FX has boarded the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. The three-part series is produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free, Tom Hardy's Hardy Son & Baker and FX Productions. The U.S. cable network will air the series in December, the latest collaboration between the two broadcasters following Tab…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke has signed on to star opposite John Boyega In Naked Singularity, the heist fil helmed by first-time feature director Chase Palmer, who also penned the screenplay with David Matthews. Scott Free Productions is producing the pic, which is an adaptation of the same-titled novel by Sergio De La…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Production, Atlas Industries, and Spin a Black Yarn are teaming on a film adaptation of Bird Box author Josh Malerman's novel Black Mad Wheel with Barnett Brettler on board to write the screenplay. Sean O'Grady and Bill Stertz are producing the project for Atlas along with Ryan…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is restructuring its TV operation, promoting longtime US-based President of Television David W. Zucker to Head of Worldwide TV.  In his expanded new role, he will oversee both Scott Free’s US and UK TV divisions as the company is looking for stronger integration of its creative…

12 Years A Slave and Bohemian Rhapsody outfit New Regency today formally launched international TV outpost New Regency Television International, with former Scott Free UK managing director Ed Rubin at the helm. Based out of London, the division will be charged with producing TV content for the international…

EXCLUSIVE: The era of The Man in the High Castle is coming to an end. The upcoming coming fourth season of the acclaimed Amazon series based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel will be its last, I've learned. That fourth and final season is set to launch on the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer this fall. MITHC meticulously and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Rubin has stepped down as Managing Director of Scott Free London, we have learned. Rubin, the former Origin Pictures head of film and TV whose credits as executive producer include BBC series The Woman In White and Helen Mirren feature Woman In Gold, joined Ridley Scott’s firm at the start of 2017. His…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Vikings star Travis Fimmel is set to star in Raised By Wolves, Scott Free Productions' straight-to-series sci-fi drama for TNT, which will mark Ridley Scott's TV helming debut. The first series ordered for the Ridley Scott-curated sci-fi programming block on TNT, Raised By Wolves is part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free has set David Kajganich to adapt Australian author Tim Winton’s Booker Prize finalist novel The Riders.  In the book, an expatriate Australian eagerly awaits the return of his family in Ireland, but discovers that his wife has mysteriously vanished, and goes on a frantic search for her with his…

EXCLUSIVE: “This is a mother’s worst nightmare.” A child’s disappearance is unfathomable, and the nightmare plays out over the course of 11 years in American Woman, Jake Scott’s film starring Sienna Miller that premieres this weekend at Toronto. Deb (Miller) had her daughter Bridget at a young age, and that daughter…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing classic murder mystery novel The Beast Must Die into a detective drama series with Taboo producer Scott Free London. The British public broadcaster is working up a remake of the novel, which tells the story of how respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder but ends up…

Ridley Scott's expedition drama The Terror is heading around the world after Amazon struck a global output deal with AMC Studios. The streaming service has inked an agreement that will see it take first-run rights to in-house shows from the Breaking Bad broadcaster in 28 territories including Australia, Germany…