Jude Law recounts close call filming on The Third Day’s ‘perilous’ location

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSid Gentle Films, the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning producers behind “Killing Eve” and “The Durrells,” headed by Sally Woodward Gentle (pictured below), has acquired the rights to develop Cash Carraway’s “Skint Estate” for TV, and has lined up a lead writer for previously announced “Taking Up Space.” Both projects are in formal development with British broadcasters.“Skint Estate” is a darkly funny, searingly political, debut memoir from Carraway,

Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall has candidly revealed she once received therapy to help conquer her nerves with performing.The 27 year old Black Magic singer, who recently recalled the horrific racial abuse she received, opened up about her struggles with nerves during Little Mix: The Search. Earlier in the show, Jade joined her bandmates Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards to help find the UK’s next biggest band on Saturday 3 October.

“A Call to Spy,” which tracks the true-life story of how British spies navigated France during World War II, may be set 80 years ago, but its themes of racism, sexism and misogyny feel undeniably, infuriatingly urgent. READ MORE: ‘A Call To Spy’ Trailer: New WWII Film Focuses On Churchill’s Female-Led Spy Agency Director Lydia Dean Pilcher keeps the action moving apace even when the familiar, often formulaic narrative threatens to fold.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorLondon’s Twickenham Studios has appointed Warner Bros De Lane Lea Director Cara Sheppard as MD.Sheppard will be tasked with guiding all aspects of production, post-production and emerging technology and developing the studio’s ties with UK, Hollywood and international clients.Sheppard spent four years at post house De Lane Lea, where she oversaw a fully serviced production Digital Dailies offering and new facility and the studio’s dark fibre capability.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe BFI and IWC Schaffhausen today revealed the three filmmakers shortlisted for the annual IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, given in association with the UK film organization.The 2020 contenders are Cathy Brady, writer-director of debut feature Wildfire, Aleem Khan, writer-director of debut feature After Love, and Francis Lee, writer-director of sophomore feature Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.At £50,000 ($65k), and now in its

Asian Dub Foundation have released a new track that uses part of a stand-up routine by UK comedian Stewart Lee.The political Hackney group’s latest track, ‘Comin’ Over Here’, samples the comic’s sarcastic takedown of Ukip’s anti-immigration stance, as performed on his BBC show Comedy Vehicle in 2014.It also includes lines from the Anglo-Saxon poem ‘The Wanderer’, which Lee learned while a student in Oxford.The track is taken from Asian Dub Foundation’s new album, ‘Access Denied’, which was

Boris Johnson has suffered a humiliating setback after failing to stop his chief Scottish law officer quitting over the UK government’s plan to breach international law.