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Brian Cox is on a roll. As Logan Roy, the patriarch leader of a dysfunctional global family business in HBO’s Succession, he won the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Drama Series in January and has generated huge Emmy buzz. Now the veteran actor has perhaps the richest lead film role he’s ever had as a rugged…

EXCLUSIVE: Trace Adkins, Thora Birch, Peter Facinelli, Anne Heche, Will Peltz,  Paz Vega and Davi Santos have been set to lead the cast of 13 Minutes, a tornado-driven drama that will mark the feature directing debut of Lindsay Gossling. Shooting starts next month in Oklahoma in the heart of Tornado Alley. Set in a…

During The Walking Dead panel at Comic-Con today, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd revealed that Thora Birch (Ghost World, American Beauty) and Kevin Carroll (The Leftovers) will be joining the cast of the AMC zombie series. Birch will play a character named Gamma who is a member of the Whisperers who is wildly…

Thora Birch, known for films such as Hocus Pocus, Now and Then, Ghost World and the Oscar-winning American Beauty, has joined Buchwald for agency representation. The Golden Globe-nominated actress can currently be seen in the Sundance award-winning A24 film The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Birch also stars in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Thora Birch is attached to star in Kindred Spirits, an indie thriller from genre director Lucky McKee. Macon Blair, Sasha Frolova, and Caitlin Stasey also co-star in the film, which will shoot in Austin, Texas. Birch, who just celebrated 25 years since the release of Disney’s Hocus Pocus, will play Chloe, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution rights to The Competition, which will get a theatrical and VOD release January 26. The romantic comedy stars Thora Birch (American Beauty), Chris Klein (American Pie), Claire Coffee (Grimm) and David Blue (Ugly Betty). Directed by Harvey Lowry…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actress Thora Birch has signed on to star in and produce the independent romantic comedy The Competition with Harvey Lowry set to direct. The project follows a successful blogger who develops a theory which encourages her female followers to break up with men after six months to avoid…

Thora Birch has joined Adrian Grenier and Mimi Rogers in the political thriller Public Affairs, about a young campaign aide who gets in over his head after he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate. The film is being directed by Sundance alum and DGA-Award winner Eric Bross (USA Network’s Traffic) and was…

Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville are set to join Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke in Phillip Noyce's Above Suspicion, a thriller that has been adapted from the book by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. The film actually reunited Birch with Noyce as he directed her previously as a kid in Patriot Games and Clear and Pre…

Thora Birch (American Beauty) is set for a major recurring role in USA Network’s upcoming drama series Colony, set to premiere on January 14. From Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse and Ryan Condal, Colony is set in near-future Los Angeles, which exists in a state of occupation by a force of outside intruders. Some…