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Exclusive: Deadline can reveal first look images of Western Long Shadows, starring Dermot Mulroney (Anyone But You), Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt), and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings).

Concourse and UTA launched sales on the project in Cannes with cast also including Blaine Maye (Joe Bell), Sarah Cortez (Life by Ella), and Grainger Hines (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs).

Veteran actor William Shockley is directing the pic as his first feature, having penned the script with Shelley Reid and Hines. Mulroney plays ‘Dallas Garrett’, a former outlaw gunslinger with the wisdom of regret, who serves as a mentor to a young man trying to find his way in the world.

Shockley, Hines, Tom Brady, Allen Gilmer, Tiiu Loigu, and Justin Kreinbrink are producing for Tiki Tāne Pictures, with Gilmer, Riki Rushing, and Matthew Shreder, who serve as executive producers. A.J. Raitano is the cinematographer and Tommy Fields...

Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe will star in the Off Broadway world premiere of Mario Correa’s new play N/A this summer, playing congresswomen of different generations in a production directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus.

Taylor will play “N,” the first woman Speaker of the House, and Villafañe will portray “A,” the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. The play is described as being inspired by real people and events, and although producers did not name names the descriptions more-than-strongly suggest Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

N/A will begin previews on Tuesday, June 11, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, with opening night on Sunday, June 23.

The official synopsis reads, “N/A is a whip smart battle of wills – and wits – between N, the first woman Speaker of the House, and A, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Inspired by real people and events,...

Exclusive: Gloria Estefan is set to be featured in Revolution’s Daughter, a documentary that delves into the lives and experiences of people who were impacted by the Fidel Castro era in Cuba. The deceased dictator’s daughter Alina Fernandez is a central subject in the doc and also an executive producer.

Deadline has your first look at the project in the video above.

“A bond formed with Alina from our shared Cuban roots, yet etched with our distinct experiences, speaks volumes of our kinship beyond political lines, Estefan shared in an exclusive statement to Deadline.

She continued, “Years ago, Alina’s daughter, Alina Salgado, was a lead dancer on one of my tours, symbolizing a deeper connection — a melding of generations bridging Cuba’s complex past. The collaboration wasn’t just about music; it was a celebration of liberty, an homage to the brave like Alina [Fernandez], who pursued freedom from her father’s dictatorship.

James Franco will play a U.S. Navy sailor stationed in post-World War II Naples, where he fathers a child, in gritty Italian drama “Hey Joe.” Directed by Claudio Giovannesi, the film is now shooting in the southern port city.

Franco, who has recently been taking roles outside the U.S. following a now-settled 2019 lawsuit alleging that he sexually exploited young women who took his acting class, will be speaking both English and Italian to play the lead in “Hey Joe,” said producer Carlo Degli Esposti, head of Italy’s prominent Palomar shingle. Degli Esposti added that Palomar got a waiver from SAG-AFTRA for Franco to work on the film “since we are an indie production.”

In “Hey Joe,” Franco plays Dean Barry, an American sailor who in 1944, at age 23, disembarks in Naples which has been destroyed by bombing. He falls in love with a young, very poor, local woman named Lucia.

James Franco’s casting as Fidel Castro in the upcoming period piece “Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde” has caused major backlash, but the Oscar nominee has one important supporter: Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernández.

“James Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with Fidel Castro, besides his skills and charisma,” Fernández told Deadline of the “This Is the End” star portraying her Communist leader father.

“The project is almost entirely Latino, both in front and behind the camera,” Fernández added, citing Franco’s Portuguese heritage. “I find the selection of the cast amazing. The filmmakers worked a lot and I can’t be more grateful to them for their overall inclusive selection.”

For “Alina of Cuba,” Fernández will be played by Ana Villafañe, with Mía Maestro starring as Natalia “Naty” Revuelta, the socialite whom Castro had an affair with, resulting in the birth of Fernández.

The film, directed by Miguel Bardem...

John Leguizamo thinks the casting of James Franco as Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro is no bueno.

That’s “no good,” for those of you who aren’t Latino. Like Franco.

Deadline exclusively broke the news earlier this week that Franco, 44, will be playing Castro in the indie film Alina of Cuba. That spawned an Instagram eruption today from Lequizamo, who ranted against having a non-Latino actor in the role.

“How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well? No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F’d up! Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong!”

He added, “I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!”

His comments struck a nerve, drawing 10,000 likes, including new The View cohost Ana Navarro, who said she would join a boycott of the film.

“I...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee and 2x Golden Globe winner James Franco will play Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Miguel Bardem’s Aline of Cuba with Imagen Award winner Mía Maestro set to play Natalia “Naty” Revuelta, the Cuban-born socialite he has a passionate love affair with.

They join previously announced actress Ana Villafañe who is portraying Alina Fernandez aka Castro’s Daughter. The screenplay from Oscar-nominated scribe Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Fernandez, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castro. Revuelta sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the start of the communist revolution. Fernandez learned that she was Fidel Castro’s daughter at the age of 10 when after years of secret visits to her home, her mother finally revealed that “El Comandante” was her biological father.

