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EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans is set to star opposite Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Hulu's tentpole limited series Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty's latest book, from David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, Kidman's Blossom Films – all key auspices behind HBO's hit Big…

Disney+ has put in development a Beauty & The Beast prequel series to the 2017 Disney live-action feature film, with stars Josh Gad and Luke Evans set to reprise their roles, sources close to the project confirmed to Deadline. It hails from Once Upon A Time creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and ABC Signature…

U.S. streaming service BritBox is to co-produce ITV crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders starring Murder Mystery and The Alienist star Luke Evans. The SVOD service, which is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV, will take U.S. and Canadian rights to the three-part series, produced by Bodyguard producer World Produc…

EXCLUSIVE: Murder Mystery and The Alienist star Luke Evans is to lead an ITV crime drama from Bodyguard producer World Productions. The actor, who also starred in The Fate of the Furious, will play police officer Steve Wilkins in The Pembrokeshire Murders. The three-part series, which depicts the pursuit of a…

Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train, Beauty and the Beast), Mia Kirshner (The Black Dahlia, The L Word), Tony winner Michael Aronov (The Americans, The Drop) and Martin Donovan (Big Little Lies, Inherent Vice) are the latest to join Nicholas Jarecki's dramatic thriller Dreamland. They’ll co-star opposite Gary Oldman…

The new trailer for The Orchard’s State Like Sleep is filled with death, thrills, mystery, sexiness, fancy accents and lots of different hairstyles for star Katherine Waterston. The noir thriller follows a young widow (Waterston) who receives an unsettling phone call one year after her husband’s (Michiel Huisman)…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl, stars of The Alienist, are reuniting with the team behind the TNT Emmy nominated limited series for an untitled dramedy feature inspired by the 2006 French film Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend). Evans and Bruhl will star in the film based on an adaptation by Alienist…

Luke Evans has been set to co-star in Murder Mystery, the comedy toplined by Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston that is in the works at Netflix. Workaholics hemler Kyle Newacheck is aboard to direct the script from James Vanderbilt. Sandler plays a New York cop who finally takes his wife (Aniston) on a long-promised…

Oscar-winner and current nominee Octavia Spencer is set to reteam with her The Help director Tate Taylor for Blumhouse Productions’ twisted thriller, Ma. Production starts this month on the film that will also star Juliette Lewis and Luke Evans. Jason Blum and John Norris are producing. Plot details are sparse, but…

EXCLUSIVE: The hot new pitch du jour that studios are circling is an untitled comedy that will be written by Aaron & Jordan Kandell, who worked on Moana and whose last spec script, Adrift, netted an STX deal with Baltasar Kormakur directing Shailene Woodley in the survival tale. The new pitch has Josh Gad, Luke Evans…

TNT has set a date for its century-plus time jump. The cable net said today its period drama The Alienist starring Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning will premiere at 9 PM Monday, January 22. The Turner net also released a new trailer for the series. Check it out above. The psychological thriller drama is set…

Timing is everything. With the blockbuster success of this summer’s Wonder Woman plus a resurgence of interest in the female comic book icon, it looks like now is the perfect moment for an origin tale of where Wonder Woman came from. But as I say in my video review of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (click the…