filming is underway in Bulgaria.
The film centers on a young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the...
- 4/3/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rebecca Hall has rouned out the ensemble cast of 20th Century’s Ella McCay, the new movie from filmmaker James L. Brooks. Lowden joins a cast that includes Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Ayo Edebiri, Albert Brooks, Kumail Nanjiani, Jack Lowden and Spike Fearn.
The film will follow an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor.
Brooks will also produce along with his producing partners Julie Ansell and Richard Sakai, who will produce through their Gracie Films banner. Seth Meier will executive produce.
EVP Scott Aversano will oversee for 20th. The film is currently in production.
Best known for her roles in The Town and Vicky Christina Barcelona, Hall was most recently seen in The Listener and can be seen next in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
The film will follow an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor.
Brooks will also produce along with his producing partners Julie Ansell and Richard Sakai, who will produce through their Gracie Films banner. Seth Meier will executive produce.
EVP Scott Aversano will oversee for 20th. The film is currently in production.
Best known for her roles in The Town and Vicky Christina Barcelona, Hall was most recently seen in The Listener and can be seen next in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
- 2/20/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) has joined two-time Oscar nominee Steve Coogan in feature drama The Penguin Lessons, which recently wrapped in Spain.
Lionsgate UK has newly boarded the movie as distributor. Two-time Oscar nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) directs for LA and London-based management and production firm 42, with whom he collaborated on Military Wives.
Vivian El Jaber, Bjorn Gustafsson, Alfonsina Carrocio, Micaela Breque, Tomas Pozzi and Ramiro Blas round out the cast.
Based on the successful book of the same name by Tom Michell, the film charts the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. However, when he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil slicked beach, his life is turned upside down...
Lionsgate UK has newly boarded the movie as distributor. Two-time Oscar nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) directs for LA and London-based management and production firm 42, with whom he collaborated on Military Wives.
Vivian El Jaber, Bjorn Gustafsson, Alfonsina Carrocio, Micaela Breque, Tomas Pozzi and Ramiro Blas round out the cast.
Based on the successful book of the same name by Tom Michell, the film charts the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. However, when he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil slicked beach, his life is turned upside down...
- 12/21/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
FX has set the ensemble to join Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the studio’s new limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, tapping Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, Seth Numrich, Chloe Pirrie, Sandra Seacat and Christopher Heyerdahl to round out the cast.
Inspired by the New York Times bestseller, the story follows a detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into Lds fundamentalism and their distrust of the government.
Dustin Lance Black created the series and will serve as an executive producer along with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Samie Kim Falvey and Anna Culp for Imagine Television; Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films; David Mackenzie, who will serve as director; and Gillian Berrie.
Produced by FX Productions, Under the Banner of Heaven...
Inspired by the New York Times bestseller, the story follows a detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into Lds fundamentalism and their distrust of the government.
Dustin Lance Black created the series and will serve as an executive producer along with Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Samie Kim Falvey and Anna Culp for Imagine Television; Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films; David Mackenzie, who will serve as director; and Gillian Berrie.
Produced by FX Productions, Under the Banner of Heaven...
- 8/26/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The FX on Hulu series adaptation of “Under the Banner of Heaven” has set its main cast.
Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, Seth Numrich, Chloe Pirrie, Sandra Seacat, and Christopher Heyerdahl have all joined the drama series alongside previously announced series leads Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
Based on the Jon Krakauer novel of the same name, the series follows a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into Lds fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Production on the series recently began in Calgary.
Worthington will play Ron Lafferty. He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson. Gough will play Dianna Lafferty. She is repped by UTA, Independent Talent Group, and Tapestry.
Russell will play Dan Lafferty. He is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, Seth Numrich, Chloe Pirrie, Sandra Seacat, and Christopher Heyerdahl have all joined the drama series alongside previously announced series leads Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
Based on the Jon Krakauer novel of the same name, the series follows a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into Lds fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Production on the series recently began in Calgary.
Worthington will play Ron Lafferty. He is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson. Gough will play Dianna Lafferty. She is repped by UTA, Independent Talent Group, and Tapestry.
Russell will play Dan Lafferty. He is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
- 8/26/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“Love Actually” alum Billy Nighy looks to be the quintessential English gentleman in the first image released from upcoming feel-good feature “Living,” in which the actor plays a 1950s civil servant struggling with a life-threatening diagnosis.
The bowler hat and sharp pinstripe suit come courtesy of Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who has also signed up to the project.
Nighy, a BAFTA and Golden Globe winner, will be joined on screen by SAG Award and Tony winner Alex Sharp (“The Trial of the Chicago Seven”), who plays an optimistic new colleague, and BIFA nominee Tom Burke (“Mank”) playing an enigmatic stranger who takes it upon himself to show Nighy the coastal nightlife.
Aimee Lou Wood, who last month won a BAFTA for best female comedy performance for her turn in “Sex Education,” stars as a young co-worker who intrigues Nighy with her vitality.
The screenplay has been adapted by Nobel...
The bowler hat and sharp pinstripe suit come courtesy of Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, who has also signed up to the project.
