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Julian Dennison (Godzilla vs Kong), Minnie Driver, James Rolleston (The Dark Horse) and Erana James are set to star in New Zealand coming-of-age tale One Winter from directors Paul Middleditch and Hamish Bennett. The title is based on a story by Middleditch, Keith Aberdein and Sonia Whiteman, with Bennett and Whiteman…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) and Minnie Driver (Rosaline) have signed on to star in Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose, a dark comedy from writer-director Adam Sigal (Chariot), which has entered production in Leeds. The film based on true events will follow Nandor Fodor…

Minnie Driver has taken to social media to call out the Academy for its lack of action after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday. Writing on Twitter, Driver said that she and other Academy member had received a notice stating the org was investigating the incident further. Yesterday, the awards body r…

EXCLUSIVE: Minnie Driver is getting into the scripted podcast world. The Speechless star has been tapped to star in The Lesser Dead, a supernatural audio drama series. Christopher Buehlman is adapting his own novel – about a colony of vampires – for the audio medium. The Lesser Dead comes from podcast studio <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/echoverse/" id="auto-tag_echoverse"…

I am not sure the world was clamoring for yet another go-round with the well-worn legend of Cinderella, but that didn’t stop producer James Corden, who pitched Sony on the idea of a new-age take, keeping the surroundings and era intact but turning the future princess into a self-made entrepreneur more concerned with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) is joining Kaitlyn Dever, Kyle Allen, Isabela Merced, Sean Teale and Bradley Whitford in the cast of 20th Century's Romeo and Juliet reimagining Rosaline. Based on the novel When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, the movie is a modern twist on the classic…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) is joining Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving and Lucy Boynton in Searchlight Pictures biopic Chevalier. The Favourite outfit Element Pictures are behind the true-story period film about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an…

Minnie Driver is bringing her curiosity to the podcast world, partnering with iHeartMedia to launch Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver later this month. In the talk show-style podcast, the Will & Grace and Speechless actress will ask an array of celebrity guests the same seven “mini” questions to uncover larger…

EXCLUSIVE:  With cameras set to roll on Thursday, Sony is rounding out the cast for Kay Cannon’s new telling of Cinderella, starring Camila Cabello. Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Minnie Driver is set to play Queen Beatrice, with Grammy-Award winning musician Missy Elliott in talks to play the role of the Town…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Speechless star Minnie Driver has extended the pod deal for her Huge Fan Productions banner at 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the ABC comedy series. She has set up her first project under the new deal — a dramedy series based on the Texas Monthly article “A Tree is Known by Its Fruit,” which…

Minnie Driver says ABC’s cancellation of her series Speechless today “feels rather sad,” but she believes the show made a positive impact on the “conversation about family, disability and love.” “Well now listen,” Driver tweeted this afternoon after ABC announced the show would not be back after Season 3. “Speechless…

ABC has rendered Speechless silent today with the Minnie Driver-led series canceled after three seasons. The cancellation is not a surprise, given that Speechless was ABC’s lowest-rated series. Co-produced by now corporate siblings 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios, Speechless starred Driver and John Ross Bowie as…