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Lucky, a chronicle of sexual assault and its aftermath by The Lovely Bones‘ author Alice Sebold, is set to be adapted as a feature. Karen Moncrieff (The Dead Girl, 13 Reasons Why) has penned the transfer of Sebold’s true story and will direct the film that’s produced by Still Alice‘s James Brown. Lisa Wolofsky of…

Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Michael Shannon (Man Of Steel), Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland), and Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) are set to star in heist thriller Echo Boomers, which Fortitude International is launching sales on at the American Film Market. Production is slated to begin in January. Seth Savoy's…

Fortitude, the drama whose first season was co-produced and aired on Participant Media’s cable channel Pivot before it was shut down, has found a new U.S. home on Amazon. After originally releasing the first season of Fortitude for U.S. in January 2016, the streaming service has picked up Season 2 of the Sky Atlantic…

Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley and Alexandra Daddario are set to star in David Raymond's psychological thriller Nomis. Fortitutde International will introduce the pic to buyers in Berlin this week. Raymond writes and directs the project and will also produce alongside Fortitude's Robert Ogden Barnum, Arise Pictures' Chris…

2ND UPDATE: Amazon has picked up Season 2 of Fortitude for the U.S. and will stream it later this year. The trailer above is the UK version. UPDATED: Pivot ceased operations in October, so Fortitude obviously won’t be airing there. Season 2 began airing January 26 on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Ireland. PREVIOUSLY, June…

EXCLUSIVE: Hettie Macdonald (Fortitude) has come on board to direct the BBC’s miniseries adaptation of Howards End, based on the classic EM Forster novel which was turned into an Oscar-winning Merchant Ivory feature in 1992. The four-part drama is produced by Colin Callender's Playground in association with City…

Honoring behind-the-scenes talent, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its nominations for this year’s BAFTA TV Craft Awards. Wolf Hall, Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures and BBC Two's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novels, leads with six nods including Best…

Sky Atlantic and Participant Media's Pivot picked up Season Two of arctic thriller Fortitude last April, ahead of the drama's first season finale. With principal photography now underway in London, a host of new cast members have been added. They include Dennis Quaid, Parminder Nagra (The Blacklist), Michelle Fairley…

Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3), Michael Shannon (Man Of Steel) and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) have boarded Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep. The film follows Hall’s character struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her celebrity husband. Eddie Vaisman (In A World …) is producing. Filming is set to start in…

Participant Media's Pivot and Sky Atlantic have picked up Fortitude for a second season ahead of the drama’s first season finale tonight. "From the first episode, audiences responded to the incredibly rich world Simon Donald created, where nature and civilization collide with catastrophic results," said Kent Rees…

There's going to be an Arctic chill tonight on TV with the 10 PM debut of Fortitude on Pivot. As my video review above says, the 12-episode series from Low Winter Sun creator Simon Donald has a lot of potential and some amazing cast members in Michael Gambon, Christopher Eccleston and Stanley Tucci plus polar bears…

Sky Europe, flexing its multi-territory muscle since forming late last year, is to launch Sky Atlantic’s original drama, Fortitude, simultaneously to 20M customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. The release plan beginning January 29 is a first for a Sky original program. It will debut the same day in…