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Holly Hunter & William Hurt To Co-Star In Lifetime/History’s ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ Mini

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 1:00pm PSTTags: Bonnie & Clyde, Holly Hunter, William Hurt
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William HurtHolly HunterLifetime and History are surrounding the leads of their four-hour Bonnie & Clyde miniseries with top-caliber talent. Oscar winners Holly Hunter and William Hurt are set to co-star in the project, directed by Oscar-nominated helmer Bruce Beresford and produced by Sony Pictures TV and Craig Zadan and Meron’s Storyline Entertainment. This marks a reunion for the actors who starred together in James L. Brooks’ 1987 movie Broadcast News.

Written by John Rice and Joe Batteer, the mini is based on the true story of bank robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow whose roles are still casting. Hunter will play Bonnie’s mother Emma Parker. After Emma’s husband died when Bonnie was only four, Emma moved with her three children to Dallas to find work as a seamstress. Hurt will play Frank Hamer, the Texas ranger credited with tracking down and killing Bonnie and Clyde. Originally set up at History, Bonnie & Clyde will now air simultaneously on two A+E Networks, the male-driven History and female-focused Lifetime, which has taken lead on the mini’s production. Both Hunter and Hurt have received four Oscar nominations, winning once — for The Piano and Kiss Of The Spider Woman, respectively.

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Cast Lines Up For BBC-Science Channel Drama About The Challenger Disaster

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 7:00am PDTTags: BBC, Bruce Greenwood, Science Channel, William Hurt

A mix of North American and British talent will topline an untitled BBC/Science Channel movie about the search for what caused the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. William Hurt and Bruce Greenwood will star as physicist Richard Feynman and Air Force General Donald Kutyna, respectively. Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner who also assisted on the Manhattan Project, was instrumental in uncovering the truth, as was Kutyna whom he befriended in the process. Brian Dennehy is also on board as William Rogers, the chair of the presidential commission and Joanne Whalley will play Feynman’s wife. British actors Kevin McNally (Downton Abbey), Read More »

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William Hurt Joins Akiva Goldsman’s ‘Winter’s Tale’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 10:03am PDTTags: Akiva Goldsman, Big Deals Film, Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Will Smith, William Hurt, Winter's Tale
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: William Hurt has been set in the final major role of Winter’s Tale, the Warner Bros adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel that marks the feature directing debut of Oscar-winning scribe Akiva Goldsman. Goldsman worked for … Read More »

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Cannes Roundup: ‘War Witch’, ‘Ill Manors,’ ‘Yossi’, ‘Mystery Road’, John Boorman Doc

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 10:38pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Mystery Road, War Witch, William Hurt

Films Distribution heading into Cannes tells Deadline it is in full-blown negotiations for the U.S. on War Witch, which is Kim Nguyen’s Tribeca winner. The label’s co-founder Nicolas Brigaud-Robert also tells Deadline the company is on track to close the U.S. on Israeli drama Yossi. It has international sales on Maddened By His Absence (which has a special screening in Critics’ Week), 30 Beats (though Lionsgate has U.S.), and SXSW Midnighter Audience Award winner Citadel (Cinedigm and New Video have U.S. rights).

Bankside Films has taken worldwide sales rights to iLL MANORS, the directorial debut of British rapper Ben Drew who’s better known as Plan B. Revolver is releasing in the UK on June 6. The film was developed through Film London Microwave, a scheme set up in partnership with BBC Films and with support from Skillset to develop emerging London talent.

Arclight Films has boarded writer-director Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road. The $A2 million pic was financed by Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, and the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Arclight has world sales rights outside Australia/NZ where the film will be released by a new distributor, Michael Wrenn’s Management of Doubt. Sen is the vanguard of a group of Aboriginal filmmakers who are making distinctive films. Read More »

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Actor William Hurt Leaves WME For ICM

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 12:41pm PSTTags: Adam Schweitzer, Agents, HBO, HBO Too Big To Fail, ICM, Movies, William Hurt

The four-time Academy Award and Emmy and Tony nominee and one-time Best Actor Oscar winner  (for Kiss Of The Spider Woman) just made the move to Adam Schweitzer, co-head of ICM’s motion picture talent department. He’s currently filming the lead role … Read More »

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HBO Movie ‘Too Big To Fail’ & Lifetime Pilot ‘Against the Wall’ Add To Casts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 14, 2010 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Curtis Hanson, Evan Handler, HBO, HBO Too Big To Fail, James Woods, Lifetime Against the Wall, Paul Giamatti, Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Fail Casting, TV, TV Casting, William Hurt
Nellie Andreeva

John Heard and Sex and the City alum Evan Handler have joined the cast of the HBO film Too Big to Fail, while Kathy Baker has boarded the Lifetime drama pilot Against the Wall. Directed by Curtis Hanson, Too Big to Fail dissects the 2008 financial crisis and the power brokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy as the system teetered on collapse. Heard will play former Lehman Brothers president Joe Gregory, while APA-repped Handler will prortray Lloyd Blankfein,  CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. They join a star-studded ensemble cast led by William Hurt, James Woods and Paul Giamatti. Read More »

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James Woods & Paul Giamatti Among Cast Additions For HBO Film ‘Too Big To Fail’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 11, 2010 @ 1:30pm PDTTags: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Cable TV, Curtis Hanson, HBO, HBO Too Big To Fail, James Woods, Paul Giamatti, Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Fail Casting, TV, William Hurt
Nellie Andreeva

HBO has assembled the cast of Too Big to Fail, the Curtis Hanson-directed movie about the 2008 financial crisis and the power brokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy as the system teetered on collapse. Joining William Hurt, previously set to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, are James Woods as Dick Fuld, the last chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers nicknamed the “Gorilla” on Wall Street; HBO regular Paul Giamatti as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke; Billy Crudup as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Ed Asner as Warren Buffett; Kathy Baker as Wendy Paulson and Cynthia Nixon as Michele Davis. Also cast in the movie, set to begin production in mid-October, are Ayad Akhtar as Neel Kashkari, Topher Grace as Jim Wilkinson, Dan Hedaya as Barney Frank, Michael O’Keefe as Chris Flowers, Tony Shalhoub as John Mack and Joey Slotnick as Dan Jester. Read More »

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Bill Hurt To Star In HBO Financial Crisis Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 26, 2010 @ 6:54pm PDTTags: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Cable TV, Curtis Hanson, HBO Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Fail Casting, Wall Street, William Hurt
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has set William Hurt to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Curtis Hanson to direct Too Big To Fail, a dissection of the 2008 financial crisis and the … Read More »

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