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EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Zola Independent Spirit Award winner Taylour Paige and Cyrano actress Haley Bennett are boarding Magazine Dreams opposite Jonathan Majors. The film follows an amateur bodybuilder (Majors) who struggles to find human connection in the exploration of celebrity and violence. The script was on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Haley Bennett is in final talks to star in and produce the feature adaptation of Jackie Polzin’s bestselling debut novel Brood for Topic Studios. The actress will produce Brood with her Cyrano film director Joe Wright and reteam with her Swallow producer Mollye Asher. A search for…

In Cyrano, director Joe Wright found his first opportunity to direct a musical, bringing both intimacy and scope to the adaptation of Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name, which was itself based on the classic 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. While Wright had fallen in love with the story…

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Bennett has joined the cast of Chinonye Chukwu’s and Orion Pictures’ Till, starring opposite Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison and Jalyn Hall. The film is currently shooting in Atlanta. Chukwu is writing and directing. The film tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her…

Cyrano star Haley Bennett joined production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer on stage at Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event to discuss the film. In discussing director Joe Wright, Bennett said, “this is the kind of material that Joe really excels at. I've always been interested in Joe's…

There was something moving and even poignant in watching the MGM Lion logo roaring once again at the opening of director Joe Wright’s new musical adaptation of Cyrano last night at the Telluride Film Festival, where this lovely new telling of the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac had its world premiere. Both MGM and…

Haley Bennett has joined the cast of Eli Roth's adaptation of Borderlands for Lionsgate. The Swallow actress will play a new role in the Borderlands universe as a key to the past of Cate Blanchett's character, Lilith. The cast also includes Kevin Hart as Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny…

On its surface J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, detailing life with his Kentucky-bred Appalachian family and his own maturation in Middletown, Ohio, would not seem to be the easiest thing to adapt for the screen, especially with all the social and the…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired Cyrano, a musical film adaptation that will bring four-time Emmy winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage back in the title role he played onstage, and Haley Bennett reprising as Roxanne that she played alongside him at the Goodspeed Opera House’s Terris Theatre in 2018. The film will be…

Carlos Mirabella-Davis’s thriller Swallow follows a current day upper middle class housewife, Hunter, who lives on the Hudson River in a glass house and learns that she’s pregnant. But there’s a catch: She’s not all that happy with her marriage to posh husband Richie. So unhappy that Hunter begins to swallow objects…

Burning Cane, the drama whose writer-director Phillip Youmans is the youngest-ever helmer to have a feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the fest’s marquee Founders Award on Thursday. Tribeca bestowed all three of its top juried feature awards on first-time directors, but none more first-time than Youmans, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Bennett, Jason Clarke and Riley Keough have been set for The Devil All the Time, the Antonio Campos-directed drama that Netflix will put into production this month in Alabama. They join Tom Holland, Mia Wasakowska, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, Eliza Scanlen and Sebastian Stan, latter of whom was…