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Lightyear Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to the Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun-directed drama The Etruscan Smile starring Brian Cox. The pic will be released November 1 in New York and Los Angeles just in time for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run. A theatrical rollout is slated for the spring of…

Robert Schenkkan's Broadway-bound The Great Society, his second LBJ play following the celebrated All The Way, has completed casting and set an opening night for Tuesday, October 1 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Joining the previously announced Brian Cox (as Lyndon B. Johnson) will be Marchánt Davis as Stokely…

He may not have sought nor did he accept a return to the White House, but Lyndon B. Johnson is coming back to Broadway: The Great Society, a companion play to Robert Schenkkan’s Tony-winning All The Way, will begin performances in September, with Brian Cox as the 36th President of the United States. Also in the cast…

We thought casting was complete on Neil Gaiman's forthcoming adaptation of Good Omens but it turns out there's more… Brian Cox has joined as the voice of Death. The Succession actor is the latest A-list name to join the Amazon Prime Video original. This comes a month after Sherlock and Patrick Melrose star Benedict…

Mamie Gummer, Madeline Brewer, Violet McGraw and Brian Cox have been added to the cast of Separation, joining Rupert Friend in the pic, a supernatural thriller directed by A Devil Inside helmer William Brent Bell. The film takes on the horrifying consequences of divorce, and is being described as a cross between Kramer…

The Succession is near. HBO today set a 10 PM Sunday, June 3, premiere date for its drama series directed and executive produced by The Big Short's Adam McKay. It revolves around the Roy family  —  Logan Roy and his four children  —  which controls one of the biggest media and entertainment conglomerates in the world…

HBO’s Succession debuting in June, about the uneasy transition of power in a high-profile media family is not about Rupert Murdoch, series creator EP/Showrunner Jesse Armstrong insisted Thursday at TCA, when asked pointedly. Question was understandable given that his much-praised 2011 screenplay about Murdoch became…

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. rights to Churchill, a new drama about Winston Churchill and the 1944 D-Day invasion that turned the tide of World War II in Europe. The plan is to release the Jonathan Teplitzky-directed pic in June, coinciding with the invasion’s anniversary. Brian Cox stars as…

Brian Cox (The Slap), Jeremy Strong (Zero Dark Thirty) and Kieran Culkin (Scott Pilgrim vs The World) are set to star in HBO’s drama pilot Succession. Sarah Snook (Steve Jobs), Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Matthew Macfadyen (Ripper Street) round out the cast of the project, directed and…

EXCLUSIVE: Emile Hirsch (Lone Survivor) and Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity) have signed on to star as co-leads in The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, the English-language debut of Norwegian director Andre Øvredal (Trollhunter). Stuart Ford’s sales-finance-production powerhouse IM Global will fully finance the film through its…

A show about the fallout from when an adult strikes a child is not your standard network fare, but, as I say in my video review above,NBC and the cast and crew of The Slap deserve credit for truly pushing the primetime boundaries with this  drama about just that topic. Debuting February 12 at 8 PM, the eight-episode…

It's not James Bond and there's more grime than glamour, but the latest offering from BBC America is well worth playing. Debuting tonight, spy drama The Game, as my video review says, seductively plugs into our renewed fascination with the intrigues and very high stakes of the Cold War. In this case, it is a Britain…