EXCLUSIVE: The hot project du jour: The Menu, a dark satirical comedy that Alexander Payne will direct. So far, Emma Stone and Ralph Fiennes have signed on to star, and it’s anticipated that other swell names will enlist. Scripted by Will Tracy & Seth Reiss, the pic focuses on an eccentric culinary event that is…

As the UK’s Brexit political thriller plays out in real time, IFC Films has set a release date for director Gavin Hood’s take on another one from 15 years ago. Official Secrets, the story of Iraq-invasion whistleblower Katharine Gun, will hit select theaters on August 23. The film, which premiered at Sundance in…

The shoot on Matthew Vaughn’s untitled Kingsman origins story is underway in the UK, and the all-star cast includes Harris Dickinson (Trust), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List), Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey)…

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ralph Fiennes are to star in the true story of Farnsworth House. The Kindergarten Teacher and Crazy Heart star is teaming up with The White Crow and Spectre actor in the feature, which is set in late 1940s Chicago. Gyllenhaal plays Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a whose ambitious project with the…

Here’s a stirring first trailer for the Ralph Fiennes-directed Rudolf Nureyev drama The White Crow, which Sony Pictures Classics will release in the U.S. later this year. Starring are dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev, Fiennes, Adele Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Khamatova and revered ballet figure Sergei Polunin. Script comes…

Fimmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga has reportedly announced that Spectre actress Lea Seydoux and regular 007 castmembers Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris are returning for Bond 25.  Seydoux played psychiatrist Dr Madeleine Swann in Spectre who works at Austrian clinic and has an affair with Mr. Bond. Of course…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America and key markets on Ralph Fiennes’ Rudolf Nureyev pic The White Crow from HanWay Films. The prestige label has also taken Latin America, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Asia (excluding China, Japan, and Singapore) and Benelux. Inspired by the book Rudolf Nureyev…

EXCLUSIVE: Ralph Fiennes is in talks to join Rebecca Hall, Mark Strong and Saïd Taghmaoui in The Forgiven, the next movie from The Guard and Calvary director John Michael McDonagh, I can reveal. The English Patient star Fiennes and Vicky Cristina Barcelona star Hall would lead McDonagh’s adaptation of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grand Budapest Hotel star Ralph Fiennes is set to flex his comedy muscles again, this time as composer George Frederick Handel in period comedy-drama Hallelujah!, I can reveal. Veep helmer and The Thick Of It star Chris Addison will direct the movie which comes from Rush producer Andrew Eaton and Yardie…

Ralph Fiennes and Matthew Goode are joining Keira Knightley and Matt Smith in Gavin Hood’s next thriller Official Secrets. Hood directed the edge-of-your-seat political/drone thriller Eye in the Sky which was one of the best movies of 2015. The new film is expected to roll before the cameras on March 12 in Yorkshire…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Antonio Banderas and is in talks with Michael Sheen for the key live action leads opposite Robert Downey Jr in The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. Banderas plays a pirate named Rassouli and Sheen plays Mudfly alongside Downey’s title character in the Stephen Gaghan-directed film. In…

Ralph Fiennes is set to direct The White Crow, about the life of legendary Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev. It's based on the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh. The Hours scribe David Hare adapts the script while Gabrielle Tana will produce through Magnolia Mae Productions together with Francois…