Exclusive: Cuban American actress Ana Villafañe has landed the lead role in the indie feature Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde from Mankind Entertainment and Maven Pictures. She will portray Fidel Castro’s daughter and anti-communism activist, Alina Fernandez.

Alina of Cuba is based on the true-life story of Fernandez, a Cuban American immigrant and human rights advocate whose birth was the result of a passionate love affair between Castro and Natalia “Naty” Revuelta. Revuelta, a Cuban-born socialite, sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the revolution.

Fernandez learned of her connection to Castro at the age of 10: when after years of secret visits to her home, she was finally told by her mother that “El Comandante” was her biological father. Fernandez and her mother stayed in Cuba after the former’s stepfather and her sister fled to the U.S. after...

Stonewall

Roadside Attractions has announced a September 25th release date for Roland Emmerich's Lgbt rights drama "Stonewall" which deals with the 1969 Stonewall riots. Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman star in the film

Irvine plays a young man living in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, who befriends a group of street kids. As he his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, rage begins to build and with the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born. [Source: Roadside Attractions]

Castro's Daughter

Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki ("When a Man Loves a Woman") is set to direct the historical drama "Castro's Daughter" which John Martinez O'Felan and Joe Lamy are producing. Bobby Moresco and Nilo Cruz penned the script.

The story revolves around Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's love child with a wealthy socialite who co-financed Castro's...

Warcraft

Daniel Wu ("New Police Story") and Clancy Brown ("Carnivale") have joined the cast of Duncan Jones' "Warcraft" for Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures. Filming begins in Vancouver next month.

The pair join a cast that includes Paula Patton, Anson Mount, Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, Travis Fimmel, Anton Yelchin, Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell. [Source: Screen]

Night at the Museum 3

Ricky Gervais will reprise his role as Dr. McPhee in Shawn Levy's "Night At The Museum 3" at 20th Century Fox.

Ben Stiller is reprising his lead role, and Gervais is back as his boss. Robin Williams also is returning as Teddy Roosevelt in the Christmas 2014 release. [Source: Deadline]

The Next Chapter Of The Purge

Zoe Soul ("Prisoners") has been cast in James DeMonaco's "The Purge" sequel which is apparently going by the title of "The Next Chapter Of The Purge" at Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes.

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The Bridge's Catalina Sandino Moreno has been cast in the lead role in Castro's Daughter.

Castro's Daughter will chronicle the life of the former Cuban president's exiled child Alina Fernandez, to be played by Sandino Moreno.

Fernandez was born of a love affair between Castro and Cuban socialite Natalia 'Naty' Revuelta in the 1950s.

The film will be directed by Crazy Kind of Love's Sarah Siegel-Magness.

Oscar winner and Crash writer Bobby Moresco and Cuban playwright Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) have penned the script.

Castro's Daughter is expected to be released in Us cinemas on November 11, 2015. The film has yet to be given a UK release.

Moreno is best known for playing Alma Ruiz in FX's The Bridge, and for her Oscar-nominated performance in Maria Full of Grace.

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Oscar-nominated director Michael Radford is abandoning "Castro's Daughter" in a split that the film's producers are labeling "amicable." The film is a fact-based historical drama about the illegitimate daughter of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. The girl, Alina Fernandez, eventually became a dissident and fled her native country. The script is by Bobby Moresco ("Crash") and the project is being produced and co-financed by Mankind Entertainment's John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy, who acquired the rights and have developed the project. Radford, who is best known for directing 1994's "Il Postino: The Postman,"...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and though we haven't read it, we're going to assume that Jp O'Donnell's "Deadly Codes" isn't exactly a literary masterwork. But clearly, "Crash" writer Bobby Moresco has seen something movie-worthy in the material as he's setting it up as his next directorial project.

While primarily known as the screenwriter for Paul Haggis' divisive Oscar-winner, Moresco has also gotten behind the camera, most notably for gangster flick "10th & Wolf" as well as for episodes for the since-canceled series "The Black Donnellys" and "Crash" (both of which had Haggis working on them as well). He's also been busy as a screenwriter penning "Castro's Daughter," which will star Antonio Banderas, and is doing a rewrite on Todd Field's gangster tale "Hubris." All this to say that the man is no neophyte, but right now his focus seems to be on directing.

Mankind Entertainment is in talks with Antonio Banderas to play Fidel Castro in Michael Radford's drama "Castro's Daughter," which will be shot in Puerto Rico. The new film tells the true life story of Alina Fernandez, who was the product of a love affair between Fidel Castro and Cuban socialite Naty Revuelta and went on to reject her father's regime, secretly fleeing Cuba in the early 1990s disguised as a Spanish tourist. Fernandez was the one who suggested Banderas to play her father. "I have been a huge fan of Antonio for years, and hope to see him play my father," she said. "I think he has a phenomenal charisma, and think he has the nerve to play the role perfectly. I'm very excited that he would consider this."...

