EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega has been set to star in sci-fi romance The Freshening from director Cathy Yan (Birds Of Prey), we can reveal.
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Following the success of the hit Apple series Slow Horses, director James Hawes has found his next major studio project as he has has boarded the 20th Century thriller Amateur starring Oscar-winner Rami Malek. While the project is still in development, Hawes attachment is a good sign this project is headed in the right direction. Gary Spinelli penned the most recent draft.
The story follows a CIA cryptographer, who after his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them. When it becomes clear they won’t act due to conflicting internal priorities, he blackmails the agency into training him and letting him go after them himself.
While no start date has been set as the project is still in development, Malek has been eyeing several projects as his potential next film with this being a strong contender to be that pic now that a director is attached. He recently wrapped production on the highly-anticipated Christopher Nolan thriller Oppenheimer, which bows this July. He was also recently set to produce and star in the Buster Keaton limited series for Warner Bros. TV. He is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
While he is only one of a handful of directors to helm multiple Black Mirror episodes, Hawes has become a much in demand directors in town as of late following the critical success of the Apple series Slow Horses. Hawes directed all six episodes of the first season and transitioned right into the drama One Life starring Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins. Amateur completes the arc for Hawes and now puts him on the map as a rising star in the director circles. He is repped by CAA and 42.
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EXCLUSIVE: John Boyega has been set to star in sci-fi romance The Freshening from director Cathy Yan (Birds Of Prey), we can reveal.
Julia MacCary editor “Women Talking” writer-director Sarah Polley and novelist Miriam Toews won in the film category, while “Slow Horses” screenwriter Will Smith and novelist Mick Herron won the episodic TV category at the 35th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards on Saturday. The awards honored the year’s greatest written word adaptations to cinema and episodic series in the first in-person ceremony since 2020. “There’s not another person, another writer, another filmmaker, that I would entrust my book to other than Sarah Polley,” Toews said of Polley who brought “Women Talking” to film, which has been nominated for best picture and adapted screenplay at the Oscars. “Women Talking” illustrates an isolated religious colony where the women uncover a secret about the colony’s men, exposing their abuse.
on Monday, following Seth Rogen's announcement of the star-studded voice cast at the Kids' Choice Awards over the weekend. Rogen is a producer on the film, set to hit theaters Aug. 3, and also voices mutant warthog Bebop, alongside a young cast of talent as the turtles: Micah Abbey (Donatello), Shamon Brown Jr.
Sarah Polley and Miriam Toewswon the USC Libraries’ Scripter Award on Saturday for their adaptation of Orion/MGM’s Women Talking, based on Toews’ novel.
Comedy is what we need right now, says Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George), who ran London’s National Theatre for a decade.
author Cash Carraway, is set in England and follows struggling and impoverished single mother Costello Jones (Cooper), her daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian) and Costello’s best friend Selby (Jack Farthing, “Poldark”) — a wealthy gay man who is Costello’s pseudo “soul mate” and Iris’ father-figure. “It’s an unconventional love story, really,” Cooper, 36, told The Post. “[Costello and Selby] are from opposite ends of the spectrum. He’s very affluent, she’s poor, and they’ve both been neglected in different ways and haven’t got the skills to have a normal healthy relationship, so it gets toxic.
pic.twitter.com/MRVfXhaz8TShorter released several solo albums, efforts that allowed him to fuse jazz with other music like Latin, Rock ‘n’ Roll, funk and R&B. It was these explorations that led to the creation of perhaps his most well-known group, Weather Report.Weather Report’s album Heavy Weather went platinum in 1977, making a rare appearance (for a jazz record) on U.S.
Back in November, Cailee Spaeny became the first name attached to Fede Alvarez‘s upcoming “Alien” movie.
EXCLUSIVE: After playing Juliet in 20th Century’s Romeo & Juliet spin-off Rosaline, Isabela Merced and 20th Century are teaming up again on one of the studios iconic IPs. Sources tell Deadline, Merced is set to co-star opposite Cailee Spaeny in 20th Century’s new Alien movie.
EXCLUSIVE: Ohio-based indie studio Good Deed Entertainment is teaming up with genre filmmaking team Dana Kippel and Ryan Jack Connell on their upcoming psychological thriller The Pink House.
Andrew Tate might be the most outlandish of them all. Not only are they claiming to be the controversial influencer, but they're also saying they've escaped from custody and they’re offering their own version of Tate’s “Hustlers’s University”. Of course, the real Tate is currently being held in the country on suspicion of human trafficking and organised crime in Romania.
As the animation team came together to adapt Charlie Mackesy’s 2019 book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, the challenge for art director Mick McCain was to recreate Mackesy’s artistic style in motion. The animated short follows a boy searching for a home. Along the way, he meets three animals who are also looking for a place to belong and begin to develop a bond. While McCain hadn’t had much experience with ink lines and watercolors at the start of the project, he had Mackesy helping to guide the animation to capture his “fluid and gestural” style. By the end of the project, McCain and the animators created hundreds of backgrounds for the animation.
The city of love! Brad Pitt was a no-show at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards after spending time in Paris with girlfriend Ines de Ramon over the weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan Lim’s recently launched production and financing entity City Hill Arts has unveiled the first still from The Penguin & The Fisherman — one of its first feature projects, starring 3x César Award nominee Jean Reno (Léon: The Professional), which has now wrapped production.
EXCLUSIVE: JoJo Siwa has signed on to star opposite Jade Pettyjohn (Little Fires Everywhere) in the horror-thriller All My Friends Are Dead from Saw 3D writer Marcus Dunstan.
Prince Andrew has been "keeping an eye" on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's life in the US as he considers his next career, it has emerged.The prince was stripped of his royal titles and roles in January last year and has since thought about what he wants his next career move to be. Alongside this, a source close to Andrew told The Sun that he has been following the Sussexes' journey "very, very closely" since they moved to America.
seen material from the influencer Andrew Tate than have heard of Rishi Sunak, according to a new poll. Research found that eight in 10 boys aged between 16 and 17 had either read, listened to or watched content from the misogynistic “success coach”. Around six in 10 boys had heard of the PM and roughly four in 10 knew who London mayor Sadiq Khan was, just slightly more than around a third of boys who had heard of the Labour leader Keir Starmer.
Rami Malek will star in the 20th Century Studios thriller “Amateur.” The picture, sources affirm, is in development. Set to be directed by James Hawes, “Amateur” concerns a CIA cryptographer who loses his wife in a London terrorist attack.
Rihanna have confirmed that she is pregnant again following her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance tonight (February 12).The star made her live return with her first performance in five years at the American football event, which is taking place in Glendale, Arizona.As Rihanna began the performance with ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’, she appeared to rub her stomach through her all-red outfit. Representatives for her have confirmed to Variety that the singer is expecting her second child.Fans took to social media immediately to react to the potential news.
Rihanna hasn’t toured since 2016, but tonight during the Jay Z-produced spectacle that is the Super Bowl LVII halftime show the Good Girl Gone Bad singer put on a tour de force.