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EXCLUSIVE: Shameless creator Paul Abbott is rebooting his award-winning BBC One drama State of Play, which inspired the Russell Crowe movie of the same name. Deadline can reveal that 16 years after the original show aired, Abbott is in active development on a new series of the political thriller having previously…

The 2019 nominees for the Best Asian Film award, presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), have been revealed, with nine titles up for the prize including Bong Joon-Ho's Cannes winner Parasite. Also on the list are three Indian features: Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy, which is India’s…

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is boarding a new untitled Miramax supernatural thriller that will mark the directorial debut of Joshua John Miller and M.A. Fortin (Final Girls, Queen of the South). They’ll direct from their original script. In the project, Crowe plays a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting…

EXCLUSIVE: Shari Hardison has been named Head of U.S. Distribution for Solstice Studios. She starts September 23, reporting to president/CEO Mark Gill, overseeing distribution on all Sostice U.S. releases in all media. Hardison has set the first theatrical release from the studio, Unhinged, to open wide on August 28…

EXCLUSIVE: Caren Pistorius has landed the lead role opposite Oscar-winner Russell Crowe in Unhinged, the psychological thriller from Solstice Studios and director Derrick Borte. Unhinged takes an ordinary, everyday incident to its most terrifying conclusion in telling the story of Rachel (Pistorius), a mother who…

The volume is certainly starting to rise for Showtime's The Loudest Voice. Coming off a bit of a whisper of a debut on June 30, the Russell Crowe-led bioseries on Fox News Channel Svengali and alleged serial sexual predator Roger Ailes has now topped 2 million viewers, according to the CBS-owned premium cabler. That…

One of Fox News Channel founder Roger Ailes' obsessions was ratings, and the former Mike Douglas Show producer would have cackled at how quiet the debut of Showtime's Russell Crowe-starring The Loudest Voice was. With just 299,000 viewers for its 10 PM opener Sunday night on the CBS-owned premium cabler, the series…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight. The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO…

Oscar winner Russell Crowe will star in Unhinged, a psychological thriller that will start production July 15 in New Orleans. The film, which is the first Solstice Studios movie to go into production, is directed by Derrick Borte (American Dreamer), written by Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Red Eye) and produced by Lisa…

Showtime has released the first photo of Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in the upcoming Showtime limited series The Loudest Voice. Have a look at the two of them above and the Oscar winner as the Fox News founder below. A Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, the newly titled project is based on Gabriel…

Author Garrard Conley ruminated and waited nearly a decade to write his memoir Boy Erased, which chronicled the details of his experiences in gay conversion therapy. Now, his story is the basis of a Focus Feature feature film directed and written by Joel Edgerton and starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Cr…

EXCLUSIVE: While he has been eyeing other projects that include a coming of age Merlin movie at Disney, Ridley Scott has begun forward progress on a sequel to Gladiator, the 2000 film which garnered 11 Oscar nominations and five wins including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. While Crowe’s Maximus…