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EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Henwick, Zach Woods, Topher Grace and Raff Law have rounded out the cast of Studiocanal, Blueprint Pictures and A24’s Huntington starring Glen Powell. Margaret Qualley and Ed Harris are also on board, with John Patton Ford directing. The film follows Becket Redfellow (Powell), heir…

ROYAL HOTEL Section: Gala Presentations Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…

In 2019, Australian documentary filmmaker Kitty Green made her first narrative movie, a piercing almost cinéma vérité-style movie focused on an office assistant in a Tribeca film company run by a not-so-thinly disguised Harvey Weinstein. The male culture there and the sexual acts of the boss made it…

Let's start with The Beatles. At the end of 1968 the Fab Four released The White Album, which would become tabloid-notorious within a year because some hippie cult leader named Charles Manson sent his followers on a killing spree under the guise of the hidden meanings he'd uncovered in their songs. What…

Neon has wrapped principal photography on Tilman Singer’s horror Cuckoo marking the feature film debut of Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, with Dan Stevens (I’m Your Man) and Jessica Henwick (The Gray Man) joining an ensemble that also includes Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo) and Jan Bluthardt (Luz)…

Neon said Wednesday that it has acquired North American rights to The Royal Hotel, the social thriller that marks the next film from The Assistant writer-director Kitty Green. Her Assistant star Julia Garner will topline the pic alongside Jessica Henwick. Hugo Weaving also stars. The pic, which will start shooting…

Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) and Hugo Weaving (Patrick Melrose) have joined the cast of The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's social thriller following two friends backpacking in Australia. Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) also stars, having previously fronted director Green's breakout pic The Assistant. Garner…

Editor’s Note: Deadline is proud to launch Scene 2 Seen, a new podcast hosted by Associate Editor Valerie Complex.  This podcast was inspired by the phenomenal work done by Dino-Ray Ramos and Amanda N'Duka on Deadline’s former New Hollywood podcast. The duo worked tirelessly to uplift and provide a platform for women…

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Henwick, who recently landed one of the leads in the new The Matrix movie, has rounded out the cast for the next installment of Knives Out, which Daniel Craig is returning to star in and Rian Johnson is returning to write and direct. Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe and Anthony Russo’s next big-budget action pic at Netflix is building quite the ensemble. Sources tell Deadline that Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Dhanush and Julia Butters are joining the Russos’ The Gray Man. Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana De Armas are already on board to star. The Russos have…

Amazon has picked up a very different kind of young adult series that immerses you in a YA novel — literally. The new comedy series titled Nancy Wu Done It comes from writers and executive producers Kai Yu Wu (co-executive producer of Amazon’s Paper Girls and Carnival Row) and Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist and Game of Thr…

Paramount Pictures is dealing with its Monster Problems, moving the release of the coming-of-age tale starring Dylan O’Brien back by six weeks. The pic about a young man living in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters had been set for March 6 but now will unspool April 17. We hear the move was made because the…