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EXCLUSIVE: Women helping other women, this is what it looks like: Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star in The Kindergarten Teacher, a feature based on writer/director Nadav Lapid's acclaimed Israeli film of the same name that is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Pie Films. The film…

Freak Show, Trudie Styler’s feature directorial debut, has been acquired by IFC Films for U.S. distribution. The film, based on the James St. James novel of the same name about a cross-dressing teen, first debuted in a sold out screening at the Berlin Film Festival and stars Alex Lawther (Imitation Game), Laverne Cox…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress and producer Trudie Styler makes her feature directorial debut with Freak Show which is world premiering in the Generation 14plus section at the Berlin Film Festival today. Alex Lawther stars with Bette Midler, Abigail Breslin, Laverne Cox and AnnaSophia Robb in the story that’s based on James St…

EXCLUSIVE: The biography The Secret Life of Dr. James Miranda Barry: Victorian England’s Most Eminent Surgeon from author Rachel Holmes has just been optioned by Maven Pictures and they have hired Nick Yarborough to adapt. Rachel Weisz, who previously co-starred in Maven’s The Whistleblower, is attached to star as the…

The Greenwich Film Festival unveiled its lineup of events that includes LOL: The Big Business Of Comedy, a panel discussion June 11 to be moderated by Deadline co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr. Panelists include New Line production president Richard Brener, producer Chris Bender, manager-producer Peter Principato…

The Greenwich International Film Festival has announced the 2nd annual Changemaker Honorees, honoring artists who use their public platform and film to work for positive social change. An awards dinner and gala is scheduled for Friday, June 10 at Richard's in downtown Greenwich. Trudie Styler will receive the…

UPDATE: Along with her production shingle news, Jessica Chastain is in early talks to star in Molly’s Game, playing the title role in the Aaron Sorkin-directed adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir that Mark Gordon is producing with Amy Pascal. EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain has launched Freckle Films, a new production…

EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Breslin, one of the stars on Fox's Scream Queens, has been tapped to star in Freak Show, the film adaptation of James St. James’ bestselling cult novel that Trudie Styler is directing in her feature debut. Freak Show tells the story of Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther), a boldly confident teenager who…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game) is set to play the lead role of Billy in Trudie Styler’s adaptation of James St. James' bestseller Freak Show. Lawther joins a starry cast that, as Deadline exclusively revealed, already includes Bette Midler as Muv, Billy's mother; AnnaSophia Robb and Ian Nelson as Billy’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Trudie Styler will produce and direct the film adaptation of James St. James best-seller Freak Show which already has Bette Midler, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson and Lorraine Toussaint on board. The film is in pre-production and is expected to roll before the cameras at month’s end. The lead role has not yet…

Maven Pictures is bringing the ballet of Rudolph Nureyev to the big screen with an adaptation of Dancer, based on Colum McCann’s bestselling 2003 novel. Maven's Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray are producing with Davide Azzolini. While not a straightforward biography, Dancer tells the story of Nureyev from a young boy…

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Heigl will star in Face Blind, an independent thriller about a psychologist struck with a rare affliction that makes it impossible to distinguish people by their faces. When a man who terrorized her most vulnerable patient stalks her, the psychologist can’t recognize him, and her husband thinks…