Jim Sheridan

Date of Birth

1949-02-06

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Moll Flanders, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The General

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Daniel Day-Lewis won’t be coming out of retirement after all

Posted 2 years ago

Director Jim Sheridan says his meeting with Daniel Day-Lewis would have found the three-time Oscar winner behind the camera, not acting.

Dream House: 2011 Daniel Craig film is being rebooted by Morgan Creek

Posted 5 years ago

The folks at Park Circus recently sat down for an interview with the team at the Morgan Creek production company, and during their conversation some very unexpected news was revealed: Morgan Creek is currently "firmly in the packaging stage" on...

Rooney Mara does melodrama in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture trailer

Posted 9 years ago

Based on the novel of the same name, THE SECRET SCRIPTURE follows a one-hundred-year-old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fifty years or more, Roseanne decides to write...

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Johnny Depp may star in J.C. Chandor’s crime thriller Triple Frontier

Posted 10 years ago

Johnny Depp might be returning to the world of organized crime in a new movie. Variety has learned that the actor is in early talks to star in TRIPLE FRONTIER, an ensemble crime thriller "set in the notorious border zone...

Black Mass director Scott Cooper in talks to helm thriller White Knight

Posted 11 years ago

Deadline has learned that BLACK MASS and OUT OF THE FURNACE filmmaker Scott Cooper is in talks with Warner Bros. to direct WHITE KNIGHT, which is being described as a potential franchise starter in the vein of the Bond and...

Matt Damon talks about his Whitey Bulger biopic that never was

Posted 11 years ago

Whitey Bulger was once of those “ideas” that multiple studios wanted a piece of. A few years ago, there were a couple of Bulger biopics in development, with each one racing, in typical fashion, to be the first one out...

Review: Black Mass (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A looks at the brutal reign of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), who ruled South Boston while covertly working as an FBI informant, feeding the bureau information on his competitors and shielding his schemes from prosecution. REVIEW: BLACK...

Eight new Black Mass clips show that Johnny Depp is back in fine form

Posted 11 years ago

The first reviews of Scott Cooper's BLACK MASS have heralded it as one of Johnny Depp's finest performances as well as a welcome return to form for the once compelling actor. Warner Bros. have released a handful of new clips...

Black Mass’ Scott Cooper may helm Leonardo DiCaprio produced American Wolf

Posted 11 years ago

The Wrap has learned that Warner Bros., Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way banner and Kevin McCormick‘s Langley Park shingle are trying to snag BLACK MASS and OUT OF THE FURNACE director Scott Cooper to helm AMERICAN WOLF, a film based on...

The cast of Black Mass has red on them in these character posters

Posted 11 years ago

BLACK MASS, based on the book of the same name, looks to follow the true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an...

Johnny Depp does everything as Whitey Bulger in the Black Mass trailer

Posted 11 years ago

In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. BLACK MASS tells the story of this unholy alliance,...

New posters for Scott Cooper’s Black Mass & Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario

Posted 11 years ago

New posters have been released for two films that will be shown at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, and both movies could be major players come awards season: BLACK MASS and SICARIO. We'll start with the new one for...

Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger shares life lessons in new Black Mass trailer

Posted 11 years ago

The latest BLACK MASS trailer isn't as chilling as the first one, but it does give us a new look at the Whitey Bulger biopic from OUT OF THE FURNACE and CRAZY HEART director Scott Cooper. Similar to the previous...

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