Limited release openers had a decent start this Easter Weekend, though none popped in any super-heroic fashion. Still, in a holiday that was expected to be dominated by Batman V Superman, the launches of IFC Films' Born To Be Blue starring Ethan Hawke, GKIDS' animated April And The Extraordinary World and to a lesser…

The first trailer for the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light starts with a quote from the country-Western legend: “People don’t write music — it’s given to them.” Well, he certainly accepted the gift, becoming one of the most influential and recorded songwriters of the 20th century. Now an unlikely actor is bringing…

EXCLUSIVE: Cross another would-be awards contender out of the running. Sony Pictures Classics has seen the light of fierce Oscar competition  jockeying and moved their Hank Williams biopic, I Saw The Light from its scheduled prime Oscar slot of November 28, to March 25, 2016. Originally SPC had hoped to gain Golden…

I Saw the Light director Marc Abraham was instructed by his casting director to not offer the highly coveted role of Hank Williams to any actor he met with, that is not before having them sing and read for the role. However, half way through a dinner meeting with British actor Tom Hiddleston, Abraham, who has had the…

A British actor walks into a recording studio to sing a country music legend’s first hit. How does he do? You be the judge of this first clip of Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light. The actor re-creates the April 1947 session in Nashville that produced “Move It On Over,” which established…

Can a Londoner pull off playing one of the most influential folks in the history of country music? Well, as you can see from this first image from the biopic I Saw The Light, Tom Hiddleston certainly looks like Hank Williams. (That’s him in the top pic below, by the way.) The Thor baddie also will do his own singin…

Sony Pictures Classics said it has acquired worldwide rights to the Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light, the movie that stars Tom Hiddleston as the iconic country singer. Marc Abraham wrote and directed the pic that chronicles Williams meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal…

Maddie Hasson has been cast in I Saw The Light, writer-director Marc Abraham’s biopic about country music legend Hank Williams. She will play Billie Jean, a 19-year-old who pursued by Williams (Tom Hiddleston) after his divorce from Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen). She eventually becomes his second wife — and his widow…

Elizabeth Olsen has joined the cast of RatPac Entertainment and Bron Studios’ I Saw The Light, the film about the life of country western singer Hank Williams. Deadline’s Mike Fleming broke the news this summer that Tom Hiddleston nabbed the Williams role and will be singing classics like “Your Cheatin' Heart”, “I'm…

EXCLUSIVE: The Avengers star Tom Hiddleston will play Country & Western legend Hank Williams in I Saw The Light, a film that Marc Abraham will direct and which has come together as a co-production between RatPac Entertainment, Bron Studios, and Creative Wealth Media Finance, all of which will fund the film. Abraham…