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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
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It was only a couple of days ago that we discussed how hard it is to determine which projects that come to the Cannes market will be made and which ones are just fantasy packages in search of a funder. Those that already exist as finished projects have a leg
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Unless you are in the movie business, the concept of a film festival probably seems super esoteric. The idea that there are nearly enough to attend almost year-round would probably knock most people’s socks off. Only a few festivals are famous enough for people outside the business to
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It’s hard to gauge how bad a film people thought Back to Black was when it was released in Britain last month. The slightly dreaded biopic about the tragically short career of homegrown music sensation Amy Winehouse held at number one at the UK box office for two weeks,
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It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as
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For whatever reason, our pop culture has never been all that interested in the woman who survived King Henry VIII. Everyone knows about Anne Boleyn's beheading and most people are aware that Jane Seymour's died after giving birth to his only son. Even Katherine of Aragon