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EXCLUSIVE: WestEnd Films has scored UK distribution and other key deals for TIFF Selects title Falling For Figaro, from director Ben Lewin (The Sessions) and starring Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) and Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$). Entertainment Film Distributors has picked up the romantic comedy for the UK…

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by ProPublica and the Marshall project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of a group of sexual assault survivors and the two detectives (Merrit Wever and Toni Collette) who track down their attacker. Danielle Ma…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first image from Falling For Figaro, Ben Lewin's (The Sessions) upcoming romantic comedy set in the world of opera starring Joanna Lumley and Danielle Macdonald. Deadline broke the news on the pic back in October. Macdonald will play a young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job…

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$, Dumplin’) and Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) will lead the cast of Falling For Figaro, a romantic comedy from The Sessions director Ben Lewin, I can reveal. Set in the fierce world of opera singing competitions, the movie follows Millie (Macdonald), a brilliant young…

EXCLUSIVE: Patti Cake$ breakout star Danielle Macdonald has come aboard the Azazel Jacobs-directed film, French Exit, which was recently picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The Sydney-born actress joins Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts in the comedy-drama based on the international bestselling book by…

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald and Jaboukie Young-White are negotiating to star in an untitled Paramount Players comedy written and produced by Bo Burnham and directed by Amy York Rubin. Burnham, who wrote and directed the acclaimed Eighth Grade, is producing with Chris Storer. The project made the rounds under the…

It is pretty futile to try to resist the charms of the new Netflix comedy Dumplin’, which the streamer is unwrapping just in time for the holidays. There is really nothing startlingly new about this concept or even its execution, but the sheer fun and smiles that it brings are more welcome than they ever were at this…

Skin is the true-life story of reformed white-supremacist Bryon Widner (played by Jamie Bell) a young man raised by skinheads, for whom turning his back on hatred and violence meant undergoing painful and expensive operations to remove the tattoos that signified his terrible past life — a process only possible with…

Patti Cake$ star Danielle Macdonald has been cast opposite Toni Collette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) and Katie…

EXCLUSIVE: Shooting out of this year's Sundance Film Festival towards the stars with Patti Cake$, Danielle Macdonald has now stepped on the streaming service launch pad. The lead in the upcoming White Girl Problems is joining fellow CAA client Sandra Bullock in Netflix's Bird Box. Macdonald will play the character of…

Danielle Macdonald hadn’t rapped a single note before stepping into the role of Patricia Dombrowski (aka Killa P, aka Patti Cake$), but you would never believe it for a minute after seeing the Sundance and Cannes sensation Patti Cake$, which began its domestic theatrical run in a handful of theaters over the weekend…

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald, who broke out as the star of this year’s Sundance Film Festival hit Patti Cake$, has landed the lead in White Girl Problems, the Lionsgate pic based on Babe Walker’s bestselling book. The rights were acquired in 2013 for producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman. Lauren Palmigiano…