EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Richard E. Grant, who along with co-star Melissa McCarthy is Oscar nominated for the forger tale Can You Ever Forgive Me? The agency will rep him in all areas.

It was clear that the veteran actor might get a second wind after the Marielle Heller-directed drama played Telluride last fall. Beyon…

While Jeff Whitty would write the first four drafts of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, summoning a screenplay from a memoir, he wasn’t anticipating the assignment. A Tony Award winner known at that point for Avenue Q—a raunchy and witty puppet musical, which has had a long run, on and off Broadway—the aptly named Whitty was…

If there's a takeaway from this awards season, it's that true stories are back with a vengeance. For proof, look no further than Rosamund Pike as war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush in Vice, Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley in Green Book, Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee…

She’s played a boss, a spy, a cop, a Ghostbuster, a plagiarist and famously a White House press secretary, and now the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has applied its 2019 career honor to Melissa McCarthy. The star of last year’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? will be presented with its Distinguished Artisan Award at…

Green Book and Roma lead the nominees for the AARP’s 18th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, nabbing four noms apiece. They will vie for Best Picture against BlackKklansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and A Star is Born.

Interestingly, only one star from any of those films — Green Book‘s Viggo Mortensen — will vie in…

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As usual the town, joined this particular year by the US government, has shut down for the week between Christmas and New Year’s day, and we can assume Oscar voters are busily watching screeners wherever they are for the break, from holiday destination…

The Phoenix Critics Circle announced their winners Friday with The Favourite taking the top prize of Best Picture.

Other winners include Roma‘s Alfonso Cuaron who won for Best Director. The Lee Israel pic Can You Ever Forgive Me? took home two acting honors: Melissa McCarthy for Best Actress and Richard E. Grant for…

In Fox Searchlight’s dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?, comedy star Melissa McCarthy turns another corner raising her drama game as late curmudgeon and celebrity biographer Lee Israel who when her career went south, she went criminal selling off forged author letters.

Today at Deadline’s Contenders in New York, director…

Melissa McCarthy landed an Oscar nomination for her breakout turn in Paul Feig's Bridesmaids, which started a string of comedy blockbusters for the pair. Now she's back in the conversation with Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which may be considered one of her first dramatic turns, but only to those who have failed to catch…

Jack Hock, as played by British thesp Richard E. Grant, storms into Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? with every ounce of bluster he can conjure. It's hard, on the surface, to see how he could strike up a friendship with Melissa McCarthy's quiet, introverted Lee Isreal, the author and literary forger who…

With three films already in release this year and another coming, Melissa McCarthy has been wallowing in worshipful media coverage. "Has anyone ever worked so hard to make us laugh?" the New York Times Magazine asked in this week's cover story. Having established that she "owns" comedy, however, McCarthy, in true…

The opening weekend of Jonah Hill's feature directorial debut Mid90s has given distributor A24 two of the year's three best opening-frame per-theater averages to date. Fresh off premiere screenings at the Toronto and New York film festivals, the coming-of-age pic grossed $249,500 during the weekend for a robust…