EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Anthony Byrne for representation in all areas. The director, whose feature In Darkness releases via Vertical Entertainment in domestic theaters next month, has also been set to helm the 5th season of period gangster epic Peaky Blinders. Byrne’s previous recent credits include Butterfly, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Ratajkowski has boarded the cast of Anthony Byrne's thriller In Darkness. The film stars Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, along with Deadpool‘s Ed Skrein and Stacy Martin (Nymphomanic Vol. 1). Dormer and Byrne co-wrote the script. The film is a psychological revenge thriller about blind musician…

Game Of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer has been set to star in In Darkness, a psychological revenge thriller directed by Anthony Byrne from a script co-written by Dormer and Byrne. XYZ Films has just acquired international sales rights and will present the project to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. UTA is…

Here’s a head start on the upcoming weekend’s specialty releases. Sony Classics’ Michael Barker gives Deadline an inside snapshot of the distributor’s long ties to Polish director Agnieszka Holland and her latest Polish Holocaust feature In Darkness, based on a true story. Return director Liza Johnson offers her…

NEWS, NOTES AND ANALYSIS FROM AWARDS SEASON: Today’s narrowing to nine finalists out of 63 entries puts the Academy’s Foreign Language process back in the spotlight. Although there were surprising omissions — notably Finland’s Aki Kaurismaki’s brilliant and clever Le Havre, one of several Cannes competition entries…

This season, 63 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. The 2011 submissions are vying to be among the 9 long-listed by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences before the 5 finalists are announced with Oscar nominations on January 24…