Nighy, a BAFTA and Golden Globe winner, will be joined on screen by SAG Award and Tony winner Alex Sharp (“The Trial of the Chicago Seven”), who plays an optimistic new colleague, and BIFA nominee Tom Burke (“Mank”) playing an enigmatic stranger who takes it upon himself to show Nighy the coastal nightlife.
Aimee Lou Wood, who last month won a BAFTA for best female comedy performance for her turn in “Sex Education,” stars as a young co-worker who intrigues Nighy with her vitality.
The screenplay has been adapted by Nobel...
- 6/18/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are in talks to star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal, in “She Said” for Universal Pictures, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“Unorthodox” director Maria Schrader will direct. Rebecca Lenkiewicz is writing the script. The film will be based on the New York Times bestseller “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” It will begin production this summer.
Annapurna Pictures and Plan B optioned the rights to “She Said” in 2018 under their production deal. Megan Ellison will executive produce for Annapurna with Sue Naegle, while Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce for Plan B.
Mulligan is just coming off of her Oscar-nominated performance in “Promising Young Woman” and is gearing up to film Johan Renck’s “Spaceman” and Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro.” She is represented by CAA,...
“Unorthodox” director Maria Schrader will direct. Rebecca Lenkiewicz is writing the script. The film will be based on the New York Times bestseller “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” It will begin production this summer.
Annapurna Pictures and Plan B optioned the rights to “She Said” in 2018 under their production deal. Megan Ellison will executive produce for Annapurna with Sue Naegle, while Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce for Plan B.
Mulligan is just coming off of her Oscar-nominated performance in “Promising Young Woman” and is gearing up to film Johan Renck’s “Spaceman” and Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro.” She is represented by CAA,...
- 6/7/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Dan Stevens is set to join Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in Starz’s Watergate drama Gaslit, in which he will play former White House counsel John Dean, sources tell Deadline. UCP is producing the series, which Matt Ross is directing and exec producing while Robbie Pickering is showrunner.
Stevens replaces Armie Hammer, who fell off the show in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
2020 Starz Pilots & Series Orders
Starz had no comment.
Based on the Slate podcast Slow Burn and the series’ modern take on Watergate, Gaslit focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who eventually would bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
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Sam Esmail and his Esmail Corp colleague Chad Hamilton will exec produce alongside Pickering,...
Stevens replaces Armie Hammer, who fell off the show in the wake of sexual assault allegations.
2020 Starz Pilots & Series Orders
Starz had no comment.
Based on the Slate podcast Slow Burn and the series’ modern take on Watergate, Gaslit focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal – from Nixon’s bumbling, opportunistic subordinates to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes to the tragic whistleblowers who eventually would bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing down.
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Sam Esmail and his Esmail Corp colleague Chad Hamilton will exec produce alongside Pickering,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Dan Stevens has been cast in the Starz series “Gaslit,” which will tell the story of the Watergate scandal, Variety has learned from sources.
Stevens joins previously announced cast members Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Roberts will star as Martha Mitchell, the protagonist and the celebrity Arkansan socialite who was one of the first to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate in spite of her affiliation to the president via her husband, Attorney General John Mitchell, who will be played by Penn.
Stevens will star as John Dean. Described as a hotshot upstart, Dean is the young White House Counsel torn between his ambition and his struggle with whether he can lie to protect the President. Armie Hammer had previously been cast as Dean, but it was announced he was no longer involved with the project when it was picked up to series in February.
Starz declined to comment.
Stevens joins previously announced cast members Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Roberts will star as Martha Mitchell, the protagonist and the celebrity Arkansan socialite who was one of the first to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate in spite of her affiliation to the president via her husband, Attorney General John Mitchell, who will be played by Penn.
Stevens will star as John Dean. Described as a hotshot upstart, Dean is the young White House Counsel torn between his ambition and his struggle with whether he can lie to protect the President. Armie Hammer had previously been cast as Dean, but it was announced he was no longer involved with the project when it was picked up to series in February.
Starz declined to comment.
- 4/1/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan is set to star in Fingernails, the English-language feature film debut for Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou, whose current movie Apples premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and is Greece’s submission in the International Feature Oscar race. The new pic reteams Nikou and Dirty Films and partners Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton, all executive producers on Apples.
Speaking of Oscars, Mulligan is being pegged as an awards front-runner for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, on which she also served as an executive producer. She signed on to do Fingernails after being impressed by Apples.
Fingernails is in the development phase. Nikou is writing the script with British playwright Sam Steiner and his Apples co-writer Stavros Raptis. The pic follows Anna (Mulligan), who increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve things,...
Speaking of Oscars, Mulligan is being pegged as an awards front-runner for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, on which she also served as an executive producer. She signed on to do Fingernails after being impressed by Apples.
