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EXCLUSIVE: Swords down! The Ridley Scott-directed 20th Century Studios period epic The Last Duel has been put on “indefinite hiatus,” days before shooting was to commence in Ireland. Sources said the cast has been told all this, and it is unclear when production will begin on a film that had been slated for Christmas…

EXCLUSIVE: Dame Harriet Walter has joined Ridley Scott's new epic, The Last Duel, the revenge story that stars Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Based on Eric Jager’s novel, the script is by Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener. Shooting is just getting underway with filming due to take place in…

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is dropping the first in a series of Charles Dickens adaptations this Christmas with his reimagining of A Christmas Carol for FX and BBC One. Knight is yet to decide on what Dickens story he will tackle next for Ridley Scott's Scott Free London and Tom Hardy's Hardy Son & Baker…

EXCLUSIVE: In a last fevered auction before the holidays, Netflix prevailed and paid high six figures for First Ascent, a genre script by Colin Bannon with a female lead set in the world of mountain climbing. The project injects a genre element to a dangerous sport and was likened to The Shining meets Free Solo. Jake S…

Ridley Scott is partnering with financier-producer Anton and UK production outfit Stigma Films on CURS_R, a short-form thriller series that has been set up at Quibi. Written by Simon Allen, whose credits include the recent big budget Das Boot remake, the show will follow a broke student who, in pursuit of an unclaimed…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has committed to direct a film about the tumultuous Gucci family fashion dynasty and the murder of the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was tried and convicted of orchestrating her ex-husband's assassination…

Raised by Wolves, a serialized sci-fi series from Ridley Scott, will premiere on the direct-to-consumer platform HBO Max. The announcement was made during the WarnerMedia Day investor presentation Tuesday afternoon. The 10-episode drama, starring Travis Fimmel, was originally set up at TNT with a straight-to-series…

Adam Driver is in talks to join Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer in The Last Duel, a period drama based on a novel by Eric Jager. Ridley Scott is at the helm, directing from a screenplay adaptation by Damon and Affleck. Published in 2004, the follows story of two best friends, the Norman knight…

EXCLUSIVE: When the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama The Friend premieres tonight in Toronto, the film's tough subject matter – Dakota Johnson plays Nicole Teague, who at 34 was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer – was made more bearable by the presence of two classic Led Zeppelin songs. “Ramble On” and…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite a wave of rumors she might be headed for the executives suites of Paramount or Warner Bros, Emma Watts is staying put at Fox/Disney. Deadline hears that the vice chairman and head of production is in the middle of formalizing a plan with the studio to stay on in the future and continue to steer…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a major movie that is coming together quickly. I’m hearing that Ridley Scott is going to next direct The Last Duel, a revenge story based on a novel by Eric Jager. The plan is for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to star in the film. The script is almost done, written by Damon, Affleck and Nicole…

The just-arrived Season 2 trailer for AMC’s The Terror: Infamy begins with the sound of history: FDR’s speech to Congress the morning after the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor left America stunned and standing on the precipice of global conflict. FDR’s oft-quoted line about a “date that will live in infamy&#8221…