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ITV has ordered female-led relationship drama, Deep Water, to be produced by Kudos. The six-part ensemble is written by Anna Symon (Indian Summers) and adapted from the Windermere novels by author Paula Daly. The series focuses on the lives of three women living in the Lake District. It's a modern look at family and…

“Everything they told you was a lie.” Here’s the new trailer for Ghost in the Shell, director Rupert Sanders' live-action take on the classic Japanese manga. In a role that drew some “whitewashing” flak, Scarlett Johansson stars as the Major, a human/cyborg hybrid who doubles as a killing machine. She leads Section 9…

Paramount and Dreamworks Pictures today released the first look image of Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell and she’s all moody purpose and dark-haired intent. No surprise, maybe, given that the story follows a female special ops cyborg (Johansson) who leads a fictional counter-cyberterrorist…

Takeshi “Beat” Kitano has joined the cast of Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks' Ghost in the Shell, his first U.S. role since Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Mnemonic in 1995. Rupert Sanders direct the feature adaptation of famous Japanese manga series by Masamune Shirow. Paramount will release the film in the U.S. on March 31…

EXCLUSIVE: If you’re an Al Pacino fan and are attending the Venice International Film Festival, circle Sunday, Sept. 4 on your calendar. On that day, Pacino will be awarded the Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2011 Award, presented to an artist who has left an original mark on contemporary cinema. Right after…

At a time when the UK film industry seems increasingly inward-looking, a recurring theme of the 46 films which Jeremy Thomas has produced has been cross-cultural — whether it's Japanese director Takeshi Kitano looking at America in Brother (2000) or Bernardo Bertolucci retelling Chinese history in the Best Picture…