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EXCLUSIVE: Amy Seimetz, who was set to direct all episodes of HBO's upcoming music industry drama series The Idol, is leaving the project. Deadline understands that The Girlfriend Experience series co-creator Seimetz was one of the high-profile crew to leave the series, which comes from The Weeknd and Sam Levinson…

Neon has acquired worldwide rights to She Dies Tomorrow, the apocalyptic existential thriller from Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience co-creator Amy Seimetz, which was an official selection of this year’s SXSW Film Festival before the Austin event was canceled. The movie stars Seimetz's frequent collaborator Kate Lyn…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Seimetz has joined the cast of the CBS Studios miniseries based on the James Comey bestseller A Higher Loyalty. The co-creator and exec producer of the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience, Seimetz will play the role of Trisha Anderson, the No. 2 lawyer at the FBI’s Office of General Counsel amidst…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Messina (Argo) and Amy Seimetz (Pet Sematary) have joined previously announced stars Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) and Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad) in revenge-thriller The Secrets We Keep. Production commences tomorrow on the film from director Yuval Adler (The Operative) and writer Ryan…

If you have read Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, then it probably freaked you out. If you watched the 1989 film adaptation directed by Mary Lambert then you probably were freaked out even more (remember how creepy Zelda was?). Now, the new 2019 iteration starring Jason Clarke and John Lithgow will continue the tradition…

FX Productions has signed multihyphenate Amy Seimetz to an overall production deal. The writer, director, producer and actress will develop new TV projects exclusively for the company. Seimetz has become an important voice in indie cinema and television during the past decade. She has appeared in and/or worked on more…

Alien: Covenant‘s Amy Seimetz has landed the female lead opposite Jason Clarke and John Lithgow in Pet Sematary, Paramount Pictures’ remake of the 1989 horror film based on the bestselling Stephen King novel. Starry Eyes helmers Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer are directing the film, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Steven…

Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano in Season 2 of Epix's dark comedy series Get Shorty. Seimetz will play Jinny, a mysterious love interest for Miles (O'Dowd) who performs a strange, new-age "crystal ceremony" and could open doors to an…

Meeting actresses Molly Shannon and Susan Ziegler while in college at NYU, playwright and film director Madeleine Olnek years ago found the foundation for what would become the group’s latest feature, Wild Nights with Emily. Premiering at SXSW, the comedy stars Shannon as Emily Dickinson, painting an altogether…

When Steven Soderbergh originally approached filmmakers Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz for the cable TV version of his film The Girlfriend Experience, it was, in itself, an experiment – neither filmmaker knew or had worked with each other before. Luckily, the gamble paid off, and when the chance to collaborate came…

Sitting down at Deadline’s Toronto Studio to promote Tali Shalom-Ezer’s third feature, My Days of Mercy, actresses Ellen Page, Kate Mara and Amy Seimetz are among the busiest working today, if their TIFF tally is any reflection. In addition to the Israeli director’s intimate drama, each actress has another project…

Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience) has joined the cast of Mating, Showtime’s half-hour comedy pilot from Jason Katims and Stu Zicherman and starring Taran Killam and Jim Belushi. Mating (working title) centers on Jay (Killam), a recently divorced guy who married young and now finds himself completely unprepared…