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Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) and Isla Johnston (The Queen’s Gambit) are set to lead the new Nicolas Pesce-directed horror film Visitation. Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Stephen Rea (Interview with the Vampire), and Olivia Williams (The Crown) will also…

EXCLUSIVE: British producer Fired Up Films has teamed up with The Crying Game star Stephen Rea and Beat director Marco Kreuzpaintner on a pair of dramas. The company, which was set up in 2017 by Simon Howley and Jon-Barrie Waddell, is working with Rea on Irish crime drama Ladder of Angels and with Kreuzpaintner on spy…

The Girl and Vera Drake star Imelda Staunton, Cranford star Francesca Annis, Quantico and Years and Years star Russell Tovey and The Crying Game and The Honourable Woman star Stephen Rea are to front ITV family drama Flesh and Blood. The series is written by The Long Song writer Sarah Williams, who also wrote 2007…

The easy step from bigotry and ideological entrenchments to outright madness gets a timely depiction in David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue at Off Broadway’s Public Theater. Timelier, perhaps, than Ireland or his star Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) could ever have imagined. Be warned: A child – an infant, in fact – will pay…

Oscar nominee Stephen Rea, Colm Feore and English actress Zawe Ashton are set for Neil Jordan’s upcoming thriller The Widow from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The pic, which begins filming this month, also co-stars Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz and Maika Monroe. Written by Ray Wright, the film, set in New York…

In a sort of super-literary-hero mash-up, filming has just begun on Dickensian, an ambitious 20-part BBC One period drama that brings together some of Charles Dickens’ most iconic characters. Stephen Rea has joined the cast as Inspector Bucket from Bleak House while Shirley Valentine Oscar nominee Pauline Collins is…

Deadline reported in July that offers were out to Paul Dano and Downton Abbey‘s Lily James for the six-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic War And Peace which hails from BBC Worldwide, The Weinstein Co and Ripper Street‘s Lookout Point. The pair will now be joined in the event mini by Happy Valley and Grantchester…

Sundance Channel has assembled the international cast of its eight-part miniseries The Honourable Woman starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and directed by Hugo Blick. Joining Gyllenhaal is Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line) as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle — a top MI6 spy on the verge of retirement, digging deep into the family of Nessa Stein…

After hooking up on three titles at the EFM in Berlin, Magnolia Pictures has closed yet another deal on a film from Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk. Roger Gual’s Spanish ensemble comedy Tasting Menu has been acquired by the company for all rights in the U.S. while Vendetta Film has taken Australia and New…

BREAKING: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea are starring in Out Of The Dark, a supernatural thriller just getting underway in Bogota, Colombia under Spanish helmer Lluis Quilez. Participant Media is backing with Image Nation and Colombia's Dynamo and Spain's Apaches Entertainment. Participant's Jeff Skoll…

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Blackthorn, a Western about the final days of Butch Cassidy. Pic stars Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Eduardo Noriega and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau. Mateo Gil directed it from script by Miguel Barros. Ibon Cormenzana and Andres Santana produced. Pic premiered last week in…

EXCLUSIVE: Kurtwood Smith will co-star on CBS’ midseason drama series Chaos. He is set for the regular role of Director Higgins, which was played in the pilot by Stephen Rea. As part of CBS’ midseason series order to the 20th Century Fox TV-produced project in July, the two sides decided to recast the part. Chaos…