EXCLUSIVE: The Favourite producer Element Pictures has set its next movie to go into production: the intimate, female-fronted drama Herself, which is set against the housing crisis. Element will produce with Catastrophe star and co-writer Sharon Horgan’s Merman. Set in Dublin, Herself is the story of young mother…

While Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite is nominated in 10 categories and up front in the Oscar race (matching Roma), there was a time, a long time actually, when it could not get financing. Partly due to its then-unfashionable period genre, but mostly because of its female-led story, its lack of major male roles and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents of Production for Film and Television Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum have set Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s Element Pictures to a first-look production deal for feature films. Deal comes as the duo’s latest film, the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed The Favourite, opens…

Dublin-based Element Pictures (The Lobster, Room) has acquired film rights to Irish bestseller Oh My God What A Complete Aisling. Billed as Ireland’s answer to Bridget Jones, the first-time novel is by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen and was the market’s No. 1 adult fiction title of 2017. Based on the eponymous…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney's Element Pictures has hired former Irish Film Board project manager Rory Gilmartin as an in-house producer. Based in Dublin, he joins the company with immediate effect. In the new role, he will be responsible for building on Element's track record for developing and producing…

One of Britain's longest-running primetime soaps has set its high-end spinoff with a cast that features actors from Lost, Orphan Black and Game Of Thrones and is directed by Borgen's Jesper Nielsen. Redwater will air on BBC One next year as a six-part series that sees popular EastEnders characters Kat and Alfie Moon…

EXCLUSIVE: Yorgos Lanthimos is re-teaming with The Lobster co-writer Efthimis Fillipou and producers Element Pictures and Film4 on The Killing Of A Sacred Deer. As with The Lobster, Lanthimos will co-write and also direct. The story follows a young man that needs to take revenge, a doctor that has to make a decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Weisz is in talks to reunite with director Yorgos Lanthimos in The Favourite. The two recently worked together to much acclaim in The Lobster opposite Colin Farrell and John C. Reilly. Weisz would be joining The Favourite in the role that Kate Winslet was originally attached to star in as Queen…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Stone and Olivia Colman are in discussions to join The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new feature The Favourite. The award-winning, heavyweight female cast circling the project underlines the extent to which Lanthimos, who scored rave reviews for The Lobster, has established himself as one of…

EXCLUSIVE– Michael Lesslie and Justin Kurzel, the writer-director team behind the critically acclaimed adaptation of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, are working together again on Haven. The project, which Kurzel and Lesslie have actually been developing since before Macbeth, is a…

Dublin-based Element Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to Laird Hunt's 2014 Civil War novel Neverhome. The company has set Frank helmer Lenny Abrahamson to direct with Ed Guiney producing. The just-published Little Brown title is drumming up critical raves and tells the story of a farmer’s faithful wife who…