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EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has partnered with The Imitation Game director Morten Tyldum and Guri Neby of Oslo-based Einar Films to form Anonymous Content Nordic, in the latest indication of AC’s growing international ambitions. The new venture will focus on developing and producing premium content for the…

Apple has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to drama Defending Jacob, headlined and executive produced byCaptain America and The Avengers star Chris Evans. Created and written by Mark Bomback (Planet of the Apes trilogy) based on William Landay’s bestselling novel, the limited series comes  from…

Get Out standout Betty Gabriel has joined the Season 2 cast of Starz’s spy thriller Counterpart, with production set to begin Wednesday in Berlin. Gabriel will play the new series regular role of Naya Temple, a former FBI agent recently hired by the Office of Interchange to clean house, a figure both intimidating and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what shapes up to be one of the hot titles in the upcoming Berlin sales market, Black Bear Pictures will finance and produce with Anonymous Content the Morten Tyldum-directed dramatic thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter. Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander has come attached to play the lead role…

The Imitation Game and Passengers helmer Morten Tyldum, who directed the pilot for Paramount Television’s Jack Ryan, is expanding his relationship with the studio behind the upcoming Amazon drama series. Tyldum has signed a two-year exclusive overall deal with Paramount TV. Under the pact, he will direct two upcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe and Anthony Russo’s unnamed production venture has acquired rights to the Mohsin Hamid bestseller Exit West for Morten Tyldum to direct. They have also made a first-look deal with Tyldum and his Mimir banner. The Russos will produce the film based on a novel that was a Man Booker Prize long list…

From the global scope of Indiana Jones to the spiraling hallways of Inception, two-time Oscar nominated production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas knows his way around an audacious big budget adventure film; with Passengers, though—from The Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum—Dyas saw an opportunity to enter an entirely new…

Oscar-nominated feature director Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game, Passengers) is set to direct the opening episode of Amazon's straight-to-series drama Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, from the Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Platinum Dunes, Skydance Media and Paramount TV. Starring John…

An artist equally comfortable in the depths of outer space and in rural, small-town Virginia, in both epic and indie worlds, supervising sound editor Will Files contributed sound designs for two of this year's acclaimed pictures at opposite ends of the spectrum, the tense sci-fi actioner Passengers and Jeff Nichols'…

Passengers, which is now making its way through the Christmas box office crush, took its first voyage last month at our big annual awards-season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, where director Morten Tyldum, writer Jon Spaihts, and film editor Maryann Brandon discussed the challenges of what Tyldum calls…

Take the sparse loneliness exhibited in Gravity and The Martian, marry it with a nifty idea that would have been right at home as a Twilight Zone episode, throw in two of today’s most engaging movie stars in Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, great production design, special effects and beautiful cinematography and…

Oscar-nominated director Morten Tyldum revealed what attracted him to Sony’s sci-fi love story Passengers at Deadline’s annual Contenders event today: The movie’s a balancing act. “It’s an intimate film,” said Tyldum about Passengers, which relies largely on the Jennifer Lawrence-Chris Pratt chemistry, “but the epic…