Bill Pullman, Eddie Izzard & Diplo Join Cast of "Covers" from Focus Features and Working Title

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Category: Entertainment News
Published on Friday, 26 July 2019 21:09
Written by Hildy Johnson

Bill Pullman, Eddie Izzard and Diplo are the latest to join the cast of Covers, the upcoming comedy from Focus Features and Working Title. These performers join the previously announced Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Ice Cube.

Directed by Late Night director Nisha Ganatra with a screenplay by Flora Greeson. Covers is set among the talent, fame, and fast-paced world of Hollywood’s music scene. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles.

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Sag Award-Nominee Pullman’s past filmography includes Battle of the Sexes and The Sinner. Pullman is represented by ICM and Anonymous Content. Izzard’s most recently starred in Victoria & Abdul, as well as Ocean’s Thirteen, and Across the Universe. 

Izzard is represented by Conway van Gelder Grant, Agency for the Performing Arts, and Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner & Gellman. Grammy winner Diplo is one of the industry’s most accomplished record producers and DJs, having worked with artists including Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Madonna. In addition to releasing music under his own name he is a member of LSD with Labyrinth and Sia, Silk City with Mark Ronson and Major Lazer. His most recent acting credit was in Detective Pikachu.

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About Focus Features

Focus Features acquires and produces specialty films for the global market and holds a library of iconic movies from fearless filmmakers. Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, and Selena Gomez; Harriet about the iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman starring Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. and directed by Kasi Lemmons.

Working Title and Blueprint Picture’s new adaptation of Emma starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn; Kevin Costner and Diane Lane led Let Him Go; Jon Stewart’s Irresistible starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, and Chris Coopers; Untitled Todd Haynes Project with Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway from Participant Media; Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller Last Night in Soho from Working Title; and the anticipated Downton Abbey movie starring the entire original cast. Universal Pictures International has led distribution in select markets for titles including The Dead Don’t Die; Harriet; Downton Abbey; Emma; Let Him Go; Irresistible; and Last Night in Soho.

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Focus is part of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG), which produces, acquires, markets and distributes filmed entertainment worldwide in various media formats for theatrical, home entertainment, television and other distribution platforms, as well as consumer products, interactive gaming and live entertainment. 

UFEG’s global division also includes Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Brand Development, Fandango, DreamWorks Animation Film and Television.  UFEG is part of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. 

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NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. 

For more information please visit www.focusfeatures.com

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