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Donald Sutherland has signed on to star opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in The Undoing, HBO's high-profile six-episode limited series, written by David E. Kelley and directed by Susanne Bier. An adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's book You Should Have Known, The Undoing centers on Grace Sachs (Kidman), who is…

Donald Sutherland is the latest to join the cast of the Giuseppe Capotondi-directed art world heist film The Burnt Orange Heresy as production is currently underway in Lake Como, Italy. Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger were previously announced as part of the cast. The film is based on Charles Willeford’s…

The 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III receives its second telling in several months with Trust, the magnetic, frenetic and fitful new FX series debuting Sunday. It follows by what feels like minutes of Ridley Scott’s big-screen All the Money in the World. But the 10-episode Trust has enough differences in its…

“When you can have everything you could ever dream of, what do you value?” What if you had all the money in the world but refused to spend any? Would you install a payphone at your mansion like J. Paul Getty did? And would your frugality-challenged grandson screw things up by getting involved with very bad…

Like Sony/TriStar’s All the Money in the World, FX’s limited series Trust follows the 1970s Italian kidnapping of scion J. Paul Getty III, but from a completely different perspective. While the Sony feature follows closely the tick-tock of the junior Getty’s snatching, Trust suggests he might have been involved in his…

Paolo Virzì came to the Toronto Film Festival having had a fantasy come true—with The Leisure Seeker, his English-language debut, playing to enthusiastic houses, the director came by the Deadline studio with the two stars he'd wanted from the get-go: Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, who both praised Sony Classics…

20th Century Fox/New Regency/Bona Film Group’s science fiction epic Ad Astra will open in wide release on January 11, 2019. The pic has that date to itself for now. Brad Pitt stars as slightly autistic Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer who searches across the galaxy for his father, Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee…

NOTES FROM THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Some critics are already gunning for The Weinstein Company’s The Current War (11/24)  which just had its World Premiere here last night and which I caught at this morning’s first Press and Industry screening. The film, a passion project for Harvey Weinstein who took…

While it touched all the bases—celebrity, diversity, independence, global reach—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seemed not quite to hit a home run with its latest round of Governors Awards, announced early Wednesday afternoon. This year, honorary Oscars, to be presented at a dinner on November 11, will…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced honorees for its 2017 Governors Awards, with actor Donald Sutherland, writer-director Charles Burnett, cinematographer Owen Roizman and director Agnès Varda set to receive Honorary Awards. The gala will take place November 12 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at…

The Leisure Seeker is Italian director Paolo Virzi’s first English-language feature — and it clearly struck a chord with the local audience here at the Venice Film Festival today. (That’s despite downbeat reviews from mainstream U.S. critics.) Social and local media have also gone mad for the film’s leads, Dame Helen M…

Donald Sutherland is in the money. FX said today that the Emmy winner is set to play billionaire oil man J. Paul Getty in the first installment of its anthology series Trust, executive produced by the Slumdog Millionaire trio Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson. Written by Beaufoy and directed by Boyle…