Saban Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to James Marsh's King of Thieves, the heist movie about the 2015 robbery of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, which was pulled off by a gang led by four senior-citizen criminals and repped the biggest heist in UK history. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom…

Director James Marsh says Stephen Hawking, the revered physicist and subject of his 2014 movie The Theory Of Everything, was “an example to us all.” The brilliant scientist passed away yesterday aged 76.

Marsh, an Oscar-winner for Man On Wire, tells me, “Stephen’s life was an extraordinary miracle. It was very…

Jóhann Jóhannsson, revered for such film scores as The Theory of Everything and Sicario, died in Berlin on Friday. As tributes arrive from friends, colleagues and admirers, Deadline presents this feature on the composer from October 2014. Jóhannsson, still then a newcomer to Hollywood, was nominated for a best…

Studiocanal is now set to fully finance Night In Hatton Garden, the drama that James Marsh is directing. The film is set to begin production next week, and the cast is now set: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, Charlie Cox, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Gambon, and Francesca Annis are starring, and…

Chris Pine and Michelle Williams are in negotiations to star in All The Old Knives, a spy thriller that would be directed by The Theory Of Everything helmer James Marsh, who is also in talks for the job. The pic is based on The Tourist author Olen Steinhauer’s 2015 novel; he also adapted the screenplay. The story…

National Geographic is partnering with Oscar-winning executive producer James Marsh (Man on Wire, Theory of Everything) and Endemol Shine Group’s Tigress Productions on a three-part miniseries to honor the life and legacy of gorilla researcher Dian Fossey. Sigourney Weaver, nominated for an Oscar and winner of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Theory Of Everything helmer James Marsh is back together with Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, set to direct a caper pic about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015. Working Title last month closed a deal for rights to a Vanity Fair…

EXCLUSIVE: Blueprint Pictures and BBC Films has set The Theory of Everything helmer James Marsh to direct Colin Firth on the feature based on the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first round the World Yacht Race in 1968.  Firth will play Crowhurst, and shooting will begin in the…

One of the key challenges in creating The Theory of Everything, the biopic about physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife, was figuring out how to accurately portray the effects of the neurodegenerative disease that Hawking contracts as a young man, and continues to live with even today, says the film’s director James Ma…

“He has a nice physical resemblance to Stephen Hawking as a young man,” said The Theory of Everything director James Marsh about one of the reasons why he went with actor Eddie Redmayne to play the groundbreaking physicist. Marsh and the film’s screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten took time out Monday night to…

EXCLUSIVE: James Marsh was admittedly an interesting choice to the direct the Stephen and Jane Hawking story, The Theory Of Everything. Although he has done plenty of narrative films before such as Shadow Dancer, his biggest fame has come as a documentarian, particularly with his Oscar winning documentary, Man On Wire…

EXCLUSIVE: “The performances in this film are so strong, you don’t need a layer of music to heighten it,” exclaims The Theory of Everything composer Johann Johannsson about how he carefully balanced the score to reflect the life of cosmologist Stephen Hawking as he battled ALS.  Many of the classical, upbeat cues…