In bringing to life The Little Drummer Girl, AMC’s six-part adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic thriller, the producing team felt it was best not to confine the shoot to a soundstage. Florence Pugh, who plays the lead role of Charlie, said that commitment created some compelling sequences for the actors to portray…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU with screenwriter details: Following their collaboration on award-winning miniseries The Night Manager, partners the Ink Factory, BBC One and AMC are reteaming for another John le Carré adaptation, The Little Drummer Girl. Florence Pugh has been set to lead the espionage thriller with Korean master Pa…

BBC is partnering with Atlantic Productions for an ambitious new series dubbed Mission Galapagos. The 3×60 series, which is presented by Liz Bonnin, will follow a team of international scientists as they embark upon a journey of discovery across the Galapagos islands aboard a state-of-the-art high-tech research…

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival will be the opening-night film at the genre centric Fantastic Fest in Austin, the festival said today in unveiling its second wave of programming. The sci-fi pic, which stars Amy Adams, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival then head to Toronto. Also on Fantastic Fest’s slate is the…

Following close on the heels of last week's open letter penned by Spanish filmmakers including Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, a handful of Korean movie-biz professionals and others have added their voices to the chorus in calling for an end to the violence in Gaza. In a letter titled "Peace in Palest…

EXCLUSIVE: Silver Reel and Lotus Entertainment have partnered with di Bonaventura Pictures and CJ Entertainment for an English-language remake of Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance. The script is written by Broken City scribe Brian Tucker, based on the first film in Park Chan-wook‘s Vengeance Trilogy. The film centers on two…

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. The first weekend after Oscars brings a variety of specialty films making their U.S. theatrical debuts. South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook‘s first English-language thriller Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman, hopes to lure Park fans and new converts, while Tribeca Film hopes to draw…