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Benedict Cumberbatch & Claire Foy To Lead Channel 4’s ‘Mog’s Christmas’ Adaptation

Will Sharpe is stepping behind the camera once again!

told People, which the news as an exclusive on Monday. “Some of the descriptions of being jet-lagged in your family’s kitchen felt very familiar to me.”While Sharpe may be best known in the public eye for his breakout work on HBO and Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” “Crying in H Mart” hardly marks the multihyphenates behind-the-camera debut.

Quadruple BAFTA-winning Stath Lets Flats creator Jamie Demetriou has struck a multi-year partnership with BBC Studios to co-develop and co-produce projects.

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Baryshnikov (Dickinson) will join Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart in A24’s romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding from double BAFTA Award-nominated director Rose Glass (Saint Maud).

Claire Foy will tell you she’s played her fair share of historical figures on both the big and small screens. From her Emmy and SAG Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown” to Janet Armstrong in “First Man” to, more recently, Emily Richardson-Wain in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.” But the challenge of portraying the utterly complex Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll, in “A Very British Scandal” another matter entirely READ MORE: “A Very British Scandal” Review: Paul Bettany and Claire Foy battle it out as a divorcing Duke and Duchess The daughter of a successful businessman, Campbell married Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany) in 1951.

Mark Strong (Cruella, 1917), Mélanie Laurent (6 Underground, Inglorious Basterds), Jodie Turner-Smith (After Yang, Queen & Slim), Kuhoo Verma (Plan B, The Big Sick), Enrique Arce (Money Heist, Terminator: Dark Fate), Tony Goldwyn (The Hot Zone: Anthrax, King Richard), Annie Mumolo (Queenpins, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) and Zurin Villanueva (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Detroit) have joined the cast of Murder Mystery 2, with Adeel Akhtar (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Sweet Tooth) and John Kani (The Lion King, Black Panther) set to reprise their respective roles as The Maharajah and Colonel Ulenga.

EXCLUSIVE: Benedict Cumberbatch has been named the honoree of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Cinema Vanguard Award, which will be presented March 9 following an in-person conversation I will moderate about his career. That résumé includes Oscar-nominated turns in movies like The Imitation Game and Emmy-winning work in the iconic Sherlock Holmes series. It also includes a banner 2021 not only with his critically acclaimed SAG- and Critics Choice-nominated Oscar-buzzed performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, but also praised work in The Courier, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, as well as reprising Dr. Peter Strange in the uber-blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home. 

EXCLUSIVE: Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade are the latest additions to join the all-star cast of Netflix’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar with Wes Anderson writing and directing. Friend and Ayoade join previously announced Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley.

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Firth (Operation Mincemeat, Mothering Sunday), Toby Jones (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, First Cow) Crystal Clarke (Sanditon, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain) and Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches) have signed on to star alongside Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Empire of Light, the drama from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, which marks his follow-up to 2020 Best Picture nominee 1917.

a new movie, “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, in select theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime Video Friday, tells his story.“He made the cat his own,” the science-fiction writer H.G. Wells once said.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAmazon Prime Video is getting back into the in-person awards FYC activation game, launching a new pop-up at the Bank of America Winter Village in New York’s Bryant Park starting today.

Nick Cave has shared details of his role as H.G.

Claire Foy steps out for a screening of her new movie, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, held at Regent Street Cinema over the weekend in London, England.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain has been unveiled, briefly featuring Nick Cave in his role as science fiction author H.G.

Even before the internet, people couldn’t get enough of cat pictures.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is coming!

If you’re a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch’s more prestigious film work, this fall has you covered with “The Power of the Dog” and “The Electric Life of Louis Wain.” However, if you’re someone that prefers seeing Cumberbatch wear a huge cape and cast spells in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s a lot to be excited about as 2021 comes to an end.

TELLURIDE – If you’re a cat lover, as I admittedly am, it almost goes without saying that a feline-themed film should pique your interest. And when it comes to a prestige biopic about influential artist Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, and Toby Jones? Well, in theory, those elements should combine into a delectable portion of cinephile catnip.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and a cast of cats make an irresistible combination in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Director Will Sharpe (Flowers) makes witty, poignant work of the story of English painter Wain, who specialized in exaggerated cartoons of wide-eyed felines from the late 1800s.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStudiocanal and Amazon Studios have unveiled the first clip and still of “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” Will Sharpe’s anticipated film about the eccentric British artist played by Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game), ahead of the movie’s world premiere at Telluride.

Nick Cave, Taika Waititi and Olivia Colman are among the star names set to make an appearance in new biopic The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain.The film, which follows the story of eccentric artist Louis Wain, features Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role, as well as Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Sophia Di Martino, Asim Chaudhry, Hayley Squires, Julian Barratt and more.Colman, who previously worked with the film’s director Will Sharpe on Channel 4 comedy drama Flowers, is on hand

Cumberbatch is set to appear on the big screen at this year’s TIFF in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” and Will Sharpe’s “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” which will respectively be released by Netflix and Amazon Studios. Both films will be making their Canadian premieres at the Toronto festival.

The Imitation Game Oscar nominee will be receiving this year’s TIFF Tribute Actor Award at the fest’s 46th edition. Benedict Cumberbatch has two movies at this year’s TIFF: Netflix’s The Power of the Dog, directed by Jane Campion, and Amazon Studios’ The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, directed by Will Sharpe — both of which will have their Canadian premieres at the fest.