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Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) is attached to star as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon in writer-director Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic Benediction, we have confirmed. Lowden, a recent BAFTA Rising Star nominee, will portray English soldier and poet Sassoon, who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best…

With all eyes focused on Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games this weekend, not many will notice Music Box Films’ quiet limited (NY, LA, Miami) launch of their 2011 Toronto Film Festival pickup The Deep Blue Sea. It’s the first narrative film in over a decade from British director Terence Davies — his last was 2000’s The House…

Here’s a clip from The Deep Blue Sea, adapated and directed by Terence Davies. The screen version of Terence Rattigan’s play stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale. The film will open the 55th BFI London Film Festival on October 27 and hit UK theaters on Nov. 25. No U.S. release date has been…

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and already there are fireworks. Deadline broke news yesterday that Harvey W…

BFI London Film Fest Opens With ‘360’ From Fernando Meirelles The Deep Blue Sea starring Rachel Weisz (who also stars in the festival’s opening-night film, 360), Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale will close the 55th BFI London Film Festival on October 27th. This will be the UK premiere of the drama adapted and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fulcrum Media Finance, the London- and Sydney-based film and TV financier, has closed its first wholly British deal. Rachel Weisz stars in Davies' new screen version of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea. Shooting on the UK Film Council and Film4 backed project begins in November. Tom Hiddleston will play…

She's in advanced talks to play the wife in British director Terence Davies' adaptation of the 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea, says the Daily Mail. Even today, Terrance Rattigan's script feels like wrenching stuff. Weisz would play a woman who leaves her companionable husband when she becomes sexually enslaved by an…