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EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed multi-hyphenate artist Ashley Walters (Top Boy) for representation.

U2‘s Bono and The Edge are reportedly working on new music for North Star, an upcoming biopic about the director Jim Sheridan.Sheridan, who is best known for such films as My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father, will direct the semi-autobiographical feature, which will tell the story of the director’s early life in Ireland in the early 1960s.North Star is described as “the coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Sheamie Sheridan, who lives with his rough-around-the-edges father and younger brother Frankie”.“A journey into the heart and soul of a family, Sheamie finds his world turned upside down when a teenage orphan moves in to live with them, revealing the deeper and more complicated problems Sheamie has with his dad; secrets that now threaten to tear the family apart.”Variety reports that Bono and The Edge are “in discussions to compose original music” for Sheridan’s North Star, which is being produced by Spinning Gold director Timothy Scott Bogart.The U2 musicians are in talks to write and perform the original song ‘North Star’ in addition to collaborating on the score.Shooting on North Star is set to begin in early 2023 on location in Ireland.Bono, meanwhile, will publish his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story in November.The book is set to span the singer’s career, “from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty”.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Spinning Gold” director Timothy Scott Bogart has set up his next projects on the heels of his musical biopic about his father, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart.Bogart will produce the semi-autobiographical feature “North Star” from Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot,” “In the Name of the Father”), which tells the story of the director’s early life in Northern Ireland. U2 musicians Bono and The Edge are in discussions to compose original music for the film, Variety can reveal.Meanwhile, Bogart will also write and direct the modern pop-music driven, 1191-set “Marian,” which charts the love story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with music from Grammy-winning songwriter Evan Bogart.

EXCLUSIVE: Paddy Considine has inked with ICM Partners for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky and Peacock are behind a drama based on the notorious 1988 Lockerbie disaster from Academy Award-nominated writers Jim Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan, Deadline can reveal.

Film director Jim Sheridan is being comforted by family and friends after the funeral of his beloved wife Fran.

Irish director Jim Sheridan is mourning the loss of his wife Fran after she suddenly passed away.

Jim Sheridan has said he offered his acclaimed documentary series on Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder to RTÉ and Virgin Media — but both turned him down.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s death, two documentaries are set to air, one on Sky and another on Netflix, and will land on their respective platforms just days apart.

Chernobyl producer Sister has confirmed that it will adapt Audible Original podcast West Cork, which tells the story of the 1996 murder of French TV and film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Jim Sheridan, the six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and director of titles such as My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, is working on a documentary series on the notorious convicted fraudster and bogus lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano.

Naman Ramachandran Six-time Oscar-nominee Jim Sheridan (“In the Name of the Father,” “My Left Foot”) is busy these days with Sky Studios documentary series “Murder in the Cottage,” but he has plenty more on his plate.One of Sheridan’s most celebrated films is “In America” (2002), where a family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen while grieving the death of a child.

Naman Ramachandran Six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot,” “In the Name of the Father”) is to make his documentary series debut with “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie.”The five-part series examines the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland in 1996.In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Council bosses have been accused of replacing employees with volunteers as angry opposition members branded the Team Up to Clean Up campaign "unfair".Criticisms of the litter picking initiative were fired during a heated debate in the latest full council meeting, as Labour member Jim Sheridan claimed the local authority had "abdicated responsibility" for cleaning up rubbish.The dispute started after

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Education bosses have been forced to apologise to parents after some Renfrewshire schoolchildren were sent out on their breaktimes in torrential rain.Councillor Jim Sheridan, who represents Linwood, Houston and Crosslee, questioned what the council's current position was on sending children outside during the school day at a board meeting, after discovering pupils in his ward had been sat in class with wet

RTÉ Radio 1 show on Tuesday, he said: ‘I had my first, I use the term loosely, singing lesson for the Toy Show opening number.’Oh, things are really underway.‘By singing lesson I mean my old friend Jim Sheridan [Late Late Show band leader] got together with me by the piano, just in a studio nearby here one morning, to find the key in which the opening song would be sung.’He continued: ‘And the opening song is so “unguessable” by anyone on this island.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Key workers who have helped to keep vital Renfrewshire Council services moving throughout the coronavirus pandemic should receive a tangible reward for their efforts, a councillor has insisted.Jim Sheridan has urged council bosses to consider giving staff who have continued to work throughout lockdown an extra day's holiday or some kind of financial prize to show their commitment has been recognised by the local

Justin Kroll Film ReporterCarey Mulligan has returned to CAA.Mulligan first broke out on the scene with her star-making role in “An Education,” which earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress.

The West Cork podcast is one of the most successful crime podcasts in recent years.