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EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One is soon taking out a package, an adaptation of the Sylvain Neuvel novella The Test. John Boyega and Payman Maadi star in the Gavin Hood-drama about a soft-spoken immigrant (Maadi) taking a citizen evaluation test, and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist (Boyega) supervising "the…

Known for directing films like Ender’s Game and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood had the opportunity to meet with a real-life whistleblower while developing his latest, Official Secrets. In the Sundance-premiering pic, Keira Knightley stars as Katharine Gun, a British secret-service officer who in 2003 leaked a top-secret…

Game of Thrones stars Indira Varma and Conleth Hill and Episodes' Tamsin Greig have joined the cast of Gavin Hood's spy thriller Official Secrets, which kicked off production this week. The trio will join Kiera Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode in the thriller for Entertainment One (eOne), which…

Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode are joining Keira Knightley and Matt Smith in Gavin Hood’s next thriller Official Secrets. Hood directed the edge-of-your-seat political/drone thriller Eye in the Sky which was one of the best movies of 2015. The new film is expected to roll before the cameras on March 12 in Yorkshire…

One of the earliest 2016 releases to be included in our big annual awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline is Eye In The Sky, a March opener that poses moral and ethical questions about the use of drone technology in modern warfare. In front of a packed audience of Oscar and key guild voters last…

With the compelling and thrilling new drama Eye In The Sky, we finally have a drone movie worth cheering about. After last year’s rather lame Ethan Hawke attempt The Good Kill, which mixed a soap operatic subplot into a genuinely potentially interesting story on the human emotional toll taken on Las Vegas-based drone…

EXCLUSIVE: After securing eOne’s nail-biting drone military thriller Eye In The Sky for north of $2M out of the Toronto International Film Festival, Bleecker Street will be rolling out the Gavin Hood-directed film on March 11 in New York and Los Angeles. Bleecker will expand the film to about 10-12 additional markets…

UPDATE, 9:40 AM: Bleecker Street has confirmed the deal. See the release below original story. PREVIOUS, 7:03 AM: In a hopeful sign that the acquisition-deal logjam will break after a slow first weekend, Bleecker Street is near a deal to acquire the Gavin Hood-directed Eye In The Sky for north of $2 million. Three…

EXCLUSIVE: Gavin Hood, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for Tsotsi, has signed with UTA. The South African-born helmer has directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender’s Game and Rendition. He’s in post-production on the thriller Eye On The Sky, which stars Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren. He had been at WME…

NBC has committed to Manhunt, an anthology-style drama series from creators Zack Rice and Whit Brayton, director Gavin Hood and Anonymous Content, the company behind True Detective and The Knick. The project has received a 10-episode order contingent on it getting casting and script approval from the network…

Entertainment One is getting ready for a busy Cannes. The Canadian giant will produce and distribute contemporary action thriller Eye In The Sky in association with Colin Firth and Ged Doherty's Raindog Films. Gavin Hood is directing with Firth attached to star in the ensemble. Firth and Doherty will produce with…

EXCLUSIVE: Nonso Anozie (The Grey) will play Sergeant Dap in the film version of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling novel Ender’s Game. The film, which begins production this month in New Orleans, is a futuristic adventure about brilliant young strategist Ender Wiggin, who is drafted by the International Fleet to save…