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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Cillian Murphy's latest project, Steve, is wrapping production this week in the UK. Murphy stars in the reimagining of Max Porter's novel Shy, and also produces under his Big Things Films banner with partner Alan Moloney. The film is directed by Tim Mielants, who recently…

On the heels of its world premiere in competition as the opener for the Berlin Film Festival, the historical drama Small Things Like These, produced by and starring Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, has been acquired by Lionsgate. The studio holds rights to the film in North America, the UK…

EXCLUSIVE: It's been a long time coming amid trickles of information that never were fully confirmed, but the Shelby family faithful can now wholly rejoice as the Peaky Blinders movie is officially moving forward. Netflix has greenlit a feature film that will star Oscar winner Cillian Murphy in a return…

Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there's nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the…

The 21st Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, which highlight Irish filmmakers, television creators and performers, saw Pat Collins' That They May Face The Rising Sun win Best Film in an upset. Despite earning a second-best 11 nominations, the top award was its only win. Lies We Tell all…

Eight months after it began global release, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer opened in Japan today. The Best Picture Oscar winner about the race to develop the atomic bomb has been met with a mix of reactions, some praising the movie and some finding it uncomfortable to watch. There also have been reports…

EXCLUSIVE: Two nights before Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for the Universal Pictures blockbuster Oppenheimer, the studio completed a pre-emptive acquisition for the Mark A. Bradley book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. It's an epic…

Hot on the heels of his first Oscar win for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is locked in to reprise his starring role in BBC/Netflix’s Peaky Blinders for a follow-up film to shoot in September, according to series creator Steven Knight. Knight revealed the news in conversation with Birmingham World at…

Nominations are out for the 21st Irish Film & Television Awards with Lisa Mulcahy's thriller Lies We Tell leading the pack on the feature side at 13, and crime drama Kin heading up the TV fields with 11 (scroll down for the ful list of nominees). The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) will hand out…

If Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer marks the high point in the career of Cillian Murphy, and is the film for which he’s always remembered, so be it, the actor said, in an appearance backstage at tonight’s Oscars. “[I’d be] very content,” said the actor, recognized with Best Actor for his turn as…

“It’s very important to me, it’s really a wonderful finish to what’s been an incredible year,” Christopher Nolan told press backstage at the Academy Awards in the wake of winning both his Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer, along with the biggest prize of the night: Best Picture…

Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar this evening for his riveting turn in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. After five collaborations with Nolan, this was Murphy's first time in a lead role in one of the director's films — nabbing him his first-ever Oscar nomination, and the first win in the Best Actor…