Fingernails is in the development phase. Nikou is writing the script with British playwright Sam Steiner and his Apples co-writer Stavros Raptis. The pic follows Anna (Mulligan), who increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve things,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After the critical success of Netflix’s Unorthodox, series director Maria Schrader is teaming with Dan Stevens on Ich bin dein Mensch (I Am Your Man). The film, which recently wrapped production in Berlin and Denmark under strict conditions adapted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, was shot entirely in German.
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
- 9/9/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz and Emun Elliott are set to join the ensemble cast for M. Night Shyamalan’s new secret movie. Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Ken Leung are already on board to star in the top-secret project.
Shyamalan will write, produce and direct the untitled film. Like most of his movies, plot details are shrouded in secrecy and can become interconnected to his other films. Shyamalan will also produce along with Ashwin Rajan for Blinding Edge Pictures. Marc Bienstock also serves as producer and Steven Schneider will exec produce.
Reps for Universal and Shyamalan had no comment on the casting.
Universal recently dated Shaymalan’s movie for July 23, 2021 after earlier taking it off the release calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While it is unclear when production will begin given stay-at-home measures, the hope...
Shyamalan will write, produce and direct the untitled film. Like most of his movies, plot details are shrouded in secrecy and can become interconnected to his other films. Shyamalan will also produce along with Ashwin Rajan for Blinding Edge Pictures. Marc Bienstock also serves as producer and Steven Schneider will exec produce.
Reps for Universal and Shyamalan had no comment on the casting.
Universal recently dated Shaymalan’s movie for July 23, 2021 after earlier taking it off the release calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While it is unclear when production will begin given stay-at-home measures, the hope...
- 8/20/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Jude Law is in talks to play Captain Hook in Disney’s “Peter Pan & Wendy” live-action film, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
Ever Anderson is set to play Wendy while Alexander Molony will play the famous boy who wouldn’t grow up. “Pete’s Dragon” director David Lowery is directing from a script he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whitaker is producing.
Disney adapted J.M. Barrie’s famous novel and play in 1953, and since then, there have been many on-screen adaptations, such as Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” starring Robin Williams and Joe Wright’s “Pan.” Benh Zeitlin recently directed “Wendy,” which looks at the character of Wendy in the classic tale.
Also Read: How Benh Zeitlin Fulfilled a Boyhood Dream to Direct the Peter Pan-Inspired 'Wendy' | Video
Disney is currently planning to release “Mulan” on August 21 in theaters after the studio was forced to...
Ever Anderson is set to play Wendy while Alexander Molony will play the famous boy who wouldn’t grow up. “Pete’s Dragon” director David Lowery is directing from a script he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whitaker is producing.
Disney adapted J.M. Barrie’s famous novel and play in 1953, and since then, there have been many on-screen adaptations, such as Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” starring Robin Williams and Joe Wright’s “Pan.” Benh Zeitlin recently directed “Wendy,” which looks at the character of Wendy in the classic tale.
Also Read: How Benh Zeitlin Fulfilled a Boyhood Dream to Direct the Peter Pan-Inspired 'Wendy' | Video
Disney is currently planning to release “Mulan” on August 21 in theaters after the studio was forced to...
- 7/8/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Jude Law may be heading to Neverland. The actor is in talks to play the classic Disney villain, Captain Hook, in the studio’s live-action Peter Pan film “Peter Pan & Wendy,” sources tell Variety.
“Pete’s Dragon” director David Lowery is on board to direct the project. Lowery co-wrote the script with Toby Halbrooks, and Jim Whitaker is producing.
Disney’s 1953 animated classic is still the most successful adaptation of the J.M. Barrie novel about Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t age and the children whom he whisks away to the magical world of Neverland. Many other studios have made their own versions on the big and small screens, including Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” starring Robin Williams and Joe Wright’s “Pan,” both of which disappointed at the box office.
If the deal closes, Law would follow in the footsteps of Dustin Hoffman, Jason Isaacs and, most recently, Garrett Hedlund...
“Pete’s Dragon” director David Lowery is on board to direct the project. Lowery co-wrote the script with Toby Halbrooks, and Jim Whitaker is producing.
Disney’s 1953 animated classic is still the most successful adaptation of the J.M. Barrie novel about Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t age and the children whom he whisks away to the magical world of Neverland. Many other studios have made their own versions on the big and small screens, including Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” starring Robin Williams and Joe Wright’s “Pan,” both of which disappointed at the box office.
If the deal closes, Law would follow in the footsteps of Dustin Hoffman, Jason Isaacs and, most recently, Garrett Hedlund...
- 7/8/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Carey Mulligan has returned to CAA.
Mulligan first broke out on the scene with her star-making role in “An Education,” which earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress. Since then, she has worked with A-list directors like the Coen brothers on “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Baz Luhrmann on “The Great Gatsby,” Steve McQueen on “Shame,” Dee Rees on “Mudbound,” Nicolas Winding Refn on “Drive,” Mark Romanek on “Never Let Me Go” and Jim Sheridan on “Brothers.”
She was most recently seen in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, “Wildlife,” opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as in Focus Features’ “A Promising Young Woman.” That film, which was produced by Margot Robbie, premiered earlier this year to rave reviews at Sundance, leading many to consider it a contender in this year’s awards race. She will also be seen in the Netflix feature “The Dig” opposite Ralph Fiennes.
