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Gemma Chan is in talks to join the cast of The Eternals, the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film being directed by Chloé Zhao. Deadline has confirmed the sides are working on a deal, which if it makes would see Chan rejoining Team Marvel after playing Minn-Erva opposite Brie Larson in Captain Marvel. It’s unclear…

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…

Artificial intelligence certainly is a hot-button topics these days. Just ask your smart assistant. (Actually, don’t.) Now AMC’s AI-themed drama Humans has a Season 3 premiere date and first-look photo. See it below. Set in a parallel present where the lines between people and machines are blurred and exploring the…

EXCLUSIVE: Another piece of Captain Marvel casting has fallen into place. Humans star Gemma Chan is set to play Minn-Erva in the Disney/Marvel superhero movie that stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel. Per the comics-verse, Minn-Erva (aka Doctor Minerva) is a Kree geneticist and spy. Plot details are…

EXCLUSIVE: British actress Gemma Chan has joined the cast of Working Title and Focus Features' Mary Queen Of Scots. Chan will play Bess of Hardwick, the friend and confidante of Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) who, along with her husband the Earl of Shrewsbury, eventually became keeper of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots…

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss actress Carla Juri and Gemma Chan, who stars in the AMC/Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans, have to tapped as leads in Dear Agnes, the second feature of director Daniel Alfredson's Intrigo trilogy from Enderby Entertainment, The Amazing Film Company, Umedia and Silver Reel. Based on the thriller novels by…

There were some very real people tuning in for a look at a robotic parallel present on Sunday night. The 9 PM debut of Humans drew 1.726 million viewers with a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating for AMC. That's up 44% in total viewers from the 1.2 million who plugged in on June 1 last year to the series premiere of Halt And Catch…