Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to The Song of Names, the François Girard-directed movie that stars Tim Roth and Clive Owen. Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardner) adapted the screenplay from Norman Lebrecht’s novel and the pic features an original score by Oscar winner Howard Shore. A 2019 theatrical…

Sky has ordered a third season of its original UK drama-thriller series Tin Star, starring Tim Roth, Genevieve O'Reilly and Abigail Lawrie. Plot details are unknown at this stage but Sky says the “final chapter of the trilogy”, created by British writer Rowan Joffe, will pick up where season two recently left off with…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Roth and Clive Owen will star alongside Catherine McCormack (Braveheart), Jonah Hauer King (Little Women) and Gerran Howell (Genius) in The Song Of Names, the drama that The Red Violin director Francois Girard begins shooting tomorrow in London. Based on the Whitbread-winning novel by classical music…

Tim Roth is back as ex-police chief Jim Worth in the second season of Sky drama Tin Star and the pay-TV broadcaster has unveiled the first images. The first season launched on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Amazon in the U.S. last year. After being left destroyed by the chaos that had followed Jim and his alcoholic alter…

UPDATED EXCLUSIVE with Margot Robbie confirmation: Quentin Tarantino is expanding the cast of his upcoming film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. He is in talks with Burt Reynolds to play George Spahn, and also in early discussions with his The Hateful Eight co-stars Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Michael Madsen to play…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kingsley is to star as Salvador Dali in Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) feature biopic Dali Land, I can reveal. The movie will chart the unusual marriage of the surrealist artist and his domineering wife and muse, Gala. Oscar-winner Kingsley will star alongside Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) who will…

EXCLUSIVE: Dream Factory Group has launched as a new production company with financing from China and the U.S. Co-founded by CEO Rob Feng and co-chairmen Amber Wang and Andrew Yang, the company launches with Luce, a Julius Onah-directed drama that stars Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison…

Amazon has taken U.S. rights to revenge thriller Tin Star, written and created by Rowan Joffe and starring Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks. The 10×60 series, which is produced by Kudos for Sky Atlantic, is a tale of the corruption of innocence and of murder, grief and all-consuming revenge. It tells the story of Jim…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Roth, Nick Nolte and Luis Guzmán have been tapped to star in Darius Films’ forthcoming  drama The Padre, with Jonathan Sobol directing from a script by Stephen Kunc. Colombian actress Valeria Henriquez also is set to co-star in the film, which is shooting in Bogota, Colombia. It tells the story of the…

Chronic, the 2015 Cannes favorite that won the best screenplay award and was written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco (After Lucia, Daniel and Ana), has finally found its way into U.S. theaters and will bow September 23. The story centers on David (Tim Roth), an in-home nurse who works with terminally…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks are in talks to board Rowan Joffe’s TV series Tin Star for Sky Atlantic. The crime drama takes place in a remote mountain town filled with migrant oil workers. At the heart of it is a police chief forced to confront a rising tide of crime, in so doing becoming a victim of an…

BBC One has set Tim Roth and Samantha Morton to star in three-part serial killer story Rillington Place. Filming began this weekend in Scotland on the period project from BBC Drama Production and Bandit Television. It focuses on the true tale of murderer John Christie, his wife Ethel and their neighbor Timothy Evans…