Andrew Haigh has another big production on the way.
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Claire Foy will tell you she’s played her fair share of historical figures on both the big and small screens. From her Emmy and SAG Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown” to Janet Armstrong in “First Man” to, more recently, Emily Richardson-Wain in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.” But the challenge of portraying the utterly complex Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, in “A Very British Scandal” another matter entirely READ MORE: “A Very British Scandal” Review: Paul Bettany and Claire Foy battle it out as a divorcing Duke and Duchess The daughter of a successful businessman, Campbell married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany) in 1951.
Andrew Haigh has another big production on the way.
Claire Foy, star of The Crown, received more than 1,000 emails in a month from an alleged stalker who wanted to be her boyfriend, a court has heard. Foy, 38, who played the young Queen in the first two series of the hit Netflix show, was allegedly targeted by Jason Penrose, 39, in November and December last year.
Andrew Haigh surprised everyone with his last project, BBC‘s “The North Water,” a grisly adaptation of a novel about the doomed crew on a whaling vessel in the Arctic. Critics loved the show, but it’s quite a departure from Haigh’s understated earlier work, like 2011’s queer festival darling “Weekend” or 2015’s “45 Years.” READ MORE: ‘The North Water’: Andrew Haigh’s Brutal Whaling Drama WIth Colin Farrell & Jack O’Connell Is Relentless, Yet Captivating [Review] But “Strangers,” Haigh’s next movie, looks more in line with those films.
A protection order against “The Crown” star Claire Foy’s alleged stalker has been extended.
Hollyoaks stars Emmett J. Scanlan and Claire Cooper have revealed that they're having another baby.The couple, who starred as Brendan Brady and Jacqui McQueen on the hit soap, already share almost-two year old son Ocean-Torin Scanlan together. Sharing a snap of their son touching his mum's bump, Claire, 41, wrote: "Our family is growing," followed by a white heart and baby face emoji.
When it premiered at the Venice Film Festival all the way back in 2020, Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou had the unlikeliest movie of the moment with his debut feature “Apples.” The film, produced long before COVID-19 upended the world, dealt with a fictional pandemic in which a mysterious illness causes amnesia. There’s droll comedy and poignant drama alike as protagonist Aris (Aris Servetalis) begins a guided program to recover what he’s lost: his memory.
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo is in talks to direct and rewrite Paramount Pictures’ Harbinger, stepping in for Wes Ball. Ball was forced to step down to focus on the next Planet of the Apes pic, which he is deep in pre-production on. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing for Original Film. Dan Mintz is producing for Valiant Entertainment. The project is in development at the studio.
Leaving their mark. Pretty Little Liars followed the lives of five best friends who receive threatening messages from a mysterious person named “A” — but it was their onscreen romances that really had fans talking.
Izabel Goulart and Kevin Trapp are recharging in her hometown!
Emilio Mayorga More than a coming of age film, “Perlimps,” the third feature of Oscar-nominated Alȇ Abreu (“The Boy and the World”), could be seen as a dazzling love letter for children.Perlimps” encourages kids’ awareness of social, ecological issues and a taste for art, while delivering a film of artistic ambition and visual complexity.The story focuses on Claé and Bruô, who are secret agents from the enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon sent to an Enchanted Forest threatened by giants. The only way they can protect the forest is to join forces and find the Perlimps, mysterious creatures who could have the solution for peace.“Perlimps” is produced by producers-directors Laís Bodansky and Luiz Bolognesi at Sao Paulo-based Buriti Filmes and Ernesto Soto.
Claire Foy has played many historical figures, but found her biggest challenge yet portraying Duchess Margaret Campbell.
For many film fans, even those who love Terry Gilliam, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” isn’t much more than a cult classic film. Even though it was meant to be a huge blockbuster, the film bombed upon its theatrical release and has been a bit forgotten over the decades since its 1988 release, as other Gilliam ventures garnered more acclaim.
Manchester United supporters are convinced that Jesse Lingard is heading to Italy next season after the departing academy graduate posted a cryptic social media message. Lingard uploaded three pictures standing alongside Paul Pogba after bumping into his teammate on holiday.
Sarah Polley is looking back at a formative experience from her childhood in an excerpt from her new collection of essays, Run Towards the Danger.
EXCLUSIVE:Claire Foy, who won two Emmy awards when she ascended to The Crown as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II,is having none of it,sympathy that is, for Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, a society beauty,whom she portrays,to the manner born,in the BBC1/Amazon Prime mini-series A Very British Scandal which replayed the socialite’s scandalous 1963 divorce case from her husband Ian Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll, played as a rum sort of aristocrat by Paul Bettany.