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EXCLUSIVE: It took a village to rescue those 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded Thailand cave in 2018. MGM and Thirteen Lives director Ron Howard have firmed a big international cast to play the heroic rescuers who took part in a dangerous operation that cost one rescue diver — Thai Navy SEAL Saman Gunan…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM prevailed in an auction for Thirteen Lives, making a $55 million production commitment for a drama that Ron Howard will direct from a script by Oscar-nominated Gladiator scribe William Nicholson about the rescue of a dozen members of the Wild Boar soccer team and their coach from a flooded cave in…

EXCLUSIVE: Several bids are in on Thirteen Lives, a mid-budget drama that Ron Howard will direct from a William Nicholson (Gladiator and Unbroken) screenplay. There are a couple of competing projects percolating about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue of the teens on the Thailand Wild Boar boys soccer team after they…

“I can’t bear to think you’re unhappy, Jamie,” the mother tells her son. “I’m fine,” he replies. “Fine isn’t the same as happy,” she reminds, adding to her husband, “We’re happy, aren’t we, Edward?” He looks away as he says, “Yes, we’re fine.” Here is the first trailer for Hope Gap, starring Bil Nighy as a man who ups…

Roadside Attractions has teamed with Screen Media for the North American distribution rights to Hope Gap, a family drama starring Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, and Josh O'Connor. Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson directed the film, which will be released in theaters sometime next year. Hope Gap details the…

EXCLUSIVE: William Nicholson’s (Gladiator) drama Hope Gap, starring Annette Bening (American Beauty), Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country), has sold into key markets for UK sales firm Protagonist Pictures. Deals have closed in Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud…

Hope Gape is a cove on the south-east of the UK. "It's where I went as a child," Shadowlands, Gladiator and Les Miserables scribe William ‘Bill’ Nicholson tells me. "It was a place to be alone. "When the waves recede it leaves a vast expanse like the surface of the moon. It was like a secret world where you're like a…

Annette Bening and Bill Nighy are teaming to star in Hope Gap, the new movie from Oscar-nominated Gladiator and Shadowlands scribe William Nicholson, who penned the script for the family drama and is directing. The pic, a “nuanced and tender take on familial disbandment,” is in pre-production with an eye on a summer…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company and ITV Studios have come on board to finance and distribute Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier’s Archery Pictures’ event TV series Mafiya. The 10-part series, written by William Nicholson (Gladiator, Les Miserables), is set to go into production early 2016. Set in 1990’s Moscow, when…

EXCLUSIVE– Archery Pictures, the newbie production company set up less than a year ago by well-respected UK-based producers Kris Thykier and Liza Marshall, has come on-board to produce the Cote d’Azur-based TV crime drama Riviera with Neil Jordan (The Borgias) set to write, direct and showrun. The project is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off My Week With Marilyn, Eddie Redmayne has been set to play the role of Marius in Les Miserables, the Tom Hooper-directed musical for Universal Pictures that stars Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert and Anne Hathaway as Fantine. Universal has set the Working Title-produced…

BREAKING: Anne Hathaway has closed a deal to join Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in Les Miserables, the Universal Pictures and Working Title Films musical adaptation of the stage play and classic novel. Hathaway will play Fantine, and her participation had been rumored for some time. Crowe plays Inspector Javert and…