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EXCLUSIVE: Eternals and American Animals star Barry Keoghan is set to lead new UK drama-thriller Sapphire, from writer-directors Daniel and Matthew Wolfe, and Small Axe and Benediction producer Mike Elliott. Rising Irish actor Keoghan will play a world-champion snooker player plagued by gambling addiction who escapes…

Bankside is launching world sales at the EFM on WWI movie Benediction. Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies' upcoming biopic. Shoot is due to get underway next month in the UK. Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising actresses Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) and Lana Condor (X-Men: Apocalypse) are attached to star in female buddy comedy Girls Night, written by Cristina Kinon (Bravo’s Adulting) and to be directed by multi-hyphenate Marianna Palka (G.L.O.W). Pic follows unlikely best friends, college seniors, Alex…

EXCLUSIVE: Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water), Cillian Murphy (Inception), Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) and Raffey Cassidy (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) are to voice the animated adaptation of War Horse scribe Michael Morpurgo’s novel Kensuke’s Kingdom. The children’s book tells the story of Michael, who is taken…

EXCLUSIVE: Justice League and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Ezra Miller will play the young Salvador Dali in Mary Harron’s upcoming biopic Dali Land. Miller, also well known for starring in Cannes Film Festival dramas We Need To Talk About Kevin and Afterschool, will play the young Dalí through a series…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is sure to be one of the prestige titles on sale at Cannes next month, I can reveal that screen heavyweights Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville are to star in upcoming love story Normal People, which is due to get underway in early July on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland. CAA, which packaged the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tribeca-bound UK feature Jellyfish has been picked up for international sales by Bankside Films. The hard-hitting drama about a teenage carer who discovers a hidden talent for stand-up comedy is the first feature from James Gardner, an allum of the UK’s prestigious National Film and Television School from a…

EXCLUSIVE: Octavia Spencer is set to join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the upcoming drama A Kid Like Jake, directed by Silas Howard. Priyanka Chopra, Ann Dowd and Michaela Watkins are in negotiations to join the film as well. Parsons, Todd Spiewak and Eric Norsoph will produce via their That's Wonderful Productions…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane are set to star in an untitled project from The Handmaid's Tale and Meadowland director Reed Morano, written by The Kids Are All Right scribe Stuart Blumberg. The project (formerly known as First Chair) marks the first film developed by London-based international sales and film…

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Helms, Jack Huston and Bel Powley are set to star in Stand By, the second film from Armando Bo, Alejandro G. Inárritu's longtime collaborator. Bankside Films is launching foreign sales on the title, Bo’s first English-language directorial effort, this week at the American Film Market. UTA's Independent…