Director Roger Michell on Venice Comedy ‘The Duke’: ‘It’s About a Little Man Speaking Truth to Power’

Fans of British dramas can look forward to the anticipated Netflix series “Anatomy of a Scandal.” Set to shoot this year in London, the new series already boasts a strong cast, according to Deadline. Leads include Michelle Dockery, best known for her work in “Downton Abbey,” Sienna Miller (“The Loudest Voice,” “American Sniper“), and Rupert Friend (“Strange Angel,” “The Death of Stalin“).

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine star is set to star in a - and it sounds amazing! Based on the bestselling novel Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan, the series is about "sexual consent and privilege set in London".Michelle will play Kate, a criminal barrister who specialises in sexual crimes, while Sienna Miller will play Sophie Whitehouse as an Oxford graduate, a wife and a mother of two whose perfectly charmed life is about to implode".Meanwhile, Rupert Friend will play a junior

Michelle Dockery and Sienna Miller have been cast in Netflix’s new series, Anatomy Of A Scandal.

Naman Ramachandran Pathé has sold Roger Michell’s Venice title “The Duke,” starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent to Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia.Written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama follows a 60-year-old taxi driver who, in 1961, stole Francisco Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first, and remains the only, theft in the Gallery’s history.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorSony Classics has taken Venice Film Festival movie The Duke for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia. Directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in the story of a 60 year-old taxi driver who steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Launch dates for broadcast,

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The three children of a poor Portuguese couple (Lucia Moniz and Ruben Garcia) living in London are forcibly removed from their home by social services, raising questions about responsible parenting and duty of care in director Ana Rocha de Sousa's emotive feature debut Listen. Although the script by Rocha de Sousa, Paula Vaccaro and Aaron Brookner tries to be at least a little bit balanced, the rules-obsessed authorities don’t come out of it well.

A director whose film is premiering at the Venice Film Festival has said the decision to wear see-through masks on the red carpet in support of deaf and hard of hearing communities is an “inclusive message”.

here"Shot something really exciting today, can’t wait for you guys to see!" she wrote.Michelle, who played Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street and army medic Georgie Lane in the BBC One drama Our Girl, has unveiled a new blonder hair colour as she reunited with Manchester and London-based makeup artist Emily Clarkson after spending two weeks in isolation after returning home from holiday with her husband Mark Wright and friends.The party lived it up in Marbella, Mallorca and Ibiza.But due to the

You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell‘s “The Duke,” a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunks a gamely accented prestige cast into an appealingly milky true story like so many digestives into a warm, well-earned, early evening cuppa.

John Boyega was not in his 2015 breakout role as Finn in Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens—a character that arguably thrust the Peckham-born actor into stardom. It was on June 3, 2020, when Boyega appeared at a Hyde Park rally in London, during the crest of the Black Lives Matter protests.

Little Simz, Dave and Calvin Harris were among the winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.The prestigious songwriting and composing ceremony was due to take place today (September 2) at Grosvenor House Hotel in London, having been postponed from May due to the coronavirus crisis.The Ivors 2020 were then cancelled in June, and the winners were instead announced by Matt Wilkinson on his Apple Music radio show.Dave won the Best Contemporary Song award for ‘Black’ along with co-writer/producer