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David Strathairn Joins Jessica Chastain In Broadway’s ‘The Heiress’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Broadway, David Strathairn, Jessica Chastain, The Heiress
Mike Fleming

Producers Paula Wagner, Roy Furman and Stephanie P. McClelland are announcing today that Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner David Strathairn will play “Dr. Austin Sloper” opposite Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain who will play “Catherine Sloper” in the Tony Award®-winning play The Heiress, directed by Tony Award® nominated playwright and director Moisés Kaufman.

This is David’s return to Broadway having last appearing in Salome with Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest in 2003. Later this year he will appear opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg.

The Heiress will open in the Fall of 2012 at a theatre to be announced.

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David Strathairn Joins Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Which Will Be Oscar Season 2012 Entry

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 3:37pm PDTTags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, DreamWorks, Lincoln, Sally Field, Steven Spielberg
Mike Fleming

David Strathairn has been set for a key role in Lincoln by director Steven Spielberg. He’ll play William Seward, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, an outspoken abolitionist and a core member of Lincoln’s wartime cabinet. He joins Daniel Day-Lewis as … Read More »

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HBO Builds Cast For ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 12:53pm PSTTags: Clive Owen, David Strathairn, HBO, James Gandolfini, Molly Parker, Nicole Kidman
Nellie Andreeva

A slew of actors have joined Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn. The biopic, exec produced by James Gandolfini and directed by Phil Kaufman, recounts the tumultuous romance and subsequent marriage of literary master … Read More »

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Voltage Pictures Brings James Franco Pic ‘Maladies’ To Berlin

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: Alan Cummings, Catherine Keener, David Strathairn, James Franco, Movie Deals, Movies, Voltage Pictures
Mike Fleming

Voltage Pictures has nabbed the international rights to the introspective actors’ piece Maladies starring Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Rise of the Apes, Spiderman). Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin, Into the Wild, Being John Malkovich), Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (The Whistleblower,

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Two Similar Pilots: Syfy’s ‘Three Inches’ Faces Tweaks, Possible Half-Hour Conversion To Join ‘Alphas’ As New Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Alphas Series Pickup, David Strathairn, Fox TV Studios, Harley Peyton, Jace Alexander, Jack Bender, Michael Karnow, Syfy, Syfy Pilot Alphas, Syfy Pilot Three Inches, TV, Zak Penn
Nellie Andreeva

It is usually a great problem for networks to have when all the pilots they’ve orderered come in strong. But, in the case of Syfy’s  similarly-themed Alphas and Three Inches, it created a dilemma. Syfy had been looking to launch … Read More »

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Syfy Picks Up ‘Alphas’ Pilot To Series, ‘Three Inches’ Still Alive

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 3:01pm PSTTags: Alphas, Alphas Series Pickup, Berman/Braun, BermanBraun Alphas, David Strathairn, Syfy, Syfy Pilot Three Inches, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: It came down to the wire for Syfy’s two drama pilots about people with special abilities, Alphas and Three Inches, which were both in serious contention for a series pickup. Syfy just made its final decision, giving Alphas an … Read More »

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Thriller ‘The Whistleblower’ Finds A Home

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 2:40pm PDTTags: David Strathairn, Larysa Kondracki, Monica Bellucci, Movie Deals, Movies, Rachel Weisz, Samuel Goldwyn Films, The Whistleblower, The Whistleblower Video, Vanessa Redgrave
Mike Fleming

Samuel Goldwyn Films closed U.S. rights to The Whistleblower, the Rachel Weisz-starrer that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Larysa Kondracki directed the drama, which also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn. Weisz plays a cop who takes a peacekeeper job in post-war Bosnia and uncovers a … Read More »

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Hot Toronto Footage: ‘The Whistleblower’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 12, 2010 @ 11:06am PDTTags: David Strathairn, Larysa Kondracki, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz, The Whistleblower, The Whistleblower Video, Vanessa Redgrave, Video
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE FROM TORONTO: The Whistleblower makes its Toronto premiere tomorrow. Deadline is providing a sneak peek at some of the footage. The film stars Rachel Weisz as Nebraska police officer who takes a job as a United Nations peackeeper assigned to post-war Bosnia. She uncovers a massive scandal and cover-up. … Read More »

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David Strathairn In Talks For ‘Alphas’ Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 28, 2010 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Berman/Braun, BermanBraun Alphas, Cable TV, David Strathairn, David Strathairn Alphas, Jack Bender, Michael Karnow, Syfy, Syfy Alphas, TV, TV Pilots, Zak Penn
Nellie Andreeva

David StrathairnEXCLUSIVE: David Strathairn is in negotiations for the lead in SyFy’s action-adventure 90-minute pilot Alphas, directed by Jack Bender. Additionally, Ryan Cartwright is set to co-star in the pilot, from BermanBraun and writers Zak Penn and Michael Karnow. Alphas follows a team of ordinary citizens possessing extraordinary and unusual mental skills who take the law into their own hands and uncover what the CIA, FBI and Pentagon have not been able or willing to solve. ICM-repped Strathairn would play the overseer/team leader/prescribing doctor and all around mother hen to the team: an eccentric, absent-minded professor at times, who is also a cunning and manipulative power-player willing to bend the rules in pursuit of his objectives.  Cartwright will play a member of the team who has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. His Alpha ability allows him to “read” wireless transmissions passing through the ether – e-mails, cell  phone communications, television signals, etc. Read More »

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