Mudbound director Dee Rees has firmed a solid cast for her follow-up feature, The Last Thing He Wanted. Two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck, Toby Jones, Rosie Perez, Edi Gathegi, and Mel Rodriguez have joined the previously announced Anne Hathaway and Willem Dafoe in the film, which Netflix will release next…
EXCLUSIVE: Production has just wrapped in New Orleans on Carol Morley’s Out Of Blue, with a first-look pic of star Patricia Clarkson (above; full image below). Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Toby Jones, Aaron Tveit, Mamie Gummer, Jonathan Majors and Devyn A Tyler also star in the crime drama from the helmer of The…
Adding a comedy to its string of UK drama co-productions, Acorn Media Enterprises has boarded Detectorists for Season 3. The BAFTA-winning series that’s written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who stars with Toby Jones, centers on two oddball metal detecting enthusiasts as they scour the English countryside for…
EXCLUSIVE:John Curran is now in talks to develop and direct the TV series planned about Lou Pearlman, the manager/producer of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys who was also running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of about $300M. Toby Jones (The Hunger Games franchise, The Coldest City) is attached to star in the…
The game is (still) afoot, and to prove it, BBC has dropped a new trailer for the fourth season of the global hit Sherlock. Coming off the tumultuous events of Season 3 (and the 2016 holiday special The Abominable Bride), Season 4 looks to test the world’s first consulting detective and his friends like never before…
The BBC said today that Toby Jones will play the villain in Season 4 of Sherlock. The veteran actor, who starred on the British series The Secret Agent and Detectorists, plays a scientist on Fox’s Wayward Pines and voiced the elf Dobby in a pair of Harry Potter films, will join the mystery drama in the second of its…
Content Television has sold upcoming BBC drama The Secret Agent to RLJ Entertainment's Acorn in the U.S. The four-part period series is due to air on BBC One later this year and will stream in the U.S via Acorn TV, a major purveyor of British drama which last year scored its first-ever Emmy nomination with Agatha Chris…
EXCLUSIVE: FremantleMedia International has closed a trio of major deals on its London-set drama, Capital. Participant Media's Pivot has acquired rights in the U.S., Shaw has taken Canada, and BBC Worldwide picked up Australia and New Zealand. The tense three-part series adaptation of the bestselling novel by John…
The announcer from the Hunger Games films has joined the event series from M Night Shyamalan. In Fox's thriller Wayward Pines, Toby Jones will play Dr. Jenkins, a charismatic and mysterious psychiatrist who treats a Secret Service agent (Matt Dillon) who arrives in a small Idaho town looking for two missing agents…
