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Roisin Gallagher & Ciaran Hinds Among Cast For BritBox Series ‘The Dry’ From ‘Normal People’ & ‘The Favourite’ Outfit Element

BritBox UK has commissioned comedy-drama series The Dry, produced by Normal People and The Favourite outfit Element Pictures in association with Screen Ireland and ITV Studios, and in partnership with RTÉ. Playwright and screenwriter Nancy Harris (The Good Karma Hospital) and director Paddy Breathnach (Viva) are…

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‘Spiral’ Puts ‘Saw’ Franchise Over $1B; ‘Demon Slayer’ Ranks As No. 2 Anime Pic As Domestic B.O. Remains Sluggish – Update

Sunday AM Update and writethru: The domestic box office isn’t going to get interesting until next weekend, when Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II and Disney’s Cruella launch the summer season. From that point on, we largely won’t have any weekends where the major studios are taking a break from releasing wide entries…

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IFC Films Acquires Made Up Stories’ Eric Bana Australian Hit ‘The Dry’

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Robert Connolly's atmospheric mystery thriller The Dry, starring Eric Bana. A May 21 theatrical and on-demand release date is planned for the Made Up Stories feature. The pic is the actor’s first Australian film in over a decade. As we told you at the start o…

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‘The Dry’: Eric Bana Indie Makes A Splash At Australian Box Office

While the domestic box office was hammered over the holidays, over in Australia, it’s been quite alive. A leading example of this last weekend was Roadshow Films’ Eric Bana thriller The Dry, based on Jane Harper’s bestselling and award-winning debut novel, which has minted $3.5M since its New Year’s Day release. I’m…

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Genevieve O’Reilly, Keir O’Donnell, John Polson Join Eric Bana In Australian Crime Thriller ‘The Dry’

Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, and John Polson are set to co-star opposite Eric Bana in The Dry, an Australian crime thriller based on the Jane Harper bestselling novel of the same name. The pic, which is currently in production on location, hails from Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories with Robert Connolly…

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‘Dirty John’ Star Eric Bana Set For Adaptation Of ‘The Dry’

Hot off the Bravo series Dirty John, Eric Bana will star in an adaptation of Jane Harper's bestselling novel The Dry. Robert Connolly (Balibo) will direct the Australian production from a script he wrote with Harry Cripps (Paws). Made Up Stories has set up the picture, and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies, Gone Girl)…

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Reese Witherspoon & Bruna Papandrea Land Hot Frankfurt Book ‘The Dry’

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea’ s Pacific Standard has just closed a deal for film rights to The Dry, a debut novel by Jane Harper that is one of the hot publishing titles in play at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. In The Dry, a policeman returns to the drought-stricken town of his youth to bury his…

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