The Limehouse Golem, produced by Stephen Woolley and starring Billy Nighy and Olivia Cooke, has been picked up for U.S. theatrical release by RLJ Entertainment. The thriller, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, will be released into theaters and on VOD Sept. 8. Based on the novel Dan Leno and the Li…

Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem received a rollicking Ryerson roll-out this week, injecting much-needed genre thrills into the Toronto Film Festival program, outside the Midnight Madness section. Based on Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 book, the story is a fictionalized account of a Jack the Ripper-esque serial killer…

Danish director Lone Scherfig continues her path to British citizenship with Their Finest, which took its world premiere bow at the Toronto Film Festival this past weekend. It’s her fourth British film in a row, after An Education, One Day and The Riot Club, and follows a group of characters in wartime London as they…

EXCLUSIVE: The Limehouse Golem, from Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films, has its world premiere on Saturday as a Special Presentation in Toronto. The gothic murder mystery is written by Jane Goldman based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel Dan Leno And The Limeshouse Golem. It’s set in an atmospheric…

Following a pattern set by the original 1996 production and last spring’s West End revival, David Hare’s Skylight has paid off its Broadway capitalization costs in under two months. The producers, led by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin, declined to reveal how much they had raised to transfer the drama, starring Bill Nighy…

EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are set to star in Their Finest Hour And A Half, with Lone Scherfig (An Education) directing. BBC Films developed and co-finances the film, which is being produced by…

Bill Nighy returns to David Hare’s plays in this new revival of his 1996 work Skylight and, as I say in my video review above, it’s a very good thing. Nighy and co-star Carey Mulligan have a brilliant vehicle worthy of their complementary talents. The play is directed by Stephen Daldry (perhaps better known for his…

Bill Nighy made his Broadway debut almost a decade ago in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour. He returns in Skylight, an earlier but better Hare play from 1996, and it’s cause for celebration. In a season marked by alpha stars in beta plays (Bradley Cooper in The Elephant Man; Hugh Jackman in The River), Nighy and co-star…

UPDATE, 3 PM: Fixes gross, number of previews, for Something Rotten, below. Twelve shows were in previews last week and one departed on a high note: Roundabout Theatre Company’s revived revival (so glad I won’t have to type that anymore, but still…) of Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall’s memorable Cabaret ended its run at…

Pray for the puppet. In an up week that saw eight new shows previewing on Broadway, several looked like early contenders for the pre-Tony homestretch, while others already bore signs of a coming struggle to stay in the race. Out front for Week 43 of the Broadway season that ended Sunday were Finding Neverland, the…

And we’re off to the races, folks, with six new Broadway shows in previews and more to come before the April 23 deadline for 2014-15 season Tony Awards eligibility. Stars rule, with cash flashers flocking to see Larry David dither in his Fish In The Dark and Helen Mirren’s Queen Elizabeth spar with her prime ministers…

Stars, revivals, and musicals conjured from films will continue to dominate Broadway in the coming months, as sure as rising ticket prices and limited runs. The resulting high expectations were frequently met in 2014, if sometimes with accompanying scratching of head and furrowing of brow. Jez Butterworth's slim…