Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Morgan Matthews’s 500 Miles starring Bill Nighy and Jojo Rabbit’s Roman Griffin Davis from Beta Cinema.
Billed as a road movie with heart, 500 Miles follows two young brothers running away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather (Nighy) on Ireland’s wild west coast.
The film is being prepped to shoot in Kerry, Ireland in the summer.
Matthews, director of X+Y (A Brilliant Young Mind) and documentary Williams, will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel Charlie And Me by Mark Lowery.
Billed as a road movie with heart, 500 Miles follows two young brothers running away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather (Nighy) on Ireland’s wild west coast.
The film is being prepped to shoot in Kerry, Ireland in the summer.
Matthews, director of X+Y (A Brilliant Young Mind) and documentary Williams, will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel Charlie And Me by Mark Lowery.
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
The drama was originally commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed earlier this year as part of cost cuts.
AMC has secured North American rights to Disney’s live-action UK series Nautilus based on Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
The 10-episode drama was originally commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed by the streamer earlier this year as part of cost cuts. It will air in the US and Canada on AMC and its streaming platform AMC+ in 2024.
Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo who appears in several of...
AMC has secured North American rights to Disney’s live-action UK series Nautilus based on Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
The 10-episode drama was originally commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed by the streamer earlier this year as part of cost cuts. It will air in the US and Canada on AMC and its streaming platform AMC+ in 2024.
Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo who appears in several of...
- 10/31/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Here is a wrap-up of all the news you know from Monday, October 30, 2023.
Months after Nautilus was canceled before its debut on Disney+, the series has found a new home on AMC.
The 10-episode live-action series is inspired by Jules Verne's beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment.
The series will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024.
Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
Nautilus stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor.
Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe...
Months after Nautilus was canceled before its debut on Disney+, the series has found a new home on AMC.
The 10-episode live-action series is inspired by Jules Verne's beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment.
The series will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024.
Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
Nautilus stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor.
Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe...
- 10/30/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Shazad Latif stars in ‘Nautilus’ (Photo Courtesy of AMC)
The Captain Nemo origin series Nautilus has found a new home at AMC Networks after being canceled by Disney. The series, inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was originally set to stream on Disney+ but now will air on AMC and AMC+ in 2024.
The 10-episode live-action series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville. Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor guest star.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” stated Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We are looking forward to bringing it to AMC+ and AMC as a special television event next year.”
Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker...
The Captain Nemo origin series Nautilus has found a new home at AMC Networks after being canceled by Disney. The series, inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was originally set to stream on Disney+ but now will air on AMC and AMC+ in 2024.
The 10-episode live-action series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville. Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor guest star.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” stated Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We are looking forward to bringing it to AMC+ and AMC as a special television event next year.”
Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker...
- 10/30/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
A retelling of the story of Captain Nemo is on the move — and not just under the ocean.
AMC Networks has grabbed linear and streaming rights to Nautilus — a reimagining of Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — in the United States and Canada. The series, which hails from British companies Moonriver TV and All3Media-owned Seven Stories, was initially set for Disney+, which picked it up to series in August 2021. After scrapping the show earlier this year as part of a content write-down, however, Disney Entertainment has licensed Nautilus to AMC and its sibling streamer AMC+, which plan to air the series in 2024.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” said Ben Davis, executive vp original programming at AMC Networks and AMC Studios.
AMC Networks has grabbed linear and streaming rights to Nautilus — a reimagining of Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — in the United States and Canada. The series, which hails from British companies Moonriver TV and All3Media-owned Seven Stories, was initially set for Disney+, which picked it up to series in August 2021. After scrapping the show earlier this year as part of a content write-down, however, Disney Entertainment has licensed Nautilus to AMC and its sibling streamer AMC+, which plan to air the series in 2024.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” said Ben Davis, executive vp original programming at AMC Networks and AMC Studios.
- 10/30/2023
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Captain Nemo origin story series “Nautilus” lives on, with AMC Networks licensing the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to the live-action series from Disney Entertainment.
The 10-episode show was originally slated to air on Disney+, but it was announced back in August that the show was not going forward at the streamer as part of a wide-ranging cost cutting initiative at the Mouse House.
AMC and AMC+ will now air the show as a special television event in 2024, with an exact premiere date to be announced later. Inspired by Jules Vernes’ “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” the show will explore the early life of Captain Nemo, who is played by Shazad Latif. The character is described as “an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
The 10-episode show was originally slated to air on Disney+, but it was announced back in August that the show was not going forward at the streamer as part of a wide-ranging cost cutting initiative at the Mouse House.
AMC and AMC+ will now air the show as a special television event in 2024, with an exact premiere date to be announced later. Inspired by Jules Vernes’ “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” the show will explore the early life of Captain Nemo, who is played by Shazad Latif. The character is described as “an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
- 10/30/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
AMC Networks has acquired the license for the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to Disney Entertainment’s “Nautilus,” a 10-episode live-action series inspired by “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.”
“Nautilus,” which will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024, tells the origin story of Captain Nemo, an Indian prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
Disney+ declined to pick up the series after it was finished in August.
The series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,...
“Nautilus,” which will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024, tells the origin story of Captain Nemo, an Indian prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
Disney+ declined to pick up the series after it was finished in August.
The series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor.
“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Nautilus, the ten-part series inspired by Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has found a new home.
The series has landed at AMC, where it will air in 2024 as well as on AMC+. The move comes after the Disney+ UK commission was axed by the streamer earlier this summer as part of its content removal plan.
Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
It is the latest series axed by Disney as part of its move to cut streaming costs – the Mouse House is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion – to find a new home. The Spiderwick Chronicles, which was similarly canceled at Disney+, found a spot on Roku.
The series was shot in Australia,...
The series has landed at AMC, where it will air in 2024 as well as on AMC+. The move comes after the Disney+ UK commission was axed by the streamer earlier this summer as part of its content removal plan.
Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
It is the latest series axed by Disney as part of its move to cut streaming costs – the Mouse House is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion – to find a new home. The Spiderwick Chronicles, which was similarly canceled at Disney+, found a spot on Roku.
The series was shot in Australia,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject matter for witty, adult entertainment. Anand Tucker’s The Critic follows a similar premise and, auspiciously, recruited playwright Patrick Marber––a well-known luminary of the British theater scene––to pen a script packed with sharp, acerbic dialog. This, still, is not half-enough. In its quest to surprise audiences, The Critic jumps down too many rabbit holes, progressively losing all semblance of plausibility or insight it might’ve otherwise yielded.
The film is being billed as an adaptation of Anthony Quinn’s well-regarded novel Curtain Call, though one glance at the book summary indicates that significant liberties have been taken––notably, a murder-mystery strand has been entirely jettisoned. What we have instead is an interpersonal drama between several personalities either directly or tangentially related to the theater. Chief among...
The film is being billed as an adaptation of Anthony Quinn’s well-regarded novel Curtain Call, though one glance at the book summary indicates that significant liberties have been taken––notably, a murder-mystery strand has been entirely jettisoned. What we have instead is an interpersonal drama between several personalities either directly or tangentially related to the theater. Chief among...
- 9/22/2023
- by Ankit Jhunjhunwala
- The Film Stage
Updated with latest: The Toronto Film Festival began September 7 in Ontario with opening-night movie The Boy and the Heron, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It kicked off a lineup for the fest’s 48th edition that included world premieres of GameStop pic Dumb Money, Netflix’s Pain Hustlers, Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, Kristin Scott Thomas’ Scarlett Johansson pic North Star, Chris Pine’s Poolman, Michael Keaton-directed Knox Goes Away, Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, Michael Winterbottom’s Shoshana, Grant Singer’s Reptile, Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt, Lee Tamahori’s The Convert and Alex Gibney’s doc In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.
It ended Sunday when Cord Jefferson’s satire American Fiction won TIFF’s People’s Choice Award for best film, usually a steppingstone to a strong awards season to come.
The fest also...
It ended Sunday when Cord Jefferson’s satire American Fiction won TIFF’s People’s Choice Award for best film, usually a steppingstone to a strong awards season to come.
The fest also...
- 9/18/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury, Valerie Complex, Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy and Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
The critic of The Critic is the type who might occasionally exist in real life, but seems to loom far larger in fictional tales by artists who evidently have little love for the profession. As played by Ian McKellen, Jimmy Erskine is an erudite brute. Whatever love he once held for the theater is less apparent these days than the savage delight he takes in ripping performers and productions to shreds, and the satisfaction he takes in the status and influence afforded him by his job.
The Critic, directed by Anand Tucker, is the story of how far he’ll go when that position is threatened. Given that the film is scripted by Patrick Marber (of Closer and Notes on a Scandal), it’s little surprise he’ll go very far indeed. And given that he’s performed by McKellen, it’s safe to bet on a ferocious lead turn.
The Critic, directed by Anand Tucker, is the story of how far he’ll go when that position is threatened. Given that the film is scripted by Patrick Marber (of Closer and Notes on a Scandal), it’s little surprise he’ll go very far indeed. And given that he’s performed by McKellen, it’s safe to bet on a ferocious lead turn.
- 9/15/2023
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto – About 20 minutes into “The Critic” it may occur to anyone paying attention that screenwriter and noted playwright and screenwriter Patrick Farber might not be a fan of the profession that is at the center of his new film. Then again, maybe we’re just taking it a bit personally. Maybe every character in the Anand Tucker-directed thriller is as selfish and professionally corrupt as the film’s protagonist Jimmy Erskine, a 1930s newspaper critic often portrayed with devilish glee by none other than Ian McKellen.
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- 9/11/2023
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
If you want to give a great actor a role he can sink his teeth into with almost unseemly glee, there can’t be many better ways than to cast him as a critic in a period melodrama. That, at least, seems to be the idea behind “The Critic,” Anand Tucker’s tale of a nefarious theater reviewer in 1930s London starring Ian McKellen as the kind of awful person who must have been a lot of fun to play.
It is not, perhaps, a role that would challenge the magnificent McKellen much, but who needs a challenge when you can spit out viciously witty bon mots while wearing fancy duds and being lit at all times for maximum dramatic effect? And while McKellen’s Jimmy Erskine is a villain to remember, he isn’t a one-dimensional baddie. He’s a proudly gay man who can be arrested for who...
It is not, perhaps, a role that would challenge the magnificent McKellen much, but who needs a challenge when you can spit out viciously witty bon mots while wearing fancy duds and being lit at all times for maximum dramatic effect? And while McKellen’s Jimmy Erskine is a villain to remember, he isn’t a one-dimensional baddie. He’s a proudly gay man who can be arrested for who...
- 9/11/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This critic might want to look for a different job.
The prospect of seeing the great Ian McKellen take on the role of one of London’s most august theater critics of the 1930s must have looked tantalizing on paper, but sadly this is a show that deserved to close out of town. Despite a colorful central character who could have knowledgeably and amusingly navigated a cruise through the dynamic theatrical scene close to a century ago, The Critic unaccountably shifts its focus away from McKellen’s Jimmy Erskin, who entertainingly dominates the film at the start, and onto a group of characters who are almost entirely uninteresting; there’s not even much juicy inside stuff about the legit theater at an exciting time for it. Given the setting, period and endless possibilities of the material, this is a major disappointment, a drag of the first order.
The only scenes...
The prospect of seeing the great Ian McKellen take on the role of one of London’s most august theater critics of the 1930s must have looked tantalizing on paper, but sadly this is a show that deserved to close out of town. Despite a colorful central character who could have knowledgeably and amusingly navigated a cruise through the dynamic theatrical scene close to a century ago, The Critic unaccountably shifts its focus away from McKellen’s Jimmy Erskin, who entertainingly dominates the film at the start, and onto a group of characters who are almost entirely uninteresting; there’s not even much juicy inside stuff about the legit theater at an exciting time for it. Given the setting, period and endless possibilities of the material, this is a major disappointment, a drag of the first order.
