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Exclusive: Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker are teaming on an ITV heist thriller about two skilled confidence tricksters separated by a 10-year prison sentence.

Gentleman Jack star Jones has created Frauds with Anne-Marie O’Connor, who she previously teamed with on ITV’s Maryland.

Jones will play Bert, who has spent the last decade in a Spanish prison cell with a burning desire to pull off one final job that will prove her worth. Doctor Who star Whittaker is Sam, her partner, who for the past decade has been content to live a life of quiet anonymity in the hills of Southern Spain. The story begins as Sam anxiously waits for Bert to be released from a maximum-security prison on grounds of compassionate discharge. On the pretext of one final, multi-million-pound art heist, Bert attempts to lure Sam out of retirement, but at what cost?

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“Ghosts” Season 4 has cast Nat Faxon in a guest star role, Variety has learned.

Faxon will appear in an upcoming episode of the hit CBS comedy as founding father Alexander Hamilton, who fans of the show know is the rival of Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones). The episode will air in early 2025.

Faxon is an Academy Award winner, sharing the award for best adapted screenplay with Alexander Payne and Jim Rash for the 2012 film “The Descendants.” He currently stars in the Apple TV+ comedy series “Loot” opposite Maya Rudolph, which is going into its third season. Faxon’s other TV credits include “The Conners,” “Our Flag Means Death,” “Gaslit,” and “Friends From College.” He is also known for films like “The Way Way Back,” which he co-wrote and co-directed with Rash.

He is repped by CAA, Artists First, and Goodman Genow.

“Ghosts” continues to be one of the most popular comedies in the CBS lineup.

“Loot” star Nat Faxon is set to guest star on CBS’ “Ghosts” in an episode slated to air in early 2025.

The series stars Rose McIver as cheerful freelance journalist Samantha and Utkarsh Ambudkar as up-and-coming chef Jay, who throw both caution and money to the wind when they decide to convert a huge run-down country estate they inherited into a bed and breakfast — only to find it’s inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents.

The “Our Flag Means Death” star is set to portray Alexander Hamilton, the famous founding father who was Isaac’s rival in life and obsession in death. Faxon’s other notable credits include “The Way Way Back,” “The Descendants,” “Bad Teacher” and “Club Dread.”

“Ghosts,” which airs Thursdays at 8:30 pm Et, is executive produced by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, Richie Keen, Matthew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas,...

Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson are two of Hollywood’s most accomplished actresses. Having started their career at a young age, they have since given multiple iconic performances including portraying beloved characters in the MCU.

Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman | Credit: Universal Studios

Though they never shared the screen in the superhero franchise, they have previously collaborated on the 2008 romantic drama The Other Boleyn Girl. Portman, who played Anne Boleyn in the movie, later revealed that her decision to join the film was highly influenced by Johansson’s casting, as she had admired her for years and was eager to work with her.

Natalie Portman Joined The Other Boleyn Girl Only Because of Scarlett Johansson

The 2008 romantic drama, The Other Boleyn Girl, stars Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson as sisters, Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn, respectively, who vie for the love and favor of King Henry VIII, leading to political intrigue and personal betrayal.

The world’s largest college-run film festival, the Scad Savannah film festival, returns to Georgia Oct. 26 with its consistently eclectic programming mix of documentaries, box office hits, indies, animated films, short films and more.

“Scad honors the screen’s brightest stars, from Annette Bening to Lupita Nyong’o to Richard Linklater,” says Scad President and founder Paula Wallace. “Come for the stars and stay for a tour of Scad’s recently expanded Savannah Film Studios backlot… glitz, glamour, and good films.”

This year’s programming includes of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” as well as a centerpiece screening of Robbie Williams’ unconventional biopic “Better Man.” The festival will also screen “Emilia Peréz,” Jacques Audiard’s musical drama which won the Jury Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and a 35mm print of Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which netted the filmmaker the Silver Lion for directing in Venice earlier this year.

“Ghosts” star Rose McIver will direct her first episode of the series this season, the show’s panel told the audience at New York Comic Con Saturday. In addition to McIver, the panel featured Brandon Scott Jones, Sheila Carrasco and Román Zaragoza with “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil in the moderator chair.

