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The lines between history and fiction are blurred in Hulu's The Great, but it makes for sharp storytelling that contains the spirit of farce and mixes comedic and dramatic moments. Creator, writer and executive producer Tony McNamara, executive producer Marian Macgowan and co-stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult came…

Director Christopher McQuarrie has tweeted that Nicholas Hoult will join Tom Cruise in the next installment of Mission: Impossible, through Paramount and Skydance. Hoult has been close on a lot of things recently, getting down to the wire with Robert Pattinson before the latter got the Batman role in Matt Reeves’ The…

If there were an Oscar for Best Save, the new reworking of the two-year-old Toronto Film Festival misfire The Current War would win in a walk. I first saw this film at TIFF, where the Weinstein Company held its world premiere in 2017. It was premature, to say the least, and the film was not ready for primetime, not…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is ten days away from getting a theatrical release for his re-shot and re-worked The Current War: Director’s Cut, after more than two years spent fighting to see vision onscreen. 101 Studios is backing the theatrical rollout of a film that chronicles the battle to electrify…

AFI Fest has set the world premiere of Apple’s The Banker, starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long, as its closing-night film on November 21 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Here’s the logline for director George Nolfi’s film: Based on a true story, The Banker centers on…

History hasn’t exactly been kind to Nikolai Tesla. First he essentially comes up third in a three-man race with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, then The Current War, a movie about the whole electrical battle, gets caught up in the Harvey Weinstein scandal and delayed by nearly two years. But now The Current War…

Matt Reeves is getting close to naming his Batman. While a report declared that Twilight Saga star Rob Pattinson had been set for The Batman, Deadline hears that the filmmaker and Warner Bros haven’t gotten to that place yet. Pattinson is on a short list but so is Nicholas Hoult, who stars in Tolkien and is about to…

With the wild box office and critical and awards success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, not to mention The Hobbit trilogy, it seemed only a matter of time before Hollywood knocked on the door of the man who created these Middle Earth saga. J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate will have none of it, respecting the late author’s…

War, dragons, camaraderie and romance – it’s too soon for another Game of Thrones trailer, so it’s gotta be Tolkien. Fox Searchlight released a second trailer for the upcoming biopic today, giving even more clues about the approach the film will take in chronicling both the life and the imagination of the…

EXCLUSIVE: As screenwriter Tony McNamara landed in London this past weekend to make good on his BAFTA nomination for writing The Favourite with Deborah Davis, he was already having a pretty ‘Great’ weekend. On Friday he found out his new TV show The Great, about the life of Catherine the Great of Russia would be…

Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien about the legendary Lord of the Rings author will open in theaters on May 10. The movie, directed by Dome Karukoski, and starring Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien and Lily Collins as his muse and wife Edith Bratt, explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody‘s Gwilym Lee has joined Hulu pilot order The Great, which is currently shooting in Yorkshire, UK. Lee, who plays Queen guitarist Brian May in Fox's smash biopic, will play Grigor, the best friend and confidant of Russian emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). Written and executive produced by…