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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the London Olympics, BBC 4’s “Reunion” spoke with several members of the production team behind the opening ceremony, which featured a video package commemorating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series. In it, Craig, playing Bond, escorts the queen to a helicopter to perform a base jump over London Stadium.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing A24 and Scott Rudin Productions’ adaptation of 2020 Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain, Deadline can reveal.

Virginia Woolf in The Hours - and now it has emerged that her own depression helped her play the part authentically. In an interview the actress said she felt "removed, depressed, not in my own body" when filming the 2002 drama in which she plays the feminist novelist.

Naman Ramachandran Producer and European Film Academy Chair Mike Downey is being honored with the Kristián Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest.The award will be presented at the opening of the festival on Friday by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning British filmmaker Stephen Daldry.

In Stephen Daldry’s latest, the “Billy Elliot” director tackles life in quarantine and the rhythms of lockdown during COVID-19 with “Together.” The film is immediately bolstered by clever and enlightening dialogue and committed and passionate performances from Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy. The two play a couple who have been together for over a decade but have only remained in a quasi-relationship for the sake of their son.

, the lockdown drama from Bleeker Street, opens on 250 screens this weekend in a specialty market treading water and with little visibility on box office amid daily Covid headlines.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn’t know one another before this year.

One of the more fully formed portraits of life during lockdown, Stephen Daldry and Dennis Kelly’s rapid-fire, fourth-wall-breaking, two-hander “Together” trades the overt sentimentalism of Daldry’s previous film work—“The Reader,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” etc.—for a darkly comedic study in the ups and downs of a single couple as they contend with the fracturing of their relationship amidst the pandemic.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are living through the ups and downs of the pandemic in Stephen Daldry’s “Together”.

The pandemic has produced a number of films over the past year-and-a-half. Most of them include small casts, limited locations, and reduced budgets.

Bleecker Street has acquired the North American rights to Stephen Daldry’s latest film “Together,” a dramedy filmed during the pandemic that stars James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe”). McAvoy and Horgan play a couple pushed to reflect on both themselves and their relationship amid the abundance of time and stress that the COVID-19 lockdown has presented them.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Together,” a new comedy from “Billy Elliot” director Stephen Daldry, will be distributed by Bleecker Street after the indie studio secured North American rights to the film. “Together” stars James McAvoy (“Wanted”) and Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe”).

Bleecker Street has taken North American rights to Stephen Daldry’s new comedy, Together, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan which follows two partners who are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship during lockdown. A theatrical release of Aug. 27 has been set with VOD to follow in September.

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Gallery: These co-stars couldn’t stand each other! (Espresso) "Dennis writes so wittily for these characters and his script had me within the first few pages," he said. "When I heard Sharon was involved with Stephen Daldry directing it was a no brainer.

Over the past year, we’ve seen quite a few attempts from studios to create timely films about the COVID pandemic.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are to star in a lockdown relationship drama for the BBC, which will be helmed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning director Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot).

Manori Ravindran International EditorJames McAvoy (“Split,” “His Dark Materials”) and Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe,” “Military Wives”) are set to front “Utopia” writer Dennis Kelly’s drama “Together.”Directed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning director Stephen Daldry (“The Crown”), the film is set in the U.K. from the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 until the present day.

It has been more than 12 years since Tom Holland made his West End theatre debut as Billy Elliot in the musical adaptation of Stephen Daldry’s modern classic film; a half lifetime for the 24-year-old actor who has spent the time since forging a career as a major star.

Jon M. Chu, who rose to fame after directing Crazy Rich Asians, will be directing the Wicked movie after the film’s previous director, Stephen Daldry, exited the movie a few months ago.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Daldry is in early discussions to come on to A24 and Scott Rudin Productions adaptation of Shuggie Bain, which is currently being developed for television. It is unclear in what capacity Daldry will be involved but similar to his work on Netflix’s The Crown, could be a director on the show.

The long-gestating film adaptation of the Broadway hit “Wicked” has hit another snag. Director Stephen Daldry is exiting the project, a studio representative confirmed Tuesday.The industry trade website Deadline first reported the news.The “Billy Elliot” director has been associated with the adaptation for years, going back as far as 2012.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterUniversal’s long-awaited adaptation of “Wicked” has hit another roadblock. Director Stephen Daldry has departed the movie due to scheduling conflicts.The “Wicked” movie, based on the hit Broadway musical, has been in development for over a decade and was recently taken off Universal’s release schedule amid the pandemic.

The Wicked movie has just lost its director.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Stephen Daldry has exited as the director of Wicked, Universal’s long awaited screen adaptation of the smash hit stage musical. Sources tell Deadline that the studio wants this movie mounted more quickly than Daldry was comfortable moving.

LOS ANGELES -- “Wicked” fans are going to have to wait even longer to see Stephen Daldry's film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. Universal Pictures on Wednesday announced that another handful of theatrical release dates are shifting due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has bumped “Wicked” off the calendar entirely for the moment.