The panel also announced that Sakina Jaffrey (“Billions,” “The Mindy Project” and “House of Cards”) and Bernard White will play Jay’s (Utkarsh Ambudkar) parents, Champa and Mahesh in the 1-hour Christmas special airing on Thursday, December 19.

The tagline for the two-part one-hour Christmas special (“A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 1” and “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 2”) reads, “A leaky water heater mishap threatens to ruin holiday plans as Sam and Jay prepare to host Jay’s hard-to-please dad Mahesh (Bernard White), difficult-to-impress mom Champa (Sakina Jaffrey) and sister Bela (Punam Patel).”

“Ghosts” returned for its fourth season on Oct.

“Ghosts” star Rose McIver will sit behind the camera to direct an episode of the hit CBS comedy, it was revealed Saturday during the show’s panel at New York Comic-Con. The episode, which starts filming soon and will air in 2025, reps the first time McIver will helm a TV series.

On “Ghosts,” McIver plays Sam, who inherits an old, haunted mansion that she and husband Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) turn into a bed and breakfast — much to the chagrin of the ghosts that Sam can communicate with. This year, on the show’s one-hour Christmas special, viewers will get to meet Jay’s parents for the first time.

Sakina Jaffrey and Bernard White have been cast as Jay’s parents, Champa and Mahesh, in the two-part episode, which airs on Thursday, December 19.

In the episodes “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 1” and “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 2,” according to the logline,...

For its 27th year, the Scad Savannah Film Festival will take place October 27-November 2 — with Scad, of course, standing for Savannah College of Art and Design. The festival opens with Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and closes with Pablo Larraín’s “Maria.” Honorees of the Scad Savannah Film Festival were previously announced.

This year’s edition will screen 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, and 69 shorts, with 10 world premieres, and six U.S. premieres in Georgia. The lineup is sectioned into galas, signature screenings, special presentation, professional and student competition films, Docs to Watch, Pixels and Pencils, and the Behind the Lens and Below the Line panel series.

Gala screenings include: “Blitz,” “Better Man,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Fire Inside,” “Juror #2,” “The Last Showgirl,” “Maria,” “Nickel Boys,” “Nightbitch,” “The Piano Lesson,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “Sweethearts,” and “Unstoppable”

Special presentations include: “All We Imagine as Light,” “The End,...

AMC+ and Sundance Now today announced a second season of the enchanting drama Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, adapted from the novel by V.V. James. The six-episode second season of the Sundance Now Original series is scheduled to begin filming this month in Ireland and will debut in 2025.

The series premiered earlier this year exclusively on Sundance Now and AMC+ and was Sundance Now’s biggest series debut ever on both platforms. Season one is now available to stream in its entirety on applicable platforms in the U.S. and Canada.

Season two picks up a year after the traumatic events of season one. Sarah Fenn and her daughter Harper are in hiding in Scotland, concealing Harper’s extraordinary powers, but a dark cloud is descending as recent anti-witch legislation has increased hate crimes.

As Sarah worries worse is to come, she’s presented with a dramatic ultimatum – return to Sanctuary...

CBS Studios today revealed at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel that Mary Holland (Big Door Prize) and Dean Norris (Breaking Bad) will guest star in the upcoming fourth season of the hit CBS series Ghosts. Holland has joined for the recurring role of Patience and Norris will play Frank, Samantha’s (Rose McIver) father.

Patience is the ghost of a Puritan woman who died in the late 1600s. While alive, she was exceedingly severe and judgmental, even by Puritan standards. As such, she was expelled from her village for “being a bit too much.”

After being dead for a couple of hundred years, Patience was inadvertently abandoned (by our Revolutionary War ghost Isaac) underground near the mansion and has become a feral creature “roaming the dirt” since 1895.

In the season three finale, Patience reemerged from the dirt to kidnap Isaac and dragged him back to her lair. In the premiere of season four,...

Mary Holland and Dean Norris will guest star in the upcoming fourth season of the CBS series “Ghosts.”

CBS Studios today announced the news at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel. Holland has joined for the recurring role of Patience and Norris will play Frank, Samantha’s (Rose McIver) father.

According to the official desciption, “Patience is the ghost of a Puritan woman who died in the late 1600s. While alive, she was exceedingly severe and judgmental even by Puritan standards. As such, she was expelled from her village for ‘being a bit too much.’ After being dead a couple hundred years, Patience was inadvertently abandoned (by our Revolutionary War ghost Isaac) underground near the mansion and has become a feral creature ‘roaming the dirt’ since 1895. In the season three finale, Patience reemerged from the dirt to kidnap Isaac and dragged him back to her lair. In the premiere of season four,...

