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EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the drama On Our Way, the feature directorial debut of Sophie Lane Curtis, toplined by Micheál Richardson, Keith Powers, James Badge Dale and Jordana Brewster. Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Ben-Victor, Ruby Modine and Franco Nero also star. Gravitas…

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) won the best actress prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her West End debut performance playing a criminal barrister specialising in defending rapists — who is then sexually assaulted herself. Comer won critical and public acclaim for the solo role in Prim…

Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producer/caretakers of the James Bond movie franchise including this year’s No Time to Die, and its star Daniel Craig were among the entertainment and media figures recognized Friday on the UK’s New Year’s Honours List. Other British arts and media figures named today included…

Vanessa Redgrave has clarified that she will not be among the cast of The Man Who Drew God, the upcoming Italian film that is set to mark the big-screen comeback of Kevin Spacey. The pic was announced this week by its director, the famed Italian film personality Franco Nero, who confirmed Spacey's casting to ABC News…

Actor Kevin Spacey is on the comeback trail, booking his first film role in four years. ABC News reports Spacey will appear in the Italian film L’uomo Che Disegno Dio, or The Man Who Drew God. The film will be directed by Franco Nero and also star Nero’s wife, Vanessa Redgrave. “I’m very happy Kevin agreed to…

British actress Vanessa Redgrave will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 75th Venice International Film Festival (August 29 – September 8). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon the recommendation of festival Director Alberto Barbera. Director David…

Antonement star Vanessa Redgrave and Harry Potter star Timothy Spall are to front Geniuses Pictures' Mrs Lowry & Son, a feature that looks at the relationship between artist L.S. Lowry and his mother, Elizabeth. The film is directed by Adrian Noble, the former Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was…

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been tapped to star opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson in the Julien Landais-directed period drama The Aspern Papers, based on based on Henry James's novel. Jon Kortajarena, Poppy Delevingne, Morgane Polanski, Alice Aufray and Barbara Meier are also set to co-star in the film…

Set to begin airing on BBC Two in the UK tonight, two-part drama Man In An Orange Shirt has also been slotted for a U.S. debut on Masterpiece on PBS in June 2018. Vanessa Redgrave stars in the screenwriting debut of best-selling British novelist Patrick Gale that charts the challenges and huge changes to gay lives…

"I've never disrupted anything," British stage and screen icon Vanessa Redgrave said with a mixture of surprise and mild indignation. "Why would you call me a disruptor?" It's a measure of the 80-year-old veteran's long-standing commitment to political and social causes that it's quite possible Redgrave really doesn't…

Vanessa Redgrave is set to join Christoph Waltz for his directorial debut Georgetown, the crime drama inspired by the true story of Albrecht Muth who was convicted in 2011 for murdering his much older socialite wife in Washington D.C. Cornerstone Films is overseeing international sales, with ICM handling U.S. rights…

In a case of shifting parts, Guy Pearce has joined Fred Schepisi’s romantic thriller Andorra in the lead role of Alexander Fox, a bookseller who leaves the U.S. after a personal tragedy to begin a new life abroad. During run-up to production, Clive Owen had been set in the role, but is now taking the supporting part…