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EXCLUSIVE: Danny McBride, Gemma Chan and Benedict Wong are in talks to join John David Washington in New Regency's upcoming film True Love, an original sci-fi project written and directed by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Gareth Edwards. Kiri Hart will serve as a producer on the project along with Edwards. New Regency will…

Crazy Rich Asians queen Gemma Chan, A-Major and M88 are partnering with podcast media studio QCODE for a table-read of Hold Still, Vincent which is based on the tragic, true events of Vincent Chin's murder. Written by Johnny Ngo, directed by twin brothers Aaron and Winston Tao and produced by Bash Naran, the team is…

A major movie with three beloved female stars all in their 70s? Sound impossible? Fortunately, director Steven Soderbergh didn’t think so, and the resulting film, Let Them All Talk, is the result and one of the bright lights of 2020’s movie year. Of course, when you have three-time Oscar winner and 21-time nominee…

Olivia Wilde is building quite the ensemble as KiKi Layne and Gemma Chan have rounded out the cast of the New Line thriller Don’t Worry Darling that Wilde is directing. They join Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine with Wilde also having a supporting role in the film. Layne replaces Dakota Johnson, who had a…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Captain Marvel actress Gemma Chan has signed with M88, the full-service representation firm formed created by former WME Partner Phillip Sun and MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King. The signing marks the continuing relationship between Chan and Sun who initially worked together at WME…

UPDATED with confirmation at D23: Gemma Chan is officially in Marvel’s The Eternals, after she came out onstage with the rest of the cast during the film’s presentation at the D23 Expo in Anaheim. Chan, who also plays Minn-Erva opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, will play the humankind-loving Sersi. She is joined…

EXCLUSIVE: Refinery29, Untitled Entertainment, and Rebelle Media’s period romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm's List from director Emma Holly Jones is being expanded to a feature. Pic will rep Jones’ feature directorial debut and star Crazy Rich Asians‘ Gemma Chan and Slumdog Millionaire‘s Freida Pinto who headlined the…

Oxford law degree in hand, and a near professional-level violinist, Gemma Chan was poised to become a top-notch London lawyer, when instead, she did an about-face and threw herself into acting. One of the reasons she cites for that decision is a desire to move the diversity needle through storytelling, but at drama…

Crazy Rich Asians has of course swept in a much-needed new era for actors of Asian descent, given that it's the first all-Asian cast studio film since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago. It certainly rocked the box office, but when director Jon M. Chu set out on the project, rather than being crushed by the weight of its…

EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Chan, who is next up playing Minn-Erva opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, the latest Disney/Marvel superhero tentpole that is set for a March 8 release, has signed with WME for representation. Chan recently played Astrid in Warner Bros’ breakout hit Crazy Rich Asians and is onscreen now in Focus…

Crazy Rich Asians' Gemma Chan is to star in an anthology drama series for UK's Channel 4, written by Dominic Savage, the writer of Gemma Arterton-fronted feature The Escape. Chan, who also starred in AMC and C4 co-pro Humans, will appear in the three-part series, as will Minority Report's Samantha Morton and This Is En…

Humans, the Gemma Chan-fronted sci-fi drama for AMC and UK's Channel 4, is coming back for a third season and this time the robots are controlled by a predominantly female team. Emma Kingsman-Lloyd has joined the Kudos-produced series as exec producer and Vicki Delow joins as producer. Jill Roberston, who previously…