Mulligan is represented by Julian Belfrage Associates,...
Mulligan first broke out on the scene with her star-making role in “An Education,” which earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress. Since then, she has worked with A-list directors like the Coen brothers on “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Baz Luhrmann on “The Great Gatsby,” Steve McQueen on “Shame,” Dee Rees on “Mudbound,” Nicolas Winding Refn on “Drive,” Mark Romanek on “Never Let Me Go” and Jim Sheridan on “Brothers.”
She was most recently seen in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, “Wildlife,” opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as in Focus Features’ “A Promising Young Woman.” That film, which was produced by Margot Robbie, premiered earlier this year to rave reviews at Sundance, leading many to consider it a contender in this year’s awards race. She will also be seen in the Netflix feature “The Dig” opposite Ralph Fiennes.
Mulligan is represented by Julian Belfrage Associates,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Carey Mulligan, whose onscreen credits include Wildlife, Suffragette, Drive and An Education, is returning to CAA.
She was represented by CAA before moving to WME in 2013.
Nominated for an Oscar for her role in Lone Scherfig's 2009 coming-of-age tale An Education, Mulligan will be seen this fall in Focus Features' Promising Young Woman, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance.
She will also star in Netflix feature The Dig, opposite Ralph Fiennes. Mulligan, who played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, is also repped by U.K.'s Julian Belfrage and Relevant.
She was represented by CAA before moving to WME in 2013.
Nominated for an Oscar for her role in Lone Scherfig's 2009 coming-of-age tale An Education, Mulligan will be seen this fall in Focus Features' Promising Young Woman, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance.
She will also star in Netflix feature The Dig, opposite Ralph Fiennes. Mulligan, who played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, is also repped by U.K.'s Julian Belfrage and Relevant.
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Carey Mulligan, whose onscreen credits include Wildlife, Suffragette, Drive and An Education, is returning to CAA.
She was represented by CAA before moving to WME in 2013.
Nominated for an Oscar for her role in Lone Scherfig's 2009 coming-of-age tale An Education, Mulligan will be seen this fall in Focus Features' Promising Young Woman, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance.
She will also star in Netflix feature The Dig, opposite Ralph Fiennes. Mulligan, who played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, is also repped by U.K.'s Julian Belfrage and Relevant.
She was represented by CAA before moving to WME in 2013.
Nominated for an Oscar for her role in Lone Scherfig's 2009 coming-of-age tale An Education, Mulligan will be seen this fall in Focus Features' Promising Young Woman, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance.
She will also star in Netflix feature The Dig, opposite Ralph Fiennes. Mulligan, who played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, is also repped by U.K.'s Julian Belfrage and Relevant.
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CAA has signed Dan Stevens. Best known for his work on Downton Abbey and theater work like Broadway’s The Heiress, Stevens next stars in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, alongside Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosnan. He’s also starring with Judi Dench and Isla Fisher in the Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spirit and The Rental, which marks Dave Franco’s feature directing debut.
Stevens had been repped by Wme. He most recently appeared in Call of the Wild and starred in the Noah Hawley Marvel series Legion on FX. This after he appeared in Hawley’s directing debut Lucy In The Sky.
His other work includes HBO’s High Maintenance, Sense & Sensibility, The Line Of Beauty and Maxwell. Stage work includes Arcadia, The Vortex and Hayfever on the West End, and Every Good Boy Deserves A Favor at The National Theatre in London.
Stevens had been repped by Wme. He most recently appeared in Call of the Wild and starred in the Noah Hawley Marvel series Legion on FX. This after he appeared in Hawley’s directing debut Lucy In The Sky.
His other work includes HBO’s High Maintenance, Sense & Sensibility, The Line Of Beauty and Maxwell. Stage work includes Arcadia, The Vortex and Hayfever on the West End, and Every Good Boy Deserves A Favor at The National Theatre in London.
- 5/11/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
With the second season of “The New Pope” about to premiere on HBO, Jude Law has zeroed in on his next TV project, teaming up with one of Hollywood’s most sought-after directors.
Sources tell Variety that Law is in talks to star in Showtime’s limited series “The Auteur,” with “Jojo Rabbit” director Taika Waititi on board to exec produce, as well as direct some of the episodes. Since the show is still in development, it’s unknown how many episodes Waititi would direct. Taika will also co-write the show with Peter Warren.
Law is exec producing the series as well. Showtime had no comment on the project.
Sources say the series, told from the point of view of an eccentric “auteur” played by Law, is a satire on Hollywood. It’s unknown when the show will go into production as Law is about to start shooting the third...
Sources tell Variety that Law is in talks to star in Showtime’s limited series “The Auteur,” with “Jojo Rabbit” director Taika Waititi on board to exec produce, as well as direct some of the episodes. Since the show is still in development, it’s unknown how many episodes Waititi would direct. Taika will also co-write the show with Peter Warren.
