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Mark Rylance And Michelle Williams To Star In ‘Nice Fish’

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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Olivier winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) is set to star in and make his feature directorial debut with Nice Fish, alongside five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Jim Lichtscheidl (A Serious Man), and Isabella LaBlanc (True Detective: Night Country).

Tamara Birkemoe, CEO of Palisades Park Pictures, is launching international sales on the project at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. CAA Media Finance will represent North American rights.

Nice Fish first originated as a successful stage play, later earning an Olivier Award nomination. The production was largely a collaboration between Rylance and prose poet Louis Jenkins, who wrote more than 600 prose poems during his lifetime, many of which were adapted into the film’s screenplay, written by Rylance and Lichtscheidl.

The synopsis reads: “Hoping to rekindle an old friendship, childhood buddies Ron and Erik set out for a day’s ice-fishing, on the last day of the ice-fishing season. However, they discover that now in adulthood their comradeship is on thin ice, which easily cracks; one man behaves like a child, the other man like a too-grown-up. Imagination and reason divided. With the help of three mysterious women they meet as they travel further on the ice, can Ron and Erik find a way to reconnect, re-unite, and enjoy a new friendship? And more importantly, catch that elusive giant fish, as the ice begins to melt…”

The film is a co-production between Water & Power Productions and Shakespeare Road Productions. Producers include Tom Miller (The Phantom of the Open) and James Swarbrick (The Scurry) from Water & Power, Rylance and Claire Walden (Wolf Hall) from Shakespeare Road, and Dan Clifton (Last Breath), with Brianna Lee Johnson (Trap House) as line producer.

Behind-the-camera talent includes Jörg Widmer (The Way of the Wind), BAFTA-nominated editor Paul Watts (The Zone of Interest), costume designer Ilona Somogyi (from the original Nice Fish stage production), with production design by April Lasky (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies).

“I grew up in the Midwest and later built my acting career in London, but returning to Minnesota reconnected me with the light, the cold, the distinct culture of Minnesota and Wisconsin,” said Rylance.

He continued: “An ice fishing trip and the work of a local poet inspired what became Nice Fish, an Olivier-nominated stage play, and now my first feature as a director. I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with an incredible team, drawing inspiration from filmmakers and classic comedic pairings that have long influenced me.”

Producer Tom Miller shared: “We are so pleased and honoured to be working with Mark again, particularly on his directorial debut, and with the wonderful Jim, Michelle, Isabella, and an incredible crew, we’re hooked!”

“Mark and Jim have written a film that is emotional, funny and refreshingly original,” said Birkemoe. “And with an outstanding talent like Michelle alongside them, this is poised to become a true tour de force on every level.”

Mark Rylance is repped by CAA and Peikoff Mahan Law Office; Michelle Williams is repped by CAA, and Isabella LaBlance is repped by Innovative Artists and Liberman-Zerman Management.

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‘Minions & Monsters’ Sets Peacock Release Date

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Minions & Monsters will begin streaming on Peacock on October 28, following its July 1 theatrical release.

Starring Pierre Coffin, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges and Zoey Deutch, the seventh installment in the Despicable Me franchise and third in the Minions prequel series is set in 1920s Hollywood. As Deadline’s Damon Wise noted in his review, the opening credits alone trace the history of the Universal logo back to the silent-era days of The Trans-Atlantic Film Company. Per the synopsis, the Illumination/Universal film tells “the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story” of how the Minions — led by Dick — conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

The latest installment is directed by Oscar nominee Pierre Coffin, who helmed the first three Despicable Me films and the first Minions movie. Coffin also provides the voice of the Minions in the film, which he has done since the characters’ film debut in 2010.

Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and Coffin wrote the screenplay, which is produced by Illumination’s Oscar-nominated founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and Bill Ryan (The Super Mario Bros. Movie). Lynch also is an EP.

Minions & Monsters was a box office success, grossing $524 million worldwide and becoming the ninth-highest-grossing globally for 2026.

Created 15 years ago, the Minions have boosted Illumination’s Despicable Me and Minions to a global box office of more than $5.6 billion. The previous Minions film, 2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, was a summer tentpole, earning almost $1 billion worldwide.

