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Jack Lowden is stepping out of the shadows of British intelligence and into the smoke-filled streets of 1920s Berlin. The Slow Horses star has officially landed the lead role in Apple TV+’s upcoming Berlin Noir series, which is based on the Berlin Noir detective novels by Philip Kerr.

Tom Shankland is signed on to direct and also serves as an executive producer. The show is currently untitled, but the adaptation is being written by Peter Straughan. Straughan is also an executive producer along with Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch, Ryan Rasmussen, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman.

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The first season will reportedly be adapted from Metropolis, which is the final book published in Kerr’s Berlin Noir book series, though chronologically it serves as a prequel. Set in 1928 Berlin, the story follows a young Bernie Gunther, a...

El actor escocés protagonizará esta adaptación de las novelas de Philip Kerr. © Getty Images

De acuerdo con Deadline, Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) protagonizará la serie Berlin Noir, basada en la aclamada saga de novelas escritas por el británico Philip Kerr, para Apple TV+.

La serie de libros Berlin Noir gira en torno al icónico detective Bernie Gunther, que será interpretado por Lowden. La primera temporada adaptará Metrópolis, última novela publicada de la saga, pero cronológicamente la primera, que proporciona la historia origen de Gunther. Aquí, conocemos a un joven Gunther recién ascendido a la imponente Brigada de Homicidios de Berlín en 1928. Él deberá investigar lo que parece ser un asesino en serie que tiene como objetivo a víctimas de los márgenes de la sociedad. Su Berlín es una ciudad de libertad sin precedentes y turbulencias vertiginosas, con los nazis siendo solo una pesadilla lejana que espera entre bastidores.

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Jack Lowden’s slow but steady rise in Hollywood has been a pleasure for his fans to witness. His breakout role was undoubtedly in Apple TV+’s critically revered spy drama called Slow Horses. Lowden played River Cartwright, a former MI5 agent who begins working at the bureaucratic Slough House after being disgraced. Fans praised him for his emotional depth and quiet intensity, and over time, he garnered a Primetime Emmy nomination for his performance in 2024.

Now, the actor is stepping into the world of Berlin Noir, adapted from the bestselling books by Philip Kerr. He is expected to play the lead role of Bernie Gunther, a detective who faces moral turmoil while navigating the turbulent times of 1920s Berlin. The show is expected to blend historical drama and complex noir mystery that will keep viewers gripped. Lowden’s growth from an ensemble actor to being a lead has been extraordinary to witness.

Jack Lowden has been set for the lead role in Apple TV+’s yet-to-be-titled drama series based on Metropolis, the last of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels.

The series will shoot in Berlin with Tom Shankland directing from a script adapted by Conclave Oscar winner Peter Straughan.

Lowden currently stars with Gary Oldman in Slow Horses, recently ordered by Apple TV+ for a seventh season and nominated earlier this week for the best drama series Emmy. Shankland is known for projects including Netflix miniseries The Leopard and BBC series Rogue Heroes.

Hailing from Bad Wolf and PlayTone, the Metropolis...

While he first gained fame for his role as Collins in Dunkirk, the WWII epic from Christopher Nolan, Jack Lowden has exploded in popularity over the last few years thanks to his work in Slow Horses. Lowden stars alongside Gary Oldman in the hit Apple TV+ series, which will air its fifth season on September 24. Apple has now announced that it is strengthening its partnership with Lowden, who has been recruited to lead a new Berlin Noir adaptation for the streamer. Tom Shankland (The Punisher) has also boarded the series as a director and executive producer. Lowden will play detective Bernie Gunther, a police officer who must investigate a serial killer targeting victims on the margins of the city. As the political and social landscapes continue to shift, Bernie must fight for the truth in a world increasingly less interested in it.

The series is currently lacking a title, but...

Jack Lowden has been cast in the lead role of Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series adapted from Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” book series. Tom Shankland has joined the production as director and executive producer.

