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UPDATE, 8.12 a.m. PT: Leo Legrand has been added to the cast. He will play William’s cowardly half-brother, who must be kept on a leash. PREVIOUSLY, 6 a.m. PT: Shooting on the CBS Studios and BBC period drama series King & Conqueror has wrapped in Iceland, with six more cast members…

Uberto Pasolini, who wrote and directed the James Norton-starring Nowhere Special that opened this weekend, says, rightfully, the film's power emanates from the tangible bond you feel between father and son. Norton – the BAFTA-nominated British actor (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley) – is…

There’s a nice trio of specialty films to highlight this weekend from Joanna Arnow, Uberto Pasolini and Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature directorial debut. Joanna Arnow's micro-budget comedy The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed world premiered in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. It…

Every week there are large numbers of indie and specialty releases vying for attention. It’s impossible to do them all, so when the option of reviewing Nowhere Special was placed in front of me I resisted at first after discovering it actually premiered at…

EXCLUSIVE: In Playing Nice James Norton stars as Pete, a doting dad who finds out his son was switched at birth, giving him a different kind of hero to portray. "He’s a kind of small hero," Norton told Deadline. "Unlike most of the characters I’ve played, he’s very likable, very amenable and recognizable…

EXCLUSIVE: Nowhere Special by director Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, Still Life), and starring James Norton (Bob Marley: One Love, Little Women, Happy Valley), is set for theatrical release on April 26. The film from Cohen Media Group had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and…

Clémence Poésy and Emily Beecham have boarded King & Conqueror, CBS Studios’ big-budget period drama that stars James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Harry Potter star Poésy will play Matilda, the wife of William of Normandy. Raised in the cutthroat world of the royal court, she has realized that…

For 15 minutes or so, Bob Marley: One Love promises to be an antidote to the usual cookie-cutter music biopic, the kind skewered by the 2007 spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Riffing back then on 2005's Walk the Line, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as…

James Norton (Happy Valley) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) are set to star in the new CBS Studios period drama series King and Conqueror from creator Michael Robert Johnson (Sherlock Holmes). The series is based on the 11th-century figures Harold of Wessex (Norton) and William of Normandy…

EXCLUSIVE: Happy Valley actor James Norton has been set to lead an ITV and StudioCanal adaptation of JP Delaney’s bestselling novel Playing Nice. Norton will star in the four-part limited series alongside Niamh Algar (Mary and George), James McArdle (Mare of Easttown), and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downt…

After a world premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and its North American premiere over the weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Noah Pritzker’s (Quitters) second film goes for a mix of Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Paul Mazursky, Noah Baumbach and other white male…

Noah Pritzker's bittersweet father and sons tale Ex-Husbands (aka Men Of Divorce) world premieres in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday as one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement. Griffin Dunne co-stars as…