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EXCLUSIVE: BritBox International has tapped Sanjeev Bhaskar as the lead for its latest original drama series, Inspector Singh Investigates, and has picked up docs about legendary acting mavericks Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole. Inspector Singh Investigates is a three-part drama that BritBox…

Since 2010 when Turner Classic Movies first had the idea to go live with their own Hollywood film festival celebrating the classics that make the basic cable channel that a true outpost of sanity for film lovers of all stripes, I have religiously attended each and every year. I was certainly looking forward to the…

Documents, letters, photos and the writings of Peter O’Toole has been bought by the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, including drafts of O'Toole's unfinished third memoir dealing with his career on stage and screen. The extensive archive contains theater and film scripts along with O'Toole's…

EXCLUSIVE: Diamond Cartel, the action-adventure film that marks the final onscreen appearance of the late and great Peter O’Toole, will be released domestically in theaters in the first quarter of 2017 by Cleopatra Entertainment, which just acquired the North American, UK and Australian distribution rights. Diamond Car…

Omar Sharif, by the far the most iconic film star ever to emerge out of the Arab world, has died at the age of 83. Sharif’s agent revealed he had suffered a heart attack in a hospital in Cairo. It had been revealed in May that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Sharif, born Michel Shalhoub in Egypt to a…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond talks with host David Bloom about the just-announced nominees for the Critics Choice Movie Awards, as three films – American Hustle, 12 Years A Slave and Gravity – in particular look to be cementing their positions in the Oscar race going into the holidays. They also will talk…

Catch up on Deadline’s top film stories you missed this week: 'Lawrence Of Arabia's Peter O'Toole Dead At 81 – 8-Time Oscar Nominee Retired Last Year By Anita Busch and Jen Yamato – Oscar-nominated actor Peter O'Toole died yesterday, his agent confirmed Sunday. He was 81. Often called the Hamlet of his generation, his…

There is no doubt Peter O’Toole was one of the greatest actors the movies have ever seen.  Since coming into major international stardom with his dazzling turn in Lawrence Of Arabia, O’Toole compiled a group of brilliant performances over the past half century that are second to none. But he also holds another…

Oscar-nominated actor Peter O’Toole died yesterday, his agent confirmed Sunday. He was 81. Often called the Hamlet of his generation, his death comes only about a year after retiring from a 54-year career in both stage and film highlighted by his turn as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia…

If he sticks with it, it’s a fitting end to the six-decade-plus career of the Irish actor, who released a very Peter O’Toole-like statement today saying he is retiring from films and stage just shy of his 80th birthday. The Lawrence Of Arabia and My Favourite Year star has done just about everything in the business…