Ghosts is adding some new characters for Season 4.

Mary Holland and Dean Norris are set to guest star in the series. Holland has joined for the recurring role of Patience — a character that has been highly anticipated since last season — and Norris will play Frank, Samantha’s (Rose McIver) father, CBS revealed during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday morning.

Patience is the ghost of a Puritan woman who died in the late 1600s. While alive, she was exceedingly severe and judgmental even by Puritan standards. As such, she was expelled from her village for “being a bit too much.”

After being dead a couple hundred years, Patience was inadvertently abandoned (by Revolutionary War ghost Isaac) underground near the mansion and has become a feral creature “roaming the dirt” since 1895. In the season three finale, Patience reemerged from the dirt to kidnap Isaac and dragged him back to her lair.

Saltburn and Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell has teased an adaptation of Wuthering Heights in a post on X that elicited excitable online speculation on Friday.

Fennell posted an image bearing the legends “Be With Me Always. Take Any Form. Drive Me Mad” and “A Film By Emerald Fennell”.

Screen has confirmed Fennell is reuniting with Saltburn collaborator MRC Film on the latest take on Emily Brontë’s mid-19th century gothic tale of obsession and desire involving Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

Alison Owen of Monumental Pictures is lining up what is understood to be a separate Wuthering Heights project with Studiocanal.

The Savannah College of Art and Design is again bringing a generous helping of Southern hospitality to France’s Luberon Valley for the Scad Lacoste Film Festival, which runs June 27 to 29. Now in its third year, the fest was conceived as a top-up highlight for college students doing their semester abroad at Scad’s sumptuous campus in Lacoste, an inexcusably picturesque medieval village in the heart of Provence.

“[Scad founder and president] Paula Wallace always wants to make sure our students have access to the best of everything,” says Christina Routhier, executive director of Scad Theaters and Festivals. “The focus [at Scad Lacoste] is on film majors: acting, directing, production, costume design. So it was a perfect fit to bring in a film festival.”

The event is a complement to the school’s long-running main fest in Savannah, Georgia, which runs Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. Attracting talent to Lacoste, with its Instagram-ready cobblestone streets and lavender fields, hasn’t been a problem.

Robert Thorogood’s “The Marlow Murder Club” has been renewed for a second season, Variety has learned.

Samantha Bond, Jo Martin and Cara Horgan are all set to return as amateur sleuthing trio Judith, Suzie and Becks while Natalie Dew will reprise her role as police inspector Tanika Malik.

In the first season, which launched earlier this spring drawing record ratings for UKTV network Drama, retired archaeologist Judith, dog-walker Suzie and vicar’s wife Becks teamed up to solve a triple murder that rocked their idyllic town of Marlow.

Season 2 will see the group reunite to solve another spate of unsettling crimes. The show is set to shoot this summer, directed by Steve Barron.

Robert Thorogood adapts his own novels alongside Lucia Haynes (“Vera”) and Julia Gilbert (“Midsomer Murders”), each of whom will write a two-episode murder mystery. Thorogood’s episodes will be an adaptation of his second novel, “Death...

The critics have crawled all over Focus Features/StudioCanal’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black like red ants, however, the CinemaScore of B+ (which isn’t far from the Elton John biopic Rocketman at A-) is telling that the fans who showed up weren’t entirely wrought with the film.

For filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson, whose directing career blasted to a whole other state of euphoria with the feature take of bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey (near $570M worldwide), her intent was to see Winehouse’s life through the singer’s eyes.

You can listen to our conversation below:

Singers’ estates can be notorious: If Hollywood tries to make a warts-all movie, well then they’ll just hold the song clearances hostage and bar the film from being made. Back to Black producer Alison Owen already had the songs cleared for the pic from Sony and Columbia, giving Taylor-Johnson...

Exclusive: British writer, director, and producer Alex Marx will make his feature debut with The Queen of Fashion, a long-gestating biopic of fashion editor, stylist, and iconoclast Isabella Blow, with Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough set to produce and play the lead role.

