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EXCLUSIVE: Alessandro Nivola and Gemma Arterton head a killer cast for a three-part adaptation of the 1939 classic Rumer Godden literary novel Black Narcissus, a tale of sexual repression and forbidden love. BAFTA-winning writer Amanda Coe (The Trial of Christine Keeler, Apple Tree Yard) wrote the three hourlong…

The shoot on Matthew Vaughn’s untitled Kingsman origins story is underway in the UK, and the all-star cast includes Harris Dickinson (Trust), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List), Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey)…

Warwick Davis, Gemma Arterton, Charles Dance, Julie Walters and Richard E. Grant are among the voice cast for animated TV special Master Moley. UK outfit Signature Entertainment is selling the 30-minute family special, marking a rare foray into shorter form content for the feature distributor and producer. The show…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first footage and promo for UK-China animation Watch The Skies, voiced by Sean Bean (Game Of Thrones), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games), Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace), Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game), Laura Haddock (Guardians Of The Galaxy), David Fynn (Doctor Who) and Chris Obi (Snow White And…

Their Finest star Gemma Arterton is to play Dusty Springfield in Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy's directorial debut. Arterton will star in So Much Love, produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley's Number 9 Films, that is being launched in Toronto by Rocket Science. The film, which is set in 1968 at the peak…

Netflix’s Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston whodunit, Murder Mystery, has rounded out cast as production starts in Montréal. Joining the Just Go With It stars, and the previously set Luke Evans, is a host of global talent that includes Gemma Arterton, Terrence Stamp, Olafur Darri Olafsson and French hitmaker Dany…

A few weeks ago, we reported that a campaign was afoot to have women wear all black at tonight's BAFTA Film Awards in solidarity with the Time's Up movement in the U.S. This weekend, two letters have gone out in support of Time’s Up, and some British actresses will be walking the BAFTA red carpet at the Royal Albert…

IFC Films has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to The Escape,  a drama from writer-director Dominic Savage starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Escape, which is heavily improvised, follows Tara (Arterton) who loves her children deeply and all…

There are few more intimate films at Toronto this year than Dominic Savage's The Escape, which follows Gemma Arterton's Tara as she is forced to engage with one of the last societal taboos, playing a wife and mother unsatisfied by a seemingly idyllic life and fighting to break free of her situation and the depression…

A number of specialty releases have made schedule changes in the near future. Sony Pictures’ Classics’ Oscar nominee for best foreign film, Martin Zandvliet’s Land of Mine will move its New York-Los Angeles opening up from Feb. 17 to Feb 10. Pic centers around a young group of German POWs who are made the enemy of a…

Julie Delpy is set to star alongside Gemma Arterton and Daniel Brühl in My Zoe, an emotional and provocative drama directed by Delpy from her own script. It's scheduled to shoot in the UK next spring and the London-set story is about the lengths to which a mother's love goes for her child. Delpy plays Isabelle, a…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up U.S. rights to 100 Streets, starring Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton. Irish filmmaker Jim O'Hanlon directs the film from a script written by Leon Butler. Story follows the lives and interconnecting stories of a range of city dwellers including former rugby star (Elba) and his wife…