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Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Dakota Johnson (Bad Times At The El Royale) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie) are set to star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, we can reveal. Endeavor Content will launch world sales at the upcoming EFM on Gyllenhaal’s…

One of the unexpected highlights and pleasures of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival was a discovery by the name of Jessie Buckley, who soars in director Tom Harper’s transcendent musical drama Wild Rose. Although she currently can be seen in the HBO limited Series Chernobyl and in a supporting role in…

While HBO's Chernobyl is as dark and challenging as television dramas come, the series' stars saw it as an opportunity to learn. A five-part miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the show centers on an infamous explosion, which rocked a Soviet power plant in 1986, killing many, while exposing…

Black Panther star Letitia Wright, Widows star Cynthia Erivo, Sorry To Bother You‘s Lakeith Stanfield, American Animals actor Barry Keoghan and Wild Rose lead Jessie Buckley have been nominated for BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award. The nominees, revealed this morning at BAFTA’s London headquarters, were selected…

Keira Knightley will lead a cast alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose) in the feature film Misbehaviour for The Crown outfit Left Bank Pictures. Pathé will launch sales on the movie at the American Film Market. Philippa Lowthorpe (Three Girls) will direct. The screenplay comes from Rebecca…

Jessie Buckley arrived in Toronto last year as an unknown, in the British indie thriller Beast, but she leaves this year as a star in the making, after knocking audiences for six in the feel-good musical Wild Rose, in which she plays Glaswegian country singer Rose-Lynn Harlan. To discuss the film, the actress came by…

Two music-themed female driven pics are the hot properties on the Toronto auction block right now, and neither is decided yet. After another wild all night Toronto auction, the Tom Harper-directed Wild Rose is close to a seven figure U.S rights deal with  a couple distributors chasing. NEON is out front but others are…

EXCLUSIVE: American Horror Story's Finn Wittrock has been set to play Mickey Deans, the fifth husband of Judy Garland, in Judy, the true story of the singer and actress' final concerts in London. Also joining the cast is Beast‘s Jessie Buckley as Rosalyn Wilder, the production assistant who looked after Garland during…

EXCLUSIVE: Two young stars have just been signed out of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film Beast which just premiered at TIFF and was among those named by the festival as one of the rising stars, has signed with CAA. Meanwhile, Primary Wave Entertainment has signed…

British director Michael Pearce's debut Beast was one of the indie success stories of this year's Toronto film festival, selling to 30WEST for a seven-figure sum. Starring newcomer Jessie Buckley in her first film lead, Beast is a psychological thriller in which a young girl with a tortured past meets a dangerous…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Michael Pearce’s romantic thriller Beast is heading to the Toronto Film Festival for its world premiere Saturday. Before that, here is an exclusive clip from the film about a troubled young woman who falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape her oppressive family. When he…

Amazon has boarded the Peter Moffat-created drama The Last Post as an Amazon Original in the U.S. where it will be available later this year. The six-part period series is set in the 1960s and centers on the lives of a Royal Military Police unit and their families in Aden, Yemen. It’s based on the childhood memories…