Lowden will play detective Bernie Gunther. The series begins based on the events of “Metropolis,” which was the last book published in the series but takes place in 1928, before the rest of the books, and gives Bernie’s origin story. Per the official description, “Bernie is a police officer, newly promoted to the intimidating and elite Berlin Murder Squad, and must investigate what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society. Bernie’s Berlin is a city of unprecedented freedom and dizzying turbulence, the Nazis just a distant nightmare waiting in the wings. With the political and social world shifting to a new norm, we see Bernie fighting for truth,...

Exclusive: Slow Horses star Jack Lowden looks to be reuniting with Apple on one of the streamer’s more anticipated series. Sources tell Deadline that the Emmy-nominated actor is set to star in an untitled series based on Metropolis, from Philip Kerr’s globally bestselling Berlin Noir book series.

Insiders also say that BAFTA nominee Tom Shankland will direct as well as executive produce the Apple TV+ series, which Deadline first told you was in the works back in April.

Peter Straughan, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Conclave, will serve as showrunner as well as adapt the script and executive produce. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will also exec produce through their Playtone banner. Playtone and Apple most recently teamed on the World War II series Masters of the Air. The new series will be filmed in Berlin.

The Berlin Noir book series revolved around iconic detective Bernie...

“The Leopard” is the new Italy-produced live-action drama TV series, created by Richard Warlow, adapting the novel “Il Gattopardo’, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, directed by Tom Shankland, Giuseppe Capotondi and Laura Luchetti, starring Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel, Saul Nanni, Paolo Calabresi, Francesco Colella, Astrid Meloni, and Greta Esposito, now streaming on Netflix:

“…set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860’s Sicily, ‘Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina’, leads a life surrounded by beauty and privilege.

“As Italy moves towards unification and the old aristocratic order is threatened, he realizes his family's future is in jeopardy. New allegiances must be made, each one a threat to his principles.

“Eventually Fabrizio is faced with an impossible choice. He has the power to engineer a marriage, between the rich & beautiful ‘Angelica’ and his nephew ‘Tancredi’…

“…that could secure his family’s legacy, but doing so he would break his favorite daughter,...

Italian composer Paolo Buonvino delved deep into the musical heritage of his native Sicily to create the score for Netflix’s sumptuous “The Leopard” series, which has been steadily gaining global fans since dropping in March.

The high-end period piece, which marks the streamer’s biggest splash in Italy so far, is a modern take on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily, it was famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.

The series is lead-directed by Britain’s Tom Shankland and stars top model Deva Cassel — who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter — as Angelica Sedara, the stunning middle-class woman who becomes a catalyst of social disruption and was played by Cardinale in the original.

Netflix’s “The Leopard” is gaining global traction with viewers just as the streaming giant is taking the sumptuous Sicilian series on a tour involving gala presentations in Italian embassies and other institutions in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Brussels and other world capitals.

The high-end show, based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, dropped on Netflix March 5. In its first five days, “The Leopard” scored more than 3 million views worldwide and landed in the streamer’s Top 10 in over 30 countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Spain — in addition to Italy, where “The Leopard” rapidly shot to No. 1, Netflix said on Wednesday.

Following a glitzy March 3 Rome launch with a black-tie gala held in the Eternal City’s Opera Theatre, the lavish historical tapestry — with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” – has been unveiled, in part, at a slew of hosted events...

In the second half of the 19th century, Italy was changing: Unification was underway, and Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Redshirt army was on the verge of conquering the island of Sicily. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s posthumously published 1958 novel Il Gattopardo chronicled that period through the eyes of the Sicilian aristocratic Corbera family, in an enduring epic that became the highest-selling novel in Italian history. Now, years after Luchino Visconti’s Palme d’Or–winning film adaptation, the story comes to life once again, in a new limited series.

Tom Shankland, who directed several episodes of The Leopard, was raised steeped in the history of Sicily; his father was a professor in Europe, and the family spent a great deal of time there. “I read the book in my 20s and thought, ‘it’s a wonderful book,’ ” Shankland tells Tudum. “It seems to speak to the Sicily that I experienced as...