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‘Elsinore’ Trailer: First Look At Andrew Scott’s Buzzy Biopic

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We have the first official trailer for Elsinore, starring Andrew Scott.

Simon Stone (The Dig) directs Elsinore, based on the life of Ian Charleson, written by Stephen Beresford (Pride). The official synopsis reads: Elsinore is a powerful, deeply moving, and inspiring true story of the actor Ian Charleson, who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the performance of his life in Hamlet at the National Theatre in London.

Scott stars as Charleson. He leads the film alongside Olivia Colman. Scott is also a producer on the film. The wider cast features Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, David Dawson, Monica Dolan, Matthew Beard, Joe Locke, Georgie Glen, Sadie Soverall, Adeel Akhtar, Dickie Beau, with Juliet Stevenson and Peter Mullan.

Andrea Occhipintio of Lucky Red (Il Divo) produced the film with Gabrielle Tana of Magnolia Mae Films (The Dig), along with Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell of LD Entertainment (Jackie), and Stefano Massenzi and Carolyn Marks Blackwood.

This film has received enthusiastic reviews following debut screenings at the fall festivals. Deadline’s Pete Hammond described Scott’s performance as “heartbreakingly great” and a “performance for the ages.”

Elsinore will next screen at the London Film Festival. StudioCanal will release the film in UK cinemas on January 29, 2027. Focus has the U.S. rights and will open the film on November 20.

“The movie is also a love letter to Britain’s National Theatre, a sprawling monument to the power of art and artists, an “Elsinore” unto itself,” Hammond wrote.

Check out the trailer above.

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‘They Follow’ Cast Adds ‘Landman’ Star James Jordan (EXCLUSIVE)

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EXCLUSIVE: James Jordan, who stars alongside Billy Bob Thornton on Paramount+’s Landman, has been tapped for a role in They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s long-anticipated Neon sequel to his critically acclaimed 2015 horror film It Follows, sources tell Deadline.

Reps for Neon declined to comment. Character details are being kept under wraps, as is the plot of the sequel. All that’s known thus far is that it takes place a decade after the events of the original film.

Maika Monroe has returned to star alongside newcomer Naomi Ackie. The cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Anna Mirodin, Jayne Taini, Michael Gandolfini, Tom Pecinka, Melora Walters, Ben Krieger, Natalie Shinnick and Jan Hoag.

Mitchell has once again directed from his own script. He’s also producing alongside Harvest Hill Entertainment’s Jake Weiner, Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, Northern Light Media Ventures’ Erik Rommesmo, FirstGen Content’s Mike D’Alto and Randal Sandler, Curious Gremlin’s Scott Aharoni and Sinan Eczacıbaşı, Kaplan Morrison’s David Kaplan, Rebecca Green and Laura Smith. Mark Bennett handled casting.

Neon reps worldwide rights to They Follow and will release the film in U.S. theaters. Neon International is handling foreign sales. Deals were negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers by Hayden Goldblatt of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Eugene Pikulin of Bruns Brennan Berry Pikulin Jacobs, Michael Weiss of Concentric Law, and Wifreddy Chiang of Baseline Media.

It Follows was snapped up by Radius-TWC after premiering to rave reviews at Cannes in 2014. The psychological horror film stars Monroe as Jay Height, a college student who, after a sexual encounter, becomes the target of an unstoppable supernatural entity. As the entity takes the form of random people, slowly but relentlessly stalking her and her friends through the Detroit area, she grapples with the fact that she will only be able to escape the curse she has inherited by passing it on to someone else through sex.

Regarded as one of the best horror films of the 2010s, It Follows grossed around $23M against a reported budget of a little more than a million, launching Monroe toward stardom and making a studio director of Mitchell. Pic’s cast also included Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe.

Best known for his turn as petroleum engineer Dale Bradley, right-hand man to Thornton’s Tommy Norris, on Paramount+’s hit drama Landman heading into its third season, Jordan is a clear favorite of co-creator Taylor Sheridan, who’s cast him in everything from Yellowstone and 1883 to Mayor of Kingstown, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Wind River. Currently, Jordan also stars in his series Lioness. Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Billings, an indie healthcare drama marking the directorial debut of actor Alexander Ludwig. He is repped by Elevate Entertainment and Jamie Freed Management.

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