Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer and Evangeline Lilly have been set to star in thriller Dreamland, billed as the first theatrical feature to tackle the international opioid crisis. Arbitrage‘s Nicholas Jarecki will direct from his original script. Lisa Wilson is handling foreign sales through her Solution Entertainment Group…

Deadline's studio at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Day 2 at Hotel Park City by hosting fest-goers including Emma Roberts of Paradise Hill, Jon Hamm of The Report, Armie Hammer of Wounds, Naomi Watts of Luce and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more galleries and…

It’s been a circuitious road to theaters for Hotel Mumbai, but now we have the first trailer for the film about the 2008 terrorist attack in India’s largest city. Check it out above. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Anupam Kher, and Jason Isaacs star in the film from director Anthony…

While Ruth Bader Ginsburg origin story On the Basis of Sex is Mimi Leder's first feature in 18 years, it isn't a return. In the mind of the director, who was making groundbreaking television long before it was in vogue, she never really left. When she struggled to land a feature after the commercial underperformance…

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again star Lily James and Armie Hammer, who stars in the upcoming On the Basis of Sex film, have signed on as leads in Rebecca, a feature adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic, romantic, gothic thriller. British director Ben Wheatley is helming the pic which is set up at Netflix and Working Ti…

In the beginning of the new trailer for the Mimi Leder-directed On the Basis of Sex, Felicity Jones is seen as the trailblazing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her days at Harvard Law School. When a man (Sam Waterston) leading a welcome dinner asks the women why they are taking the spot that could’ve have…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Welcome to a new Oscar season of Notes on the Season, my weekly column and roundup of various events and interviews from the endless awards circuit. For the next few months, right up to Oscar night February 24, look to this space for all kinds of fun…

This awards season — to quote Sam Cooke — a change is gonna come, courtesy of Focus Features. Today at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, the distributor presented two of its timely contenders in Boy Erased (which bowed in theaters Friday) and AFI Fest opener On the Basis of Sex, dramas that concern themselves…

EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer has been set as a male lead in Death on the Nile, 20th Century Fox’s follow-up to last year’s successful Agatha Christie adaptation Murder on the Orient Express. Hammer, next up in the December release of Focus Features’ Ruth Bader Ginsberg biopic On the Basis of Sex with Felicity Jones, now…

Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider, names and faces well-known to film and TV audiences, make self-assured Broadway debuts in Straight White Men. No sarcasm about artistic stretches or the lack thereof necessary. Young Jean Lee's delicate balance of a play, directed by Anna D. Shapiro with a more sensitive…

If and when Lantern Capital's acquisition of The Weinstein Company is totally complete in the next few weeks, one thing the private-equity firm will not own is Hotel Mumbai. Just under two months after producers of the Dev Patel and Armie Hammer starring film about the 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel went af…

Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) will round out the Broadway cast of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, joining, among others, Josh Charles and Armie Hammer. In the play – which begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater June 29 – Schneider will play…