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EXCLUSIVE: Director James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari centers on a rivalry born of automotive history, racing lore and mutual disgust. Teaming awards-season veterans Matt Damon and Christian Bale, its star power fueled the pic’s $195 million worldwide gross, but its screenplay helped drive the action on and off the…

Jez Butterworth’s Olivier Award-winning play The Ferryman will arrive on Broadway with most of its acclaimed London cast intact. Paddy Considine, the Olivier-winning Laura Donnelly and Genevieve O'Reilly will reprise their roles when the play hits New York in October. The initial casting announcement was made today…

Teaming for their first co-production, Amazon in the U.S. has joined with the UK’s Sky on original drama series, Britannia. Written by Jez Butterworth, this will be Amazon’s first series entirely produced overseas. In April, Deadline revealed that Kelly Reilly was in talks to star; she will now be joined by The Walking…

Hugh Jackman is ‘The Man,” and every bit the giant star in The River, Jez Butterworth’s absorbing conundrum of a new play. As I say in my video review above, every audience member is the better for it. The play also stars Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly, in different iterations of “The Woman” character. It’s directed by…

UPDATE, Monday AM with Butterworth film credits. What you want to know is this: Hugh Jackman is electrifying in The River, a concentrated, mysterious fish tale of a play. Seeing him onstage in one of Broadway’s most intimate theaters confers a sense of privilege upon the audience something akin to having Mick Jagger…