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Oscar winner Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci are set to star in Percy, an indie film which is currently in production in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Clark Johnson (The Wire) is directing the pic from a script by Hilary Pryor and Garfield L. Miller. The film, based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, follows small-town…

EXCLUSIVE: Two companies — Minds Eye Entertainment and Sky VR — have produced a scripted, live-action 360 cinematic VR experience tied to the release of the Christina Ricci and John Cusack film Distorted. To get an idea of what this means, click on the trailer above and you will be able to move the footage to see the…

Lifetime has given the green light to Nellie Bly (working title), a psychological thriller inspired by the groundbreaking 19th century journalist, with Christina Ricci (Monster), Judith Light (Transparent) and Josh Bowman (Revenge) attached to star. The film is in production for 2018 premiere on Lifetime. Ricci plays…

Last night at the Hollywood Athletic Club, Amazon Studios pulled out all the stops in a presentation for their original series Z: The Beginning of Everything, screening two episodes of the series, followed by a panel discussion with the series’ stars, Christina Ricci and David Hoflin, and costume designer Tom Broecker…

Launching tomorrow on Amazon, Z: The Beginning Of Everything has lofty ambitions but hobbling results that leave the It Couple of the Jazz Age a tale that never really gets started. As I say in my video review above, while Christina Ricci does admirably and fearlessly inhabit the role of the creative and sometimes…

EXCLUSIVE: No couple epitomized the rebellion and the glamour of the Jazz Age like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald, and now the Amazon series about their tumultuous romance and life has a launch date and a new trailer. A peek at the Christina Ricci-starring Z: The Beginning of Everything can be seen above…

Lifetime has ordered two additional episodes of its new limited series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles bringing the total to eight.  The follow-up to Lifetime's original movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax stars Christina Ricci in a reprisal of her role as the real-life women accused, but acquitted, of murdering her father…

Veronica Mars alumna Jessy Schram and Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad and prequel series Better Call Saul) have joined the cast of Lifetime’s six-episode limited series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (formerly Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles). The follow-up to Lifetime’s original movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax…

Following the success of its original movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax, Lifetime had picked up a follow-up six-episode limited series, Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles, with Christina Ricci set to reprise her role as the notorious murderer. Also returning for the series is the movie’s Clea DuVall, who will also…

Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall are set to co-star opposite Christina Ricci in Lifetime’s movie about one of the most famous murder trials in American history. Directed by Nick Gomez and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the film tells the story of Fall River, Mass., resident Lizzie Borden (Ricci), who finds…

Long before Amanda Knox, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias, there was another young American woman on a trial for murder that became a media spectacle. I’ve learned exclusively that Christina Ricci has been tapped to play Lizzie Borden in a Lifetime original movie about the woman tried and acquitted in the 1892 ax murders…

EXCLUSIVE: The decision was made mutually by NBC and the project’s creator, Liz Brixius, and producers, Wolf Films and Universal TV. It comes 10 days after Christina Ricci, who had been cast as the lead in Girlfriend In A Coma, exited the pilot. After seeing a number of actresses, the pilot’s auspices concluded that…