Law is exec producing the series as well. Showtime had no comment on the project.
Sources say the series, told from the point of view of an eccentric “auteur” played by Law, is a satire on Hollywood. It’s unknown when the show will go into production as Law is about to start shooting the third...
- 2/15/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Rufus Sewell will portray the reserved, soft-spoken Vernon Presley, the King of Rock and Roll’s father, in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” sources tell Variety.
The Warner Bros. film stars Austin Butler in the title role and Tom Hanks as Elvis Presley’s manger, Colonel Tom Parker.
Luhrmann co-wrote the script with Craig Pearce. The movie revolves around the veteran manager and the young singer, who came from dirt-poor origins to become an icon who changed the course of music history. The project marks Luhrmann’s first film since his 2013 adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He most recently worked on the Netflix series “The Get Down.” Production is expected to start this spring.
Throughout his career, Presley talked about his devotion to his mother, Gladys, constantly calling her his number one girl. The close relationship is said to have continued when the musician’s career took off...
The Warner Bros. film stars Austin Butler in the title role and Tom Hanks as Elvis Presley’s manger, Colonel Tom Parker.
Luhrmann co-wrote the script with Craig Pearce. The movie revolves around the veteran manager and the young singer, who came from dirt-poor origins to become an icon who changed the course of music history. The project marks Luhrmann’s first film since his 2013 adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He most recently worked on the Netflix series “The Get Down.” Production is expected to start this spring.
Throughout his career, Presley talked about his devotion to his mother, Gladys, constantly calling her his number one girl. The close relationship is said to have continued when the musician’s career took off...
- 2/13/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Olivier Award-winning and Tony and Emmy-nominated actor Rufus Sewell has signed with CAA.
Sewell can currently be seen as Sidney Luft opposite Renée Zellweger in Oscar-nominated Judy. He also can be seen in a starring role alongside Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman and Imogen Poots in Florian Zeller’s The Father, which world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews.
His other noteworthy credits include Hamlet, A Knight’s Tale, The Illusionist, The Holiday, Paris Je T’Aime, HBO’s John Adams and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which he was nominated for a 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also starred opposite Jenna Coleman in ITV’s period drama Victoria.
Sewell won the Olivier Award and received a best actor Tony nomination for 2007’s Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Sewell will next be seen opposite Kaya Scodelario in Agatha Christie mystery The Pale Horse for BBC One.
Sewell can currently be seen as Sidney Luft opposite Renée Zellweger in Oscar-nominated Judy. He also can be seen in a starring role alongside Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman and Imogen Poots in Florian Zeller’s The Father, which world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews.
His other noteworthy credits include Hamlet, A Knight’s Tale, The Illusionist, The Holiday, Paris Je T’Aime, HBO’s John Adams and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which he was nominated for a 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He also starred opposite Jenna Coleman in ITV’s period drama Victoria.
Sewell won the Olivier Award and received a best actor Tony nomination for 2007’s Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Sewell will next be seen opposite Kaya Scodelario in Agatha Christie mystery The Pale Horse for BBC One.
- 2/3/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paul Schneider (Channel Zero) and Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones) are set for lead roles opposite Rebecca Hall in Tales From the Loop, Amazon’s hourlong genre series based on the acclaimed sci-fi art of Simon Stålenhag. It comes from writer Nathaniel Halpern, director Mark Romanek, Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho, and Swedish production and management company Indio. Fox 21 Television Studios is co-producing with Amazon Studios.
Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
Schneider will play George, the founder of “The Loop’s” son. Pryce will portray Russ, the founder and leader of the Loop project.
Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
Schneider will play George, the founder of “The Loop’s” son. Pryce will portray Russ, the founder and leader of the Loop project.
- 4/1/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona) has been tapped as the female lead in Tales From the Loop, Amazon’s hourlong genre series based on the acclaimed sci-fi art of Simon Stålenhag. It comes from writer Nathaniel Halpern, director Mark Romanek, Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho, and Swedish production and management company Indio. Fox 21 Television Studios is co-producing with Amazon Studios.
Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
Hall will play Loretta, a gifted physicist.
Halpern, Romanek and Reeves executive produce with The Passage‘s Adam Kassan and Rafi Crohn, along with Indio’s Mattias Montero, Samantha Taylor Pickett,...
Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
Hall will play Loretta, a gifted physicist.
Halpern, Romanek and Reeves executive produce with The Passage‘s Adam Kassan and Rafi Crohn, along with Indio’s Mattias Montero, Samantha Taylor Pickett,...
- 3/1/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Rebecca Hall has been set to star in The Night House, a new horror thriller being directed by David Bruckner. David S. Goyer and Keith Levine are producing via their Phantom Four, with Anton fully financing, executive producing and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Endeavor Content is co-repping U.S. rights with Anton.
Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the script, which centers on a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. The film is set to begin shooting in May. Anton’s newly minted Evp Acquisitions & Co-Productions John Zois will oversee the project. The film is scheduled to shoot in May.