“Everything must change for everything to remain the same,” Tancredi, Prince Fabrizio Salina’s beloved nephew, says in a now-famous line from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard.” The same philosophy applies to the look and feel of the Sicily-set classic’s Netflix miniseries adaptation, which released globally Wednesday and marks the streamer’s most ambitious Italian original to date.

“The Leopard” chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the 19th-century unification of Italy, known as the Risorgimento. When tasked with telling the story in 2025, the lavish show’s production and costume teams faced a monumental challenge in envisioning a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga. There would also be inevitable comparisons to “The Leopard’s” first adaptation — Luchino Visconti’s 1963 cinema classic starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.

Netflix’s six-episode epic...

Meghan Markle’s delayed debut as a lifestyle goddess; a new epic series adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard; the second spinoff movie in the fast expanding SpongeBob movie universe; a new season motorsports greatest docuseries; Anthony and Joe Russo’s latest big-budget feature; and a screwball murder mystery from Shondaland are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting Netflix in March.

Finally debuting on March 4th is Netflix’s lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, which is hosted and executive produced by Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. The show was originally slated to launch on Jan. 15, but was postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires. The unscripted series, which was filmed at a farmhouse in Montecito, California, is a blend of practical how-tos and candid interviews with prominent people. The guests slated for the first season include Roy Choi, Mindy Kaling, Abigail Spencer,...

Netflix pulled out all the stops as it unveiled its hotly anticipated limited series “The Leopard,” based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which marks the streamer’s biggest splash in Italy thus far.

On Tuesday, Netflix held a packed press conference in the frescoed ballroom of Rome’s central Hotel Plaza, which was also used to film one of the show’s key scenes. “The Leopard” will formally premiere in Rome on March 3 with a black-tie gala held in the Eternal City’s Opera Theatre before dropping globally on March 5.

The lavish historical tapestry — with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” and potential to make a global mark — is a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme...

Did you know that the creator of Peaky Blinders has an action-packed war drama with a great cast and perfect reviews? Most Americans don't, unfortunately, because Epix and MGM+ aren't exactly on everyone's radar. But if Rogue Heroes was a Netflix or Prime Video series, it's almost a sure bet that it would be a massive hit here in the States. With the upcoming second season garnering a perfect 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes (just like Season 1), now is a good time to try MGM+ (even if it's for a free trial).

Rogue Heroes comes from the United Kingdom, where it is a popular and beloved series on BBC One. Its premiere episode had more than 6.5 million viewers (in a seven-day period), with each episode of the first season maintaining more than five million viewers an episode. The series follows the creation and deployment of the British Army's Special Air Services,...

Next year promises to be a hot one for European productions, with everything from Netflix’s Italian period drama The Leopard to Max Turkey’s The First Göktürk drawing audiences to non-English-language fare. Throw in the second season of young adult crowd pleaser Maxton Hall: The World Between Us and Prime Video Italy’s Jesse Williams vehicle Costiera and it promises to be a bumper 2025. Read on for our selection, and add your own in the comments.

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We’re starting our tour with Disney+’s first Nordic original series, given that it premieres in select countries and on Hulu in the U.S. on January 22. It began airing on SVT1 in Sweden over Christmas, but we’ll give it a pass given the worldwide launch is etched in for 2025. The political satire — from Patrick Nebout, Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Magnus Bimberg’s Humanoids — revolves...

"Rogue Heroes",  the six-part live-action TV series from "Peaky Blinders" writer Steven Knight, directed by Tom Shankland, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen and Sofia Boutella streaming January 12, 2025 on MGM+:

"... during 'World War II', 'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don't work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. 

"He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling's team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic..."

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"Rogue Heroes",  the six-part live-action TV series from "Peaky Blinders" writer Steven Knight, directed by Tom Shankland, stars Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen and Sofia Boutella streaming in 2025 on MGM+:

"... during 'World War II', 'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don't work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. 

"He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling's team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic..."

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“The Leopard” is the new Italian-produced live-action TV series, created by Richard Warlow, adapting the novel “Il Gattopardo’, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, directed by Tom Shankland, Giuseppe Capotondi and Laura Luchetti, starring Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel, Saul Nanni, Paolo Calabresi, Francesco Colella, Astrid Meloni, and Greta Esposito. streaming in 2025 on Netflix:

“…set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860’s Sicily, ‘Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina’, leads a life surrounded by beauty and privilege.

