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Jessica Chastain is standing by her man as she saddles up to play the first lady of country music Tammy Wynette in a limited TV series for Spectrum Originals, the upcoming ViacomCBS streamer and Paramount Network. George & Tammy is based on the book, The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, written by the…

Several major films primed to begin production just got some big bucks to shoot in California. Netflix's Russo Brothers-directed The Gray Man, the Jessica Chastain-starrer Losing Clementine and an untitled Jordan Peele project for Universal were among nine films allocated $50,053,000 collectively in the last round of…

Alice Feeney’s (Sometimes I Lie) latest thriller novel His & Hers is in the works for the small screen. Jessica Chastain's Freckle Films, Kristen Campo (The Killing, The L- Word), and Endeavor Content have acquired the TV rights to the book on the heels of its publication this past Tuesday. His & Hers tells the story…

John Michael McDonagh's The Forgiven has paused shooting in Morocco and crew have been flown home as a precaution against the coronavirus spread. Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Caleb Landry Jones and Saïd Taghmaoui are among the cast of the drama, which we originally revealed back in 2018. It is based on the novel…

FilmNation has boarded sales on hot project The Good Nurse, starring  Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne. We first broke news of the thriller in 2018. Based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt) is set to make his English-language feature directing…

Another hot American Film Market package being unveiled today: Jessica Chastain will play a troubled artist in comedy-drama Losing Clementine. Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo has been enlisted to helm the feature, which Sierra/Affinity will be shopping at the Santa Monica market this week. As we revealed last year…

Jessica Chastain is to make her West End theater debut in a new production of A Doll's House. The Zero Dark Thirty star will star as Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's play, adapted by Frank McGuiness. In the play, Helmer, confronts her husband Torvald with her own brutal realization that by marrying she has moved from her…

Universal has set a January 15, 2021 release date for 355, the ensemble spy thriller that came together during last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic directed and co-written by Simon Kinberg stars Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing. The hope is to launch a franchise based…

EXCLUSIVE: One day into production in Europe on the global spy thriller 355 that he hatched with Jessica Chastain for Universal, FilmNation and Freckle Films, Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films is quietly exiting his overall film deal at Fox this month. That brings to an end a 20-year run where he has worked steadily, pretty…

Netflix has snatched up The Division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ film adaption based on the popular Tom Clancy online-only, role-playing video game, which was released in 2016 and currently has more than 20 million players. The follow-up game, The Division 2, was just released in March. The announcement of Netflix’s…

The international spy thriller 355, which was the biggest deal at last year’s Cannes, has added Avengers: Endgame‘s Sebastian Stan and Edgar Ramirez, and set a July 8 production start in Paris, London and Morocco. Scripted by Simon Kinberg and scripted by Theresa Rebeck, the film is a global espionage thriller that…

Andrew Garfield is set to star opposite Jessica Chastain in biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which is set up at Fox Searchlight and has Michael Showalter attached to direct. Chastain had been developing the project and will produce the project alongside Kelly Carmichael through their Freckle Films banner with Gigi…