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Steve Coogan (Philomena) has been cast as Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama The Reckoning. Savile rose from working-class origins to become one of the biggest stars of British television, but faced rumors of misconduct during his career. After his death in 2011, the full extent of his crimes, which included sexually…

BBC One has commissioned a high-profile TV drama on the infamous British sexual predator Jimmy Savile, who terrorized his victims in the corridors and dressing rooms of the British broadcaster. ITV Studios’ BAFTA-winning true-crime specialist Jeff Pope is overseeing the project, which has the working title The Reckonin…

Leading genre festival Fantasia has pulled a Q&A with director Neil Marshall and actress Charlotte Kirk amid intense media scrutiny concerning their alleged involvement in Ron Meyer’s sudden exit from Universal. The zoom Q&A for the Canadian festival’s opening film The Reckoning was due to take place tonight but the…

Fantasia's upcoming virtual edition, which will run August 20 – September 2, will kick off with the first showing of Neil Marshall's horror The Reckoning. Set in 1665 against the backdrop of the Great Plague, Charlotte Kirk leads the cast of the movie about the witch hunts that followed the crisis. The fest has…

EXCLUSIVE: MoviePass Films has greenlit the horror title The Reckoning which Neil Marshall will helm. Marshall co-wrote the script alongside Edward Evers-Swindell and Charlotte Kirk, the latter who will star in The Reckoning and serve as EP. Production will begin on Jan. 15 in Wales. A female-driven story, The Reckonin…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to The Reckoning, a documentary about Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo era that premiered at Hot Docs International in April. Here’s the logline: The Reckoning details the personal toll of the movie mogul's alleged pathology and broadens the systemic scale of…

In 2010, filmmaker Barry Avrich wrote, directed and produced Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a documentary about the micro-managing, hair-trigger tempered but ultimately genius Hollywood producer. Now Avrich and producer Melissa Hood's new documentary The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret will have…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney. EXCLUSIVE: Luke Hemsworth, elder brother of Chris and Liam Hemsworth, has scored his first film role as the co-lead of Australian writer-director John V. Soto's The Reckoning. Jonathan LaPaglia, younger brother of Anthony LaPaglia, will play a cop who searches for…

Gérard Depardieu Embraces Russia Citizenship Offer Actor Gérard Depardieu has hailed Russia’s decision to grant him citizenship following a tax spat with the government of his native France. In an open letter broadcast on Russian TV Depardieu said, “I filed a passport application and I am pleased that it was accepted…