The only scenes...
- 9/10/2023
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing with a bevy of titles competing both for global distribution and awards prestige. The festival has had its share of lumps in the last month, losing their 28-year-sponsor, Bell Telephone, back in August, as well as being enmeshed in the on-going SAG-AFTRA/WGA duel strike. It is that strike that is the most insurmountable goal for the event, as actors and writers are unable to attend and promote their films, though some have with a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
And while the movie landscape is looking different, with movies switching release dates (in the wake of both the strike and Taylor Swift’s Eras tour), this year’s TIFF is showcasing what amazing movies are still being made. Here are 25 of the hottest titles to be excited for at this year’s TIFF.
Courtesy of TIFF
“Dumb Money” (Sony)
Craig Gillespie’s...
And while the movie landscape is looking different, with movies switching release dates (in the wake of both the strike and Taylor Swift’s Eras tour), this year’s TIFF is showcasing what amazing movies are still being made. Here are 25 of the hottest titles to be excited for at this year’s TIFF.
Courtesy of TIFF
“Dumb Money” (Sony)
Craig Gillespie’s...
- 9/9/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
What does it mean to be one of the “hottest” or “buzziest” titles in a film festival sales market if there’s no stars drum up that excitement? Or if there’s little likelihood of an all-night bidding war by a streamer spending in the 7-figures to land their next Oscar contender?
As we reported earlier today, those are all ways in which the strike threatens to weigh on the film markets at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. A handful of those films are directorial debuts by famous actors-turned-filmmakers, and some even have interim agreements from SAG-AFTRA that will let them promote. But all these films should stand on their own merits and could catch the eyes of the many non-amptp distributors that need creative ways to fill out their slates.
In part because of the strikes, the Venice and TIFF slates are loaded with independent movies without U.S. distribution,...
As we reported earlier today, those are all ways in which the strike threatens to weigh on the film markets at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. A handful of those films are directorial debuts by famous actors-turned-filmmakers, and some even have interim agreements from SAG-AFTRA that will let them promote. But all these films should stand on their own merits and could catch the eyes of the many non-amptp distributors that need creative ways to fill out their slates.
In part because of the strikes, the Venice and TIFF slates are loaded with independent movies without U.S. distribution,...
- 8/28/2023
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Nautilus, the UK live-action Captain Nemo series commissioned by Disney+ two years ago, is no longer headed to the streamer, Deadline has learned.
The decision is part of Disney’s streaming content removal plan unveiled in May, for which the company is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion. It followed the February announcement by Disney that it intends to cut $3 billion in non-sports content spend across the company.
As part of the cost-reduction strategy, Disney’s streaming platforms, particularly flagship Disney+, have been taking a closer look on their programming with a new emphasis on content curation.
As Deadline reported exclusively Saturday, Disney+ also is not going forward with another upcoming original series, the The Spiderwick Chronicles, a U.S. live-action series adaptation of the popular children’s fantasy books.
Over the past couple of months, dozens of original series and specials were taken off Disney+ as well as Hulu,...
The decision is part of Disney’s streaming content removal plan unveiled in May, for which the company is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion. It followed the February announcement by Disney that it intends to cut $3 billion in non-sports content spend across the company.
As part of the cost-reduction strategy, Disney’s streaming platforms, particularly flagship Disney+, have been taking a closer look on their programming with a new emphasis on content curation.
As Deadline reported exclusively Saturday, Disney+ also is not going forward with another upcoming original series, the The Spiderwick Chronicles, a U.S. live-action series adaptation of the popular children’s fantasy books.
Over the past couple of months, dozens of original series and specials were taken off Disney+ as well as Hulu,...
- 8/27/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi, 2023).The lineup is being unveiled for the 2023 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, starting with 60 selections from the Gala and Special Presentations programs. The festival takes place from September 7–17, 2023.Gala PRESENTATIONSConcrete Utopia (Um Tae-Hwa)Dumb Money (Craig Gillespie)Fair Play (Chloe Domont)Flora and Son (John Carney)Hate to Love: Nickelback (Leigh Brooks)Lee (Ellen Kuras)Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi)Nyad (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)Punjab ’95 (Honey Trehan)Solo (Sophie Dupuis)The End We Start From (Mahalia Belo)The Movie Emperor (Ning Hao)The New Boy (Warwick Thornton) The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green)The Holdovers.Special Presentationsa Difficult Year (Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache)A Normal Family (Hur Jin-ho)American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)Close to You (Dominic Savage)Days of Happiness (Chloé Robichaud)The Rescue (Daniela Goggi)Ezra (Tony Goldwyn)Fingernails (Christos Nikou)Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania...
- 8/14/2023
- MUBI
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior. Among the major grabs for World Premiere status we find Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, Ellen Kuras’ Lee, Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From, Grant Singer’s Reptile, Michael Winterbottom’s Shoshana, Maggie Betts’ The Burial, Anand Tucker’s The Critic, Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt, Dk & Hugh Welchman’s The Peasants, James Hawes’ One Life and Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters. Again, if the strike is still in place all these titles will be presented without that deeply appreciated red carpet glam factor.…...
- 7/24/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Critic
After moonlighting as a producer and working in television, Anand Tucker‘s returns to feature films a dozen years after his last feature film in the studio romance Leap Year (2010) featuring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Best known for Hilary and Jackie (1998) and the critically acclaimed Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009), Tucker lassoed Ben Barnes, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Ian McKellen, Alfred Enoch and Romola Garai for a set in 1930’s London period drama. Formerly going by the book’s title of “Curtain Call,” this is adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel and contains blackmail and intrigue vibes.…...
