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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot new transatlantic project to start 2021: The Morning Show star Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set to be cast as the lead in a BBC adaptation of JP Delaney's best-selling psychological thriller The Girl Before. Deadline can reveal that 42, the UK production outfit behind Netflix’s The English Game and the…

PACT Appointments UK producers group PACT has appointed See-Saw Films' TV chief Hakan Kousetta as Pact Chair for the next two years. Kousetta succeeds All3Media COO, Sara Geater, who stands down at the end of the year having served the maximum four-year term as Chair. During her tenure, Geater has overseen Pact's…

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest high-profile exit from UK agency Troika (now known as YMU Drama and Comedy), the firm’s Director & Head Of Comedy Sophie Chapman has joined management outfit 42. Respected rep Chapman spent six years at Troika and before that 12 years at Avalon. She specialises in comedy, with clients…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Troika talent agent and partner Gary O'Sullivan and Troika agent Ellie Martin-Sperry have joined fellow UK rep firm 42 as managers. O'Sullivan was an agent and partner at Troika for 13 years and previously worked in casting with well-known UK casting directors John and Ros Hubbard, whom he now…

EXCLUSIVE: UK and LA-based management and production firm 42 has appointed Heather Rabbatts as non-executive chair to the board. Rabbatts' prolific career spans a number of different sectors including law, sports, government and media. She is currently MD of film and TV production company Cove Pictures, where she…

UPDATE: In celebration of Chadwick Boseman's life and his work, 42, in which he portrayed MLB’s first Black ballplayer Jackie Robinson, will be booked at 740 locations nationwide at AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Alamo Drafthouse, Marcus, Harkins and other chains. AMC has 42 booked at 300 of its locations, starting Thursday…

EXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with new LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero's play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation. Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm…

Six years ago I wrote a piece titled “All White At The Top,” asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives. I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Will Dunn has been tapped by Warner Bros to adapt Ray Bradbury’s 1972 fantasy novel The Halloween Tree.  Los Angeles- and London-based management and production company 42 are producing the feature film adaptation with Charlie Morrison overseeing the project. Dunn was a member of 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War star Letitia Wright is set to lead cast in Agnieszka Smoczynska's (Fugue) English-language debut The Silent Twins. Wright will star alongside rising Brit actress Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song) in the movie which is being produced by Kindred Spirit's Anita Gou (The Fa…

EXCLUSIVE: London and LA-based production and management firm 42 is on a roll. Latest movie Ironbark, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was yesterday snapped up by Lionsgate at Sundance in a mid-seven figure deal, while feel-good comedy pic Military Wives was one of the sparkier U.S. acquisitions at Toronto. Today, we…

MGM Television has struck a first-look deal with British management and production company 42, the business behind the latest adaptation of Watership Down and Channel 4 and Netflix drama Traitors. The two companies have inked the multi-year production deal to identify and co-develop scripted series for the U.S…