Hot TV Trailer: ‘Hannibal’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 4:39pm PDT

NBC has posted a full trailer for Hannibal ahead of its April 4 premiere. Mads Mikkelsen plays the title character and Hugh Dancy plays FBI criminal profiler Will Graham. Laurence Fishburne and Caroline Dhavernas also star in the series based on characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon (which was made into a movie twice, first as Manhunter and later as Red Dragon). Hannibal is written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller with Martha De Laurentiis exec producing for Gaumont International TV. David Slade executive produced and directed the pilot.

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Sony’s AXN Networks Bite Into ‘Hannibal’

Upcoming contemporary thriller series Hannibal will be broadcast on Sony Pictures Television’s AXN networks in 18 languages across 63 countries. Production is expected to start in late July on the 13-episodes that trace the early relationship of Thomas Harris’s legendary … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy in ‘Hysteria’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday April 14, 2012 @ 5:24pm PDT

Sony Pictures Classics posted a new trailer for Hysteria, a period comedy directed by Tanya Wexler about the discovery/creation of the vibrator. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett. It’s currently slated to open May 18.

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Hugh Dancy To Star In NBC Series ‘Hannibal’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 22, 2012 @ 3:40pm PDT
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Hugh Dancy HannibalBritish actor Hugh Dancy is set as one of the two leads in Hannibal, NBC’s 13-episode series from Gaumont International Television, written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and executive produced by Martha DeLaurentiis. The project … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Sony Pictures Classics Deal For ‘Hysteria’ Climaxes

Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed September 30 that Sony Pictures Classics would acquire Hysteria, the film that covers the accidental discovery of the vibrator. SPC has just issued this official announcement of the deal:

NEW YORK (November 10, 2011) – Sony Pictures

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Toronto: Sony Pictures Landing ‘Hysteria’

Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Sony Pictures Classics is near a deal to distribute Hysteria, the Tanya Wexler-directed romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electro-mechanical vibrator as an advance in … Read More »

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Toronto: Her Hot Button Film In Play, ‘Hysteria’ Helmer Tanya Wexler Signs With WME

Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Tanya Wexler. She’s the director of Hysteria, the 2011 Toronto Film Festival drama about the invention of the vibrator. The buzz is that film is in hot pursuit by suitors that include Sony Pictures Classics, Samuel … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Hysteria’

Hysteria is Tanya Wexler’s UK romantic comedy that revolves (among other things) around the invention of the vibrator during the Victorian age — apparently the device was used as a science-based antidote to certain mental maladies before it was discovered to have, well, ancillary value. Hugh Dancy and Maggie … Read More »

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Alan Alda, Hugh Dancy Join ‘The Big C’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 28, 2011 @ 1:24pm PDT
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Alan Alda, best known for his portrayal of Army hospital doctor Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, will put on a white coat again for a guest appearance on Showtime’s dark comedy The Big C, playing an oncologist who Cathy Jamison (Laura … Read More »

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