After moonlighting as a producer and working in television, Anand Tucker‘s returns to feature films a dozen years after his last feature film in the studio romance Leap Year (2010) featuring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Best known for Hilary and Jackie (1998) and the critically acclaimed Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009), Tucker lassoed Ben Barnes, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Ian McKellen, Alfred Enoch and Romola Garai for a set in 1930’s London period drama. Formerly going by the book’s title of “Curtain Call,” this is adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel and contains blackmail and intrigue vibes.…...
- 1/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel Curtain Call. Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), BAFTA nominee Romola Garai (Suffragette), Ben Barnes (Westworld) and Alfred Enoch (Foundation) will also star.
In the film set in 1934 London, McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town—with Arterton as Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor. When Jimmy finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (Strong), Nina becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) is directing from a script by Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal), with production underway in and around London. The film is being fully financed and produced by London-based BKStudios, with owner Bill Kenwright...
In the film set in 1934 London, McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town—with Arterton as Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor. When Jimmy finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (Strong), Nina becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) is directing from a script by Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal), with production underway in and around London. The film is being fully financed and produced by London-based BKStudios, with owner Bill Kenwright...
- 6/27/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney+’s ‘Nautilus’ Rounds Off Cast; Cameras Roll In Australia
Casting is complete and filming has kicked off in Australia on Disney+’s Nautilus, the live action re-telling of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Joining the previously announced Shazad Latif (The Pursuit of Love) in the lead role of Captain Nemo are Georgia Flood (Anzac Girls), who plays Humility Lucas, a privileged daughter of the British Empire who is taken hostage on board the Nautilus, and Thierry Frémont (Allied) as Gustave Benoit, a French engineer and architect of the submarine. The series, which started filming this week at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland and is produced by Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver Studios and Anand Tucker’s Seven Stories, is one of the streamer’s most high profile to be made outside of the U.S., as it targets 60 international originals over the next two years. Other new cast members include Pacharo Mzembe,...
Casting is complete and filming has kicked off in Australia on Disney+’s Nautilus, the live action re-telling of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Joining the previously announced Shazad Latif (The Pursuit of Love) in the lead role of Captain Nemo are Georgia Flood (Anzac Girls), who plays Humility Lucas, a privileged daughter of the British Empire who is taken hostage on board the Nautilus, and Thierry Frémont (Allied) as Gustave Benoit, a French engineer and architect of the submarine. The series, which started filming this week at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland and is produced by Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver Studios and Anand Tucker’s Seven Stories, is one of the streamer’s most high profile to be made outside of the U.S., as it targets 60 international originals over the next two years. Other new cast members include Pacharo Mzembe,...
- 2/17/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Georgia Flood and Thierry Frémont have joined Disney Plus original U.K. series “Nautilus.”
The series, inspired by Julie Verne’s novel “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,” stars Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”) in the lead role. Shooting is underway in Australia’s Queensland-based Village Roadshow Studios.
The series switches the viewpoint on Verne’s classic story, giving viewers the chance to see things from Captain Nemo’s point of view for the first time. Nemo is an Indian Prince who is removed from his home, family and birthright and taken prisoner by the East India Mercantile Company.
Focused only on revenge against those who have ruined his life, Nemo sets sail on the Nautilus, aided by a ragtag bunch of sailors, and soon finds himself battling not only his enemies but also discovering a mindblowing underwater world.
Flood (“Anzac Girls”) will play Humility Lucas, a privileged upper class product...
The series, inspired by Julie Verne’s novel “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,” stars Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”) in the lead role. Shooting is underway in Australia’s Queensland-based Village Roadshow Studios.
The series switches the viewpoint on Verne’s classic story, giving viewers the chance to see things from Captain Nemo’s point of view for the first time. Nemo is an Indian Prince who is removed from his home, family and birthright and taken prisoner by the East India Mercantile Company.
Focused only on revenge against those who have ruined his life, Nemo sets sail on the Nautilus, aided by a ragtag bunch of sailors, and soon finds himself battling not only his enemies but also discovering a mindblowing underwater world.
Flood (“Anzac Girls”) will play Humility Lucas, a privileged upper class product...
- 2/17/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Disney+ 10-part live-action drama Nautilus will be casting off for the shores of Queensland early next year.
Developed and co-produced by UK companies Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, the sci-fi adventure series is based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, telling the origin story of anti-hero Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine, The Nautilus.
An Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, Nemo is a prisoner of the East India Company and a bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him.
But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring The Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, but he also discovers a magical underwater world, learns to take his place as leader of the crew, and goes on an unforgettable adventure beneath the sea.
Disney+ director of scripted original content at Disney+ Johanna Devereaux said...
Developed and co-produced by UK companies Moonriver TV and Seven Stories, the sci-fi adventure series is based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, telling the origin story of anti-hero Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine, The Nautilus.
An Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, Nemo is a prisoner of the East India Company and a bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him.
But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring The Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, but he also discovers a magical underwater world, learns to take his place as leader of the crew, and goes on an unforgettable adventure beneath the sea.
Disney+ director of scripted original content at Disney+ Johanna Devereaux said...
- 8/24/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Disney+ is ramping up scripted commissioning in the UK.
Disney+ has ordered a live-action series based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as it ramps up scripted commissioning in the UK.
Nautilus is being produced by two British companies: All3Media label Seven Stories, which counts Stephen Lambert as chair, alongside Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver TV.
The show was unveiled during today’s Disney+ Edinburgh Television Festival Spotlight session (August 23).
The 10-parter will tell Verne’s story from the point of view of character Captain Nemo, who oversees the legendary submarine Nautilus.
Once Nemo sets sail with his ragtag crew,...
Disney+ has ordered a live-action series based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as it ramps up scripted commissioning in the UK.
Nautilus is being produced by two British companies: All3Media label Seven Stories, which counts Stephen Lambert as chair, alongside Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver TV.
