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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy (Living) and Jeremy Swift (Ted Lasso) have signed on to join the voice cast of CG animated family comedy 10 Lives.  The pair will join already-announced cast members Mo Gilligan (That's My Jam), Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Gir…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year's movie awards races. For his acclaimed Sony Pictures Classics drama Living starring Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy, director Oliver Hermanus adapted Ikiru, the classic 1952…

EXCLUSIVE: Aimee Lou Wood describes the young woman she plays opposite Bill Nighy in the acclaimed movie  Living as the film's "character of life." It's a performance that's been steadily attracting awards season buzz, and is recognized in the BAFTA longlist, announced today. However, Wood says that…

Bill Nighy is one of those actors who seem to be memorable in just about any role, and any time they turn up on screen. His current role of Mr. Williams in the Sony Pictures Classics release Living has brought him to the forefront of the awards season…

After some 50 years in the business, Bill Nighy is used to people getting his surname wrong. It actually rhymes with 'sigh': the 'y' is silent. "My dad was very particular about it," he says, "and for a while, I used to correct people on his behalf, because he couldn't bear it when people said 'Nigh-y'…

"You know you're in a hit when you get messages from people you were at school with or people you haven't heard from in a long time," Bill Nighy said during the Sony Pictures Classics panel for Living at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event.  He continued, "Everyone always says…

Oliver Hermanus's film Living appeared at Toronto with a clutch of prestigious festival slots already under its belt, having premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and followed that with  appearance in Venice and Telluride. A period film set in '50s London, it stars Bill Nighy as an office worker forced to come to…

EXCLUSIVE: Viva Kids has acquired North American distribution rights to Dragonkeeper, the animated action-adventure film from Spanish firm Guardián de Dragones and China Film Animation. Hulu will release domestically after the film’s theatrical bow, which is slated for August 2023. Based on the first book in Carole…

The Venice film festival hasn't been short of dramatic performances on screen, but also offscreen on the red carpet. Stars like Ana De Armas, Cate Blanchette, Timothée Chalamet, Tessa Thompson, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Mia Goth all showcased bold designs throughout the fest’s 10-day run at the premiers for Tár; Don't Wo…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time BAFTA winner Bill Nighy is joining the Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo high concept thriller Role Play from Studiocanal, Picture Company and Amazon Prime Video. Nighy steps in for Billy Bob Thornton who had to depart the project due to a scheduling conflict, we hear. The Thomas Vincent directed pic…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale. That’s all we got. "Maybe they're not a bundle of laughs, but they're not bent on the destruction of all living things either," Bill Nighy's Thomas Newton says in tonight's The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale of…

EXCLUSIVE: It's all coming down to "The Man Who Sold the World” on The Man Who Fell to Earth. Named after David Bowie's 1970 song, the season finale of Chiwetel Ejiofor-Naomie Harris sci-fi drama promises secrets are revealed and decisions have to be made. As you can see in the exclusive clip from the July 3 airing…