“As Italy moves towards unification and the old aristocratic order is threatened, he realizes his family's future is in jeopardy. New allegiances must be made, each one a threat to his principles.

“Eventually Fabrizio is faced with an impossible choice. He has the power to engineer a marriage, between the rich & beautiful ‘Angelica’ and his nephew ‘Tancredi’…

“…that could secure his family’s legacy, but doing so he would break his favorite daughter,...

Una serie sobre la dinastía de la icónica cerveza.

“House of Guinness”, la nueva serie creada y escrita por Steven Knight, el creador de “Peaky Blinders”, ha comenzado su rodaje y ya conocemos el reparto completo.

La serie se presenta como una historia épica inspirada en la familia Guinness, una dinastía europea que se hizo famosa por la bebida que elaboran. Ambientada en el Dublín del siglo Xix y en Nueva York, la historia reimagina el periodo inmediatamente posterior a la muerte de Sir Benjamin Guinness, el hombre responsable del extraordinario éxito de la fábrica de cerveza Guinness, y las trascendentales repercusiones de su testamento en el destino de sus cuatro hijos adultos, Arthur, Edward, Anne y Ben, así como en un grupo de personajes dublineses que trabajan e interactúan con el fenómeno que es Guinness.

La serie está protagonizada por James Norton (“Mujercitas”), Jack Gleeson (“Juego de Tronos”), Niamh McCormack...

Netflix’s House of Guinness has brewed its cast.

James Norton and Jack Gleeson have been named among the cast for Steven Knight-penned Guinness factory drama series.

Joining them are Niamh McCormack, Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air, Manhunt), Louis Partridge (Pistol, Enola Holmes), Emily Fairn (The Responder, Black Mirror: Demon 79), Fionn O’Shea (Normal People, Dance First), Seamus O’Hara (Blue Lights, An Irish Goodbye), Dervla Kirwan (True Detective: Night Country, Smother), Michael McElhatton (Game of Thrones, The Long Shadow), Danielle Galligan (Shadow and Bone, Obituary), David Wilmot (Station Eleven, Bodkin) and Hilda Fay (The Woman in the Wall, Spilt Milk).

The series, from Banijay UK’s Kudos, is billed as an epic story inspired by The Guinness family, a European dynasty made famous by the drink they brew.

Masters Of The Air star Anthony Boyle will lead the cast for Netflix series House Of Guinness from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

Set in 19th-century Dublin, Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn and Fionn O’Shea play the four grown up children of legendary brewer Sir Benjamin Guinness.

The eight-part series has begun production and is produced by Banijay-owned Kudos (This Town). Knight has written and exec produces the project. Tom Shankland directs episodes one to five, with Lebanese director Mounia Akl taking on episodes six to eight. Akl was a Screen Arab Star of Tomorrow in 2016.

The cast also includes James Norton,...

Steven Knight has penned a series about the Guinness family and it has just begun production. More on the project below.

Lately, Steven Knight has been busy prepping the upcoming Peaky Blinders film which is due to start filming this September, but it looks like the British writer has had time to work on other things too.

Netflix has announced today that a new series, titled House Of Guinness, has gone into production with Knight credited as writer, creator and executive producer. As you might guess from the title, the series will look at the family behind one of the world’s most popular breweries.

Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Fionn O’Shea, James Norton, Niamh McCormack, Seamus O’Hara, Jack Gleeson, Dervla Kirwan, Michael McElhatton, Danielle Galligan, David Wilmot and Hilda Fay will star in the Netflix series, but the streamer hasn’t provided a release window for House Of Guinness quite just yet.

Wayne Garvie, Sony Pictures Television’s president of international production, has challenged European producers to better exploit Europe’s “treasure house of global IP”.

Speaking at Italy’s Avp Summit, Garvie said Europe has a huge depth of stories from Greek tragedies, Roman emperors, Norse gods, French musketeers, Spanish conquistadors to German fairy tales. “All of them have in various forms entertained the world for thousands of years, and each generation reinvents those stories.”

