Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to James Purefoy-fronted Fertile Crescent (w/t), an eight-episode drama from Fremantle and The Young Pope producer Haut et Court TV.
The digital platform is co-producing the series with French broadcaster Arte France. The drama was originally pitched at French festival Series…
EXCLUSIVE: Brit comedy Fisherman's Friends, from the writing and producing team behind UK box office hit Finding Your Feet, has netted a UK deal with Entertainment Film Distributors.
The film, currently in post-production, has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game)…
After three seasons on SundanceTV, Hap and Leonard won't be getting another kick at the East Texas can, it seems
The cancellation of the James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams led series based on Joe R. Lansdale's nuanced and rollicking 1980s set novels of two mainly unlucky Lone Star state buddies’ misadventures…
EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton is to play Marilyn Monroe in a one-off TV comedy set against the backdrop of the 1959 rom-com Some Like It Hot.
The Their Finest star is to front Sky Arts' Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder, formerly known as It’s Me, Sugar,  alongside Rome'sJames Purefoy, who plays Billy Wilder, as part of…
“Live forever, in the body you deserve.” Netflix has set a premiere date for Altered Carbon, its futuristic sci-fi series based on Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk novel. The series from Skydance Television starts streaming Friday, February 2. Check out a new teaser above that plays as an ad for Psychasec, the company…
EXCLUSIVE: Crack open a cold one from the 1980s because those East Texas boys from Joe R. Lansdale’s eminently readable Hap and Leonard books will return to SundanceTV for a third season next year.
Based on Lansdale's 1995 novel The Two-Bear Mambo, Season 3 of Hap and Leonard will return James Purefoy and Michael Kenn…
Martha Higareda (Royal Pains) is set as the female lead opposite Joel Kinnaman and Hap and Leonard’s James Purefoy will co-star in Altered Carbon, Netflix’s futuristic drama series conceived, written and executive produced by Laeta Kalogridis. Also cast in the series, from Skydance Television, are Dichen Lachman (The L…
UPDATE, 6:40 AM: Deadline previously reported that SundanceTV was close to renewing Hap and Leonard, and now star James Purefoy has confirmed it’s official.
On a brighter note @HapAndLeonard has been officially picked up for Season 2..
— James Purefoy (@JamesPurefoy) June 27, 2016
John Wirth has joined the show as…
“I am so glad that it’s finally acceptable for women to talk about success,” Anna Gunn’s Naomi Bishop tells a group session. And make no mistake: She’s believes that greed is good — even if you’re a woman. Maybe especially if you’re a woman.
Here’s the first trailer for Equity, a female-driven take on the insider…
As the great Elmore Leonard surely discovered once or twice, adaptations of first-rate thrillers and crime novels can quickly go south in clumsy hands. That's not something fans of author Joe R. Lansdale's novels and stories need to worry about with Sundance TV's Hap And Leonard, which debuts on March 2. The…
FilmNation will launch international sales at the EFM on Alex Gibney's documentary thriller, Zero Days which is world premiering in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The cybercrime investigation tells the story of Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key…
“As soon as I read it, I recognized that guy,” exclaimed James Purefoy about his role as a blue collar East Texas man whose luck could turn for the better in the upcoming Sundance TV ’80s-set Hap And Leonard.  The former Rome actor stopped by Deadline’s studio in Park City to talk about the new drama series…
