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EXCLUSIVE: Former Game of Thrones star Lena Headey is expanding the executive team at her Peephole Productions, naming Jamie Rhys-Lawrence as Head of Development. Rhys-Lawrence comes to Peephole from Sharon Hall’s Mom de Guerre Productions. She will join Headey and Tina Thor, who will serve as executive producers…

Game of Thrones alumna Lena Headey is returning to HBO with a lead role opposite Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux and Domhnall Gleeson in The White House Plumbers, HBO's five-part limited series that revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history, Watergate. The project hails from Veep executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey is lining up a spooky animated adaptation of Christian McKay Heidicker's Scary Stories for Young Foxes. The Game of Thrones star is attached to voice a character in an animated miniseries adaptation of the award-winning kids' horror novel and co-produce it with Boat Rocker Studios. Her…

Former Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has been tapped as the female lead in Beacon 23, Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks’ psychological thriller series based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Hugh Howey. Headey will also executive produce through her production company, Peephole Productions, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Sam Worthington (Avatar franchise), Dean Scott Vasquez (Jack Ryan) and Barbara Hershey (the Insidious films) are set to star in Gypsy Moon, an indie drama from writer and director Gigi Gaston that just wrapped production in Los Angeles. Headey stars as the title character, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Platform One Media has struck a first-look deal with Peephole Productions, the production company run by Game of Thrones star Lena Headey. The Boat Rocker company will work with actor, who played Cersei Lannister in the hit HBO drama and also recently starred in Fighting with my Family, to develop scripted…

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey and Luke Wilson have joined the voice cast of the sci-fi animation series New-Gen, based on the Marvel comic book series by J.D. Matonti, Chris Matonti and Julia Coppola of A.P.N.G. Enterprises. The series, co-created by J.D. Matonti and showrunner Brent Friedman, is now underway on production. N…

EXCLUSIVE: Paprika Steen (Okay), Isabella Crovetti (Colony), Glo Tavarez (Late Night), Jade Payton (Dynasty) and Connor Falk (Diary of a Future President) are set as series regulars opposite Lena Headey in Showtime dramedy pilot Rita, based on Christian Torpe's award-winning Danish series. Torpe will pen the pilot and…

Saban Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Martin Owen's drama Twist, a modern take on Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. The pic, which was acquired out of AFM and will get a theatrical release Q1 of 2021, stars Oscar winner Michael Caine, Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey, recording artist…

Two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine, Game Of Thrones star Lena Headey and singer Rita Ora are among cast for Sky movie Twist, an update on the classic Charles Dickens story Oliver Twist. Also starring will be David Walliams (Little Britain), Franz Drameh (Legends of Tomorrow), Sophie Simnett (Daybreak) and newcomer Raf…

Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge, The Kids Are All Right) has been tapped to direct the hourlong Showtime dramedy pilot Rita, starring and executive produced by Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Lena Headey (Game of Thrones). Rita, based on Christian Torpe's award-winning Danish series, is a…

After eight seasons, three dragons, one “Red Wedding”, one “Long Night” and a bloody body count to rival any television show in history, the Game of Thrones cast took the stage for one last time after eight seasons to a standing ovation at the Primetime Emmy Awards. The tribute, one of several planned for departing…