Filming is to be begin later this year on BELLY OF THE BEAST, director Andrew Haig’s follow-up to the Golden Globe nominated ALL OF US STRANGERS. Colin Farrell will star opposite Ben Stiller, who plays literary giant Norman Mailer. The biographical drama revolves around renowned writer Norman Mailer’s relationship with convict Jack Henry Abbott (Farrell) and the shocking events that unfold after the latter’s release from prison in 1981.
PASSING star Ruth Negga returns to Netflix in SCHITT’S CREEK star Dan Levy’s directorial debut GOOD GRIEF. When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc’s (LEVY) world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face. GOOD GRIEF premieres on Netflix on Jan 5th 2024.
Saoirse Ronan’s latest project, THE OUTRUN, will have a special Panorama screening at next year’s Berlin Film Festival. The drama is adapted from Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir about a recovering alcoholic — played by four-time Oscar nominee Ronan — who returns to her home on the windswept wilderness of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. THE OUTRUN is among the first 11 titles picked by Panorama for its 2024 lineup.
NORMAL PEOPLE actor Paul Mescal is in talks to play James Bond in the next film, as the next movie in the spy franchise will star two 007s — one younger and one older. Paul shot to fame in 2020 playing GAA player Connell alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in RTE and BBC romantic drama NORMAL PEOPLE. The Maynooth native was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards this year for his role in tear-jerker AFTERSUN. Mescal is set for a hot 2024 with the release of his next project, ALL OF US STRANGERS.
Charlie Murphy (PEAKY BLINDERS, HAPPY VALLEY) and Jack Gleeson (GAME OF THRONES) are to star in a Dutch-Belgian thriller series from OZARK co-creator Mark Williams. The series follows gifted hacker Tobias and his ambitious best friend Marco, who are plucked from quiet obscurity and plunged headfirst into the chaos of organised crime when they cross paths with the Irish mob. Leading the family’s operations in Holland are Sloane (Murphy) and her brother Farrell (Gleeson), who enlist their services to hack into the security system of Rotterdam harbour — Europe’s largest shipping port — to secure the undetected deliveries of drug shipments.
Mullingar actor Niamh Algar will star in PLAYING NICE, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by JP Delaney. Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child? PLAYING NICE will premiere in the UK on ITV1, and stream on ITVX, in 2024.
BELFAST actor Ciaran Hinds has joined the cast of THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH. An adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanaghan, the five-part series is a love story set against the backdrop of World War II. The story is told by an Australian doctor who was taken prisoner during World War II and became an unlikely and uncomfortable hero after the war’s end.
PEAKY BLINDERS‘ Emmet J Scanlan is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming FOOL ME ONCE. Netflix has announced a release date for the TV show with the eight-part adaptation of American writer Harlan Coben’s suspenseful novel will debut on the streaming service on New Year’s Day 2024. Scanlan, who plays Shane Tessier, Maya’s former Platoon Mate in the limited series, while Joanne Lumley stars as Joe’s protective mother Judith.