EXCLUSIVE: Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce, who over the past eight months have helped executive produce and produce, respectively, films from Roman J. Israel, Esq. to the upcoming Red Sea Diving Resort, are launching Hammerstone Studios, a new film financing and production company.

The first film under the banner is Emi…

Derek Jacobi and Fleabag‘s Jenny Galloway have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy Peter Pan-Alice in Wonderland origin story movie that stars Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo. Brave Oscar winner Brenda Chapman is directing the script from Marissa Kate Goodhill. The pic has been shooting in the UK before moving…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown‘s Anna Chancellor and The Wire‘s Clarke Peters have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo that is serving as the live-action debut of Brave director Brenda Chapman. The pic has just started filming in the UK for seven weeks, followed by three…

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo are in talks to star in Come Away, a fantasy drama that will mark the live-action debut of Brenda Chapman, the Oscar-winning director and co-writer of the Pixar film Brave.

Marissa Kate Goodhill wrote the script, and UK-based Fred Films is producing with Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxo…

EXCLUSIVE: Brenda Chapman, the animation veteran who won the Oscar for Disney/Pixar’s Brave, has been set to make her live-action film directing debut in Come Away, a fantasy drama penned by Marissa Kate Goodhill that is being imagined as a prequel to Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.

Former Paramount production presi…