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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Golden Globe-nominated actor and multi-hyphenate filmmaker Joel Edgerton. While the Australian native cut his teeth in acting and flourished in several on-screen roles, his credits also extend to theater, film directing and producing. Next up, he can be seen in Barry Jenkins’ Amazon series The…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has put in development a limited series adaptation of Tom Cooper’s novel Florida Man, with Joel Edgerton set to star and executive produce. Quarry co-creator/exec producer Graham Gordy is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. Edgerton will executive produce via his Five…

EXCLUSIVE: Joel Edgerton (Loving), Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies), Sebastian Stan (Captain America) and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) are among the all-star cast set for Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) sweeping immigrant drama The Brutalist, we can reveal. Also among…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is negotiating with Louis Leterrier to direct Bright 2, the sequel to the 2017 film that kicked off the streamer's feature film franchise launch aspirations. David Ayer directed the first film and was attached to the sequel, but he has been focused on rewriting to direct Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros…

Julia Roberts is reuniting with Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail on another podcast adaptation as she is attached to star, alongside Sean Penn, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton, in a remake of Slate's Watergate audio series Slow Burn. Roberts, who worked with Esmail on Amazon's Homecoming, will play Martha Mitchell, wife of…

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Joel Edgerton (Loving) and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation star Sean Harris are set to star in crime-drama The Unknown Man for Lion outfit See-Saw Films and Anonymous Content. The project is based on a real-life Australian sting operation. The story follows two men who meet on a plane…

David Michod likes an egg metaphor. Whether it's having had all of them "in one basket" over the past few years as he worked on The King — which received a royal eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last night — or looking at a project like a precious thing he's trying to stop from "getting…

While David Michod's The King owes a debt to Shakespeare's Henry The IV [Parts 1 And 2] and Henry V, the film's co-writer, co-star and producer Joel Edgerton says there's only "a pinch" of the Bard on screen. "We really do our own thing with it." Michod, who directs, co-wrote the script with Edgerton and also…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a heated auction, Anonymous Content, Chapter One, Hopscotch Features and Joel Edgerton (Boy Erased) are teaming to produce an international TV drama adaptation of Australian bestseller Boy Swallows Universe. The project is the first to be announced for Anonymous Content’s UK spin-off Chapter One…

Joel Edgerton is a multi-talented, multi-faceted actor, director, writer and producer who wore all of those hats in bringing to the screen Boy Erased, the adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir about the journey into and out of conversion therapy. The acclaimed film is the second feature film directorial outing for…

“It’s far more complicated than a black-and-white judgment from the outside,” director Joel Edgerton said about his latest film, Boy Erased, which explores the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy. Based on the memoir by Garrard Conley, the Focus Features film, which opened in theaters this month, follows…

In the midst of a pivotal career moment, Troye Sivan is trying to get at the truth. A supporting player in Boy Erased—Joel Edgerton's adaptation of a memoir by Garrard Conley—the Australian singer-songwriter earnestly admits to the learning curve involved with his first prominent onscreen role. "I just haven’t done as…