Hayley Squires, who starred in Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake and Netflix/BBC co-pro Collateral, is to star in Channel 4 porn drama Adult Material. Rupert Everett of My Best Friend's Wedding and The Happy Prince also stars. Squires is to play Jolene Dollar, a mum of three and one of the top porn performers in the UK, in…

Danny Boyle is to exec produce an Irvine Welsh-penned feature about seminal British record label Creation with Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng joining the cast. Creation Stories, which has been long in the works, is based on Alan McGee's autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Runn…

Patrick Schwarzenegger (Daniel Isn't Real), Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince), Cold War star Tomasz Kot, Kylie Bunbury (Game Night) and Raw star Garance Marillier are joining the cast of sci-fi thriller Warning, which is now underway in Poland. Already aboard Agata Alexander’s feature debut are Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mik…

Films by three female alumni of the Hamptons Film Festival’s screenwriters lab have been confirmed for the lineup of the festival’s 26th annual edition in October. They include Sara Colangelo's The Kindergarden Teacher, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, which will open the 26th edition in October. Other alums with films in…

Another U.S. deal to heat up a freezing, cold Berlin. Fresh from the success of Call Me By Your Name, Sony Pictures Classic has picked up rights to Rupert Everett's directorial debut The Happy Prince. The specialty label has bought North American and Latin American rights to the film, which was written and directed by…

When The Happy Prince helmer Rupert Everett decided the angle on his directorial debut Oscar Wilde film, the actor, who has portrayed the famed poet and playwright on various occasions, thought “it would be amazing to do another film about Oscar Wilde but attacking the end up his life” as oppose to the other three…

My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of's John Turturro’s Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose has found an international distributor. Germany’s Tele Munchen Group has acquired international rights outside of Italy for the eight-part series, commissioned by…

BBC Two is turning back the clock for its latest comedy order with 1840s-set medical series, Quacks. NBCUniversal International Studios’ Lucky Giant (BBC Two/HBO’s Family Tree) will produce six half-hours about four young pioneers in the daring and wild days of Victorian medicine with shooting to start later this…

German producers Philipp Kreuzer and Jörg Schulze are launching maze pictures, a film and TV shingle designed to develop, finance, produce and co-produce high-end content for the local and international markets. Among the first projects for the Munich- and Berlin-based outfit is the adaptation of The Crimson Rivers as…

Deadline revealed September 30 that Sony Pictures Classics would acquire Hysteria, the film that covers the accidental discovery of the vibrator. SPC has just issued this official announcement of the deal: NEW YORK (November 10, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all US and South…

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Sony Pictures Classics is near a deal to distribute Hysteria, the Tanya Wexler-directed romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electro-mechanical vibrator as an advance in medical science. The film created a — wait for it — buzz…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Tanya Wexler. She’s the director of Hysteria, the 2011 Toronto Film Festival drama about the invention of the vibrator. The buzz is that film is in hot pursuit by suitors that include Sony Pictures Classics, Samuel Goldwyn Films and Millennium. Wexler had met with the major agencies while in…