The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will honor Tom Hiddleston with its Golden Eye Award as his latest feature Tenzing opens its 22nd edition on Thursday. Hiddleston, who will attend the European premiere with co-star Willem Dafoe and BAFTA-nominated director filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, will be presented with the award ahead of the screening. The actor plays […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow22 Sept
AMC+ has picked up drama series Smilla’s Sense of Snow. The dystopian thriller will play on the streaming service in the U.S. and Canada. A new adaptation of Peter Høeg’s bestseller, the series stars Filippa Coster-Waldau, Elyas M’Barek and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. It is directed by BAFTA winner Amma Asante (The Handmaid’s Tale). Smilla’s Sense of […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke22 Sept
Sky, Propagate Content and Passion Pictures are preparing a documentary feature about the Tupac Shakur trial. Directed by BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated docmaker Marian Mohamed, the as-yet-untitled doc comes after a Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder of one of the greatest rappers of all time, coming after three decades […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart22 Sept
She has lit up screens large and small playing Ruth Ellis, Rita Skeeter, Barbara Castle and the hilarious Queenie in Blackadder. Alternatively, you could ask about birds of prey, orangutans or playing the cello Judging by the size of her awards cupboard, Miranda Richardson has had quite the career. She won a Bafta for the 1992 psychological drama Damage, opposite Jeremy Irons, and Golden Globes for the 1991 historical drama Enchanted April and the 1994 Nazi thriller Fatherland, and was Oscar-nominated for both Damage and the 1994 historical drama Tom & Viv. Her other notable performances include IRA member Jude in The Crying Game, Ruth Ellis in Dance With a Stranger and Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow. She’s pretty handy at comedy, too – and probably just as familiar for playing acid-tongued Daily Prophet journalist Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the murderous chicken-farm owner Mrs Tweedy in Chicken Run and, of course, the gloriously unhinged Queenie in Blackadder II: “I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant.” Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rich Pelley22 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Chanel Cresswell, star of This is England and The Gentlemen, has boarded Netflix’s upcoming series The Lords’ Day. The BAFTA-winning star will play an as-yet-unrevealed role in the high-stakes political thriller starring Damson Idris in the lead role. Cresswell plays Freddy’s wife Tammy in fellow Netflix UK series The Gentlemen and has a wealth […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart22 Sept
Despite the threat of AI to the film industry, Tom Cruise is confident that people will always “want to see real things” on screen. At an intimate BAFTA “Life in Pictures” conversation in London on Monday night, Cruise looked back on his four-decade career including acclaimed roles in “Top Gun,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Magnolia” and the […]
Variety•Ellise Shafer21 Sept
Tom Cruise earned spontaneous applause at a BAFTA event in London after spending more than six minutes eulogizing about the power of art over AI. Speaking at a BAFTA: Life in Pictures event, during which Cruise reflected on his screen career, host Edith Bowman posed what she described as the “AI question” about how the […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter21 Sept
BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood) and Academy Award nominee Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) have joined the cast of A24’s BBC drama series Ministry of Time. Also announced this morning are Hong Chau (The Whale), Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black), Emily Fairn (The Responder), Josh Finan (Say Nothing), Aisling Loftus (Sherwood), Tawfeek Barhom (Cairo Conspiracy) and Nahuel […]
Deadline•Jesse Whittock21 Sept
The actor on a terrible accident as a toddler, her bossy nature, and feeling too old to play a Shakespearean heroine Born in Brighton, Amanda Redman, 69, studied at Bristol Old Vic theatre school. She starred in the TV comedy drama El C.I.D. in the 1990s, and in At Home With the Braithwaites from 2000 to 2003, a role that earned her a Bafta nomination. She played the lead in the BBC series New Tricks for a decade until 2013, and her later work includes The Trials of Jimmy Rose and The Good Karma Hospital. On 28 September, her 2000 film Sexy Beast will be rereleased in a limited-edition box set. She has a daughter and lives in London with her second husband. When were you happiest? I am happiest when I have my daughter and granddaughter with me. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rosanna Greenstreet19 Sept
A depressing look at the anti-immigration movement in England ‘Til I Die. Plus: Kevin McCloud is back with Grand Designs. Here’s what to watch today 10pm, Channel 4 Here comes the year’s most depressing hour of TV. This film follows Liam Tomsett from Crowborough, East Sussex, who positioned himself as an anti-immigration leader when the government announced that an army camp would be used to house asylum seekers in the town. The cameras follow him and far-right protesters as they wade deeper into the movement. From the Bafta-winning team behind Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods, and the pulled BBC documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, it is shocking and scorched with anger. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...
The Guardian•Hollie Richardson, Priya Elan, Ali Catterall, Hannah J Davies and Ellen E Jones16 Sept
“Last Meals,” the upcoming drama from Oscar nominated writer-director Ramin Bahrani (“The White Tiger,” “99 Homes”) and starring Mads Mikkelson in the lead role, has expanded its cast as the start of principal photography nears. BAFTA and Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson (“Hedda,” “Creed”) and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road,” “Nocturnal Animas”) have joined […]
Variety•Alex Ritman14 Sept
