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Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren to Star in Bill Condon’s New Line Thriller “The Good Liar”
The story follows a career con artist who finds his next mark in a wealthy widow whom he meets online. She takes him into her home and as she opens her life to him, he finds himself starting to care for her… but not all is what it seems in this cat-and-mouse game.
The four-part miniseries will follow the 18th century Russian monarch at the end of her reign, and explore her affair with Grigory Potemkin.
The mother-son from “Fate of the Furious” didn’t have any scenes together, but that should change for the new movie from the director of “Lucy,” “La Femme Nikita” and “The Professional.”
With only a few days left of the Toronto International Film Festival, yet another deal is close to being sealed. The Leisure Seeker, an upcoming road trip film from Italian director Paolo Virzì, starring Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren, is finalizing a deal for U.S. rights with Sony Pictures Classics. Brokered by CAA and Bac Films, the deal is in the mid-seven figure range.
Traveling in their family “Leisure Seeker” vintage recreational vehicle, John and Ella Spencer take one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway House in the Florida Keys before his Alzheimer’s and her cancer can catch up with them.
Academy Award-winning actor Helen Mirren is in talks to join Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms as a character named Mother Ginger. The live-action adaptation also stars Mackenzie Foy, Morgan Freeman, Keira Knightley, and ballerina Misty Copland.
Michael and Peter Spierig’s long-gestating Winchester starring Helen Mirren has landed at CBS Films. The studio has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the drama from Bullitt Entertainment and Diamond Pictures.
The Academy Award-winning actress is set to appear in Fast 8, the next installment of the high-octane franchise directed by Straight Outta Compton‘s F. Gary Gray. 
