Dominic Cooke, the film and theater director whose projects include recent Sundance premiere Ironbark, is re-teaming with former Royal Court exec Kate Horton to launch Fictionhouse, a banner for producing film, theater and TV.
The company's debut project will be Good, C. P. Taylor's stage play that will star David Tenn…
EXCLUSIVE: The Painted Bird director Vaclav Marhoul is set to make his English-language debut on McCarthy, a biopic of notorious former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Ironbark scribe Tom O’Connor has scripted the intriguing package, which will take a personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame…
EXCLUSIVE: London and LA-based production and management firm 42 is on a roll. Latest movie Ironbark, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was yesterday snapped up by Lionsgate at Sundance in a mid-seven figure deal, while feel-good comedy pic Military Wives was one of the sparkier U.S. acquisitions at Toronto.
Today, we…
UPDATE: Add a bigger deal to the pile, with Deadline hearing that NEON and Hulu are in advanced talks for the Andy Samberg comedy Palm Springs for around $15 million for world rights. The joint is jumping.
The deal drought at Sundance ended Sunday night when Searchlight Pictures entered into advance negotiations for…
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is nearing a close on a deal for U.S. rights to Ironbark, the Dominic Cooke-directed drama that stars Benedict Cumberbatch. I’m hearing that Roadside Attractions will execute the theatrical release, and that the deal is in the mid-seven-figure range.
The Tom O'Connor-scripted drama stars…
When director Dominic Cooke first read the script for Ironbark, he immediately sparked to the material. "It turned out it was only a first draft when I read it, but it was just a beautiful story," Cooke told Deadline today. "I just thought it had a three-dimensionality, real life to it, and I was really moved by it…
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan, most recently known for her Golden Globe and Emmy winning performance on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series, is set to co-star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Cold War drama, Ironbark. On Chesil Beach helmer Dominic Cooke is on board to direct the feature from a screenplay by The Hi…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Benedict Cumberbatch is set to play Cold War spy Greville Wynne in hot Cannes package Ironbark, I can reveal.
FilmNation will finance and handle international sales on the pic, which is based on the true story of the British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear program during the Cold…
