Call it coincidence or just Oscar’s great luck. The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has inked significant deals on Guy Ritchie crime-comedy Bush for Germany, France and the UK. The star-studded pic, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery, has sold to Tele Munchen Group for Germany, SND for France and Ent…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…

UPDATED: Though Aviron initially declined comment on this story about it not honoring the P&A spend its execs said they would make on Serenity, the distributor has now asked to comment. Here is that comment: "We had the best intentions for Serenity. We were excited for the opportunity to release this uniquely original…

Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale and Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding have been set to star in Toff Guys, the new Guy Ritchie move that returns the director to his Lock, Stock and Snatch Brit gangster action roots. The casting, which Deadline confirmed Wednesday, comes after Miramax Films closed a $30…

When it comes to finding unmined cinematic talent, who knew to look in a Baltimore high school principal’s office? Such was the case on how the production of White Boy Rick found fresh face Richie Merritt to play notorious 1980s Detroit drug kingpin and undercover law informant Rick Wershe Jr. after casting a net…

EXCLUSIVE: A rifle, a screaming and half-dressed young woman, squealing tires and a near-miss car incident — it’s just your typical family spat in this clip from White Boy Rick, which is having its international premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival after bowing at Telluride last week. Typical, that is, for…

Neon has unleashed Matthew McConaughey as Moondog with the red band trailer drop for Harmony Korine’s subversive new comedy The Beach Bum. McConaughey stars as the rebellious eponymous rogue who lives life large and by his own rules. Set to the strums of “Crimson And Clover,” the Beach Bum trailer introduces us to…

Steven Knight segues from the mean streets of early 1900s Birmingham in Peaky Blinders to the deceptively calm waves of Serenity, his stylized thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. Knight wrote and directed the pic as his follow-up to his 2013 Tom Hardy thriller Locke, and the trailer has dropped…

Hustler, dealer, kingpin, informant, legend … teenager. It’s 1984 Detroit — and the only thing hotter than the Tigers that year was crack cocaine. Well, maybe the War on Drugs. Kids asks, “How come we stay [here], Dad?” He replies, “Son, a lion don’t leave the Serengeti.” Here is the first trailer for Studio 8’s White…

At last year’s CinemaCon, the highlight for Sony was the jaw-dropping footage from Blade Runner 2049 (Sony had foreign rights). This year, the studio had a lot more starpower to get exhibitors excited, from Holmes & Watson star Will Ferrell to an end session that included Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams from Venom and…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio 8/Sony’s crime drama White Boy Rick, the story about Richard Wershe Jr., who at the age of 14 became an undercover informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies during the 1980s and then established himself as a major drug dealer, is moving from January 26 to August 17 next year. On its…