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EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Relic, the thriller that world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was slated to be part of the Midnighters section of the recently canceled SXSW. The directorial debut of Natalie Erika James stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote and Australian…

EXCLUSIVE: Bella Heathcote (Strange Angel, The Man in the High Castle) is set to headline Pieces of Her, Netflix’s dramatic thriller series based on the 2018 book by bestselling crime author Karin Slaughter. Heathcote will star opposite Toni Collette in the eight-episode series, which comes from an all-female creative…

The first feature from writer/director Natalie Erika James, Relic was inspired by a trip to Japan in 2014. While visiting her grandmother, who was succumbing to dementia, James was stunned to experience that first moment when the woman she knew and loved couldn't remember who she was. "There was a lot of guilt…

Two quotes from the Season 2 trailer for Strange Angel that spotlight the dichotomy of the CBS All Access period drama that melds science and the occult: “It’s not just about winning this war — it’s about winning every war to come,” and, “There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times — a feast for life and…

Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote have been set to star in Relic, the feature film directing debut of Natalie Erika James. The pic is being produced by Carver Films' Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, and Nine Stories' Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker. The executive producers are Anthony Russo, Joe Russo and…

CBS All Access is giving us the first look at Strange Angel, its drama series from Mark Heyman that stars Jack Reynor as an early rocket scientist who gets tangled up with Aleister Crowley. Check out the first-look trailer above and poster below. The series is based on the true story of Jack Parsons (Reynor), a…

Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle) has been cast as the female lead opposite Jack Reynor in CBS All Access' drama series Strange Angel from Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions and CBS TV Studios. Created by Mark Heyman based on George Pendle's book of the same name, Strange Angel is inspired by the…

Timing is everything. With the blockbuster success of this summer’s Wonder Woman plus a resurgence of interest in the female comic book icon, it looks like now is the perfect moment for an origin tale of where Wonder Woman came from. But as I say in my video review of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (click the…

In Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, writer-director Angela Robinson brings the fascinating — and provocative — life of the titular Harvard psychologist and creator of the superhero Wonder Woman, Dr. William Moulton Marston to the big screen. Amidst the bells and whistles of CG-laden, fantastical Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: Bella Heathcote has been set to join the cast of Fifty Shades Darker, the second installment of the trilogy based on E L James' worldwide bestselling Fifty Shades Of Grey book series. Heathcote, who starred in Dark Shadows, opens today in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. James Foley is directing both Fifty S…

As production nears, Nicolas Winding Refn continues rounding out his cast for The Neon Demon, the horror tale that’s being co-financed and co-distributed by Gaumont and Wild Bunch. Deadline reported last week that Abbey Lee was the director’s choice to join Elle Fanning in the female-led scarer. Gaumont and Wild Bunch…

EXCLUSIVE: American Horror Story‘s Evan Peters and Not Fade Away‘s Bella Heathcote are set to star in The Preppie Connection, the next film by The War Within helmer Joe Castelo. Based on a true story, The Preppie Connection chronicles the exploits of a group of Choate private school students who ran a drug…