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The inaugural trailer for the Apple TV+ toon Central Park kicks off with a musical salute to the Manhattan landmark, but things soon turn sinister: One wealthy Manhattanite has plans for that “patch of dirt and weeds.” Said curmudgeon is Betsy (Stanley Tucci), who wears a dog in a baby carrier on her chest and schemes…

Actor and director Stanley Tucci is to voice a BBC Radio 4 series on some of the highest-profile Californians over the past century. In The Californian Century, the Hunger Games and Fortitude star will play a cynical screenwriter, narrating the stories of 10 people who have helped shape the U.S. state. Those featured…

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Cannavale (Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle), Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad), Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) and Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games) are joining Kate Beckinsale (The Widow) in Millennium Media’s action-comedy Jolt, which is now under way in London. Tanya Wexler (Hysteria) is directing…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Benanti has joined the cast of true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. The Michael Keaton/Stanley Tucci-starrer is directed by Sara Colangelo with production starting this month. The Black List script from Max Borenstein is based on Kenneth Feinberg's memoir. Feinberg, a powerful DC insider…

EXCLUSIVE: The Kindergarten Teacher‘s Sara Colangelo has been set to direct MadRiver Pictures’ true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. As Deadline reported out of the EFM last year, Michael Keaton is starring in the project; Stanley Tucci has also now joined to co-star. Principal photography is set to begin…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci (A Private War) is set to star opposite lead Jessica Biel in Limetown, Facebook Watch’s 10-episode series based on the popular podcast. Oscar winner Marlee Matlin (Quantico), Emmy nominee Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale), John Beasley (Shots Fired) and Louis Ferreira…

The official trailer has dropped for The Children Act, the legal drama starring Oscar winner Emma Thompson as a judge who, in the midst of a marital crisis, must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of a teenage Jehovah’s Witness. Stanely Tucci, Fionn Whitehead and Ben Chaplin also star in the…

Talk about timing. Although the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements had not taken hold when the new sexual harassment-themed drama Submission premiered last June at the Los Angeles Film Festival, there probably could not be a better moment for its release. As I say in my video review above, this story of a college professor…

EXCLUSIVE: The first trailer for Submission starring Stanley Tucci starts off as a what could be an inspirational story about a teacher-student relationship set at a small liberal arts college on the East Coast. It quickly takes a sharp turn and dives deep into the topic of sexual harassment and the lustful abuse of…

Global Road Entertainment has secured the U.S. distribution rights to The Silence, a suspense thriller from Annabelle director the John Leonetti. Stanley Tucci (Spotlight), Kiernan Shipka (AMC's Mad Men), Miranda Otto (Annabelle: Creation), and John Corbett (HBO's Sex and the City) star in the pic, which is based the…

Fresh from the Toronto Film Festival premiere of On Chesil Beach, novelist Ian McEwan returned to Deadline’s Toronto Studio with another adaptation of his own work. Directed by Richard Eyre, The Children Act is a legal drama with a human heart, starring Emma Thompson as Fiona Maye, a High Court judge tasked with…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 and DirecTV have teamed to acquire U.S. rights on The Children Act, the Richard Eyre-directed drama that premiered in the Toronto Film Festival’s Special Presentations section Saturday at the Elgin Theatre. The film stars Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead, and has drawn strong…