EXCLUSIVE: Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen is adding more star power to its cast. Oscar winner Jeremy Irons has been tapped for a lead role in the HBO pilot, a take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic limited comic series. He joins previously cast Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide…

Richard Eyre’s staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring an ideally matched Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville, unfolds on a summer home set that fuses the transparent with the caged, a fitting backdrop to the scathing autobiographical honesty and desolation of the playwright’s masterpiece.

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Jennifer Lawrence heats up the Cold War again in an exploitative, sleazy but righteously entertaining thriller that, after mother!, continues her descent into riskier roles. Reuniting in Red Sparrow with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (no relation), JLaw, complete with trippy Russian accent, is the best…

Just one look at the cast list of Assassin’s Creed — including Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons, recent Oscar nominees Michael Fassbender and Charlotte Rampling, not to mention brilliant actors like Brendan Gleeson — and you would think that at the very least we have a quality art film on our hands. Uh…

EXCLUSIVE: Throw the name Jeremy Irons into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar race, that is if producer Ed Pressman has his way.

Pressman, who produced 1990’s Reversal Of Fortune (among many others), the movie that won Irons the Best Actor Oscar, is trying for a reversal of fortune for his earlier April release, The Man…

Like a thief in the night comes the first trailer for Assassin’s Creed, the start of what could end up being a film franchise based on Ubisoft’s long-running hit series of video games. Like the games on which it’s based, the film follows a man who through the use of futuristic technology is able to experience the…

Those who loved Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar-winning turn as genius Stephen Hawking in 2014’s The Theory Of Everything are likely to spark to a similar-feeling new movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. This English period piece set in pre-war 1914 stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) as a poor young Indian man with a unique…

IFC Films has calculated a deal for the biopic about an Indian math whiz and his British professor. Writer-director Matthew Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity stars Dev Patel in the title role and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons as his mentor in the story of their friendship that altered the course of mathematics in the 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Based on the nonfiction book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, the film charts the career of Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, a self-taught mathematical genius who, despite having no formal training, would make amazing contributions mathematical analysis, number…

EXCLUSIVE– Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) has joined the previously announced Jeremy Irons in Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore’s romantic drama The Correspondence. The film, set to shoot this spring in the UK and Italy, follows the love affair between a professor and a younger woman working in the same field.

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Jesse Eisenberg As Lex Luthor & Jeremy Irons As Alfred In Superman-Batman Pic
By The Deadline Team – Two more key roles have been cast in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman-Batman movie for Warner Bros. Jesse Eisenberg will play Superman's arch enemy…

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