The show was unveiled during today’s Disney+ Edinburgh Television Festival Spotlight session (August 23).
The 10-parter will tell Verne’s story from the point of view of character Captain Nemo, who oversees the legendary submarine Nautilus.
Once Nemo sets sail with his ragtag crew,...
- 8/23/2021
- by Max Goldbart Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Disney+ has revealed new details about three TV series from the UK and said it is aiming for at least 50 new European productions by 2024, during the Edinburgh TV Festival. Scroll down for Disney+’s full list of UK Originals.
Original live-action-drama series Nautilus, based on the Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, is a ten-part live-action adventure series about the origin story of Verne’s most iconic character, Captain Nemo, and his famous submarine, The Nautilus.
In the series, Nemo is an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the East India Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him. But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, he also discovers a magical underwater world.
Developed and co-produced by Moonriver...
Original live-action-drama series Nautilus, based on the Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, is a ten-part live-action adventure series about the origin story of Verne’s most iconic character, Captain Nemo, and his famous submarine, The Nautilus.
In the series, Nemo is an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the East India Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him. But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, he also discovers a magical underwater world.
Developed and co-produced by Moonriver...
- 8/23/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a project that’s likely to generate plenty of buzz globally: Studiocanal is reuniting the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated team behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to adapt spy author Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Sequence novels into a major television series.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories, the All3Media-backed production company founded by Girl With A Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker.
Hutchinson has written four Fractured Europe Sequence books since 2014. The series is set in a near-future Europe, which has splintered into countless tiny nation-states after being ravaged by a pandemic and economic decay.
In the first book, Europe In Autumn, Rudi, a chef based out of a small restaurant in Krakow, Poland, is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois,...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories, the All3Media-backed production company founded by Girl With A Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker.
Hutchinson has written four Fractured Europe Sequence books since 2014. The series is set in a near-future Europe, which has splintered into countless tiny nation-states after being ravaged by a pandemic and economic decay.
In the first book, Europe In Autumn, Rudi, a chef based out of a small restaurant in Krakow, Poland, is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
FX released a trailer for the third and final season of “Pose,” which will debut on May 2.
Nearly two years after Blanca Evangelista’s (Mj Rodriguez) triumphant return to the ballroom, she gets a new job working at a hospital, while newly-engaged Angel (Indya Moore) and Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) seem happy as ever. Following a health scare last season, Pray Tell’s (Billy Porter) fate is up in the air. “I knew this disease was gonna eat me alive, but I’m not going out without a fight,” he says in the trailer. Watch it in full below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, Showtime announced a virtual farewell event featuring the cast of “Shameless,” taking place April 11 at 7 p.m. Pt., immediately following the series finale. Showrunner John Wells will join cast members William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney,...
Nearly two years after Blanca Evangelista’s (Mj Rodriguez) triumphant return to the ballroom, she gets a new job working at a hospital, while newly-engaged Angel (Indya Moore) and Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel) seem happy as ever. Following a health scare last season, Pray Tell’s (Billy Porter) fate is up in the air. “I knew this disease was gonna eat me alive, but I’m not going out without a fight,” he says in the trailer. Watch it in full below.
Also in today’s TV news roundup, Showtime announced a virtual farewell event featuring the cast of “Shameless,” taking place April 11 at 7 p.m. Pt., immediately following the series finale. Showrunner John Wells will join cast members William H. Macy, Jeremy Allen White, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney,...
- 4/6/2021
- by Haley Bosselman and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
British actors Bukky Bakray, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Morfydd Clark, Sope Dirisu and Conrad Khan are the 2021 nominees for the BAFTA Ee Rising Star Award.
The nominees were announced by 2014 Rising Star nominee George MacKay (“1917”) and presenter Edith Bowman on Wednesday. The nominees participated in a panel discussion and spoke about their roles. Ben-Adir was there in person with the presenters, and the others virtually, with Clark dialling in from New Zealand where she’s filming Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Ben-Adir plays Black leader Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami,” based on the play by Kemp Powers, directed by Regina King. Bakray is the lead as a schoolgirl in Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age drama “Rocks.” Clark plays a pious nurse in Rose Glass’ horror “Saint Maud,” while Dirisu is an emigrant house hunter who finds evil where he least expects it in Remi Weekes’ “His House.” In Henry Blake’s “County Lines,...
The nominees were announced by 2014 Rising Star nominee George MacKay (“1917”) and presenter Edith Bowman on Wednesday. The nominees participated in a panel discussion and spoke about their roles. Ben-Adir was there in person with the presenters, and the others virtually, with Clark dialling in from New Zealand where she’s filming Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Ben-Adir plays Black leader Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami,” based on the play by Kemp Powers, directed by Regina King. Bakray is the lead as a schoolgirl in Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age drama “Rocks.” Clark plays a pious nurse in Rose Glass’ horror “Saint Maud,” while Dirisu is an emigrant house hunter who finds evil where he least expects it in Remi Weekes’ “His House.” In Henry Blake’s “County Lines,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“Curtain Call,” starring starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has sold to several major territories.
To be directed by “Shopgirl” filmmaker Anand Tucker, the film will commence production later this year in the U.K.
Culmination Productions has sold to Squareone Entertainment (German-speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece), Lusomundo (Portugal), Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa), Benchmark Films (Taiwan) and to Spain, where a distributor is yet to be announced.
Adapted by Oscar-nominee Patrick Marber (“Notes on a Scandal”) from Anthony Quinn’s novel of the same name, “Curtain Call” revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...
To be directed by “Shopgirl” filmmaker Anand Tucker, the film will commence production later this year in the U.K.
Culmination Productions has sold to Squareone Entertainment (German-speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece), Lusomundo (Portugal), Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa), Benchmark Films (Taiwan) and to Spain, where a distributor is yet to be announced.
