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Lionsgate has acquired Breeders, an upcoming horror project that has Olivia Cooke (Slow Horses) attached to star, Deadline can confirm. The studio is keeping the film’s logline under wraps. But veteran horror helmer Kelsey Bollig will direct in her feature debut, with Adam McKay and Todd Schulman producing for…

“The U.S. criminal justice system: Once you fall in, it’s almost impossible to get out. But what if you could beat the system at its own game?” Here is the first trailer for Naked Singularity, a heist thriller starring Star Wars’ John Boyega and Ready Player One’s Olivia Cooke from executive producers Ridley Scott and…

For an independently made film, Amazon's Sound of Metal has some remarkably complex and sophisticated technical challenges, including its intricate sound design. "We went for it, " writer-director Darius Marder says of the unique sound work the film called for. "My brother said he wished we had a documentary crew…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s Gary Oldman spy drama Slow Horses has rounded out its cast, with Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke and The Two Popes actor Jonathan Pryce joining a lineup that also includes Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden. See-Saw Films' adaptation of Mick Herron's espionage novels is currently shooting in…

HBO has set three more House of the Dragon leads as Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith and Emma D’Arcy have joined Paddy Considine in the straight-to-series Game of Thrones prequel from George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik. I hear the series has five lead characters: King Viserys Targaryen (Considine), Alicent…

If heavy metal isn’t your bag, and the thought of watching a heroin-addicted musician lose his hearing makes you uncomfortable, do not fear. Both those elements help set the table for the powerful new film Sound of Metal, but this fine movie is so much more than its premise. In fact, with director/co-writer Darius…

EXCLUSIVE: Sound Of Metal, Darius Marder's well-received TIFF premiere, has scored a UK distribution deal with indie releasing outfit Vertigo. Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke star in the pic about a passionate drummer who loses his hearing, upending his world and causing him to struggle with depression and be tempted by…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a U.S. rights deal on Sound of Metal, the Darius Marder-directed drama that stars Nightcrawler‘s Riz Ahmed as a drummer in a band who most come to terms with a new reality of silence when he begins to lose his hearing. Pic also stars Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Lauren Ridloff…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Thoroughbreds), Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse), and Daryl McCormack (A Very English Scandal, Vikings) will star in Pixie, a comedic thriller directed by Oscar nominee Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. Rounding out the cast are Colm Meaney (Lay…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney picked up screenwriter Cat Vasko’s untitled fairy tale project, which is being developed by the parent company’s live-action film team for the Disney+ streaming platform set to launch later this year. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before helmer Susan Johnson has closed her deal to direct the pic with…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke has signed on to star opposite John Boyega In Naked Singularity, the heist fil helmed by first-time feature director Chase Palmer, who also penned the screenplay with David Matthews. Scott Free Productions is producing the pic, which is an adaptation of the same-titled novel by Sergio De La…

Busy times are afoot for Dan Fogelman—well, busier than usual. Preparing to launch the highly anticipated third season of his NBC family drama This is Us in a matter of weeks, the series creator is currently in Toronto on behalf of his second feature directorial outing, Amazon Studios’ Life Itself. Another emotional…