However, he noted US filmmakers are traditionally better at reinterpreting European stories for international audiences, and then capitalising on their success by building worlds and franchises around their series and characters.

Legendary British screenwriter and television producer Steven Knight is seemingly ready for his next project as it has been confirmed that the Peaky Blinders author is working on a show titled House of Guinness, which is going to explore the history of Ireland’s famous Guinness family and the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness. The project is still in the early phases of production, so not many details have been revealed, but it is in the works, which is absolutely great news.

Netflix is going to produce and stream the series once it is released, but we do not have a proper release window just yet. The streaming service also provided us with a synopsis of the series, which reveals the following:

“House Of Guinness will tell the epic story of one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness Family. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York,...

Despite the promise of a Peaky Blinders movie with Cillian Murphy, creator Steven Knight is currently working on another epic project. Knight has announced his new collaboration with Netflix, a series that will explore the dynamics within the Guinness Family. The new series is titled House of Guinness, and the episodes will be directed by Tom Shankland and Mounia Akl. Fans, especially the Irish ones, are excited to see the story set in the background of Ireland.

Cillian Murphy’s Peaky Blinders creator is currently working on an Irish epic project

Dublin-based Benjamin Guinness owned the St. James’s Gate Brewery expanded the business when he took sole control within the family. House of Guinness will follow the consequences of Benjamin’s death and the struggle for power within the family.

Irish Fans Are Excited Over Peaky Blinders Creator’s New Netflix Series Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is working...

While Christmas tends to be the default setting for winter horror, 2008’s The Children makes a good argument for terror around the New Year. Many folks would expect leisure and fun after a busy Christmas. However, the chance for relaxation is out of the question in Tom Shankland’s movie. Something terrible has suddenly happened to the kids, and something even worse awaits their parents.

Spending New Year’s Eve with the ‘rents and their relatives is undesirable for most teenagers, but Casey (Hannah Tointon) will have definitely wished for more boring family time after her younger siblings and cousins turn on her and every other grownup nearby. No one past the age of puberty is safe here. As Casey and her closest kin gather at a remote house in the country — a decision that always proves to be as unwise as it is clichéd — The Children steadily reveals its unusual threat.

Jenna Coleman is one of the most talented and charming actresses working in the film and TV industry. The English actress made her TV debut with the 2005 British soap opera Emmerdale, and her first feature film role was a very small one but it was in Captain America: First Avenger. She recently starred in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s DC comics The Sandman as Johanna Constantine and she is currently starring in the Prime Vide thriller series Wilderness. So, if you also love Coleman’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jenna Coleman that should be on your watchlist.

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Synopsis: Room At The Top is a drama series based on John Braine’s classic book about Joe Lampton, a young man on the make in 1940’s Yorkshire.

9. Dancing on the Edge (Tubi & Prime Video...

Starring Deva Cassel, Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer” (“La Bella Estate”) has bowed sales and a trailer, ahead of its world premiere at this week’s Locarno Festival.

In a first deal to go down for sales agent True Colours, Palace Films has swooped on distribution rights to Australia and New Zealand. Xenix Filmdistribution will release in Switzerland “The Beautiful Summer,” which is loosely based on Cesare Pavese’s novel.

“His vision is so contemporary. He speaks about adolescence, the time in your life when everything is possible. It’s a story of a simple girl trying to make it in the big city, forced into becoming a woman. It’s a story of every girl,” Luchetti told Variety.

In the film, set in Turin in 1938, hard-working Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is looking for an adventure. She finds Amelia (Deva Cassel), who models for painters and introduces her to a whole different world.

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AlUla – 25 July, 2023: Film AlUla, the Royal Commission for AlUla's film agency, today launches ‘AlUla Creates' short film competition, joined by acclaimed production company Vertigo Films (Monsters, Britannia, Bronson), award-winning Saudi Filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour (The Perfect Candidate, Wadjda) and internationally renowned director, producer and actor Katie Holmes (Rare Objects, Alone Together, Batman Begins). Vertigo Films and Film AlUla will helm the competition to support and establish three Saudi women directors in the international marketplace.