Hall is now in production on Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs. Kong, which is slated for a May 2020 release. Up next for her is Passing, which she adapted and is making her directorial debut on.
Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski penned the script, which centers on a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. The film is set to begin shooting in May. Anton’s newly minted Evp Acquisitions & Co-Productions John Zois will oversee the project. The film is scheduled to shoot in May.
Hall is now in production on Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs. Kong, which is slated for a May 2020 release. Up next for her is Passing, which she adapted and is making her directorial debut on.
- 2/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Henwick is set to join the ensemble cast of Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong,” sources tell Variety.
Adam Wingard is directing the film, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgard, “Deadpool 2” actor Julian Dennison, Rebecca Hall, and “Atlanta’s” Brian Tyree Henry.
Plot details are vague, but the action movie will feature the two titular classic monsters squaring off in some form. Henwick’s character remains unknown at this time.
This marks the fourth movie in the cinematic universe featuring the two famous creatures. The first installment of Legendary’s “MonsterVerse” was 2014’s “Godzilla,” followed by 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island,” which grossed more than $566 million worldwide. A sequel to “Godzilla,” titled “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” with Brown, Kyle Chandler, and Vera Farmiga, is now in production.
“Godzilla vs. Kong” hits theaters on May 22, 2020.
Henwick broke out in “Game of Thrones” as Sand Snake Nymeria Sand, who...
Adam Wingard is directing the film, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgard, “Deadpool 2” actor Julian Dennison, Rebecca Hall, and “Atlanta’s” Brian Tyree Henry.
Plot details are vague, but the action movie will feature the two titular classic monsters squaring off in some form. Henwick’s character remains unknown at this time.
This marks the fourth movie in the cinematic universe featuring the two famous creatures. The first installment of Legendary’s “MonsterVerse” was 2014’s “Godzilla,” followed by 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island,” which grossed more than $566 million worldwide. A sequel to “Godzilla,” titled “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” with Brown, Kyle Chandler, and Vera Farmiga, is now in production.
“Godzilla vs. Kong” hits theaters on May 22, 2020.
Henwick broke out in “Game of Thrones” as Sand Snake Nymeria Sand, who...
- 11/9/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Judi Dench has joined the cast of Universal Pictures and Working Title’s film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats.”
Dench was set to play Grizabella in the original West End production in 1981, but she snapped her Achilles Tendon shortly before previews began and had to withdraw from the show. The project is based on “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot.
Idris Elba joined “Cats” on Oct. 16, adding to a star-studded cast that already included Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, and Taylor Swift. It’s expected that Dench will portray the respected feline Old Deuteronomy in the movie. The character’s name is derived from Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
Dench’s recent credits include “Victoria & Abdul,” The “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” films, “Philomena,” “Skyfall,” and Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” She will...
Dench was set to play Grizabella in the original West End production in 1981, but she snapped her Achilles Tendon shortly before previews began and had to withdraw from the show. The project is based on “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot.
Idris Elba joined “Cats” on Oct. 16, adding to a star-studded cast that already included Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, and Taylor Swift. It’s expected that Dench will portray the respected feline Old Deuteronomy in the movie. The character’s name is derived from Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
Dench’s recent credits include “Victoria & Abdul,” The “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” films, “Philomena,” “Skyfall,” and Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” She will...
- 10/18/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The seven time Oscar nominee and winner of Shakespeare In Love is set to play Deuteronomy we hear in Tom Hooper’s Universal/Working Title adaptation of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Interesting fact: Dench was originally set to play Grizabella in the original West End production in 1981, but she snapped her Achilles’ tendon shortly before previews began and had to withdraw from the show.
In the original musical, Jellicle leader, Old Deuteronomy, is played by a guy, a patriarch who by the end of the night will select a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heaviside Layer, an annual feline tradition. Deuteronomy is a large old Cat who has lived many lives and buried “nine wives,” though that line will have to change in the film. In the musical, bad guy cat Macavity (who it was recently announced Idris Elba will play...
Interesting fact: Dench was originally set to play Grizabella in the original West End production in 1981, but she snapped her Achilles’ tendon shortly before previews began and had to withdraw from the show.
In the original musical, Jellicle leader, Old Deuteronomy, is played by a guy, a patriarch who by the end of the night will select a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heaviside Layer, an annual feline tradition. Deuteronomy is a large old Cat who has lived many lives and buried “nine wives,” though that line will have to change in the film. In the musical, bad guy cat Macavity (who it was recently announced Idris Elba will play...
- 10/18/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Rebecca Hall has set up Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group. Hall has penned the script and will direct in her feature helming debut, with Westworld star Tessa Thompson and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga attached to star in the film.
Margot Hand of Picture Films and Oren Moverman of Sight Unseen are producing, with Angela Robinson serving as executive producer.
First published in 1929, Passing follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, Clare Kendry (Negga) and Irene Redfield (Thompson), whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Larsen, who also wrote the 1928 novel Quicksand, is regarded as a central figure in American modernism, and...