The Queen of Fashion details the ups and downs of Blow’s life championing unknown and marginalized fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Sophie Dahl, whom she catapulted to success while struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The project will be sold in Cannes by Rocket Science for international, with CAA Media Finance arranging financing for the film and handling domestic rights.

Riseborough will star as Blow alongside a robust supporting cast featuring Emilia Clarke as Daphne Guinness, Richard E. Grant as Blow’s father Evelyn Delves Broughton, Fionn O’Shea as Philip Treacy, and Hayley Atwell as Alexandra Schulman. Verity Naughton CDG continues casting key roles,...

Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black sets a new widest UK-Ireland opening record for Studiocanal, starting its run in 719 sites.

The film beats the distributor’s previous record – February release Wicked Little Letters – by 33 venues. It is also the widest opening of the year, beating Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two by two sites.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, Back To Black depicts the life of music icon Winehouse, from her early career through her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and her creation of seminal 2006 album Back To Black.

The film stars 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marisa Abela as Winehouse,...

When Sam Taylor-Johnson started working on her Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, she asked screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh to listen to one of Winehouse’s tracks, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” before he started writing. “I kept saying in those early days, ‘I feel like this song is our path to understanding her,’ ” Taylor-Johnson says.

In the deceptively upbeat single about Winehouse’s tumultuous relationship with her on-again, off-again love, Blake Fielder-Civil, she sings, “It’s my responsibility/And you don’t owe nothing to me.”

For Taylor-Johnson, 57, that line spoke to something largely misunderstood about Winehouse, the English singer who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011: Just 27, she left behind an outsize cultural impact. Winehouse’s defining album, Back to Black, sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, and her unique mix of jazz and soul with punk-era defiance would go on to influence artists like Adele, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish.

Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi epic Megalopolis will premiere in Cannes Competition next month, Screen has confirmed.

The film will receive its world premiere in the key slot of Friday, May 17.

Set in a future version of New York City following a disaster, Megalopolis follows a woman caught between her father who has a classical view of society, and her architect lover who wants to rebuild it as a utopia.

Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel and Giancarlo Esposito lead the cast, which also includes Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Talia Shire, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar.

It’s the film everyone is talking about, so why not hear from those behind it – as HeyUGuys were fortunate participants at the press junket for the forthcoming Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black.

To mark the film’s cinematic release on April 12, we spoke to the leading lady herself, Marisa Abela, as she talks about embodying such an icon, and her process in undertaking all of the songs of the subject, which she herself sings in the movie. She was paired with director Sam Taylor-Johnson, who talks about the talents of the actress sat besides her. We also spoke to Eddie Marsan who plays Amy’s father Mitch, as he talks about addiction, and how he went about understanding and connecting to his character. Finally you can watch our interview with producer Alison Owen, alongside screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh.

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Cannes Film Festival has selected the first part of Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Saga as an out of Competition title for the 2024 festival.

The first part of the two-part film will play on Sunday, May 19. Part one is scheduled for release on June 28 this year, with part two scheduled for August 16, both through Warner Bros.

Costner has previously said he wants to make four Horizon films, with work reportedly underway already on parts three and four.

Set during the American Civil War, Horizon, An American Saga depicts the expansion of the American West. Costner wrote the two-part film...

Jonathan Majors has been sentenced to one year of domestic violence counselling following his conviction for reckless assault and harassment last year.

US actor Majors avoided any custodial time for the crime, which carried a potential one-year jail sentence. He must participate in-person in the 52-week LA-based intervention programme, and must also continue mental- health therapy as part of his sentencing.

Passing the sentence on Monday, April 8, New York judge Michael Gaffey issued a permanent protection order against any contact from Majors with his former partner Grace Jabbari. Majors also cannot apply for or own a gun.

The judge explained...

Singer Lily Allen, who is now settled with her ‘Stranger Things’ actor David Harbour, went through a tough time when she achieved fame as a singer. Her mother Alison Owen said she saw her daughter and Amy Winhouse go through similar struggles when they first got into the public eye.

Owen, who is a producer on the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’, told The Times that she thought being in the spotlight “would destroy my daughter” and lead her down the same grim path Winehouse ended up on.

Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27. Her brother believed that bulimia was also to blame.

Referring to Allen’s former-actor father Keith Allen, she added: “Lily fitted the bill because, early in her success, her role model was her dad.

“She’d seen him idolised for swearing, taking drugs and being drunk in the Groucho...

