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From the moment she put down Walter Tevis’ book The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy knew how she would portray chess genius Beth Harmon, who blazes a trail and explodes glass ceilings during the Cold War-era 1960s as a femme champion in the testosterone-dominated game-peg playing world. “I said to myself, ‘If we were…

There may have a staggering snub for I May Destroy You, but overall, the 78th Golden Globes nominations have been ones to savor for British film and TV talent. Deadline has worked out that British-produced projects and stars accounted for more than a quarter of all 125 Golden Globe nominations, cementing the UK…

Among this morning’s list of Golden Globe nominations, a number of double nominees stood out. Surprising few with their appearances here were Nomadland‘s Frances McDormand, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s Sacha Baron Cohen, and Anya Taylor-Joy, an actress who enjoyed perhaps the most celebrated year of her career to…

EXCLUSIVE: While we still don’t know much about David O. Russell’s forthcoming feature for New Regency, Deadline has confirmed that Robert De Niro, Mike Myers, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Shannon, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts and Alessandro Nivola have joined the starry…

"It's extraordinary, but it's particularly extraordinary because we all made this as our passion project," says The Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy of the huge reaction to the Netflix limited series. "We were all so invested in it, but you know you pitch that this is a show about a teenage drug addict and you…

George Miller told Deadline about Furiosa having a deep backstory in the Mad Max universe, and now we’ll finally get to see it: Warner Bros. is in advanced development with Furiosa, a spinoff feature of Miller’s multi-Oscar winning blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road about the renegade character (played in that film by…

EXCLUSIVE: Kat Gosling, the highly respected UK agent whose client list includes Emma star Anya Taylor-Joy, 1917 actor Dean-Charles Chapman, and Devs actress Sonoya Mizuno, is leaving Troika after 10 years at the agency for a new home at United Agents, I can reveal. Gosling is taking her entire client list with her…

Here’s a fun first teaser trailer for Working Title and Focus Features’ update of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma. The social satire and comedy of manners follows the handsome, clever, and rich Emma Woodhouse, a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little English town who adventures through misguided…

BREAKING: Robert Eggers, the director behind the critically acclaimed horror film, The Witch, has potentially assembled a starry cast for his latest project, The Northman, set up at New Regency. Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, The Witch’s Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsgård, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe…

It’s all fun and games until people start to disappear. Well, we’re “100 percent almost sure” about that. Here is the new trailer for Playmobil: The Movie, STXfilms’ animation/live action adaptation of the popular toy line. This is how the game plays out: A top-secret organization has caused citizens from different…

Netflix has ordered six episodes of The Queen’s Gambit, a limited series based on Walter Tevis' novel from two-time Oscar nominee Scott Frank (Godless, Logan), with Anya Taylor-Joy (Split, Glass, The Witch) set to star. Co-written by Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don't Look Now, The Preacher's Wife), The Qu…

EXCLUSIVE: Genius actor and singer/songwriter Johnny Flynn has boarded Focus Features and Working Title’s Emma, the latest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel. Flynn joins Anya Taylor-Joy, who is taking on the title role in the feature film directed by Autumn De Wilde and adapted by Eleanor Catton. Graham…