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EXCLUSIVE: One day before Paul Schrader's The Card Counter premieres at the Venice Film Festival, I can reveal that the filmmaker's next project is already gathering pace. Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver are attached to lead Master Gardener, a crime thriller Schrader is directing from his original screenplay. It…

The Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Emmy-winning Game of Thrones have set the table for a summer sleeper in writer-director David Lowery’s extravagantly entertaining and surprisingly pertinent The Green Knight, which rides into theatres Friday and is something exhibitors and audiences should greet with…

In African American history the phrase "Underground Railroad" is a metaphor that refers to a secret network of routes and safe houses that would help enslaved people escape to freedom. But in Barry Jenkins' dazzlingly ambitious Amazon Prime Video serie, an adaptation of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson…

Debuting on Friday on Amazon Prime Video, The Underground Railroad is the show you have to watch this weekend, this week, and over the weeks and months to come. As a cursory glance at some of the brutal truths of American history tells all of us, there is a lot to take in from Barry Jenkins' brilliant adaptation of…

Disney+ confirmed its cast for new Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi and that includes Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse returning to Star Wars — they respectively played young Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Also . In addition, new cast members include Moses Ingram, Kumail Na…

Watergate drama Gaslit, which is based on Slate’s Slow Burn podcast, has landed at Starz, though it has lost a couple of names along the way. The network has greenlighted the UCP-produced series starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Joel Edgerton, who was set to star and direct, no longer is attached, and neither is…

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…