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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired Cyrano, a musical film adaptation that will bring four-time Emmy winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage back in the title role he played onstage, and Haley Bennett reprising as Roxanne that she played alongside him at the Goodspeed Opera House’s Terris Theatre in 2018. The film will be…

Cutting deep into cable viewership on Sunday night, the wound on Cynthia Erivo's character's arm in the mid-credits scene of the finale of The Outsider was just the latest but surely not last twist in the tale of the HBO miniseries based on Stephen King's 2018 novel. Coming in with a season high of 1.37 million…

HBO premiered The Outsider on January 12 and it serves another helping of Stephen King fare translated to TV.  In it, Cynthia Erivo plays private investigator Holly Gibney who uses her uncanny abilities to help police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn, who was unable to attend TCA as he was sick with pneumonia…

Let’s get it straight right away: When I went to see the new Fox/Blue Sky animated film Spies in Disguise, I was not expecting a whole lot, despite a pretty interesting and eclectic voice cast and a great title. The fact that Disney, king of the toons, inherited this as part of its takeover of 20th Century Fox meant…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Bloodline and Captain Marvel actor Ben Mendelsohn for representation in all areas. Mendelsohn can be seen next in David Michôd’s dramatic feature The King at Netflix opposite Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson. He will also appear in Shannon Murphy's dramedy Babyteeth. Both are set to…

It is certainly not in the league with Black Panther, but Marvel set the bar for superhero comic book movies pretty high with that Best Picture Oscar nominee, the first of its genre to be so honored. Still, I expected a little more from Captain Marvel, which stars Brie Larson as the first female Marvel character to…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen's Freestyle Digital Media has picked up the North American distribution rights to Untogether, the Emma Forrest directorial debut film starring Jamie Dornan (50 Shades Of Grey), Jemima Kirke (HBO's Girls), Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One), Lola Kirke (Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle), and Billy Crystal (W…

HBO has given a series order to supernatural drama The Outsider, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, with Ben Mendelsohn set to star and produce. The project, which marks Mendelsohn’s return to TV following his Emmy-winning turn on Bloodline, hails from The Night Of co-creator/executive producer Richard Price…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation), DJ and music producer DJ Khaled and Masi Oka (Hawaii Five-0) have joined Will Smith and Tom Holland in the voice cast of Fox’s animated film Spies In Disguise. Directed by Epic animator Nick Bruno…

For Ben Mendelsohn, identifying with a man in crisis is something that comes with ease. “It's a pretty regularly occurring thing, these at-some-point-in-your-life crises,” the actor told Deadline today. “I have a three-times-a-year one—every trimester.” Appearing alongside Nicole Holofcener and Thomas Mann, Mendelsohn…

Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily-Rose Depp are joining Timothée Chalamet and Joel Edgerton in Netflix’s feature The King, which begins shoot in the UK tomorrow [June 1]. Director David Michôd’s (War Machine) drama is based on classic Shakespeare plays Henry The IV [Parts 1 and 2] and Henry V…

Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to Oz pic Babyteeth, which will star Ben Mendelsohn (Ready Player One) and Essie Davis (The Babadook). Production is due to get underway this summer on the Screen Australia-backed movie which is set to be directed…