Vertigo Films has a longstanding history of discovering and supporting new talent since launching in 2002, with a number of their films and Hetv productions kick-starting the international careers of leading names, including Tom Hardy (Bronson), Gareth Edwards (Monsters), Vanessa Kirby (Kill Command), Sofia Boutella (StreetDance 2), Tom Shankland (The Children), Nicholas Winding Refn (Bronson) and Issa Lopez (Britannia).

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Netflix has released first-look images of limited series “The Leopard,” based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that marks the streamer’s most ambitious Italian original to date.

Production on the lavish historical tapestry with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” – and potential to make a global mark – is currently underway in the Sicilian cities of Palermo, Syracuse and Catania. The show is a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The movie, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Published posthumously in 1958, “The Leopard” chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the 19th century unification of Italy, known as the Risorgimento. It became the top-selling novel in modern Italian literature of its day and was translated into more than 40 different languages.

Netflix’s Italian drama The Leopard, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic novel, has gone into production and unveiled its cast.

Deva Cassel — daughter of Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci — is among the leads, playing Angelica Sedara. Kim Rossi Stuart will play Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina), while Benedetta Porcaroli is Concetta and Saul Nanni is Tancredi Falconeri. Paolo Calabresi, Francesco Colella, Astrid Meloni and Greta Esposito are also on board.

First looks images have been released and can be seen above.

Filming will last more than four months, and will take place between Palermo, Syracuse, Catania and Rome.

The six-episode series comes from Italian firm Indiana Production and Moonage Pictures in the UK. It’s produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib for Indiana and Will Gould, Frith Tiplady and Matthew Read for Moonage.

The show inspired by Tomasi di...

Shooting has kicked off in Rome on limited series “The Leopard” based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that marks Netflix’s most ambitious Italian original to date.

Production on the lavish period piece will take place in the Sicilian cities of Palermo, Syracuse, Catania as well as the Italian capital over the next four months.

The historical tapestry with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown,” and potential to make a global mark, is a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The six-episode epic set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily will star top model Deva Cassell – who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter – as Angelica Sedara,...

(Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato. In this edition, Matt makes a case against pregnancy in "The Children.")

Tom Shankland's kinderhorror meanie "The Children" isn't an actual reason to avoid childbirth. That's a joke. Although, I wouldn't recommend the film to newfound parents exploring the wonders of parenting. What occurs is along the lines of "Who Can Kill a Child?" and its remake "Come Out and Play," or "Children of the Corn," where innocence is a coverup for murderous intent. Doubly dreary around the holidays since a majority of Xmas traditions point towards making youngins happy.

"The Children" ranks high atop the list of anti-holiday horror movies. Instead of spending Christmas and New Year's partying or unwrapping presents, kiddies turn into killers who prey upon adults. Children couldn't be capable of such atrocious crimes,...

“I’m not surprised,” says British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry on the recent news that hit BBC drama “Sas Rogue Heroes” has been picked up for a second season. “Steve [Steven Knight, the show’s writer and executive producer] is incredible and so is Tom Shankland [the show’s director]. He [Shankland] brought a really refreshing take on the story, he’s brought it to a modern audience, so I’m not surprised.”

El-Masry, who plays the fictional Dr. Gamal, is echoed by co-star Alfie Allen, who plays real-life army officer John “Jock” Lewes. “I can’t wait for season two and I think it will be an incredible experience for those involved. It’s incredibly deserved. Steven Knight is a fantastic writer and long may the ‘Sas Rogue Heroes’ train continue!” says Allen, who played Theon Greyjoy in “Game of Thrones.”

The show, based on the book of the same name by Ben Macintyre, charts...

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s Sas Rogue Heroes has been renewed for a second season by the BBC.

The wartime drama, which was picked up for season one by Epix in the U.S., ended in the past few minutes with a “To Be Continued” caption as Jack O’Connell’s character Paddy Mayne took over the Rogue Heroes.