Adapted by Oscar-nominee Patrick Marber (“Notes on a Scandal”) from Anthony Quinn’s novel of the same name, “Curtain Call” revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Anand Tucker’s (Hilary & Jackie) period-drama Curtain Call, which is due to star Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has been pre-sold by Culmination Productions to a host of key territories ahead of shoot later this year in the UK.
In addition to the previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the film has been sold to Squareone Entertainment (German Speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece) and Lusomundo (Portugal).
Deals were also inked with Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa) and Benchmark Films (Taiwan).
The film revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...
In addition to the previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the film has been sold to Squareone Entertainment (German Speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece) and Lusomundo (Portugal).
Deals were also inked with Sena (Iceland), Hagi Films (Poland), Shoval Film (Israel), Selim Ramia & Co (The Middle East), Empire (South Africa) and Benchmark Films (Taiwan).
The film revolves around Jimmy Erskine (Beale), the most feared theatre critic of the age, his loyal and long-suffering assistant Tom Turner (Essiedu), David Brooke (Firth), the new owner of the newspaper who wants to be rid of Jimmy,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures International Productions on board as co-producer.
Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.
Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.
In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...
Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.
Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.
In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton murder mystery ‘Curtain Call’ sells for Culmination Productions
Sony Pictures International Productions on board as co-producer.
Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.
Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.
In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...
Culmination Productions has licensed major territories ahead of an anticipated start of production in the UK later this year on Anand Tucker’s EFM sales title Curtain Call starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale.
Following previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International Productions for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the film has gone to Square One Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, Notorious Pictures for Italy, and California Filmes for Latin America.
In other deals, Selim Ramia & Co. has acquired rights for The Middle East, Cineart for Benelux,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A week before the official kick-off of Berlin’s European Film Market, Culmination Pictures has closed a slew of international pre-sales for Curtain Call, a period murder mystery from Anand Tucker’s (Shopgirl, Hilary & Jackie) featuring an all-star British cast including Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale.
Culmination closed deals for Curtain Call with Squareone Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, with Notorious Pictures for Italy, Hagi Films for Poland, Tanweer for Greece, Lusomundo for Portugal, Sena for Iceland, Hagi Films for Poland, Cineart for Benelux, and Shoval Films for Israel. California Filmes took rights in Latin America, Selim Ramia & Co....
Culmination closed deals for Curtain Call with Squareone Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, with Notorious Pictures for Italy, Hagi Films for Poland, Tanweer for Greece, Lusomundo for Portugal, Sena for Iceland, Hagi Films for Poland, Cineart for Benelux, and Shoval Films for Israel. California Filmes took rights in Latin America, Selim Ramia & Co....
- 2/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A week before the official kick-off of Berlin’s European Film Market, Culmination Pictures has closed a slew of international pre-sales for Curtain Call, a period murder mystery from Anand Tucker’s (Shopgirl, Hilary & Jackie) featuring an all-star British cast including Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale.
Culmination closed deals for Curtain Call with Squareone Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, with Notorious Pictures for Italy, Hagi Films for Poland, Tanweer for Greece, Lusomundo for Portugal, Sena for Iceland, Hagi Films for Poland, Cineart for Benelux, and Shoval Films for Israel. California Filmes took rights in Latin America, Selim Ramia & Co....
Culmination closed deals for Curtain Call with Squareone Entertainment for German-speaking Europe, with Notorious Pictures for Italy, Hagi Films for Poland, Tanweer for Greece, Lusomundo for Portugal, Sena for Iceland, Hagi Films for Poland, Cineart for Benelux, and Shoval Films for Israel. California Filmes took rights in Latin America, Selim Ramia & Co....
- 2/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Yesterday, Academy Award® winner Alicia Vikander, actress Jo Hartley and BAFTA-winning actress Naomi Ackie joined the BAFTA Ee Rising Star Award panel to select the 2021 shortlist.
Now in its sixteenth year, it is the only 2021 Ee British Academy Film Awards category to be voted for by the British public. Celebrating new and up-and-coming talent within the industry, past recipients of the Ee Rising Star Award have gone on to become household names and achieve some of cinema’s highest accolades. The prestigious list of previous winners includes James McAvoy, Eva Green, Juno Temple, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Noel Clarke, Jack O’Connell, Will Poulter, John Boyega, Tom Holland, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright and last year’s winner Micheal Ward.
Alicia Vikander said: “Being a BAFTA Ee Rising Star nominee was a significant marker in my career and it is an honour and delight to deliberate the shortlist for this year’s...
Now in its sixteenth year, it is the only 2021 Ee British Academy Film Awards category to be voted for by the British public. Celebrating new and up-and-coming talent within the industry, past recipients of the Ee Rising Star Award have gone on to become household names and achieve some of cinema’s highest accolades. The prestigious list of previous winners includes James McAvoy, Eva Green, Juno Temple, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Noel Clarke, Jack O’Connell, Will Poulter, John Boyega, Tom Holland, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright and last year’s winner Micheal Ward.
Alicia Vikander said: “Being a BAFTA Ee Rising Star nominee was a significant marker in my career and it is an honour and delight to deliberate the shortlist for this year’s...
- 1/20/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Actress Freida Pinto will essay British spy Noor Inayat Khan in the upcoming limited series, Spy Princess.
Freida will also executive-produce the limited series based on Shrabani Basu's book, Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan, reports deadline.com.
Anand Tucker will direct the project and Olivia Hetreed will pen the screen adaptation based on the book, with Basu attached as series consultant.
"She was a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War II. Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable," Freida said about Noor, the first Allied Forces female wireless operator sent into Nazi occupied France in 1943.
"Sending a Sufi mystic, who won't use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace -- ridiculous! But Noor thrives, not in spite of her differences, but because of them. Her struggle to reconcile...
Freida will also executive-produce the limited series based on Shrabani Basu's book, Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan, reports deadline.com.
Anand Tucker will direct the project and Olivia Hetreed will pen the screen adaptation based on the book, with Basu attached as series consultant.
