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‘Clickbait’ Star Phoenix Raei & Hugo Weaving Set For Australian Mystery ‘The Rooster’ Phoenix Raei (Clickbait) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) have been set to star in The Rooster, a mystery-drama written and directed by actor Mark Leonard Winter. The Rooster follows small-town cop Dan (Raei). When the body of his…

Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) and Hugo Weaving (Patrick Melrose) have joined the cast of The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's social thriller following two friends backpacking in Australia. Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) also stars, having previously fronted director Green's breakout pic The Assistant. Garner…

Jamie Dornan (A Private War) has been tapped as the lead of The Tourist, the six-episode limited series from Fleabag production company Two Brothers Pictures. HBO Max has come on board to co-produce and be the US streaming home for the mystery thriller, which also has cast Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin'), Shalom Brune-Fr…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has taken North American rights to Paul Ireland's feature drama Measure for Measure starring Hugo Weaving. An on-demand and digital release is planned for Sept. 4. The Paul Ireland directed, written and produced movie is inspired by the William Shakespeare play of the same name and follows the…

Documentary director Ben Lawrence came to TIFF with his feature debut, in which an Australian photojournalist (Hugo Weaving) and a South Sudanese refugee (Andrew Luri) are forced to confront the horrors of war together. The story had been with Lawrence for a long time, he said—since 2002, in fact, when the director…

EXCLUSIVE: From The Matrix to Lord of the Rings, actor Hugo Weaving is known for many of his roles in fantasy films but in Ben Lawrence’s forthcoming feature Hearts and Bones, he stretches his dramatic muscles. Weaving stars opposite newcomer Andrew Luri, who worked as a garbage truck driver before auditioning and…

It may be derivative. It may be loud. It may remind you of Mad Max: Fury Road-lite, but the new film from the Peter Jackson epic factory, Mortal Engines, does have a certain sense of old-fashioned Saturday matinee fun, and on a purely visual level it’s quite enthralling. Although the movie most people will find…

Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix trilogy) are set for lead roles opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in five-part limited series Patrick Melrose (fka Melrose). In addition, Edward Berger (Deutchland 83, Jack) has been tapped to direct. The project, a co-production of Showtim…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney. Adding to his gallery of rogues and other dodgy characters, Hugo Weaving plays a cop with questionable motives in Mystery Road, writer-director Ivan Sen's thriller which started shooting this week in central Queensland. Aaron Pedersen has the lead role of an…