Margot Hand of Picture Films and Oren Moverman of Sight Unseen are producing, with Angela Robinson serving as executive producer.
First published in 1929, Passing follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, Clare Kendry (Negga) and Irene Redfield (Thompson), whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Larsen, who also wrote the 1928 novel Quicksand, is regarded as a central figure in American modernism, and...
- 8/6/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Florence Pugh is set to star in “Herditary” director Ari Aster’s next film, which A24 is producing.
Pugh broke the news while promoting her new BBC drama “Little Drummer Girl” at this week’s Television Critics Association press tour. Production is currently underway in Budapest.
Following the success of “Hereditary,” which recently became A24’s highest-grossing movie with $70 million worldwide, the studio was quick to sign on to finance and distribute Aster’s next film.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Aster also penned the script. Lars Knudsen is producing.
Pugh stars in BBC/AMC’s limited series “Little Drummer Girl” for director Park Chan-Wook. The series, based on a John Le Carré novel and also starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon, premieres in October for eight episodes.
Pugh is also the female lead in Netflix drama “Outlaw King,” which will debut on Nov. 9, directed by David Mackenzie.
Pugh broke the news while promoting her new BBC drama “Little Drummer Girl” at this week’s Television Critics Association press tour. Production is currently underway in Budapest.
Following the success of “Hereditary,” which recently became A24’s highest-grossing movie with $70 million worldwide, the studio was quick to sign on to finance and distribute Aster’s next film.
Plot details are being kept under wraps. Aster also penned the script. Lars Knudsen is producing.
Pugh stars in BBC/AMC’s limited series “Little Drummer Girl” for director Park Chan-Wook. The series, based on a John Le Carré novel and also starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon, premieres in October for eight episodes.
Pugh is also the female lead in Netflix drama “Outlaw King,” which will debut on Nov. 9, directed by David Mackenzie.
- 7/30/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
John Malkovich has signed on to star opposite Jude Law in “The New Pope,” the follow up to Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope,” Variety has learned.
It was previously said that the series, an original production of HBO and Italy’s Sky, will not be a second season of “The Young Pope.” Rather, HBO and Sky described it as Sorrentino’s second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy.
Law starred in “The Young Pope” as Lenny Belardo, who took the name Pius Xiii as he became the first American pope in history. Whether or not Law will reprise that role, given the uncertainty of the character’s future at the end of the first series, is unknown. It is rumored that Malkovich will play the new pontiff, though no official description of either actor’s character has been released.
Malkovich has twice been nominated for...
It was previously said that the series, an original production of HBO and Italy’s Sky, will not be a second season of “The Young Pope.” Rather, HBO and Sky described it as Sorrentino’s second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy.
Law starred in “The Young Pope” as Lenny Belardo, who took the name Pius Xiii as he became the first American pope in history. Whether or not Law will reprise that role, given the uncertainty of the character’s future at the end of the first series, is unknown. It is rumored that Malkovich will play the new pontiff, though no official description of either actor’s character has been released.
Malkovich has twice been nominated for...
- 7/2/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Dan Stevens will play Natalie Portman’s on-screen spouse in Fox Searchlight’s astronaut drama “Pale Blue Dot.”
Portman will portray a married astronaut who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut, played by Jon Hamm. The film explores the theory that astronauts who spend long periods of time in space lose their sense of reality when they come back home.
Zazie Beetz is set to portray an astronaut trainee who also becomes involved with Hamm’s character.
The film reteams Stevens with his “Legion” creator Noah Hawley, who’s directing from a script by Brian C. Brown and Elliott Diguiseppi. Reese Witherspoon, who was initially attached to star, will produce with Bruna Papandrea.
The movie is inspired by a true-life astronaut love triangle in which mission specialist Lisa Nowak was arrested and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman,...
Portman will portray a married astronaut who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut, played by Jon Hamm. The film explores the theory that astronauts who spend long periods of time in space lose their sense of reality when they come back home.
Zazie Beetz is set to portray an astronaut trainee who also becomes involved with Hamm’s character.
The film reteams Stevens with his “Legion” creator Noah Hawley, who’s directing from a script by Brian C. Brown and Elliott Diguiseppi. Reese Witherspoon, who was initially attached to star, will produce with Bruna Papandrea.
The movie is inspired by a true-life astronaut love triangle in which mission specialist Lisa Nowak was arrested and subsequently charged with the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman,...
- 5/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Ralph Fiennes is in talks to join Rebecca Hall, Mark Strong and Saïd Taghmaoui in The Forgiven, the next movie from The Guard and Calvary director John Michael McDonagh, I can reveal.
The English Patient star Fiennes and Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Hall would lead McDonagh’s adaptation of the well-received novel by Lawrence Osborne, about the dramatic fallout following a random accident on the lives of an English couple (Fiennes and Hall), their friends and the local Moroccans who all converge on a luxurious desert villa during a decadent weekend-long party. Production is slated to start early next year in Morocco.
Elizabeth Eves will produce alongside McDonagh through their production company House of Un-American Activities. CAA packaged and is repping U.S. rights, with Imr International handling foreign sales and introducing the film to buyers in Cannes next week.