"She was a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War II. Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable," Freida said about Noor, the first Allied Forces female wireless operator sent into Nazi occupied France in 1943.
"Sending a Sufi mystic, who won't use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace -- ridiculous! But Noor thrives, not in spite of her differences, but because of them. Her struggle to reconcile...
- 1/16/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is set to star in and executive produce Spy Princess, a limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the definitive biography of Noor’s life, from writer Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Red Room Films.
Hetreed will pen the adaptation based on the book, and Basu will serve as a consultant on the series.
Noor was the first female wireless operator sent into occupied France in 1943 – a role with a life expectancy of just six weeks.
“She was a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War 2,” Pinto said. “Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable. Sending a Sufi mystic, who won’t use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace – ridiculous! But Noor thrives, not in spite of her differences,...
Hetreed will pen the adaptation based on the book, and Basu will serve as a consultant on the series.
Noor was the first female wireless operator sent into occupied France in 1943 – a role with a life expectancy of just six weeks.
“She was a fierce and amazing woman, the most unlikely heroine of World War 2,” Pinto said. “Sending women to the front line is controversial even now. Then it was unthinkable. Sending a Sufi mystic, who won’t use a gun, daughter of a long-haired Indian Guru who preaches love and peace – ridiculous! But Noor thrives, not in spite of her differences,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Simon Russell Beale and Pappa Essiedu are attached to star in the period drama “Curtain Call” with Anand Tucker directing for Mark Gordon Pictures and Fearless Minds.
The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine (Beale), his loyal assistant (Essiedu), a newspaper owner (Firth) who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress (Arterton) who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews. The critic’s determination to survive ensures that the other characters are caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder. Patrick Marber adapted the script from Anthony Quinn’s novel.
“Patrick’s script is one of the sharpest and most entertaining I have ever read,” Tucker said. “It’s no surprise it has attracted such an extraordinary cast, and I can’t wait to bring this urgent story to audiences around the world.
The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine (Beale), his loyal assistant (Essiedu), a newspaper owner (Firth) who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress (Arterton) who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews. The critic’s determination to survive ensures that the other characters are caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder. Patrick Marber adapted the script from Anthony Quinn’s novel.
“Patrick’s script is one of the sharpest and most entertaining I have ever read,” Tucker said. “It’s no surprise it has attracted such an extraordinary cast, and I can’t wait to bring this urgent story to audiences around the world.
- 11/13/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: With AMC’s Preacher coming to a close this summer, Dominic Cooper is set to star in the six-part espionage Cold War series Spy City from Miramax and Germany’s H&v Entertainment and Zdf.
Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is currently writing Spy City. German-Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Alexandre will direct, and Johanna Wokalek and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, Babylon Berlin) also star.
Cooper will play an English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. The city, declared by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as “the most dangerous place on earth,” is teeming with spies and double agents. One wrong move could trigger the looming threat of nuclear war as American,...
Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd is currently writing Spy City. German-Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Alexandre will direct, and Johanna Wokalek and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, Babylon Berlin) also star.
Cooper will play an English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall. The city, declared by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as “the most dangerous place on earth,” is teeming with spies and double agents. One wrong move could trigger the looming threat of nuclear war as American,...
- 7/11/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
If you slept on “Cold War” last year, then you did yourself a disservice. While “Roma” was out there grabbing all the Best Foreign-Language Film trophies, the black and white musical drama starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, was a hit among critics and those who saw the film. And now, thanks to that success, one of the actors is set to take on the biggest role of his career.
Continue reading ‘Cold War’ Star Tomasz Kot To Play Nikola Tesla In New Biopic From Filmmaker Anand Tucker at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Cold War’ Star Tomasz Kot To Play Nikola Tesla In New Biopic From Filmmaker Anand Tucker at The Playlist.
- 6/24/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Cold War star Tomasz Kot is set to play celebrated inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla in the feature biopic Nikola.
Based on a screenplay by Leap Year director and Girl With a Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker, the story will focus on Tesla’s last big experiment, which was regarded as a failure at the time, but may in fact have been among his great triumphs. Tucker will also direct. The character piece will explore Tesla’s personal journey to achieve his scientific ambitions while risking financial security and battling his inner demons.
Ingenious Media is arranging financing and Daria Jovicic (The Railway Man) will produce under her Latitude Media banner. Peter Touche, Andrea Scarso and Ximo Paris will executive produce, with Tucker’s Seven Stories co-producing. Jovicic and Tucker previously collaborated on features The Railway Man, Incendiary and Girl With a Pearl Earring.
UTA’s Independent Film group...
Based on a screenplay by Leap Year director and Girl With a Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker, the story will focus on Tesla’s last big experiment, which was regarded as a failure at the time, but may in fact have been among his great triumphs. Tucker will also direct. The character piece will explore Tesla’s personal journey to achieve his scientific ambitions while risking financial security and battling his inner demons.
Ingenious Media is arranging financing and Daria Jovicic (The Railway Man) will produce under her Latitude Media banner. Peter Touche, Andrea Scarso and Ximo Paris will executive produce, with Tucker’s Seven Stories co-producing. Jovicic and Tucker previously collaborated on features The Railway Man, Incendiary and Girl With a Pearl Earring.
UTA’s Independent Film group...
- 6/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
UK outfit Seven Stories to make cricket series for SVoD giant.
Netflix has ordered an Indian drama from All3Media-owned UK independent producer Seven Stories.
The London-based firm, established by film directors Anand Tucker and Sharon Maguire and chaired by Stephen Lambert, is producing Selection Day, a story about cricket and corruption.
The multi-part series, which is based on Booker Prize winning author Aravind Adiga’s novel, tells the story of rivalry between two teenage boys in Mumbai.
It is one of Netflix’s first original dramas to emerge from India and is its latest global commission.
Selection Day is the first order for Seven Stories, which was set up by India Summers and Shopgirl director Tucker and Bridget Jones’ Baby director Maguire in 2015.
