International Insider: Cannes Keeping Confident; BBC’s Radical Reorg; Piers-steria Continues; Oscars

EXCLUSIVE: Cristiana Dell’Anna, star of the HBO Max crime series Gomorrah, has landed the lead role of U.S. Catholic nun Frances Xavier Cabrini in Alejandro Monteverde’s true story feature retelling Cabrini. Production starts June 28 in Buffalo, NY and NYC.

The Cannes Lions festival of creativity said on Wednesday that its 2021 edition would go virtual after the 2020 edition was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year's event in the south of France, set to take place June 21-June 25, will "run as a fully digital experience," organizers said.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSamantha Morton has been cast in the lead role of the Starz drama series “The Serpent Queen.”Morton will star as Catherine de Medici. Based on the book “Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France” by Leonie Frieda, the eight-episode series is described as an account of one of the most influential women ever to wear a crown.

HBO Max Boards ‘Lucy The Human Chimp’ HBO Max has boarded Keo Films’ Channel 4 feature documentary Lucy The Human Chimp, which recounts the story of a chimpanzee raised as a human and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the task of helping to give her freedom by living with her in the wild. Directed by Alex Parkinson, the film premieres this spring and uses previously unseen archive film and photographs, as well as dramatic reconstruction.

Paramount+ has just unveiled the first teaser for season two of Star Trek: Picard and hinting just which of Picard’s nemeses is coming back.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Death in Paradise. At the end of last year, actress Kathryn Drysdale featured in hit period drama Bridgerton on Netflix.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Death in Paradise. At the end of last year, actress Kathryn Drysdale featured in hit period drama Bridgerton on Netflix.

Tahar Rahim is one of Hollywood’s biggest breakout stars of 2021. After first appearing in streaming shows like and, the 39-year-old French Algerian actor first has emerged as a leading man with opposite Jodie Foster and the true-crime drama, .In the latter, which is now streaming on Netflix, Rahim portrays the 1970s “Bikini Killer” and fraudster, Charles Sobhraj, who was responsible for murdering over a dozen of Western tourists along the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia.

Gallery: 10 things you should know about Kurt Russell (BANG Showbiz)He said: "My work ethic and my nature come from my mom and dad. "We’re working-class people and even at times when I got paid enormous amounts of money, that didn’t change the way I worked: I got up early, I made sure I had my tools, and I worked.

Searchlight Pictures is in final talks with Kelvin Harrison Jr. to come on board for the title role in Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Searchlight landed the original feature pitch from Stefani Robinson last summer with Watchmen director, Stephen Williams, on board to direct.

LONDON -- Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both long-favored contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees for the International Booker Prize for fiction.Can Xue’s “I Live in the Slums” and Ngugi’s “The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi” are among 13 books on the long list for the 50,000 pound ($69,000) prize.The list announced Tuesday features works from four continents, including “The War of the Poor” by France’s Eric Vuillard, “In Memory

the future of Piers after he stormed off GMB over remarks related to Meghan Markle earlier this month. Since then, the star was claimed to be at the centre of a £10million bidding war between Rupert Murdoch's media empire and GB News.

Cannes’ film market, the Marché du Film, has confirmed the dates for its four-day online-only event this May. The virtual "Pre-Cannes Screenings" will take place from Tuesday, May 25 through Friday, May 28 and be hosted on the market's marchedufilm.com platform.

He is the charming French maître-d of Channel 4’s hit show First Dates. And Fred Sirieix has given a glimpse inside his gorgeous London townhouse that he shares with his fiancée - affectionately referred to as “Fruitcake”.The 49-year-old moved to Peckham 20 years ago from his native home of Limoges, west France, and said he bought a house in the south London area “because it was cheap”.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Edinburgh TV Festival has appointed fashion designer Tan France as international editor of its advisory board, while Screen Scotland will be a joint headline sponsor for the event alongside YouTube.France is known as one of the Fab Five in Netflix’s Emmy-winning makeover hit, “Queer Eye.” The NY Times best-selling author and influential tastemaker also fronted Netflix’s global fashion design competition series “Next in Fashion,” and also hosts popular celebrity

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Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan, all of which have serious form when it comes to red carpet dressing, even in the age of virtual ceremonies (see this year's Golden Globes). Side note: McDormand's 2019 Oscars Birkenstock moment - she wore yellow slides with Valentino couture - is very on brand for 2021.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorUniversal Pictures Content Group has acquired international rights, excluding France, to “Mr. Malcolm’s List.” U.S.