Latest in Hanway Films

Johnny Depp has been set to star as celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith in Minamata, a movie that HanWay Films will launch at the upcoming American Film Market. Andrew Levitas (Lullaby) will direct the film based on the book of the same name by Aileen Mioko Smith and Smith, and adapted by David K. Kessler (A Har…

Viggo Mortensen is to make his directorial debut on feature Falling, which is being described as an intimate drama about a son’s relationship with his ageing father. The Green Book and Captain Fantastic star wrote the screenplay and will play one of the two leading roles. Cast also includes Lance Henriksen…

EXCLUSIVE: HanWay Films has boarded international sales rights with White Horse Pictures to Ron Howard’s documentary about iconic opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti, which will be on sale at the AFM, is being made by Universal Music Group's Polygram Entertainment, Decca Records (the singer’s lifelong record…

Lionsgate UK has acquired UK rights to writer and director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's autobiographical feature debut Farming, which debuted at Toronto. The film follows Enitan (Damson Idris), a young Nigerian ‘farmed out’ by his parents to a white British family in hopes of giving him a better future. But Enitan falls…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America and key markets on Ralph Fiennes’ Rudolf Nureyev pic The White Crow from HanWay Films. The prestige label has also taken Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia (excluding China, Japan, and Singapore) and Benelux. Inspired by the book Rudolf Nureyev…

Naomi Watts and It star Sophia Lillis will star in director Claire McCarthy's next feature Burning Season. Watts, who recently starred in McCarthy's Ophelia, will also executive produce. HanWay Films, who is working with Watts on The Wolf Hour, will introduce the project to buyers at the Cannes Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and Jay Baruchel (Goon) are joining the cast of Lone Scherfig’s latest movie, I can reveal. The movie is now underway in Toronto and will soon head to Copenhagen and New York. As previously announced, Andrea…

Andrea Riseborough (Death of Stalin), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) will star in writer and director Lone Scherfig's modern-day fairy tale Secrets from the Russian Tea Room. Scherfig was responsible for An Education and Their Finest. The film tells the story of four people in New York City…

Hanway Films has boarded police shooting drama Monsters and Men, weeks after upstart distributor Neon acquired the U.S. rights to Reinaldo Marcus Green's debut. The UK firm will start selling the Kelvin Harrison Jr-fronted drama in Berlin after it launched at Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition section. It struck the…

Ralph Fiennes is set to direct The White Crow, about the life of legendary Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev. It's based on the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh. The Hours scribe David Hare adapts the script while Gabrielle Tana will produce through Magnolia Mae Productions together with Francois…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in Sweetness in the Belly, based on the bestselling novel by Camilla Gibb. The project, which Hanway Films is shopping to buyers in Berlin next month, will reunite Ronan with Irish producer Alan Moloney and his Parallel Films banner – the duo worked together on 2015's…

Rob Brydon has boarded new comedy Swimming With Men, which HanWay Films will be shopping to buyers at the American Film Market this week. The film, based on the acclaimed documentary Men Who Swim, is directed by Johnny English Reborn helmer Oliver Parker from a screenplay by Aschlin Ditta. Story sees Brydon's…