Ten Wigan Warriors players off-contract at the end of the season

The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank is heading back to the 1960s. Clive Owen is set to star in Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama series from Frank and City On a Hill showrunner Tom Fontana, which is currently being pitched, generating a lot of interest from buyers, Deadline has learned.

Adrian Lam admits there is a chance Jackson Hastings and Bevan French could be set to miss Wigan Warriors’ round one clash. The pair still haven’t started training with the Cherry and Whites ahead of the new Super League season, which gets underway in less than two weeks, with Wigan playing Leigh Centurions at Headingley on March 26.

John Bateman will pull on a Wigan Warriors shirt for the first time since 2018 when he lines up against Salford Red Devils this afternoon.Despite being given the number 13 shirt this season, the England international has been named in second-row by head coach Adrian Lam, in what is a young 25-man squad.There’s no Bevan French, Jackson Hastings, Jai Field or Oliver Gildart, but Lam has given youngsters James McDonnell and Umyla Hanley chances to impress in the outside backs.Harry Smith starts in

Spoiler warning: This article discusses the final scene of “Nomadland.”John Ford’s “The Searchers” was released 65 years ago, but the Western starring John Wayne continues to be a major influence on the theme and visual styles of movies today.

Throughout the off-season, Wigan Warriors fans have racked their brains wondering how Adrian Lam will get all of his stars in the same team.Somehow, Lam will need to get Bevan French, Jai Field, Jackson Hastings, Thomas Leuluai, Sam Powell and Harry Smith all in the same 17 and, in an ideal world, on the pitch at the same time.In theory, it seems practically impossible to get such a wealth of talent all on the field at once.Lam agrees.

It seems as if the year's extended awards season has been going on forever. But for Sony Pictures Classics' entries — including The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins, and French Exit, showcasing Michelle Pfeiffer — the quest is just beginning in earnest.

Naman Ramachandran Theatrical distributor and global curated film streaming service MUBI has picked up well-regarded Berlinale title, French auteur Céline Sciamma’s “Petite Maman.”MUBI has acquired all rights for the U.K., Ireland and Turkey, for the film that was in competition at the Berlinale. MK2 Films is handling international sales.“Petite Maman” follows eight-year-old Nelly who has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home.

Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma's follow-up to her 2019 international breakthrough Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a more intimate affair. The acclaimed French filmmaker has switched the erotic charge and sexual politics of her 18th century period drama for a more personal story of love and loss in a tale of an eight-year-old girl trying to connect with her mother.

For anyone single and looking, the past year has been, well, trying, to say the least. 

The two most mature and emotionally insightful seven-year-old girls you’ve ever encountered in your life are the subjects of Petite Maman. Magnetically attentive to the serious “things of life,” as the French put it, Céline Sciamma’s 72-minute study of an intense brief friendship between two girls of extraordinary similar looks prioritizes insight and emotional awareness over any artificial plot constructs. The result is a piercingly satisfying chamber drama with a lovely intimate feel.

Neon has scooped up North American rights to Céline Sciamma’s sixth feature directorial Petite Maman, bringing the Oscar-winning film studio back in business with the French filmmaker behind 2019’s award-winning pic Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Already there is great word of mouth brewing from critics on Sciamma’s new title out of its world premiere at the Berlinale.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Céline Sciamma’s latest feature, “Petite Maman,” following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.The sale reunites Sciamma with Neon, the New York-based independent studio that released her acclaimed drama “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”Written and directed by Sciamma, “Petite Maman” follows 8-year-old Nelly, who loses her beloved grandmother and goes to help her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United could look to sign Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane this summer - 10 years on from Sir Alex Ferguson’s near-miss. Ferguson came close to signing an 18-year-old Varane from French club Lens in 2011 only to be thwarted by Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane.

Alice Guy-Blaché: the silent era director whose set was chopped up for firewood before she could shootAs a 22-year-old secretary to French film magnate Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy-Blaché was one of the first people to pick up a camera and make a narrative film, 1896’s The Cabbage Fairy.