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EXCLUSIVE: Jim Sturgess has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. The London-based actor, known for constantly embodying a wide range of characters, is currently shooting the second season of the Apple series Home Before Dark, a small-town mystery in which he stars opposite Brooklynn Prince. HIs…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Sturgess (Hard Sun, Feed the Beast) is set to star opposite 8-year-old The Florida Project standout Brooklynn Prince in Apple's upcoming untitled Hilde Lysiak series, directed and executive produced by Crazy Rich Asians helmer Jon M. Chu. The 10-episode mystery drama, which has a straight-to-series…

There is a simple reason why shows like The Walking Dead are so captivating, according to Neil Cross, creator and EP of Hulu’s new drama Hard Sun. “I think all apocalyptic dramas are essentially reassuring, they're not really about destruction,” he said at TCA on Sunday. “We always assume that we're the ones who…

Continuing its dive into originals, Acorn Media Enterprises has partnered with All3Media International and the BBC as the North American co-producer on period drama Close To The Enemy. Jim Sturgess, Alfie Allen, Alfred Molina, Angela Bassett and Freddie Highmore star in the seven-part series from Stephen Poliakoff (Per…

Debuting on June 5 right after the much more promising Preacher, AMC's Feed the Beast isn't quite TV junk food but it certainly lacks sizzle and dramatic nutritional value, as I say in my video review above. In fact, once it moves to its regular slot on June 7, the series starring Jim Sturgess and David Schwimmer as…

AMC has released the key art for Feed the Beast, its original drama that premieres May 31. The series stars David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess as two best friends who take one last shot at their dream of opening a restaurant. Adapted by executive producer/showrunner Clyde Phillips, the show follows Tommy Moran…

Coming off a buzzed-about turn as Robert Kardashian in the upcoming American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, David Schwimmer has signed on to star in AMC’s drama series Feed the Beast. He and Jim Sturgess (Across The Universe) are set as the leads in the straight-to-series project from Clyde Phillips, which…

Lionsgate/Grindstone has just closed a low-seven-figure deal for London Fields, a film that opened with some controversy as director Matthew Cullen filed suit just before its Tuesday industry screening against producer Chris Hanley over a cut of the movie that wasn’t completely of the director’s making. The adaptation…

BBC 2 has announced Stephen Poliakoff’s new six-part drama Close To The Enemy and revealed a stellar cast for the Cold War drama set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of World War II. Jim Sturgess (One Day) plays an intelligence officer whose last task for the Army is to ensure that a captured German…

Anthony Hopkins leads the cast of Informant Media’s Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, about the 1983 kidnapping of the Dutch beer heir and his chauffeur, Ab Doderer. The famous crime resulted in what was at the time the largest ransom ever paid for an individual at 35 million Dutch guldens, or roughly $50 million today. Jim…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess have joined Kate Beckinsale in Eliza Graves, the Brad Anderson-directed film that Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films has green lit to start shooting June 24. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story, the film is a turn of the century thriller about a young doctor who…

Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess are star-crossed lovers separated by class, wealth, and a pair of side by side planets whose gravities are mutually incompatible in Upside Down, the second feature from French-Argentinian director Juan Diego Solanas. More than two years after wrapping in late 2010, the ambitious science…