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It made headlines in June 2024 when Sir Ian McKellen fell off the edge of the stage toward the end of one of his final four-hour performances of The Player King, a retelling of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays as a single show. The actor, who is in
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The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the
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If decades of Masterpiece dramas and three seasons of Hulu hit Only Murders in the Building have taught us anything, it's that literally anyone can solve crimes. Are you a restaurant owner? A parish priest? A book publicist? You, too, could be out there doing your bit to
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It looks like an absolute nightmare being married to King Henry VIII, not just because of the statistical likelihood of death or national humiliation, but because even when Henry was dying of ulcerated infection, you could still be considered a dangerous, threat-to-the-crown liability. Of all the fates
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The Watchers is another one of those films that UK and Irish distributors have judged as having too alienating and unmarketable a title, so it’s been pitched in both Britain and Ireland as The Watched. (The Watchers is an Irish-set and co-produced film) The slight confusion over
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Netflix initially announced in January 2022 that it was partnering with the BBC and beloved Plasticine stop-motion storyteller outfit Aardman Animations to finance more old-school (but sadly expensive) animated films after seeing success with Shaun the Sheep as part of its family offerings. The deal at the time
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As we noted during the Cannes Film Festival, the Cannes Market, which is the secondary event happening just out of public view during the annual event, is where many of the deals to make independent productions get off the ground. However, it's never easy to pick out which
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Ian McKellen is approaching 90 years old and has admitted he will not be acting full-time much longer. That makes the final films of his career all the more valuable, so it can be a little frustrating when something like The Critic, which features an all-star cast, struggles
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Bridgerton may be the show on everyone’s lips, but for the couples who have already coupled up, it’s merely a stepping stone to the next project. Season 1’s Regé-Jean Page has already left to make films, and Phoebe Dynevor is also headlining other Netflix series. Season
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Tom Brittney's final episodes on Grantchester are due to start airing on PBS when Season 9 debuts in mid-June. However, the actor hasn't been sitting still since deciding his time as the show's resident Hot Priest was up. First, he launched a production
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The Cannes Market has at least one more British "Hot Package" movie that's guaranteed to start filming when the paperwork says it will: Director Michael Sarnoski's (A Quiet Place) new take on Robin Hood, which has been scooped up by the mega-successful indie
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TV host Richard Osman's debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, became a pandemic hit in the U.K. in September 2020. He's since released three more in the series, the last of which hit the New York Times best-seller list. Various attempts at a movie