EXCLUSIVE: Willa Fitzgerald, who starred on MTV’s Scream offshoot, is in talks to co-star opposite Ansel Elgort and Sarah Paulson in the John Crowley-directed film adaptation of The Goldfinch, based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel. Peter Straughan wrote the screenplay, which centers around Theodore Decker…

EXCLUSIVE: Film4 has acquired rights to Bernard MacLaverty’s just-published novel Midwinter Break with Brooklyn helmer John Crowley set to direct. MacLaverty will handle the adaptation of the story about a couple out of their element which is also a hopeful portrait of love's complexity. Guy Heeley is producing under…

Casually removing her bra or tying a pink ribbon into a perfect bow atop her head, Cate Blanchett makes erotic art of the inconspicuous act. That’s a neat trick and a handy gift for the actress playing one of Anton Chekhov’s two types of women, the ethereal beauty undone by ennui. (Type two is the non-beauty undone by…

EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn helmer John Crowley has been tapped by RatPac Entertainment and Warner Bros to direct the screen adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Goldfinch. The film will be produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, along with RatPac's Brett Ratner, with James…

Cate Blanchett and company have rented a house for their Broadway debut next winter. Andrew Upton’s revisal of Anton Chekhov’s Platonov, also starring Richard Roxburgh, will begin previews December 17 at the Shubert Organization’s Barrymore Theatre, currently home to The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The…

EXCLUSIVE: John Crowley's Brooklyn, adapted by Nick Hornby from Colm Tóibín's novel, is perhaps this season's most delicate Oscar player. A touching, human story about Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant to New York in the 1950s, the film's central theme is homesickness and the difficulty with which our…

Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, who teamed up at New York’s City Center for a powerful revival of Uncle Vanya four years ago, will make their Broadway debuts next winter in The Present, a new version of another Chekhov play, Platonov, by Vanya adapter Andrew Upton. The Sydney Theatre Company production, which…

Publicist Katherine Rowe has just left Shelter PR to set up her own shop. The new business is called Rowe PR, and all of her clients are joining her. That includes John Crowley, Alan Cumming, David Goyer, Justin Lin, Eli Roth, M Night Shyamalan, Dan Stevens and Kurt Sutter. Rowe joined Shelter after spending five…

EXCLUSIVE: Five years ago around this time, director John Crowley was in rehearsal on Broadway for the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s play A Behanding In Spokane. A bizarre (and in some quarters reviled) black comedy, it starred Christopher Walken as a psychotic drifter who has spent 27 years searching for his…

Yves Belanger, the French-Canadian cinematographer of John Crowley's Brooklyn, worked consistently for 20 years before breaking out with a series of films by Jean-Marc Vallée. Transitioning from smaller films to major studio projects over the past several years, Belanger says this major rise in recognition is very…

By age 13, Saoirse (pronounced "seer-shah") Ronan had her first Oscar nomination for her role in the film version of Ian McEwan's bestseller, Atonement. This year, another popular literary adaptation—Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, scripted by Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley—could bring Ronan back to Oscar's door. Bro…

The Irish spirit came to our big awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, which took place earlier this month in front of a packed DGA theater full of AMPAS and guild members. Director John Crowley, producer Fiona Dwyer and star Saoirse Ronan joined me for a conversation about their luminous and…