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Kill List director Ben Wheatley has created a Brexit zombie drama for UK's Channel 4 – his first television project since directing episodes of Doctor Who. The broadcaster has commissioned six-part series Generation Z. It will feature "rapacious" baby boomers and "disaffected" teenagers at each other's…

Bodyguard's Keeley Hawes, The Handmaid's Tale's Ann Dowd, Control's Sam Riley and Game of Thrones' Ben Crompton are to join Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. The actors join Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James and Armie Hammer in the film, which is produced by Working Title for Netflix. Kingsman…

Ben Wheatley's (Free Fire) seventh feature, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, will air in the UK on BBC Two over Christmas after its London Film Festival (Oct 10-21) world premiere. Following LFF, the comedy-drama will screen around the UK in a limited run of Q&A sessions and will forego a theatrical run in favour of a…

EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer will star with Alicia Vikander in the Ben Wheatley-directed Freakshift, the action thriller about a band of misfit cops who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters. She’s the lead female protagonist and Hammer plays her love interest, with production gearing up for August. This marks…

EXCLUSIVE: Alicia Vikander is in talks to star in Ben Wheatley's hotly anticipated project Freakshift, an all-guns-blazing action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters. Should the deal make, the much-in-demand Vikander would play the lead female protagonist in the…

John Butler's Handsome Devil has been set to close the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, on February 26, 2017. It will mark the Irish premiere of the comedy-drama. The festival is kicking off next year’s edition in Ireland’s capital on February 16. Additionally, the fest has added Neasa Ni Chianáin's…

UPDATE: Deadline hears that while all the deals have to be made on Hard Boiled, Warner Bros is looking for Ben Wheatley to develop the action film as a potential vehicle for The Avengers and The Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston. We should know soon how all this works out. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is…

A24’s Free Fire, the shoot ’em up by British director Ben Wheatley and starring Best Actress Oscar winner Brie Larson, will hit theaters nationwide March 17. In addition to unveiling the release date, the distributor dropped a poster for the movie today. The pic made its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section…

Last year at the Toronto Film Festival, we saw Brie Larson as a single mother holed up with her small child in Room, the emotional drama that delivered the actress a Best Actress Oscar win after the film notched the festival’s People's Choice Award. Well, this year, Larson is locked up in a different kind of room…

Making its European premiere, Ben Wheatley’s anticipated Free Fire has been set as the closing night gala of the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The period action thriller is the latest from the Sightseers, A Field In England and High-Rise helmer. Martin Scorsese, who previously lent his name to the U.S. release of A Fi…

EXCLUSIVE: British director Ben Wheatley, one of the hottest filmmakers coming through right now, is in talks to write and direct a remake of the classic thriller The Wages Of Fear. Wheatley’s wife and frequent collaborator Amy Jump would co-write the project, which is still in the early stages of development. David…

UPDATE, 9:57 AM: Alchemy has confirmed our scoop on the Free Fire deal and said it plans a U.S. theatrical release in 2016. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, WEDNESDAY AM: In one of the most competitive and splashiest deals out of an otherwise lukewarm American Film Market, Alchemy is closing on Ben Wheatley’s much-anticipated Free…