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Channel 4 has unveiled the first look at the Alessandro Nivola-fronted series adaptation of Lucy Kirkwood’s critically acclaimed play Chimerica.

The broadcaster is set to launch the four-part series, from Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment, this spring.

Chimerica, written by Kirkwood, examines the changing fortunes of the U.S. and China. Nivola plays the lead, an American photojournalist who tries to discover the truth behind the iconic, career-making image he took of a lone man defying the tanks that rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Chimerica starts in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 as young American photojournalist captures a piece of history as tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door. Twenty years later, he is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labor and the outsourcing of American jobs to Chinese factories. He subsequently becomes obsessed with a cryptic message left...

Transparent and The Handmaid’s Tale star Cherry Jones and Homeland’s F. Murray Abraham will be among the actors starring alongside Alessandro Nivola in Lucy Kirkwood’s TV adaptation of Chimerica.

The pair will join the American Hustle star, as exclusively reported earlier this year by Deadline, and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Terry Chen (Jessica Jones) and Ty Simpkins (Jurassic World) in the four-part drama for UK’s Channel 4.

Chimerica, written by Kirkwood, examines the changing fortunes of the U.S. and China. Nivola will play the lead, American photojournalist Lee Berger who tries to discover the truth behind the iconic, career-making image he took of a lone man defying the tanks that rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Jones will play Mel Kincaid, Lee’s old friend and colleague, fiercely intellectual and recently sober; Okonedo will be Tessa Kendrick, a corporate-minded market researcher who crosses Lee...

AMC Entertainment’s non-Executive Chairman, Lincoln Zhang, has resigned from his position at North America’s leading exhibition chain. Also known as Zhang Lin, the exec is expected to transition to a new role at AMC parent Dalian Wanda Group. AMC noted the change in a regulatory filing this week. Zhang was Chairman of the Board and served as a Class III Director of the Board of AMC. He became Chairman in August 2012 after Wanda acquired the company. No replacement has…...