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Emerald Fennell was best known to PBS viewers as Nurse Patsy Mount from Call The Midwife, joining the series in Season 3 and exiting three years later, and for her turn in The Crown as Camilla Parker, the woman Charles came to regret not marrying instead of Diana. But for
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Apple TV+ first announced it had picked up Fingernails, a British science fiction film starring Jessie Buckley (The Woman in White) and Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), back in May 2022 off the Cannes Film Festival market. Since then, there's not been much news other than a few
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The official kick-off of Netflix's planned Roald Dahl universe of interconnected films and series will take place later this year with the arrival of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Both the story of a man who steals a book and teaches himself to see the future
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Helen Mirren is certainly no stranger to playing historical women, having portrayed three English monarchs (Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Charlotte, and Queen Elizabeth II --- twice!), a Russian Empress (Catherine the Great), and an infamous American gun heiress (Sarah Winchester). So, the fact that she's doing it again shouldn&
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The Venice Film Festival is the unofficial kickoff to awards season, where many of the fall and holiday-timed debuts first screen to build critical buzz. However, between the current SAG-AFTRA strike and the massive box office one-two punch of Barbinheimer, this year’s offerings may not land
Oppenheimer
You could argue that post-war America, having gained the ability to obliterate entire sovereign nations, elected to focus its power on killing itself. The dogmatic conservative values, the ruthless Cold War paranoia, and the constant dog-piling on its nation’s most creative and radical thinkers (not to mention
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Barbie may be the current major high point of director Greta Gerwig's career, but the reason is that it's rather off-brand for her. Previously, the director has behind the last big-screen adaptation of Little Women and Lady Bird, films that are much closer to
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The production working on Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path for theatrical production initially announced it was pivoting to a big screen production just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. Marianne Elliott, the Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning director behind The Curious Incident of
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For all that French general turned emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is one of history's most famous figures, the entertainment world has yet to produce a definitive onscreen version of his story. (Not for lack of desire — even Stanley Kubrick was trying to make a Napoleon movie back in the
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It’s been a hard day’s night for biopic Midas Man chronicling the life of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. After numerous setbacks, the film has finally wrapped filming, with two last-minute additions to its cast. The film is a British co-production between Studio POW and Trevor Beattie
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Damian Lewis is the sort of actor one tends to associate with prestige drama --- he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his starring role in the spy thriller Homeland, but his career has spanned series ranging from period dramas (Wolf Hall) to adaptations of literary classics (A Spy
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With the state of the James Bond franchise in flux — Daniel Craig has moved on from 007 to Benoit Blanc, and although rumors continue to swirl about who might next take up the infamous moniker, there's been nothing close to an official announcement — the entertainment industry has been