direct to your inbox A further three countries have now been removed the UK travel corridor list due to a surge in coronavirus cases in these destinations.
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EXCLUSIVE: Campbell Grobman Films, executive producers on action pics Rambo 5, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and the Angel Has Fallen, is teaming up with comic book writer Everette Hartsoe and E! Entertainment co-founder and producer Alan Mruvka to produce a feature film based on new Hartsoe character Bayonet.
The Bayonet story will follow Emma Harlow, a biracial British SAS officer stationed in Afghanistan. After Harlow is thought to be killed in combat, she wakes up in an underground lab with no
direct to your inbox A further three countries have now been removed the UK travel corridor list due to a surge in coronavirus cases in these destinations.
direct to your inboxCold War espionage author David Cornwell, known by his pen name John le Carre, has died aged 89 after a battle with pneumonia.Among his 25 novels were acclaimed best-sellers including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and The Night Manager.Cornwell drew on his experience working for the British intelligence services including MI6 during the Cold War in his writing, but later in life said he was irked at the extent to which his fiction was portrayed
YouTube’s Creator Spotlights series is coming to America, with vloggers Deestroying, Shalom Blac, Kristopher London, and Mr. Kate set to take part.
direct to your inboxThe Canary Islands have been removed from the travel corridor list in the latest update to the scheme. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday that travellers arriving in the UK from the popular Spanish islands from 4am on Saturday must self-isolate.
Glasgow Film Fest Opener & Closer The 2021 Glasgow Film Festival is partnering with 22 cinemas across the UK to reach audiences that are not unable to travel to the event due to the country’s tiered lockdown system. The fest will open on February 24 with the UK premiere of Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari and will close on March 7 with the UK premiere of Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom. Each of the 22 partner cinemas will show both the opening and closing titles.
Sam Fender has launched a petition calling on all UK councils to drop phone charges for helplines for the most vulnerable members of society.It comes after the Newcastle musician learned recently that four of the seven councils that serve his local community impose 40p per minute call charges.Taking to Twitter, he said: “To me this makes absolutely no sense, it’s completely scandalous.
Helena Bonham Carter is weighing on the controversy surrounding The Crown.
Matthew Vaughn's MARV studio —behind the Kingsman franchise and last year's Elton John biopic Rocketman —is making its first venture into TV with an ambitious new project set in the world of English soccer. Titled Day 1's, the show has been co-created by Doug Ellin, best known as the Emmy and BAFTA winner and six-time Golden Globe nominee behind Entourage, and Chris Case, who produced Mad About You and Spin City, with both acting as showrunners on the 10-episode series.
Will Thorne Staff WriterThe temperature in the tent reached fever pitch this season, and it wasn’t just chocolate mirror glazes that melted in the heat.Every season of “Great British Baking Show” (or “The Great British Bake Off” to folks across the pond) has included controversial eliminations, baking disasters and emotional highs, but season 11 was a tiered cake of controversy with cultural insensitivity and severe online trolling as its top two layers, and the pandemic as its genoise base.At
Helena Bonham Carter is keen for The Crown to stress the show is”not a drama-doc” and events have been “dramatized”.U.K. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden hit headlines over the weekend (November 28-29, 2020) with his revelation that he’s planning to write to Netflix to ask them to put a warning on the show, about Britain’s Royal Family, for viewers to make it clear that it’s dramatized.
Naman Ramachandran Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films, producer of the “Kingsman” franchise, is making its first foray into TV with soccer-centric series “Day 1’s” from writers/creators and showrunners Doug Ellin (“Entourage”) and Chris Case (“Mad About You”).Set in the world of British soccer, the 10-episode series revolves around a young player Dezmond King and his crew as they navigate his growing stature and struggles.Marv is working closely with French soccer legend Thierry Henry and his
Matthew Vaughn’s UK production company Marv is set to make its first TV series with Day 1’s, a ten-episode series set in the world of soccer.
Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Princess Margaret in The Crown, has weighed in on the debate surrounding the Netflix show’s dramatic interpretation of real-life events involving the British Royal Family.
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker is prepping his latest project for Netflix: a mockumentary about 2020.
Ex Machina director and Devs creator Alex Garland has revealed that he’s making a “low-budget horror film”.The new film, which is set to be produced next year, was conceived in the wake of this summer’s wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the globe.“I wrote a low-budget horror movie, set in the UK,” Garland told Empire in a new interview, revealing that he’s currently casting for the film, and hoping to shoot it in the spring and summer of 2021.He added: “I don’t know if it’s unrealistic
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