Antonio Banderas might be accepting the position of dictator.

The man behind the cat known as "Puss in Boots" is in talks to play Fidel Castro himself in the biopic about the former Cuban president's offspring, "Castro's Daughter," according to Screen Daily.

"Castro's Daughter" tells the true life story of Alina Fernandez, the illegitimate daughter of Castro and Cuban socialite Natalia 'Naty' Revuelta Clews who went on to become an outspoken critic of the Cuban communist regime and even fled Cuba in 1993 disguised as a Spanish tourist.

We have a feeling Banderas will sign on for the project if only because he was suggested for the role by Fernandez herself. "I have been a huge fan of Antonio for years, and hope to see him play my father," she says. "I think he has a phenomenal charisma, and think he has the nerve to play the role perfectly ... I’m...

Mention Antonio Banderas, and we.re likely to conjure images of the suave actor as Zorro, Spy Kid patriarch Gregorio Cortez, or as the shotgun-wielding El Mariachi. But those of us lucky enough to have seen Steven Soderbergh.s Haywire know that lately, the 51-year-old Banderas is looking more and more like Fidel Castro. Which gives the next bit of news a nice little tilt. Banderas has had discussions about playing the iconic Cuban dictator for Michael Radford.s upcoming drama Castro's Daughter, Screen Daily reports. The movie focuses on Alina Fernandez, the daughter of Castro and Cuban socialite Naty Reuelta. And it was Fernandez herself who suggested the Puss In Boots star to play her father in screen. "I have been a huge fan of Antonio for years, and hope to see him play my father. I think he has a phenomenal charisma, and think he has the nerve...

Film and TV writer Bobby Moresco has signed with ICM. He co-wrote and co-produced Crash with Paul Haggis and won an Academy Award as well as the BAFTA, WGA, and Indie Spirit awards, as well as the Humanitas Prize for his original screenplay. Moresco's other credits include NBC's The Black Donnellys, which he co-created and co-executive produced with Haggis. Moresco also co-produced Million Dollar Baby. His most recent writing credits include Charlie Lucky Luciano and Castro's Daughter, which is currently in pre-production with Michael Radford set to direct. Moresco is managed by David Guillod.

Film and TV writer Bobby Moresco has signed with ICM. He co-wrote and co-produced Crash with Paul Haggis and won an Academy Award as well as the BAFTA, WGA, and Indie Spirit awards, as well as the Humanitas Prize for his original screenplay. Moresco's other credits include NBC's The Black Donnellys, which he co-created and co-executive produced with Haggis. Moresco also co-produced Million Dollar Baby. His most recent writing credits include Charlie Lucky Luciano and Castro's Daughter, which is currently in pre-production with Michael Radford set to direct. Moresco is managed by David Guillod.

British helmer Michael Radford ("Il Postino," "1984") will direct the historical drama "Castro's Daughter" for Mankind Entertainment reports Variety.

"Daughter" is being produced by Mankind's John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy. The screenplay was written by Bobby Moresco ("Crash") and centers on

The story follows Alina Fernandez, exiled daughter of Fidel Castro, who fled Cuba in 1993 disguised as a Spanish tourist.

She later wrote her memoir and now lectures at colleges and appears as a commentator on news shows.

Casting will begin in coming months with shooting to take place in Puerto Rico.

Paz Vega and Daniel Bruhl both look likely to star in Castro's Daughter, the story of the exiled Alina Fernandez. Based on her Exile's Memoir of Cuba, the film will be directed by Bobby Moresco, who co-wrote Crash with Paul Haggis. Fernandez is the illegitimate daughter of Fidel Castro, and one of his most vocal critics. Her dissenting political views led her to flee Cuba, heavily disguised, in 1993. She's been living in Miami ever since, where her otherwise middle-of-the-road Simply Alina radio show devotes every Wednesday evening to Cuban politics.The Cuban-American playwrite Nilo Cruz has co-written the script with Moresco. Vega was the star of Julio Medem's brilliant Sex and Lucia, and also showed up in Talk to Her, Fade to Black and The Spirit. Bruhl was most recently seen shooting from a belltower in Inglourious Basterds but we also loved him in The Edukators and Goodbye Lenin.

Paz Vega, Daniel Bruhl and Mia Maestro have been cast in the independent drama "Castro's Daughter."Vega would be playing Fidel Castro's exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez. Fernandez was the result of a love affair Castro had prior to taking power in Cuba, and grew up hidden in the shadows of her father and the Revolution. Later on in her life, she began speaking out against Castro and the Revolution and became a dissident forbidden to leave Cuba. In 1993, after several failed attempts, she fled Cuba.According to Variety, shooting begins in Puerto Rico in late spring.Bobby Moresco, who co-wrote "Crash" with Paul Haggis, is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nilo Cruz.