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Jude Law has come a long way in his career, from playing the gorgeous leading man in films from Talented Mr. Ripley, Gattaca and The Holiday, to playing Firebrand‘s King Henry VIII as a decaying corpse of a man hanging on just long enough to emotionally torture his final wife Katherine Parr (Alicia…

Jude Law went to some pretty extreme lengths while getting into character as King Henry VIII. While discussing his new movie Firebrand, the Academy Award nominee revealed that he wore a fragrance on set to make him smell “like he was actually rotting” to play the ailing royal. “I read that…

British actor Jude Law once had a “flirtation” about playing Superman. The movie in question was titled Superman: Flyby. Written by J.J. Abrams, the story would have explored a new twist on the hero’s origin. In a new interview with The Playlist, Law talked about his considerations of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) is joining the cast of Black Rabbit, the upcoming limited series from showrunners and executive producers Zach Baylin and Kate Susman. Spector will play Campbell, a high powered lawyer. He will star opposite Jason Bateman, Jude Law, Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka…

Laura Linney (Ozark), Ben Semanoff (Ozark) and Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) round out the director lineup for Netflix’s upcoming limited series Black Rabbit, starring and executive produced by Jude Law and Jason Bateman, the streamer announced Thursday. Each is slated to helm two episodes of the 8-episode…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights from AGC Studios to The Order, a dramatic thriller directed by Australia’s Justin Kurzel (Macbeth), on which we were first to report. Starring Jude Law (Firebrand), Nicholas Hoult (X-Men franchise), Tye Sheridan (The Card Counter), Jurnee Smollett (Birds of Prey…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlighted Black Rabbit, a limited series headlined and executive produced by Jason Bateman and Jude Law in their first on-screen pairing. Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succes…

EXCLUSIVE: Jude Law’s Riff Raff Entertainment has received “significant funding” via a new TV development deal with France’s Newen Connect. Unveiled at Newen’s London TV Screenings event, the deal sees Riff Raff, which the two-time Oscar nominee co-founded with Ben Jackson, handed a cash injection…

Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired U.S. rights to Firebrand, a historical thriller starring Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) and Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) that world premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film directed by Karim Aïnouz (Invisible Life) is slated for an…

So, Jude Law, what do you really think of the British monarchy after playing one of the worst kings in history, the wife-slaying Henry VIII, in Firebrand? “I see it like theater, though I’m slightly more obsessed by theater,” said Law on Monday at the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the…

Who was Katherine Parr? Henry VIII’s final—and surviving—wife was somewhat eclipsed by the dramatically beheaded Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. But no longer. As Firebrand Director Karim Aïnouz told Deadline on Sunday, “I was just really interested that there were so many things that were done about…

Most movies about England’s King Henry VIII like to focus on the mercurial monarch’s failed marriages. His six wives have been collectively described as divorced, died, beheaded, divorced, beheaded, survived. That last one, the little talked-about Katherine…