Toni Collette To Star Opposite Colin Firth In Antonio Campos’ ‘The Staircase’ HBO Series

EXCLUSIVE: Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth), Suki Waterhouse (The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (NW) are among those joining Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding in Netflix and MRC’s Jane Austen movie Persuasion.

Kathryn Hahn's knives were out all along.

The deal between the streaming giant Netflix and filmmaker Rian Johnson for the next two sequels to his fantastic whodunnit comedy “Knives Out” for a whopping $400+ million made headlines, as star Daniel Craig is attached to reprise the role of sleuth Benoit Blanc for the two untitled pics.

Jamie Bell will star alongside Emmy Award-winner Elisabeth Moss and Wagner Moura in Shining Girls, a new metaphysical thriller based on the 2013 best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes. The series will be adapted for television and executive produced by Silka Luisa, who also serves as showrunner.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese-American actor and rapper Victor Ma will star alongside Colin Firth in STXfilms and Tencent Pictures’ action comedy tentatively titled New York Will Eat You Alive. 

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterHenry Golding has been cast alongside Dakota Johnson in Netflix’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel “Persuasion.”The movie will serve as a modern-day retelling of the romantic drama, centering on the conforming Anne Elliot (Johnson), who lives with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy.

EXCLUSIVE: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Animal Kingdom actor Ben Mendelsohn is set to star opposite Daisy Ridley in Neil Burger’s (Limitless) upcoming psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter.

Damian Lewis will be flexing his comedy chops alongside the incomparable Toni Collette in the heartwarming comedy, Dream Horse. The English actor tragically lost his wife Peaky Blinders star, Helen McCrory, to cancer earlier this year.

EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is set to star alongside Toni Collette and Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMuch of the action in science-fiction thriller “Stowaway” takes place inside an overcrowded spaceship. The challenge for production designer Marco Bittner Rosser: making the set seem as small as possible yet functional for the shooting crew.The film, which debuted April 22 on Netflix, stars Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette and Daniel Dae Kim as astronauts on a mission to Mars.

Colin Firth and Toni Collette signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of “The Staircase”.

Colin Firth and Toni Collette signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of “The Staircase”.

Toni Collette is taking on an exciting new project.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterToni Collette will star alongside Colin Firth in the HBO Max limited series “The Staircase,” Variety has learned.The eight-episode series is based on the docuseries of the same name as well as various books and reports about the case of Michael Peterson (Firth), who was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen (Collette), in 2001.

Oscar-nominated Toni Collette is set to star opposite Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true crime docuseries.

Peacock has enlisted Josh Gad and Isla Fisher to star in their upcoming romantic comedy series.

Desmin Borges (Utopia, You’re the Worst) and Natasha Lopez (Runner Runner) have been cast in supporting roles opposite Rose Leslie and Theo James in The Time Traveler’s Wife, HBO’s drama series based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.

EXCLUSIVE: Madelyn Cline, known for her breakout role in the hit Netflix series Outer Banks, has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas.