Jessie Buckley arrived in Toronto last year as an unknown, in the British indie thriller Beast, but she leaves this year as a star in the making, after knocking audiences for six in the feel-good musical Wild Rose, in which she plays Glaswegian country singer Rose-Lynn Harlan. To discuss the film, the actress came by…

Two music-themed female driven pics are the hot properties on the Toronto auction block right now, and neither is decided yet. After another wild all night Toronto auction, the Tom Harper-directed Wild Rose is close to a seven figure U.S rights deal with  a couple distributors chasing. NEON is out front but others are…

EXCLUSIVE: The Theory of Everything won Eddie Redmayne a Best Actor Oscar two years ago and Felicity Jones earned a well-deserved nomination. Now, the two actors are talking about reteaming on The Aeronauts for Amazon Studios. Deadline hears that they are in talks now on a period action adventure based on true events…

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Okonedo and James Harkness have joined the cast of Faye Ward's much-anticipated comedy-drama Country Music, which has just begun shooting. They will join stars Jessie Buckley (Taboo, War & Peace) and Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Paddington 2) in the tale about a young singer from Glasgow who dreams…

EXCLUSIVE: After an intense bidding situation that had multiple players in the mix, Entertainment One has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Harper-directed Country Music. Taboo‘s Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters are starring in the drama that shoots at the end of June. Faye Ward of Fable Pictures is…

Entertainment One has picked up television rights to Peter Nichols' best-selling novel The Rocks, with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper on board to direct. Laura Eason (House of Cards, Sex With Strangers) is attached to adapt the series. Harper, one of the hottest directors coming out of the UK at the moment, will…

EXCLUSIVE: After feverish bidding, Amazon Studios is nearing a deal for Jack Thorne's spec script The Aeronauts, developed and set to be directed by Tom Harper. This has been one of the hottest UK projects floating around, and we’re hearing there were at least six companies vying for the project. But Amazon came out…

EXCLUSIVE: British screenwriter Jack Thorne is teaming with War & Peace director Tom Harper for The Aeronauts, a period action adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists. The project is only at a spec script stage, and the duo are out to top producers for what is sure to be one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Carlos Bardem has joined the cast of AMC’s The Son. Based on Philipp Meyer's acclaimed novel, The Son is a multi-generational epic telling of the story of America's birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas family. Production will begin in Austin, TX in June and the 10 one-hour…

British director Tom Harper (War & Peace) is set to direct the opening episode of AMC's straight-to-series drama The Son, from Sonar Entertainment and AMC Studios. The series stars Sam Neill whom Harper directed in the BBC series Peaky Blinders.  Based on the book by Philipp Meyer, The Son is a multi-generational epic…