“Small Axe,” a series of dramas exploring the experiences of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, received 15 nominations on Wednesday for the British Academy Television Awards.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFocus Features has landed rights to “Silent Twins,” a thriller starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance.Based on the book by Marjorie Wallace, the film marks the English language debut of director Agnieszka Smoczynska (“The Lure”). Andrea Seigel wrote the screenplay.Set in the 1970s and ’80s, the story follows June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales.
“Small Axe,” a series of dramas exploring the experiences of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, received 15 nominations on Wednesday for the British Academy Television Awards.
BAFTA Film awards, but, this morning, the BAFTA TV Awards have been revealed. And wow, this year really has been incredible for British television, as the nominations show.
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan were spotted heading out for a dinner date together in Cheshire on Sunday evening.The couple, who are planning on building a granny flat next to their Essex mansion, enjoyed a dinner at Piccolino restaurant before heading home. Michelle, 33, wore a figure-hugging green top which she paired with some flared denim jeans.
Focus Features will release Oscar winner Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain in U.S. and Canada on Friday, July 16.
Showbiz’s golden couple Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan are currently in the process of building a neo-classical mega-mansion in Essex. And now it has been revealed that they also plan to build a granny flat alongside the five-bedroom property.The pair, who recently demolished the £1.3 million farmhouse that stood in its place, have applied to Epping Forest District Council to plan a “one-bedroom annexe” and explained that they wish to demolish the stable building that is currently there.
Michelle Keegan has been snapped looking gorgeous as she spent some quality time with her husband Mark Wright in Cheshire on Tuesday 20 April. Former Coronation Street actress Michelle, 33, looked effortlessly stunning in a casual outfit, proving you can knock anyone’s socks off in jeans and a nice top.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterStay Gold Features, a production company whose credits include “Honey Boy,” “Harriet,” “Patti Cake$” and the recent Sundance hit “Together Together,” has enlisted new leaders to its executive ranks.Charlie Alderman, who recently worked at Focus Features, has been hired as head of content, while Becca Camarata has been promoted to head of production.At Focus, Alderman served as director of production and development and was responsible for overseeing films
A protest against the death of Minnesota man Daunte Wright in a confrontation with police spilled into Hollywood Thursday night, as several hundred people marched and held a vigil at Sunset and Vine.
Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert have zero sympathies for police officer Kimberly Potter’s reasoning in the death of Daunte Wright, a Black man, in Minnesota.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaTodd Field may finally, at long last, be sliding back behind the camera after many projects have fallen by the wayside.The “In the Bedroom” director will team with Oscar winner Cate Blanchett on “TAR,” which Field also wrote. Focus Features will release the film.
You know those features the Playlist has done in the past, The Lost, Forgotten, Unmade projects of Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, etc., etc., looking at big-name feature filmmakers and the various projects they tried to get off the ground that never happened? Well, even though he’s only ever made two films, “In The Bedroom” and “Little Children,” a similar feature for director Todd Field could easily be made.
EXCLUSIVE: Cate Blanchett and In The Bedroom director Todd Field have teamed up for the filmmaker’s next picture. She’ll star in TAR, a drama that Field wrote and will direct for Universal Pictures-based Focus Features. They are keeping the plot under wraps, but it is set in Berlin, and production will begin in September.
Focus Features has picked up Silent Twins, starring Black Panther break-out Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. The feature is the English language debut of Agnieszka Smoczynska and is based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales, as the only Black family in a small town.
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Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to feature Silent Twins, which marks the English language debut of director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure).
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