EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning director Daniel Sackheim has signed on as executive producer and director of HBO’s upcoming straight-to-series drama Lovecraft Country. Additionally, Abbey Lee has joined as a series regular in a recasting, and Jamie Chung and Jordan Patrick Smith are set for recurring roles on the high-profile…

When coming up with the concept for his latest film writer/director Sebastian Guitierrez turned to a 17th-century French folktale. Elizabeth Harvest follows newlywed Elizabeth, who arrives with her scientist husband Henry (Ciaran Hinds) to his magnificent estate. Henry explains that everything in his world now belongs…

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian Gutierrez returns to Austin for the fourth time to debut a film of his — this one is the sleek looking Elizabeth Harvest, a Gothic-vibed sci-fi pic starring Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Abbey Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Matthew Beard and longtime Gutierrez collaborator Carla Gugino. The riff on the Bluebeard…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Lee, last seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, has been set to co-star in Office Christmas Party opposite Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, TJ Miller and Kate McKinnon. Will Speck and Josh Gordon are directing the script by Laura Solon. Scott Stuber, Guymon Casady and Daniel Rappaport are producing. Lee will…

UPDATE: Readers are questioning the name of the character that Lee plays. That’s what I heard they were calling this major character, and for die hard fans, I can tell you a few character qualities: she’s sexy and dangerous, she has fake human skin and cold snake-like eyes. She doesn’t come in until the seventh…

EXCLUSIVE: Now that Channing Tatum has been set for Fox’s Rupert Wyatt-directed X-Men spinoff Gambit, the studio is working on locking his female lead. This is a hotly contested job, the role of Belladonna Boudreaux aka Bella, and they’ve got a trio of the best and brightest testing next week. I’m hearing that Rebecca…

As production nears, Nicolas Winding Refn continues rounding out his cast for The Neon Demon, the horror tale that’s being co-financed and co-distributed by Gaumont and Wild Bunch. Deadline reported last week that Abbey Lee was the director’s choice to join Elle Fanning in the female-led scarer. Gaumont and Wild Bunch…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Lee is Nicolas Winding Refn’s choice to star with Elle Fanning in his next film The Neon Demon, and she’s negotiating to play the role of Sarah. This comes after the Australian supermodel-turned-actress co-starred in George Miller’s Mad Max for Warner Bros and Gods Of Egypt for Summit/Lionsgate. In Neo…