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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorIn British director Eddie Sternberg’s feature debut “I Used to Be Famous” – produced by Collie McCarthy at Forty Foot Pictures for Netflix – two sides of the music world clash with each other. Netflix released the trailer for the film Monday (below), and Variety has been given the first-look images, exclusively. The film is one of the first to come out of Netflix’s U.K.
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theaters from Sept. 9, and on Netflix from Sept. 16.Sternberg set out to create a film with “a British heart,” he says.
“It is made in the vein of ‘The Full Monty,’ ‘Billy Elliot’ and ‘East Is East’ … that sort of heartfelt British film with a bit of grit, with earned heart that doesn’t become cheesy. It’s heartfelt rather than cheesy.” It is set in Peckham, a working-class, culturally diverse neighborhood in South-East London. The screenplay is co-written by Sternberg and Zak Klein.
There are two principal characters in the film: Vince, a washed-up former lead singer for a boy band, played by Ed Skrein, and Stevie, an autistic teenager who is a gifted drummer, played by neurodiverse musician Leo Long. Vince represents the corrupt, soulless commercial music scene, while Stevie represents the purer world of the amateur enthusiast, who loves music for itself.The film is based on Sternberg’s short of the same name, which came out of his fascination with former boy band and girl band members. These former pop stars “had so much success at such a young age, and an excess of sex, drugs, rock and roll, then they get chewed up and spat out, and then they’re having to deal with that void,” he says.
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Lee Collinson has been one of the fan-favourite acts on this season of “America’s Got Talent”, and he continued on his journey on Tuesday night as the semifinal performances continue.
EXCLUSIVE: Timewasters creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor has boarded Netflix Greek mythology reimagining Kaos.
Manori Ravindran International Editor Britain’s leading lady of the TV action thriller, Keeley Hawes, is back. The star of “Bodyguard” returns in “Crossfire,” another nail-biting thriller for the BBC in which Hawes plays a holidaymaker whose sunbathing session on her hotel balcony becomes a nightmare when shots ring out across the complex, turning her world upside down. The scenario will remind audiences of her turn as the U.K. home secretary alongside Richard Madden’s bodyguard in the eponymous BBC drama, which became a global hit when it was picked up by Netflix. The setting for “Crossfire,” however, is a far cry from London’s Westminster, instead set at a luxury resort in the Canary Islands.
EastEnders is set to air a special flashback episode in September, which will see the history of the iconic Mitchell family unearthed for the first time. The one-off episode will transport viewers back to the winter of 1979 as the Mitchells attempt to navigate through economic turmoil in Britain.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Kaos has its Medusa.
LF SYSTEM are currently on track to score an eighth consecutive week at Number 1 with summer anthem Afraid To Feel – but they’ve got some tough competition.
First Dates star Fred Sirieix headed for a curry in Hale as he partied with the stars of his new BBC show on a break from filming here in Manchester. Fred has just announced he is to host the new BBC2 show Master of Ceremonies alongside Dragon's Den star Sara Davies and Manchester events boss Raj Somaiya.
Emily Blunt will soon be seen in “The English”, a new series for Prime Video set in the Old West.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first stills from the thriller You Can’t Run Forever, starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), which has just wrapped principal photography.
The Western genre waned in popularity in the 1980s, but 21st-century cinema still has the occasional film that harks to its heyday. Most of these are genre hybrids, like Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” or S.
Here’s a first look at Emily Blunt in Hugo Blick’s BBC and Prime Video drama The English.
K.J. Yossman The BBC and Amazon Prime Video have released first-look images of Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer in upcoming period drama “The English.”Written and directed by Hugo Blick (“The Honourable Woman”), “The English” is a Western set in 1890s America where an aristocratic Englishwoman called Lady Cornelia Locke (played by Blunt) and Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp (played by Spencer) join forces “to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood,” according to the logline.
Vogue Williams has been photographed looking stunning at Channel 4's Married At First Sight UK season 7 launch.The model and presenter, 36, hosted the event which was attended by many of the show's stars. Vogue looked chic as she sported a mini yellow and green dress. She also wore her slick straight hair down and dressed her ears with hooped gold earrings.Taking to her Instagram to express her excitement about hosting, Vogue wrote: "Vvvvvvvv excited to be hosting this event! I've seen the first episode and it is BRILLIANT!" She then shared a post of the series that showcased the cast members.
Post-production House Warner Bros. De Lane Lea Announce Move To New Soho Site Post-production house Warner Bros. De Lane Lea today announced it will be moving across Soho from its current home on Dean Street to Ilona Rose House, a new site developed by Soho Estates’ on Greek Street. Located over three floors of the building and spanning over 32,000 sq. ft, Ilona Rose House will house the UK’s largest mixing stage. The site will also feature a 4K DCI laser projection with Dolby Atmos and IMAX monitoring, 45 networked and acoustically treated cutting rooms with a programmable advanced lighting system, and three further mixing stages with 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos and laser projection. In a statement, Kim Waugh, EVP Worldwide Post Production Creative Services, Warner Bros. said the new facility will help “bring another level of service to the post-production world in London.” Warner Bros. De Lane Lea, which has post-production credits on films such as Gravity (2013), and the Harry Potter film series (2001-2011), will officially open the doors to Ilona Rose House in September.
Ed Skrein showcases his musical side in the upcoming Netflix film “I Used to be Famous”, and viewers now have a first look at the trailer.
K.J. Yossman Amazon Prime Video have given fans a first look at their upcoming U.K.