Universal International Studios has jumped back into the UK books market for another TV development.

In another “highly competitive situation,” the Universal Studio Group subsidiary has acquired rights to develop British author Christie Watson’s novel Moral Injuries as a television series.

Parent Usg was instrumental in securing the rights, just as it was when Uis swooped to buy adaptation rights to Lucy Foley’s upcoming book The Midnight Feast, as we reported on Friday.

Set in the UK, the series will be produced by Uis, with execs from ITV Studios-owned Monumental Television attached as executive producer. Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Katie Kelly will serve as executive producers for Monumental, working in partnership with the Global Scripted Series team at Uis.

Psychological thriller Moral Injuries was released in the UK on March 14. Logline for the books bills it as a “glossy thriller that follows three best friends since...

Initially rising to prominence following the success of her single Smile, which reached number one on the UK charts in 2006. the singer turned actress Lily Allen got candid about parenting. The Olivier Awards nominated star, who shares two children, Ethel Mary, 12, and Marnie Rose, 11, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, joked about the implications of being a mother to her stardom.

But the Not Fair singer’s statements about her kids have landed Allen in some hot waters, as fans are stressing the actress’ statements could be detrimental to the kids.

Lily Allen | Credit: Dreamland Lily Allen Jokingly Held Her Kids Responsible for Ruining Her Stardom

Lily Allen, who is currently engaged to Stranger Things Star David Harbour, touched on the impact of being a parent of two in her professional career. In the new episode of the Radio Times podcast, Allen said her kids ruined her career in terms of...

CBS has renewed the comedy “Ghosts” for Season 4 and the drama “Fire Country” for Season 3.

Both shows launched their new seasons in mid-February due to the impact last year’s dual writers’ and actors’ strike had on broadcast production schedules.

“’Ghosts’ and ‘Fire Country’ are proven viewer favorites on both broadcast and streaming thanks to exceptional storytelling, talented actors and an ever-growing fan base,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “We are elated to keep the momentum going and bring them back to CBS next season.”

Per CBS, “Ghosts” is currently averaging 10.2 million viewers per episode in Live+7 multiplatform viewing, while “Fire Country” is averaging 9.2 million.

Ghosts” is based on the UK series of the same name. The American version stars Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Rebecca Wisocky and Devan Chandler

Joe Port and Joe Wiseman developed...

CBS is looking to scare up more laughs after handing an early Season 4 renewal to supernatural comedy Ghosts.

It is the latest renewal order for the Paramount-owned network, which also handed a third season to Fire Country and gave Justin Hartley series Tracker a second season earlier this month.

Ghosts, which is based on the BBC’s British comedy, has been a success for CBS since launching in 2021. Its third season is averaging over 10M viewers in live 7-day multiplatform viewing, which is marginally up from last year and streaming numbers are up on Paramount+, where the company said it ranked as its number one comedy in February.

Related: 2024 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming

The move gives some continuity to CBS’ comedy slate for next season as two of its longer running series, Young Sheldon and Bob Hearts Abishola are coming to an end.

A new poster for for the upcoming film Back to Black has been released, and you can check it out right here on CinemaNerdz (see below). The film will be in theaters nationwide on Friday, May 17th.

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, “Back to Black” that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

About The Film

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music Starring: Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Screenplay: Matt Greenhalgh Producer: Alison Owen, p.g.a., Debra Hayward, Nicky Kentish-Barnes

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Sam Taylor-Johnson’s upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” may have access to the late singer’s globally recognized back catalog, but another legendary musician is lending his talents to the project.

Nick Cave, alongside his long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, is scoring the StudioCanal and Focus Features film, which sees “Industry” star Marisa Abela play Winehouse. Abela is joined by a cast including Jack O’Connell (playing Blake Fielder-Civil), Eddie Marsan (Mitch Winehouse), Juliet Cowan (Janis Winehouse) and Lesley Manville.

Variety has been given an exclusive photo taken of Cave, Ellis and Taylor-Johnson recording in the studio earlier this week.

While Winehouse’s own songs, such as “Back to Black” (which featured in the recent trailer), “Valerie” and “Rehab” will undoubtedly take center stage in the film (with most recorded and performed by Abela), Cave and Ellis are understood to have composed about 20-30 minutes of music.

“Nick and Warren...