Series one followed David Stirling (Connor Swindells), Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen) and Paddy Mayne (O’Connell) in a dramatized account of how the Sas was formed in the darkest days of World War Two, with fellow cast members including Dominic West, Sofia Boutella, Tom Glynn-Carney and Theo Barklem-Biggs. Series two will show viewers what comes next for the Sas, following a dramatic turn of events.

The show’s launch became one of the BBC’s top five drama launches of the year with 3.8M viewers, beating all UK launches for Netflix, Amazon...

World War II was a time of heroes overcoming impossible odds to defeat the forces of evil, with the British Sas having many of the bravest soldiers of the era. The new World War II series Rogue Heroes, based on the book Sas Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre and now airing on Epix, takes viewers through the harrowing tale of a group of Sas soldiers on a mission in the Sahara desert.

In Rogue Heroes, the Special Air Service (Sas) are stationed deep in the Sahara desert, with David Sterling (Connor Swindells) among the unit's forces. Under Sterling's leadership, the Sas soldiers formulate a radical plan to take the fight to the Nazis. Jack O'Connell and Alfie Allen also join the cast of Rogue Heroes to bring the story to life as Paddy Mayne and Jock Lewes.

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Plot: Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, the series centers on David Stirling, an eccentric young officer who is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest, and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic.

Review: Steven Knight has long been involved in scripting some of the more intriguing films and television series of the last few decades. Somehow, Knight has made everything from chess (Pawn Sacrifice) to blindness (AppleTV+ series See) into thrilling storytelling. His most popular project is the recently concluded historical crime series Peaky Blinders.

Exclusive: Sex Education’s Connor Swindells said he felt privileged to land the lead role in the stonking BBC One WW2 desert warfare drama Sas Rogue Heroes, and he praised director, Tom Shankland (The Serpent) “for considering me for this, because this isn’t something that comes my way.”

The six-part drama, written and created by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight and from Kudos, is based on Ben Macintyre’s 2016 bestselling authorized wartime history of the Sas.

Swindells, proudly working-class, said that he was apprehensive about auditioning for the part of David Archibald Stirling, a Scots Guard officer and scion of a grand Scottish family with bloodlines stretching back on his mother’s side to King Charles II, and son of a WW1-decorated army general.

“I hadn’t been in those conversations for these types of roles, and it was really Tom Shankland that championed me so much. He really...

"Rogue Heroes" is a new six-part live-action TV series from "Peaky Blinders" writer Steven Knight, directed by Tom Shankland, starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen and Sofia Boutella premiering October 30, 2022 on Epix:

"... during 'World War II', 'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don't work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. 

"He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling's team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic..."

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Netflix’s Italian arm is hunting for anti-heroes.

During a session here at Mia Market in Rome, Netflix Vice President of Italian Originals Eleanora ‘Tinny’ Andreatta said Italy had been traditionally starved of characters from the “imperfect hero to the rough hero” and wanted more of these tropes in her local programs.

Appearing alongside Netflix Emea chief Larry Tanz, she pointed to Everything Calls for Salvation, a drama about a troubled young man who is forced to spend a week in a mental hospital, only to find friendship and love from his fellow patients.

It’s loosely based on Daniele Mencarelli’s novel of the same name and directed by Francesco Bruni, and launches on Netflix tomorrow globally. Audiences members in Italy seemed enthused by a trailer of the show, which has hints of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

“It’s a story that looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the young generation,...

"Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight has lined up his next TV series with "Rogue Heroes," a World War II drama with attitude about the founding of the Special Air Service (Sas). The series is coming your way this fall on Epix and BBC One, and now the first trailer for it is here.

Knight is also known for his other collaborations with Tom Hardy — the one-man movie, "Locke," and the one-season show, "Taboo." He's been moving toward the war, anyway, in the upcoming "Peaky Blinders" movie, but while you wait for that, you can get to know a new cast of characters in what looks like a British outpost in the Egyptian desert, as judged by the pyramids in the background. For "Rogue Heroes" (which will go by the title "Sas: Rogue Heroes" in the UK), Knight has enlisted director Tom Shankland and a cast that includes Connor Swindells ("Sex...