This was a hot prospect going into the market and Imr,...
The English Patient star Fiennes and Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Hall would lead McDonagh’s adaptation of the well-received novel by Lawrence Osborne, about the dramatic fallout following a random accident on the lives of an English couple (Fiennes and Hall), their friends and the local Moroccans who all converge on a luxurious desert villa during a decadent weekend-long party. Production is slated to start early next year in Morocco.
Elizabeth Eves will produce alongside McDonagh through their production company House of Un-American Activities. CAA packaged and is repping U.S. rights, with Imr International handling foreign sales and introducing the film to buyers in Cannes next week.
This was a hot prospect going into the market and Imr,...
- 5/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jude Law and Carrie Coon are set to star in “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin’s next pic, “The Nest,” sources tell Variety.
The movie is a co-production between FilmNation and BBC Films with Durkin writing and directing. FilmNation and BBC Films are producing along with Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Films.
The film is part psychological thriller, part family drama and follows Law’s character, Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic ’80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family. As the eerie isolation of the house pushes the family further apart, each person descends into a self destructive cycle, leaving everyone...
The movie is a co-production between FilmNation and BBC Films with Durkin writing and directing. FilmNation and BBC Films are producing along with Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Films.
The film is part psychological thriller, part family drama and follows Law’s character, Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic ’80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family. As the eerie isolation of the house pushes the family further apart, each person descends into a self destructive cycle, leaving everyone...
- 4/26/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are set to topline the futuristic adventure thriller "Repossession Mambo" for Universal Pictures.
Miguel Sapochnik, a one-time storyboard artist, will make his feature directorial debut with the film, which centers on a repo man made up of artificial organs who, after receiving a heart transplant, struggles to make payments. He must go on the run from his former partner.
Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner penned the screenplay.
Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are producing through their studio-based shingle.
Universal's Jeffrey Kirschenbaum is overseeing for the studio, which is eyeing a September start date.
Law is no stranger to the sci-fi genre. His credits include "Gattaca", "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". The actor, who most recently appeared in "All the King's Men" and "The Holiday", next appears in "My Blueberry Nights", which unspooled in May at the Festival de Cannes.
Law is repped by Endeavor and attorney Karl Austen. He is additionally repped by Tor Belfrage of Julian Belfrage and Associates and Miguel Sapochnik, Rachel Holroyd and Jenne Casarotto of Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and manager Seth Jaret.
Miguel Sapochnik, a one-time storyboard artist, will make his feature directorial debut with the film, which centers on a repo man made up of artificial organs who, after receiving a heart transplant, struggles to make payments. He must go on the run from his former partner.
Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner penned the screenplay.
Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are producing through their studio-based shingle.
Universal's Jeffrey Kirschenbaum is overseeing for the studio, which is eyeing a September start date.
Law is no stranger to the sci-fi genre. His credits include "Gattaca", "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". The actor, who most recently appeared in "All the King's Men" and "The Holiday", next appears in "My Blueberry Nights", which unspooled in May at the Festival de Cannes.
Law is repped by Endeavor and attorney Karl Austen. He is additionally repped by Tor Belfrage of Julian Belfrage and Associates and Miguel Sapochnik, Rachel Holroyd and Jenne Casarotto of Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and manager Seth Jaret.
- 6/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Alfred Molina is set to star in The Moon and the Stars for director John Irvin. The 10 million ($12.6 million) film, which is set to start shooting early next month in Hungary and Rome, is a co-production among Italy's Buskin Film, U.K.'s Box Film and Hungary's Focus Films. Announced in Cannes by Buskin Films' Antonio Guadalupi, Moon is set in 1939 on the eve of World War II in Italy. The story revolves around a German actress (Catherine McCormack) and an English actor (Jonathan Pryce) who descend on Rome to shoot a film, for which Molina's character serves as producer. As the fascist government tries to shut down production, a triangle of love and jealousy emerges as wartime nationalist tendencies bubble to the surface. Media Pictures is handling international sales for the film. Fabio Carpi is the screenwriter on the project. Molina, McCormack and Pryce are represented by Endeavor. Pryce and McCormack are represented internationally by Julian Belfrage & Associates and Peter Frazier & Dunlop.
- 5/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Billy Connolly is the latest actor to sign on to the highly anticipated feature adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks. Connolly will play Uncle Monty in the Brad Silberling-directed film, which is based on Daniel Handler's children's book series and is set to star Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep and Jude Law. The film follows the Baudelaire orphans on a series of adventures and unfortunate turns while mixing it up with the evil Count Olaf. It was adapted by Handler, with a rewrite by Robert Gordon. Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Albie Hecht and Julia Pistor are producing. Connolly appears in Timeline and The Last Samurai. He also has appeared in such films as White Oleander, The Boondock Saints and An Everlasting Piece. Connolly is repped by Gene Parseghian of Parseghian Planco and Tor Belfrage of Julian Belfrage & Associates.
- 12/8/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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