Check out the official trailer (above), poster, and stills for the upcoming film Back to Black. The film will be in theaters nationwide on Friday, May 17th.

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, “Back to Black” that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

About The Film

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music Starring: Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Screenplay: Matt Greenhalgh Producer: Alison Owen, p.g.a., Debra Hayward, Nicky Kentish-Barnes

Back to Black is in theaters nationwide on May 17, 2024!

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“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes,” says Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in the official trailer for Back to Black. After promising the film will show the love story behind one of the greatest albums of all times, the trailer ends with Abela as Amy saying, “I don’t write songs to be famous. I write songs ’cause I’ve got to make something good outta something bad.”

In addition to Marisa Abela (Industry), the cast includes Jack O’Connell (Ferrari), Eddie Marsan (Fair Play), and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris). Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) directs from a screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh.

Back to Black was made with the full cooperation of Amy Winehouse’s estate. Alison Owen, Debra Hayward, and Nicky Kentish-Barnes served as producers, with Sam Taylor-Johnson, Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, and Joe Naftalin executive producing.

Amy Winehouse had a quick rise to fame and unfortunately, it lasted just as quickly when her addictions would take a toll on her tumultuous life. Her talent would not go unnoticed as the singer gained a huge following, and her fans celebrate her music to this day. Focus Features has now released the official trailer for the biopic about Winehouse as it chronicles her meteoric celebrity and how the dark forces of it all would become too much for her. Marisa Abela, of the TV series Industry and Barbie, plays the singer. The film also stars Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville. The biopic comes from filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson.

The official plot synopsis from Focus Features reads,

“The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame.

The Amy Winehouse biopic is almost here. On Friday, Focus Features dropped the first official trailer for Back to Black, the drama based on the short, stratospheric life of the British soul music legend.

Up-and-coming British actress Marisa Abela (Industry) plays Winehouse in the feature from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, 50 Shades of Grey). Produced by Monumental Pictures and StudioCanal, Back to Black will bow in the U.K. and Ireland on April 12 and go out in the U.S. via Focus Features on May 17.

The film focuses on Winehouse’s early years, living in London, her rise to fame and the recording of her groundbreaking breakout studio album, the titular Back to Black.

In the trailer, we see Abela as Winehouse evolve from her early days, practicing guitar in her room, all brick walls and pink bedsheets, to her first recordings and performing before sellout crowds. We also...

Amy Winehouse’s legacy is getting the big screen treatment.

Following the acclaimed A24 documentary “Amy,” Winehouse’s life now lands a narrative feature with biopic “Back to Black” directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. “Industry” breakout star Marisa Abela portrays the ill-fated British crooner who died at age 27.

The official synopsis reads: “The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking 2006 album, ‘Back to Black,’ that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

The film is written by “Nowhere Boy” scribe Matt Greenhalgh, and co-stars Jack O’Connell as Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse,...

‘Ghosts’ Producer Developing TV Version Of Podcast About Prolific British Con Woman

Ghosts producer Monumental Television is developing a TV version of a Global podcast about one of the most prolific fraudsters in British history. The indie has secured rights to Filthy Ritual, which is about Juliette D’Souza, who at the turn of the century wreaked havoc on a number of people’s lives until a rag-tag team of her victims came together to fight for justice. Described by her neighbors as being like ‘a knife in a velvet glove’, D’Souza claimed to have a special connection to an ancient source of power and wisdom deep in the Amazonian jungle, and she is said to have made at least £1M through extortion and manipulation. ITV Studios-backed Monumental makes BBC One smash Ghosts, which has been adapted for CBS, along with the likes of ITV’s Maryland and UKTV’s The Marlow Murder Club.

ITV Studios-owned Monumental Television, the production company behind critically acclaimed shows including the twice BAFTA-nominated Ghosts for BBC One, Maryland starring Suranne Jones for ITV, and the forthcoming The Marlow Murder Club for UKTV’s Drama channel and PBS Masterpiece in the US, has secured the rights to Filthy Ritual, a true-crime podcast created by Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, and Novel.

Launched in April 2023, Filthy Ritual explores the jaw-dropping tale of one of the most prolific fraudsters in British history. Hosted by Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala, the six-part series uncovers and unpicks the shocking and almost unbelievable story about a charming, enchanting and mysterious woman called Juliette D’Souza, who claimed she could perform miracles.