"Rogue Heroes" is a new six-part live-action TV series from "Peaky Blinders" writer Steven Knight, directed by Tom Shankland, starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen and Sofia Boutella premiering Fall 2022 on Epix:

"... during 'World War II', 'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don't work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. 

"He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling's team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic..."

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Epix is pulling the curtain back on the mostly true story of the Special Forces unit, the Sas, which was forged during the darkest days of World War II, in its latest series Rogue Heroes. TV Insider has an exclusive first look at the show from writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and director Tom Shankland (The Serpent), which follows the extraordinary circumstances leading to the formation of the Sas, based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name. As the trailer for Rogue Heroes teases, although the tone of the material may seem dark, the show departs from a typical war drama, leaning into distinctly goofy British humor. (Credit: Epix) The series, which is expected to debut this fall, centers around David Stirling (Sex Education‘s Connor Swindells), an eccentric officer who finds himself hospitalized after a training exercise goes wrong. After this experience, David is convinced that...

"Sas: Rogue Heroes", directed by Tom Shankland is a new BBC/Epix produced six-part limited series from "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of how the 'Special Forces' unit, the 'Sas', was formed during WWII airing in 2022:

"...'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer, is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare..."

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"Sas: Rogue Heroes", directed by Tom Shankland is a new BBC/Epix produced six-part limited series from "Peaky Blinders" creator Steven Knight, based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of how the 'Special Forces' unit, the 'Sas', was formed during WWII:

"...'David Stirling', an eccentric young officer, is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare..."

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He also revealed a slate of new Italian film and TV projects, including Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lying Life Of Adults’

Netflix’s founder and co-ceo Reed Hastings opened the streaming platform’s Rome office today and unveiled a slate of Italian films and series, including a series adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s most recent novel ’The Lying Life Of Adults’ that will star Valeria Golino. Fandango is producing and Edoardo De Angelis will direct.

During the event it was revealed the number of Italian subscribers is “nearly five million,” according to the company. This is up on the four...

He also revealed a slate of new Italian film and TV projects, including Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Lying Life Of Adults’

Netflix’s founder and co-ceo Reed Hastings opened the streaming platform’s Rome office today and unveiled a slate of Italian films and series, including a series adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s most recent novel ’The Lying Life Of Adults’ that will star Valeria Golino. Fandango is producing and Edoardo De Angelis will direct.

During the event it was revealed the number of Italian subscribers is “nearly five million,” according to the company. This is up on the four...

Netflix has opened an office in Italy and unveiled a huge slate of scripted and unscripted series and films from many of the country’s biggest producers, with Co-CEO Reed Hastings detailing the streamer’s roots in the nation.

Located in the heart of Rome, the office will house around 70 staff and adds to Netflix’s suite of European bases, which already includes the UK, France, Spain and, most recently, Poland, among others. Netflix said the new base cements a “long-term commitment” to Italy and its creative community.

For a full rundown of the slated projects, scroll to the bottom.

Netflix launched the office and slate today at an event in Italy’s capital city, where a marquee recalling the facades of 1970s Italian movie theaters was unveiled in the iconic Trevi Fountain Square.

Company founder and Co-CEO Reed Hastings was in attendance, alongside VP of Italian Language Series Tinny Andreatta,...

In a major deal that lit up the concluding hours of MipTV 2022, Canal Plus acquired BBC series “Rogue Heroes.”

Produced by Kudos and Nebulastar for the BBC, and titled “Sas Rogue Heroes” in the U.K. market, the series developed for television and written by Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”), is a dramatized account of how British Special Forces unit, the Sas, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of WWII.

In a deal negotiated by Isabelle Queme, senior VP French-speaking Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Banijay Rights, “Rogue Heroes” has been picked up by Canal Plus in France and for all Canal Plus territories around the world to broadcast in late 2022.

The agreement follows Epix’s acquisition of the drama for the U.S. in 2021 and further sales to HBO Max in Europe, Prime Video in Canada and Sbs in Australia in early 2022.

Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book,...