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EXCLUSIVE: Ed Harris has set Robert Duvall and Garret Hedlund to star in The Ploughmen. This will be the third film that Harris directs, after Pollock and Appaloosa. Harris wrote the screenplay, adapted from Kim Zupan's 2014 debut novel. Amy Madigan and newcomer Lily Harris are also set for the film. Pic is slated to…

Lee Daniels says the 1972 Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues, for which Diana Ross earned an Oscar nomination, was the beginning of his desire for a film career. The filmmaker says he’d never seen Black people portrayed in that manner before, and it affected him deeply. Still when Pulitzer Prize winner…

Reagent Media has set Garrett Hedlund and Brady Jandreau for filmmaker Paxton Winters' next feature, Outside the Wire, about an American soldier and an Iraqi insurgent who find themselves dependent on each other for their survival. The two are thrust together on a road trip through the perils of the new Iraq. What…

Persistence is everything. It only took writer-director Andrew Heckler two decades and producer Robbie Brenner 15 years to get the strange but true story of reformed KKK member Mike Burden to the screen. But here, even another two years after taking the audience prize for dramatic feature at the 2018 Sundance Film…

“Can’t get rid of hate,” the preacher says, “unless you replace it with something else.” Here’s the trailer for Burden, writer-director Andrew Heckler’s film that was inspired by true events and premiered in competition at Sundance this year. Garret Hedlund stars as Mike Burden, a taciturn repo man raised as an orphan…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Lee Daniels is set to go into production next month in Montreal on The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a project he will direct and produce about the legendary jazz singer. The pic follows Holiday (played by multi Grammy and NAACP nominee singer-songwriter Andra Day) during her…

EXCLUSIVE: The romantic intensity between Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund in this new clip from the Gregor Jordan’s drama Dirt Music is front and center — but there is also a hint that this is an illicit affair. Based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton and adapted by Jack Throne, the Jordan-directed…

Masters of Sex alumna Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins (Here and Now), Garrett Hedlund (Mosaic) and Eighth Grade star Elsie Fisher are set to lead the Season 2 cast of Hulu’s psychological horror series Castle Rock, from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Also set as series regulars are Yusra Warsama (Assassin’s Creed: Origins), B…

“Do we finally get to use our skills for our own benefit?” is the question that resonates through the new trailer for the forthcoming Netflix action-drama Triple Frontier. J.C. Chandor directs the feature co-written by him and Mark Boal about a group of former Special Forces operatives played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaa…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a racy first look at Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Kelly Macdonald (No Country For Old Men) in Oz-UK drama Dirt Music. Shoot began last month on director Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). Producers are Finola Dwyer and Amanda…

Principal photography commences this week in Australia on Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie Dirt Music, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). As we previously revealed, Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men) and Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) will star in the film. They will be joined by…

EXCLUSIVE: Mudbound star Garrett Hedlund and Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald are in final negotiations to lead cast in long-awaited movie Dirt Music, I can reveal. The anticipated drama, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s Booker Prize-nominated novel about simmering passion and revenge in the Australian outback, is…