At the turn of the 21st century in Hampstead, one of London’s most wealthy and well-known suburbs, Juliette D’Souza wreaked havoc on a number of people’s lives until...

Marisa Abela has transformed into Amy Winehouse for biopic “Back to Black.”

The first fictionalized look at late singer Winehouse’s life, the film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and written by “Nowhere Boy” scribe Matt Greenhalgh. “Industry” breakout Abela stars as Winehouse, with Jack O’Connell playing her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan portraying Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse, and Lesley Manville as her maternal grandmother.

The official synopsis reads: “‘Back to Black’ [is] a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking 2006 studio album, ‘Back to Black.’ Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

Winehouse sold more than 30 million records worldwide, and today is generating more than 80 million streams per month. The Grammy-winning singer won Record of the...

Amy Winehouse had a quick rise to fame and unfortunately, it lasted just as quickly when her addictions would get the best of her. Her talent would not go unnoticed as the singer gained a huge following, and her fans celebrate her music to this day. StudioCanal has just released the teaser trailer for the biopic about Winehouse as it chronicles her meteoric celebrity and how tumultuous it became for her. Marisa Abela, of the TV series Industry and Barbie, plays the singer. The movie comes from filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson.

According to Deadline, the biopic “charts Winehouse’s career from her years as a breakout in the London underground music scene to her rapid ascension to worldwide superstardom. Supporting Abela are BAFTA-winning actor Jack O’Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as Mitch Winehouse, Juliet Cowan as Janis Winehouse, and Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Lesley Manville as Winehouse’s grandmother, Cynthia.

Studiocanal UK releases the trailer for upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black. Back to Black will cover Winehouse's rise to fame, likely grappling with her lifelong struggle with addiction. The film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who is best known for her work on 50 Shades of Grey.

The new trailer for Back to Black gives a look at the upcoming biopic about Amy Winehouse. Winehouse was an acclaimed singer behind hit songs such as “Rehab,” “Valerie,” and the titular “Back to Black.” She is also the subject of the acclaimed 2015 documentary Amy, which chronicled her rise to fame and struggles with addiction until her tragic 2011 death by alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27.

Now, Studiocanal UK releases the trailer for Back to Black, giving a look at the upcoming Winehouse biopic. Featuring the music of Winehouse throughout, the Back to Black teaser trailer begins by showing Winehouse’s intense passion for songwriting.

Abela was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2023.

StudiocanalUK has released the first trailer for Back To Black, its upcoming biopic of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.

Marisa Abela – a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2023 – stars as the late Winehouse, with the trailer depicting her performing at various gigs, as well as interactions with paparazzi and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, played by Jack O’Connell.

The film sees director Sam Taylor-Johnson reteam with writer Matt Greenhalgh; the duo had a hit with a previous music star biopic, 2009’s John Lennon story Nowhere Boy. Back To Black is produced by Debra Hayward and Alison Owen for Monumental Pictures,...

Producers StudioCanal and Monumental Pictures have dropped the first international teaser trailer for the hotly anticipated Back to Black, the upcoming music biopic on the late Amy Winehouse.

Up-and-coming British actress Marisa Abela (Industry) plays Winehouse in the feature from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, 50 Shades of Grey). Back to Black bows in the UK and Ireland on April 12. Focus Features will release the film in the U.S. on May 10.

Written by Nowhere Boy and Control scribe Matt Greenhalgh, the biopic was made with the full support of The Amy Winehouse Estate, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Publishing and will feature many of Winehouse’s hit songs. In addition to the title track, the multi-Grammy-winning British soul sensation charted with such tracks as “Rehab,” “Valerie” and “Love Is a Losing Game.” In her short career, she sold more than 30 million records worldwide. While she enjoyed stratospheric success,...

“Back to Black,” a new biopic about the late Amy Winehouse, has debuted its first footage.

Starring “Industry” actor Marisa Abela as Winehouse and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, “Back to Black” is executive produced by Nicky Kentish-Barnes, Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin for Studiocanal and Alison Owen and Debra Hayward for Monumental Pictures from a screenplay written by Matt Greenhalgh (“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”).

“‘Back to Black’ is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, ‘Back to Black,” the logline reads. “Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

“I don’t write music to be famous,” Abela as Winehouse says in the trailer as the title song rings out. “I write songs...

