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Since the Cannes Market title They Are Us was announced late last week with Rose Byrne poised to play Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, there has been an outcry among many New Zealanders who believe a still-raw tragedy would be exploited by Hollywood storytellers. Criticisms include inferring that the 2019 attack on the…

Rose Byrne is set to play New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in upcoming title They Are Us. Andrew Niccol will write and direct the project, which focuses on the week following the 2019 Christchurch attacks on New Zealand's Muslim community.  Glen Basner's FilmNation Entertainment is shopping the project to…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired U.S. and some foreign rights to Anon, the Andrew Niccol-directed thriller that stars Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried, Colm Feore and Sonya Walger. Word around King Street is that deal came in at $4 million. The picture was one of several that CAA screened last Thursday in Toronto, just…

Sierra/Affinity will launch international sales for writer-director Andrew Niccol's sci-fi thriller Anon at the Cannes Film Market next month. The film stars Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried and is slated for a 2017 release. Owen plays Sal Frieland, a detective in a world with no privacy, ignorance or anonymity where…

EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Seyfried is re-uniting with her In Time director Andrew Niccol to star in Anon opposite Clive Owen. K5 Film is producing. Seyfried and Niccol previously worked together on the director's 2011 dystopian thriller opposite Justin Timberlake. She most recently starred in Ted 2 opposite director-star Seth…

EXCLUSIVE:  Clive Owen is set to star in Andrew Niccol’s Anon, a psychological thriller with sci-fi elements. Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur’s K5 Media Group and K5 Film are producing and financing. Owen, so good recently as the drug-addled doctor in Cinemax’s The Knick for director Steven Soderbergh, plays a detective…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Andrew Niccol's Good Kill, which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival to a mix of boos and cheers owing to its hot-button subject matter. Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood and Jake Abel stars. The timely pic, which Niccol wrote and directed, centers…

Andrew Niccol‘s Venice Competition title Good Kill has its World Premiere gala here tonight before heading to Toronto. It screened for press this morning to a mix of applause, and some boos. But reviews have thus far been generally positive for the story of an Air Force drone pilot (Ethan Hawke) who spends the day…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Niccol has cast and a title for his upcoming directorial project. He’s named the picture Good Kill, and Mad Men‘s January Jones has signed on to star as the wife of a fighter pilot-turned-drone operator. Ethan Hawke — who worked with Niccol in Gattaca and Lord Of War — is playing the pilot, Zoe…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer/director Andrew Niccol has found his next film, and set a familiar face to anchor it. Ethan Hawke is in talks to star for the third time in a Niccol film. This time, he’ll play a fighter pilot in the untitled thriller who  becomes a Las Vegas-based drone pilot. He fights the Taliban by remote control…

“This is the future and humanity is all but extinct” in The Twilight Saga creator’s next novel-to-movie adaptation. Here’s a glimpse of the tale of alien possession with commentary by Meyer and stars Saoirse Ronan and Max Irons. Andrew Niccol directed The Host which also stars Diane Kruger and Jake Abel. The Open Road…

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con. Today’s Twilight panel screened the first seven minutes of final installment and it looks as wildly over the top as director Bill Condon’s previous installment. As promised there was a first glimpse of The Host, based on another of Twilight author St…