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The brilliant actor and director Kenneth Branagh has an impressive film legacy behind the camera with sterling Shakespearean adaptations from Henry V to Hamlet, the dazzling recent remake of Murder on the Orient Express and big-scale Disney movies Thor and Cinderella, the latter in my book being far and away the best…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: I’ve heard from sources that Martin McDonagh has a title ready for his next movie, the one he’ll shoot this summer with In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in the lead roles. The film is titled The Banshees of Inisheer. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, 8:07 AM: Martin McDonagh’s untitled next film…

Stephen Graham (The Virtues, Line of Duty), Tom Courtenay (45 Years, The Aeronauts) and Peter Mullan (Mum, Top Of The Lake) have joined the cast of The North Water, See-Saw Films’ adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Arctic whaling novel for BBC Two. The trio will support leads Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell on the four-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Colin Farrell to play The Penguin in the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman. If the deal closes, he will round out the trio of villains going against Rob Pattinson's Caped Crusader, with Paul Dano as The Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. The Irish-born actor has turned in an…

The new trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen (fka Toff Guys) brings us back to the filmmaker’s trademark frenetic Cockney action-comedy sensibilities from the days of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With its fast cuts, grimy style, fast-paced humor, paperboy caps, dandy wardrobe and kinetic…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is teaming up with producer Lee Magiday (The Favourite) and Hopscotch Features on a screen adaptation of Irish crime novel The Ruin, which marks the first project for Farrell’s new production company Chapel Place Productions. Irish writer Dervla McTiernan’s well-received thriller, set in…

EXCLUSIVE: AGC Studios and John Wick outfit Thunder Road are pulling together an impressive ensemble cast for Voyagers, the upcoming sci-fi pic from Neil Burger (Divergent). Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Tye Sheridan (X-Men Apocalypse), Lily-Rose Depp (The King) and Fionn Whitehead…

The best scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy 1941 has Robert Stack as an Army general crying while sitting in a theater. He’s watching the poignant scene in Dumbo where a caged Mrs. Jumbo rocks her little newborn with her trunk while singing the lullaby “Baby Mine.” Like Stack’s stoic character, who could resist…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has come aboard and greenlighted After Yang, with Colin Farrell set to star in an adaptation of the Alexander Weinstein short story Saying Goodbye to Yang. The film was scripted and will be directed by Kogonada, the South Korea-born writer-director who debuted on the John Cho starrer Columbus. Theresa Pa…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is to star in the BBC's adaptation of The North Water. Deadline understands that the Minority Report star will front the series, written and directed by Lean on Pete and 45 Years' Andrew Haigh, and produced by Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films. Farrell plays Henry Drax in the drama, a…

If the animated version of Disney’s Dumbo had you reaching for a couple of tissues, then you might want to grab the whole box for the Tim Burton’s live-action version. The new trailer gives us a detailed look at the new pic, expanding on the original and giving us his signature mix of fantastical and dark on the…