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MGM and Amazon on Tuesday released the trailer for Thirteen Lives, the Ron Howard-directed drama about the real-life rescue in 2018 of 12 youth Thai soccer players and their coach from a cave after it flooded and trapped them inside. The incident became a worldwide event that encompassed more than 10,000 volunteers as…

“I think we're dealing with pretty primal forces of right and wrong with this story,” Australian writer/ director Thomas M. Wright said during a discussion about his new film The Stranger at Deadline’s Cannes studio. “It was a very difficult film to make just in terms of managing the amount of info in it,” Wright…

An undercover cop befriends a murder suspect in The Stranger, a taut Australian thriller in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Written and directed by Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), it features excellent performances from Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also serves as producer. The Stranger begins simply…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from The Stranger, the Un Certain Regard selection starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris. See Saw Films’ pic comes from Thomas M. Wright, the Australian Top of the Lake star-turned-director who picked up nominations for previous feature Acute Misfortune. The Stranger is his first to feature…

Apple TV+ has handed a nine-episode series order to Dark Matter, an adaptation of Blake Crouch’s acclaimed sci-fi novel, with Joel Edgerton attached to star and executive produce and author Crouch to serve as writer and showrunner. Matt Tolmach (Jumanji franchise) also will executive produce and Sony Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney’s long-awaited adaptation of The Boys in the Boat looks to be gearing up production as sources tell Deadline, Clooney has rounded out his cast with Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban and Hadley Robinson joining…

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…