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Notting Hill director Roger Michell died yesterday at the age of 65, his publicist has announced. No cause of death was given. The South African-born British theater, TV and film director was in Telluride with his latest film The Duke only three weeks ago. In addition to Notting Hill, the 1999 smash that starred Hugh…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning duo Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will play husband and wife in Roger Michell's art heist comedy movie The Duke for Pathé. I can reveal that the film is officially greenlighted and will shoot in January 2020. The script by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Clive Coleman is based on the…

“What would you do if you knew that at a certain point, you'd become so dependent, and would have to watch this incredible deterioration?” In discussing playing Lily, a terminally ill woman with ALS in Roger Michell’s Blackbird, Susan Sarandon pondered her mortality at Deadline’s TIFF studio. Sarandon was joined in…

EXCLUSIVE: My Cousin Rachel director Roger Michel and producer Kevin Loader are teaming up under their Free Range Films banner on a feature adaptation of upcoming UK novel Little Darlings, which they have optioned from Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency. Notting Hill director Michel will write and direct the…

Update, 10:06AM: Fox Searchlight is moving My Cousin Rachel further back to Friday July 14 in select theaters. Based on the 1951 book by Daphne du Maurier, pic follows a young Englishman who plots revenge against his cousin who he believes murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated and he falls for…

Notting Hill director Roger Michell’s My Cousin Rachel has added Game Of Thrones‘ Iain Glen and acclaimed Brit stage actor Simon Russell Beale to its cast. As previously revealed exclusively by Deadline, they join Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin and Holliday Grainger in the Fox Searchlight film, an adaptation of the classic…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Reynolds is in final negotiations to star in the dramedy Truth In Advertising with veteran Brit director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) also on board. The Solution Entertainment Group’s co-founders and partners Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel are financing and producing the film alongside Lynn Hendee (Ender…

Roger Michell (Notting Hill) is attached to write and direct My Cousin Rachel, an adaptation of the classic Daphne Du Maurier novel, for Fox Searchlight. The dark romance revolves around Philip, a young orphan, who believes his mysterious, beautiful cousin Rachel may have been responsible for the murder of his beloved…

Continuing a steady stream of recent orders, Sky has commissioned two new dramas to air later this year. For Sky Living, Harlan Coben (Gone For Good, Tell No One) has created a new original story, The Five. This is the first original TV series penned by the bestselling author. Described as a 10-part roller-coaster…

Hyde Park On Hudson director Roger Michell‘s Le Weekend is currently in post-production after wrapping a Paris shoot at the end of last year. Music Box has taken U.S. rights on the film that stars Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum. Broadbent and Duncan play a married couple who visit the City of Lights…

Bill Murray as FDR! Need we say more? Focus Features put up the theatrical trailer for Hyde Park On The Hudson, which depicts England’s King George VI spending a weekend at President Roosevelt’s estate in upstate New York. Directed by Roger Michell from Richard Nelson’s script, it also stars Olivia Williams as Eleanor…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Williams has emerged as the front runner to play Eleanor Roosevelt the Roger Michell-directed Hyde Park on the Hudson for Focus Features. She is in talks to join her Rushmore co-star Bill Murray, who plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Laura Linney, who'll play FDR's distant cousin and mistress. The…