Marisa Abela stars as Amy Winehouse in director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s ‘Back To Black’, a Focus Features release. (Photo Credit : Courtesy of Dean Rogers/Focus Features)

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black will open in U.S. theaters on May 10, 2024. Industry‘s Marisa Abela stars as the iconic singer who tragically passed away at the age of 27 on July 23, 2011.

The cast also includes Jack O’Connell (Ferrari), Eddie Marsan (Fair Play), and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris).

“My connection to Amy began when I left college and was hanging out in the creatively diverse London borough of Camden. I got a job at the legendary Koko Club, and I can still breathe every market stall, vintage shop, and street… A few years later Amy wrote her searingly honest songs whilst living in Camden. Like with me, it became part of her DNA,” said director Taylor-Johnson.

Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black is getting a high profile release in cinemas across the country on May 10, Focus Features announced Tuesday.

Sam Taylor-Johnson directed the film from a script by Matt Greenhalgh following their successful collaboration on 2009’s Nowhere Boy.

Breakout Industry actress Marisa Abela stars as the legendary singers-songwriter, who died in 2011. Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville also star.

The movie promises to provide a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, Back to Black. Winehouse, who died in 2011, is widely considered one of the greatest artists in recent history, selling more than 30 million records worldwide.

Focus will distribute Back to Back in the U.S., with Universal Pictures International handling international distribution, excluding the UK, France, Germany, Aus/Nz, Benelux, Scandinavia and Poland, which will be handled by StudioCanal.

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Marisa Abela stars, Sam Taylor-Johnson directs.

Focus Features has set a May 10 2024 US theatrical release date for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black.

Marisa Abela (Industry) stars in the lead role as the late British singer. Based on a screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh – collaborators on 2009’s Nowhere Boy – the story is told from Winehouse’s perspective as she rises to fame and the relationship that inspired her acclaimed 2006 Grammy-winning album, Back To Black.

The cast includes Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville. Alison Owen and Debra Hayward of Monumental Pictures are producing, with Nicky Kentish-Barnes serving...

Focus Features’ Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black,” starring “Industry” actor Marisa Abela as the late music icon, will premiere in U.S. theaters on May 10, 2024.

According to the distributor, “‘Back to Black’ is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, ‘Back to Black.’ Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

“Fifty Shades of Grey” filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson directs the movie from a script by Matt Greenhalgh. The two previously collaborated on 2009’s “Nowhere Boy,” a John Lennon biopic starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the young Beatle.

Starring alongside Abela are Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari”), Eddie Marsan (“Fair Play”) and Lesley Manville (“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”). Alison Owen and Debra Hayward produce via Monumental, while...

Focus Features has set a theatrical release of May 10, 2024 for the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black.

Sam Taylor-Johnson directs from a script written by Matt Greenhalgh. The duo previously teamed on 2009’s Nowhere Boy.

Back to Black is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, Back to Black. Told from Winehouse’s Pov, the film is billed as an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time. The 2006 album skyrocketed her to stardom as she went on to win a then record breaking five Grammy awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Winehouse has sold more than 30M albums around the globe and today generates more than 80M streams monthly.

Pic stars break-out actress Marisa Abela (Industry) in the...

Sam Taylor-Johnson’s highly-anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” will be released in theaters May 2024.

The film, which stars “Industry” breakout Marisa Abela as Winehouse, will be released by Focus Features May 10. Matt Greenhalgh penned the script, reuniting with Taylor-Johnson after her 2009 film “Nowhere Boy.”

Jack O’Connell plays Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, with Eddie Marsan portraying Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse and Lesley Manville as her maternal grandmother.

The official synopsis reads: “‘Back to Black’ [is] a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking 2006 studio album, ‘Back to Black.’ Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

Winehouse’s music was licensed for the feature, which is made with the full support of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Publishing,...

Studiocanal and Monumental Pictures announce the UK release date & first look image for ‘Back to Black,’ the highly anticipated feature film about Amy Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London and her intense journey to fame will open in UK and Irish cinemas 12 April 2024.

The movie will focus on Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused everything she did. A journey that took her from the craziness and colour of 90’s Camden High Street to global adoration – and back again, it crashes through the looking glass of celebrity to watch this journey from behind the mirror, to see what Amy saw, to feel what she felt.

(Images: Studiocanal/Monumental Pictures)

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