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EXCLUSIVE:  One of the few titles up for sale at TIFF this year was Phillip Noyce’s thriller Lakewood starring Naomi Watts, and Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have landed North American rights to the the female-driven thriller. The movie, which was fully financed by Boies Schiller Entertainment and…

The global pandemic has provided filmmakers opportunities to get creative in order to make films in unusual circumstances. Already at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, we have seen The Guilty with Jake Gyllenhaal in what is essentially a one-man show connected to the outside world simply by a phone in…

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan. No one would comment, but I hear The Watcher follows a married couple (Watts, Cannavale) whose move into their dream home is being threatened by…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), rising actor Billy Howle (Outlaw King), Tony-winner Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story) and Southside With You breakout Parker Sawyers have joined Naomi Watts in survival thriller Infinite Storm. Malgorzata Szumowska’s (Never Gonna Snow Again) feature is based…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts for representation in all areas. The two-time Academy Award nominee next stars in Penguin Bloom, which she also produced and will be released on Netflix January 27th. Watts recently filmed Lakewood for director Phillip Noyce. CAA Media Finance represents the film's…

EXCLUSIVE: As a most unusual Toronto Film Festival in memory gets underway today with the usual acquisitions and media crowd unable to make it across the Canadian border for gala premieres, Endeavor Content has come up with an inventive alternative for three acquisitions titles its sales agents will attempt to sell…

Striving to get the sixth and likely final Game of Thrones book finished, George R.R. Martin is rather juiced about HBO's recent announcement of a straight-to-series order for prequel The House of the Dragon and sanguine about the fiery death of another prequel to the Emmy-winning blockbuster. “It goes without saying…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has more Game of Thrones in the pipeline, but the prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening. Showrunner Goldman has been emailing the cast and crew of the project to tell them that the pilot is dead, we hear. The development has not been confirmed by HBO. The…

The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has joined Naomi Watts in Penguin Bloom, the Glendyn Ivin-directed adaptation of the bestseller written by Bradley Trevor Greive. Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps wrote the script and production begins in Sydney, Australia in August. Watts is producing alongside Emma Cooper and Made Up…

Brainstorm Media has acquired North American rights to Alistair Banks Griffin's thriller The Wolf Hour, which has also sold around the world for HanWay Films. The Sundance debut stars Naomi Watts together with Jennifer Ehle, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Emory Cohen, Brennan Brown, and Jeremy Bobb. Watts also executive…

“You don’t conform to what she wants, and suddenly you’re the enemy,” the model student says about his teacher. “I can tell the difference between miscommunication and provocation,” she says of a paper he wrote. “This woman has some kind of vendetta against Luce,” the teen’s adoptive parents say about her. And it’s…

Television, says Russell Crowe’s Roger Ailes at the start of this trailer for Showtime’s upcoming The Loudest Voice, is “the most powerful force in the world.” The gripping footage that follows make a pretty convincing case. A seven-episode limited series premiering June 30, The Loudest Voice, based on Gabriel Sherman…