EXCLUSIVE: White Boy Rick and The Diary of a Teenage Girl actress Bel Powley has landed the female lead in the Judd Apatow directed Pete Davidson comedy at Universal. Powley can next be seen opposite Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston in Apple’s The Morning Show. Airing in the UK this month, she’s part of an…

White Boy Rick co-star Bel Powley has been cast opposite Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell in Apple’s untitled morning show drama. Karen Pittman (Luke Cage) and Desean Terry (Shameless) have also joined as series regulars in a cast that already includes Billy Crudup, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nestor…

One of the sublime performances in Studio 8/Sony’s White Boy Rick belongs to British actress Bel Powley, who portrays Dawn Wershe, the sister of Detroit teen-turned-drug-dealer/government informant Rick Wershe Jr. Yet while Rick initially lifts the family out of its financial problems before getting arrested, Dawn…

Bel Powley (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will join the previously announced Michael Cera, Chris Evans, and Brian Tyree Henry, to complete the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, directed by Trip Cullman. The revival will mark the re-opening of Second Stage Theater’s Broadway flagship, the refurbished Helen Hayes…

Going to Harvard at age 14 and writing “several strongly worded letters to oil companies” at age 6 doesn’t classify as normal, and from The Orchard’s newly released trailer for its upcoming film Carrie Pilby, Carrie’s life does indeed seem anything but conventional. The Susan Johnson-directed coming-of-age comedy is…

Carrie Pilby, the Bel Powley-starring pic that The Orchard acquired in the fall after its bow at the Toronto Film Festival, will hit theaters March 31, the distributor said today. It will be followed by a digital and VOD release April 4. The movie, directed by Susan Johnson and written by Kara Holden who adapted Caren…

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…

The Orchard has acquired North American rights to Carrie Pilby, the Susan Johnson-helmed comedy that stars Bel Powley and bowed at the Toronto Film Festival. The Orchard plans an early 2017 release. Radiant Films International is repping foreign rights this week at the American Film Market. Based on Caren Lissner’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray's Maven Pictures is teaming with Going Clear producer Jacqui Lewis to produce a film adaptation of Zelda la Grange's bestselling book Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. The story charts the unlikely but true story of la Grange’s friendship and career with former President Nelson Mand…

EXCLUSIVE: British actor Ben Hardy has joined the cast of director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Storm In The Stars opposite Elle Fanning, Bel Powley and Douglas Booth. The project is a dramatization of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft — which resulted in Mary writing Frankenstei…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s sales and finance team IM Global is leaving Berlin with a bucketload of deals across the company’s diverse slate, including a major one with Japanese distributor Kadokawa Pictures for Martin Scorsese’s Silence, starring Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson. That is a particularly significant deal…

UPDATE: Along with her production shingle news, Jessica Chastain is in early talks to star in Molly’s Game, playing the title role in the Aaron Sorkin-directed adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir that Mark Gordon is producing with Amy Pascal. EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain has launched Freckle Films, a new production…