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William Jackson Harper (Love Life) has joined the cast of Landscape With Invisible Hand, a heightened comedy that Cory Finley (Bad Education, Thoroughbreds) is directing for MGM, Deadline can confirm. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers…

EXCLUSIVE: MRC and the Knives Out tandem of Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman are back in business. MRC Television and Johnson and Bergman's T-Street banner have optioned Don Winslow's bestselling debut novel A Cool Breeze on the Underground, the first in a five-book series that will be developed for series. Bad Education…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is nearing the big deal of the Toronto Film Festival, acquiring for a sum nearing $20 million world rights to Bad Education, the Cory Finley-directed fact-based dark comedy that stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as supervisors in the Roslyn, Long Island, school district who masterminded the largest…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Wolff, who was last seen in Sony’s blockbuster film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the sleeper hit Hereditary has been cast in director Cory Finley’s comedy Bad Education. Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano and Allison Janey are already attached to the project which hails from Automatik and Sight…

“The only thing worse than being incompotent, or being unkind, or being evil, is being indecisive,” according to Focus Features’ newly released trailer for Thoroughbreds, which will hit select theaters March 9. The drama, which Focus picked up at Sundance, stars Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Paul Sparks, and Anton Yel…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content, Element Pictures and Film4 have optioned the Dean Kuipers book Burning Rainbow Farm, and will develop it as a directing vehicle for Room helmer Lenny Abrahamson. Playwright Cory Finley, who made his directing debut with the Sundance pic Thoroughbred, will write the script. It is the true…

EXCLUSIVE: June Pictures and B Story are saddling up for a May start on Thoroughbred, a psychological thriller that marks the directorial debut of playwright-screenwriter Cory Finley. Olivia Cooke, who stars later this year in Ready Player One, stars with Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) and Green Room‘s Anton Yelchin…