If ever a film typified the difference between the BAFTAs and the Oscars, Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool could well be the perfect case study. Entirely neglected by the American Academy, this loose biopic of the last days of Hollywood film siren Gloria Grahame—based on Peter Turner's 1986 memoir of…

EXCLUSIVE: A story of an unforgettable love affair between a largely forgotten Oscar winning star and a much younger English man is the basis for Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool  which stars Annette Bening and Jamie Bell in a film directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Matt Greenhalgh  from the memoir by Peter…

Spitfire, unapologetic, idiosyncratic, complex and sexy. These are some of the femme archetypes that Annette Bening has portrayed on screen and built a solid cinematic canon upon, from the Marquise de Merteuil in Milos Forman's feature adaption of Les Liaisons dangereuses, Valmont, to neurotic materialist housewife…

“I thought it was a piece of fiction. I thought it was the weirdest story to set a film around, honestly,” Jamie Bell shares of his first impressions, after being approached with the script to Paul McGuigan’s romantic drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. “I had no idea who Gloria Grahame was and I certainly didn't…

When Jamie Bell received the script for his awards-season entry Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, he thought it was too good to be true. "I didn't think it was a real story," he told me at Deadline's The Contenders event earlier in the month in front of a packed house of Academy and guild voters. "I thought it was a…

"Gloria Grahame has the face that you remember," said director Paul McGuigan, "but she doesn't necessarily have the name that you remember." This is likely to change after the release of his Toronto Film Festival hit Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, which details what happened when the iconic star of Hollywood…

UPDATED, 12:04 PM: Sony Pictures Classics today confirmed Deadline’s exclusive from two weeks ago that it has acquired the Annette Bening-toplined  Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. Read SPC’s release below. PREVIOUS  EXCLUSIVE, July 26: One of the plum acquisition titles at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival is…

Vanessa Redgrave has been cast alongside stars Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and Julie Walters in Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, the movie adaptation of the Peter Turner novel that has now begun production in Liverpool. Paul McGuigan is directing the script by Matt Greenhalgh (Control, Nowhere Boy). Based on the…