In the mid 2000s Richard Shepard made The Matador and The Hunting Party. They were both good movies but also rather underappreciated, so he’s had to go back to TV for the past few years. Now he’s returning to feature films with Dom Hemingway, and THR reports that Jude Law and Richard E. Grant are set to star.
Dom Hemingway will follow the titular character, a larger than life safecracker with a lose fuse who is also funny, profane and dangerous. Freshly released from prison, he’s looking to collect on what he thinks he’s owed thanks to him keeping quiet about what he knew on his last job. There’s no news on who Grant will play.
Producer Jeremy Thomas is working with Hanway Films and BBC Films to get the movie made, and Shepard is pencilling in an autumn shoot in London.
Not long ago it was revealed that Steven Soderbergh had cast Blake Lively in the lead role in his upcoming movie, The Side Effects. However it appears those who hold the purse strings didn’t think the Gossip Girl actrss had the clout to lead the movie, and while Soderbergh pushed forward, it cost him his financiers at Annapurna Pictures.
While there are a few financing problems with Steven Soderbergh’s movie The Side Effects, plans are moving ahead regardless, as 
After Steven Soderbergh’s plans to make The Man From UNCLE fell through, he quickly moved to replace it with a movie called The Side Effects. With the director hoping to start shooting in April, he’s now starting to cast the film, with Blake Lively, Jude Law, and Channing Tatum have joined the cast of The Side Effects (previously known as The Bitter Pill) for director Steven Soderbergh, according to 
It’s becoming increasingly common for studios to get working on sequels to films they think are going to be big before the previous film has actually been released. The hope is it will ensure they can shorten the amount of time between movies and that they’ll also have a bit more time to get the script right.