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UPDATE: Sky has confirmed an eight-episode order. EXCLUSIVE, October 30, 2019: Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films is adapting C J Skuse's novel Sweetpea for Sky Atlantic. The company, which also makes SundanceTV's short-form series State of the Union, is developing the comedy drama, which is described as American P…

Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films has hired Killing Eve producer Elinor Day to bolster its television division. The company, which recently scored a 12-episode commission for the Gary Oldman-fronted Slow Horses with Apple, has hired Day as executive producer for the UK Television Division. She reports to Head of…

Gary Oldman is to star in spy drama Slow Horses for Apple with Justified's Graham Yost exec producing. The nascent digital TV service has ordered an adaptation of Mick Herron's spy novels from Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films. Slow Horses, which was first published in 2010, features Jackson Lamb, a brilliant but…

Stephen Graham (The Virtues, Line of Duty), Tom Courtenay (45 Years, The Aeronauts) and Peter Mullan (Mum, Top Of The Lake) have joined the cast of The North Water, See-Saw Films’ adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Arctic whaling novel for BBC Two. The trio will support leads Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell on the four-part…

EXCLUSIVE: Garth Davis, the Australian filmmaker whose work includes Lion with Dev Patel and Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, is joining forces with See-Saw Films producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (The King's Speech) on a new production venture. Under the moniker I Am That, the 50-50…

Rachel Weisz will play Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor for female directing duo Bert & Bertie and UK-Australia producing powerhouse See-Saw Films in A Special Relationship. Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy has written the screenplay, which chronicles Taylor's journey from actress to activist through the lens…

Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films is to develop a television adaptation of YA graphic novel Heartstopper after optioning the rights. The company, which recently made Nick Hornby's short-form Sundance series State of the Union and was also behind The King's Speech, struck a deal to adapt the Alice Oseman-penned…

Netflix on Thursday said it has acquired most worldwide rights to The Power of the Dog, the next movie from writer-director Jane Campion and which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Elisabeth Moss. The movie, from See-Saw Films and based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel, was one of the buzz titles at the Cannes film market…

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) is on board to direct Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech) in WWII story Operation Mincemeat. Set in 1943 when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on 'Fortress Europe,' the film will follow two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is to star in the BBC's adaptation of The North Water. Deadline understands that the Minority Report star will front the series, written and directed by Lean on Pete and 45 Years' Andrew Haigh, and produced by Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films. Farrell plays Henry Drax in the drama, a…

See-Saw Films' Head of Commercial Affairs Simon Gillis has been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer of the company's film division, effective immediately. Based in London, Gillis will continue to report directly to joint MDs Emile Sherman and Iain Canning and will oversee the film…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are attached to star in romance-drama Ammonite from God’s Own Country writer-director Francis Lee. Talk about prestige casting. Widows and Lion producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman will produce the film alongside Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly (Lady Macbeth). The pic, which…