Erik Barmack, vice president of international original series at Netflix, said the SVoD service was excited to be expanding its slate of originals in the country.
“These projects...
Netflix has ordered an Indian drama from All3Media-owned UK independent producer Seven Stories.
The London-based firm, established by film directors Anand Tucker and Sharon Maguire and chaired by Stephen Lambert, is producing Selection Day, a story about cricket and corruption.
The multi-part series, which is based on Booker Prize winning author Aravind Adiga’s novel, tells the story of rivalry between two teenage boys in Mumbai.
It is one of Netflix’s first original dramas to emerge from India and is its latest global commission.
Selection Day is the first order for Seven Stories, which was set up by India Summers and Shopgirl director Tucker and Bridget Jones’ Baby director Maguire in 2015.
Erik Barmack, vice president of international original series at Netflix, said the SVoD service was excited to be expanding its slate of originals in the country.
“These projects...
- 8/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Netflix is building up its Indian content offerings, unveiling on Thursday two new originals that it will stream worldwide.
Selection Day is based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author Aravind Adiga, which revolves around cricket and corruption. The series will be co-produced with U.K.-based Seven Stories, which is part of All3Media and backed by filmmakers Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones' Baby) and Anand Tucker (Leap Year). The book sale was brokered by Luke Speed at Curtis Brown.
Again is a female-led detective series set in the capital New Delhi and is written by Marisha Mukerjee whose credits include Quantico and Justified. The series revolves...
Selection Day is based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author Aravind Adiga, which revolves around cricket and corruption. The series will be co-produced with U.K.-based Seven Stories, which is part of All3Media and backed by filmmakers Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones' Baby) and Anand Tucker (Leap Year). The book sale was brokered by Luke Speed at Curtis Brown.
Again is a female-led detective series set in the capital New Delhi and is written by Marisha Mukerjee whose credits include Quantico and Justified. The series revolves...
- 8/3/2017
- by Nyay Bhushan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Motion Picture Capital acquires movie rights to new account of WWII raid.
UK financier Motion Picture Capital has acquired the screen rights to historical novel Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid.
The story, based on real events, is written by military historian Dr Robert Lyman and depicts the daring raid of a German shipping base in Bordeaux by 12 British royal marines in 1942.
Retrospectively dubbed by historians as Operation: Suicide, it will retell the ambitious raid of the dockyards and the British sabotaging of six German ships in the dead of night.
The raid, officially known as Operation Frankton, was previously dramatised in 1955 British war film The Cockleshell Heroes.
Leon Clarance will be developing and producing the movie.
Motion Picture Capital’s credits include Wachowski series Sense8, 2017 Sam Worthington sci-fi Titan, drama Hampstead and the upcoming American road-trip movie, Kodachrome, which stars Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris.
The movie will...
UK financier Motion Picture Capital has acquired the screen rights to historical novel Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid.
The story, based on real events, is written by military historian Dr Robert Lyman and depicts the daring raid of a German shipping base in Bordeaux by 12 British royal marines in 1942.
Retrospectively dubbed by historians as Operation: Suicide, it will retell the ambitious raid of the dockyards and the British sabotaging of six German ships in the dead of night.
The raid, officially known as Operation Frankton, was previously dramatised in 1955 British war film The Cockleshell Heroes.
Leon Clarance will be developing and producing the movie.
Motion Picture Capital’s credits include Wachowski series Sense8, 2017 Sam Worthington sci-fi Titan, drama Hampstead and the upcoming American road-trip movie, Kodachrome, which stars Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris.
The movie will...
- 12/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has confirmed that his autobiography is being adapted into a film and that Michael Fassbender has "first option on the script".
Speaking to Digital Spy about pre-production on the movie - based on his memoir The Devil in the Kitchen - the TV star and restaurateur explained that The Martian filmmaker Ridley Scott is overseeing the project.
Marco Pierre White's back, and his new TV cooking show is going to be a nail-biter
"It's being made by Ridley Scott. This is true," White said.
"Michael Fassbender has first option on the script. Nicholas Drake is writing the script and Anand Tucker is directing. He did that beautiful drama on Channel 4 [Indian Summers and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983].
"I have to spend time with the scriptwriter to begin with, so we've got until the end of the year to write it."
On Macbeth's Fassbender, he continued: "Yeah, he's alright is Michael.
Speaking to Digital Spy about pre-production on the movie - based on his memoir The Devil in the Kitchen - the TV star and restaurateur explained that The Martian filmmaker Ridley Scott is overseeing the project.
Marco Pierre White's back, and his new TV cooking show is going to be a nail-biter
"It's being made by Ridley Scott. This is true," White said.
"Michael Fassbender has first option on the script. Nicholas Drake is writing the script and Anand Tucker is directing. He did that beautiful drama on Channel 4 [Indian Summers and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983].
"I have to spend time with the scriptwriter to begin with, so we've got until the end of the year to write it."
On Macbeth's Fassbender, he continued: "Yeah, he's alright is Michael.
- 10/16/2015
- Digital Spy
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
- 10/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
- 10/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Brit directors Anand Tucker and Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’ Diary) are launching a production company with the backing of All3Media. The new company, called Seven Stories, will create TV projects for broadcasters in the UK and U.S. All3Media will hold an undisclosed stake in the company and distribute its content through All3Media International. Studio Lambert chief executive Stephen Lambert becomes Seven Stories' non-exec chairman. Lambert was responsible for…...
- 9/17/2015
- Deadline
Brit directors Anand Tucker and Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’ Diary) are launching a production company with the backing of All3Media. The new company, called Seven Stories, will create TV projects for broadcasters in the UK and U.S. All3Media will hold an undisclosed stake in the company and distribute its content through All3Media International. Studio Lambert chief executive Stephen Lambert becomes Seven Stories' non-exec chairman. Lambert was responsible for…...
- 9/17/2015
- Deadline TV
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