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"You think it could work?" "It has to." Lionsgate has revealed the first official trailer for a comedy titled The Con Is On, formerly known as The Brits Are Coming while in production. From director James Oakley (aka James Haslam), the wacky, over-the-top heist comedy stars Uma Thurman and Tim Roth as a married couple. In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, they flee to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot to make some cash. The cast also includes Alice Eve, Maggie Q, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Parker Posey, and Sofia Vergara. This looks mildly amusing, with a few funny scenes, but I don't have a good feeling about it. Something seems off from this trailer. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer for James Haslam's The Con Is On, originally debuted by Et Online: This stylish,...

Star Trek Into Darkness alum Alice Eve has closed a deal to star in Replicas, according to Deadline.

Eve, who is primed to have a busy 2016 thanks to roles in The Stolen, Bees Make Honey and James Oakley’s mob drama The Brits Are Coming, will play Mona, wife to Keanu Reeves’ male lead Will Foster.

Unfortunately, story details remain thin on the ground at the time of writing. That being said, Replicas is shaping up to be an old-school sci-fi that blends some thematic elements of Reeves-fronted thriller John Wick. Foster is a “neuroscientist whose family is killed in a traffic accident and will stop at nothing to bring them back — pitting himself against a government-controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.”

At one point, Replicas was set to be helmed by Tanya Wexler (Hysteria), although Deadline now reveals that it is Jeffrey Nachmanoff...

Shooting is already underway in New York with Uma Thurman and Tim Roth, but there's still room for more cast members in the heist comedy The Brits Are Coming. Sofia Vergara has just signed up, joining an ensemble that also includes Parker Posey, Alice Eve, Maggie Q, Crispin Glover and Stephen Fry. James Oakley (The Devil You Know) is directing.The story revolves around a con-artist couple (Thurman and Roth) who get on the wrong side of Maggie Q's gangster and go on the run to buy some time on a large debt. their plan is to make the payment from the profits of a jewel robbery involving Roth's ex-wife, played by Eve. She's since married again, but it's clearly far from a solid union, since Vergara is playing her new husband's mistress.Oakley wrote the screenplay with his Devil You Know compatriot Alex Michaelides, and The Brits Are Coming...

Sofia Vergara, Stephen Fry, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Alice Eve and Maggie Q will join Uma Thurman in the indie comedy “The Brits Are Coming,” it was announced Thursday by producers Jc Chandor, Cassian Elwes, Robert Ogden Barnum and Dave Hansen. James Oakley is directing from a script he co-wrote with Alex Michaelides. Production is currently under way in New York City. The broad comedy follows an eccentric British con-artist couple, Harriet (Thurman) and Peter Fox (Roth), who flee to Los Angeles to escape paying a large debt to a notorious gangster named Ivanka (Maggie Q) after a failed poker game.

A mob of actors has signed on to James Oakley’s broad comedy The Brits Are Coming. Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Maggie Q, Alice Eve and Stephen Fry are joining Uma Thurman, who along with Roth play an eccentric British con-artist couple Harriet and Peter Fox. In debt to Ivanka, a notorious gangster played by Maggie Q, after a poker game goes south, the couple flee to Los Angeles. There they approach a former associate played by Fry, who secretly sells their whereabouts. With…...

New cast additions to the film, currently shooting in New York, include Parker Posey, Maggie Q, Alice Eve, Stephen Fry and Sofia Vergara. Fortitude International handles international sales.

As previously announced Uma Thurman also stars and James Oakley directs from the screenplay he co-wrote with Alex Michaelides about married con artists who land in deeper trouble when they flee to Los Angeles from a gangster.

Producers Cassian Elwes, Robert Ogden Barnum, Jc Chandor and Dave Hansen hold Us rights.

Ike Suri, Jaclyn Ann Suri, Larry Safir, Papu Butani, Quinn Meyers, Johnny Mac, Dee Haslam, Matthew Helderman, David Kyle, Dom Genest and Luke Taylor comprise the executive producer roster.

Oscar nominee Uma Thurman (Nymphomaniac: Vol. I, Kill Bill: Vol 1-2, Pulp Fiction) and Emmy and Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth (ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” Fox’s “Glee”) are set to star in the comedy The Brits Are Coming, it was announced today by producers Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Jc Chandor (A Most Violent Year, All Is Lost), Robert Ogden Barnum (Margin Call, Lawless), and Will Clevinger (upcoming Life At These Speeds, Maternal Bonds).

In this broad comedy, an eccentric British con-artist couple, Harriet (Thurman) and Peter Fox, flee to Los Angeles to get away from paying a large debt to a notorious gangster after a failed poker game. With the gangster hot on their trail, the pair scheme to win back the money by executing a jewel theft operation involving Peter’s ex-wife and her new husband, Gabriel. Chenoweth will play Gabriel’s pill-popping assistant,...

When she’s not providing inspiration to aging boy bands everywhere, Uma Thurman is actually still making movies in Hollywood, and today brings word that the Pulp Fiction actress has signed on to topline a very promising comedy project called The Brits Are Coming.

James Oakley (The Devil You Know) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Alex Michaelides. Intriguingly, the lineup of producers includes Cassian Elwes, A Most Violent Year helmer J.C. Chandor (a mentor to Oakley), Robert Ogden Barnum and Will Clevinger, giving The Brits Are Coming a distinct air of importance behind the scenes. Adding to anticipation for the pic is news that Kristen Chenoweth, currently appearing in a Tony-nominated role on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, has joined the supporting cast.

The story centers on a pair of nutty Brits, Harriet Fox (Thurman) and her husband Peter, who travel to L.A. in order...

If you're as obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence's movie history as we are, having even sloughed through "House At the End of the Street" for a show of sturdy-nerdy support (cough cough), then you'll be quite happy to know that all that attentive fandemonium is paying off. A dusty and long-forgotten early movie of hers has now been resurrected from its deep shelf grave just in time for "The Hunger Games" tributes the world over to get a peek at it before she returns to the big screen this fall.

Yep, J.Law's long-lost film "The Devil You Know," featuring Lena Olin and Rosamund Pike much more prominently than the then-future Oscar winner (who was just 15 at the time of filming), will finally receive an audience after a half dozen years in limbo.

"I'm really glad it's going to be able to be seen," director James Oakley said in last...

Here’s the official trailer and the very first clip from The Devil You Know (yep, so-called Jennifer Lawrence‘s long-lost movie), which will be released this July. Shot in 2007, when The Hunger Games star was only 15 years old, this sexy, stylish, and suspenseful thriller revolves around an ex-movie star who attempts to make a career comeback when she’s threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. Doesn’t look bad at all, head inside to check it out! James Oakley directed the whole thing from a script written by Alex Michaelides, and beside Lawrence, the rest of The Devil You Know cast also includes Rosamund Pike, Lena Olin,...