IFC is out with its 2018 development slate that includes nearly a dozen comedy projects. Among the highlights are NGO from EP Oliver Platt, about the party-happy head of a private West African charity, and How to Rig an Election, based on the book by a former political consultant. Among other projects in the works is F…

EXCLUSIVE: Connie Britton and Oliver Platt have been added to the cast of Professor Marston & The Wonder Woman, the biopic from writer/director Angela Robinson. The two join Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans and Bella Heathcoate. The film details the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston (Evans), Harvard psychologist and…

“It’s not my son. It’s just a body that I feed and wash and clothe.” Setting aside the inherent sadness of that quote, here is the first trailer for Shut In, starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt and Jacob Tremblay. Two-time Oscar nominee Watts plays a child psychologist whose husband was killed and son (Charlie Heaton)…

Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival, hosted by the Lincoln Motor Company, has been greeting such fest-goers as James Franco and Christian Slater (King Cobra), debut director Katie Holmes (All We Had), Oliver Platt (The Ticket) and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for a series of video…

Oliver Platt and four others have been cast in EuropaCorp and Lava Bear Pictures’ thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts, rounding out the cast of the pic that recently began filming in Montreal before moving to other locations. It already has a February 19, 2016 release date. Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Medium‘s…

Oliver Platt has been tapped to co-star in NBC's Chicago Fire planted spinoff, Chicago Med. Platt is joining S. Epatha Merkerson, Yaya DaCosta and Laurie Holden in the ensemble medical drama project whose cast will be introduced in Episode 19 of Chicago Fire this season. Platt will play the intelligent head of…

Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey and Aiden Longworth are joining Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul and Sarah Gadon in The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Alexandre Aja (Horns) is directing for Miramax, AntColony Films and Brightlight Pictures. Principal photography began today in Vancouver. Platt (X-Men: First Class, Chef, F…

Twisted‘s Avan Jogia has landed a role in Michael opposite James Franco for director Justin Kelly and executive producer Gus Van Sant. Franco stars as a gay activist who, after enduring years of taunts and struggle, becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. Jogia will play Nico, a young man Michael (Franco) meets and…

Gotham Awards: 'The Descendants', 'Martha Marcy May Marlene', 'Beginners' And 'Take Shelter' Lead Nominations New York, NY (November 9, 2011) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers announced today that award winning actors, Oliver Platt and Edie…

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and already there are fireworks. Deadline broke news yesterday that Harvey W…

EXCLUSIVE: Add Oliver Platt to the cast of X-Men: First Class, the Matthew Vaughn-directed spinoff that 20th Century Fox puts into production next month in London. I’m told that Platt will play a role called The Man in Black, who is not a mutant. The film stars James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto…

The Big C executive producer and cancer survivor Jenny Bicks bought a Porsche when she was diagnosed with cancer. “Don't wait to get cancer to make yourself happy,” she said at the TCA panel for the upcoming Showtime dark comedy series starring Laura Linney as a woman diagnosed with cancer. Creator/executive producer…