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Exclusive: Chloe East (The Fabelmans), Jacqueline Novak (Get on Your Knees) and Jennifer Grant (Babylon) have boarded Sony Pictures’ romance A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from director Kogonada.

Starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, the film’s plot is under wraps, but it’s described as an imaginative tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them.

Seth Reiss wrote the script. Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Ryan Friedkin will produce, along with Reiss and Youree Henley. Exec producers include Kogonada, Ilene Feldman and Original Films’ Ori Eisen. 30West is financing the film.

The supporting cast also includes Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lucy Thomas, Hamish Linklater, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Brandon Perea and Yuvi Hecht.

Breaking out as Monica, the love interest of lead Gabrielle Labelle’s Sammy, in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, East will next star opposite Hugh Grant...

Fittingly for a series in which everybody seems to be engaging in some form of Classic Hollywood cosplay, the Rosebud moment in BritBox’s Archie is delivered by an actor playing comedy icon Danny Kaye.

Affecting a stereotypical German therapist accent — accents on top of accents on top of accents is the Archie way — Kaye cautions young Dyan Cannon (Laura Aikman) that her relationship with the more seasoned Cary Grant (Jason Isaacs) is destined for complications with the warning, “Men who have difficult relationships with their mothers always carry it over to the women that they love.”

There’s no reason for Kaye to make such an observation if he hasn’t been watching the two previous hours of Jeff Pope’s four-episode production. But for the series’ actual audience, his analysis will come across as both obvious and superficial — a bit like Archie itself.

Ultimately, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

The origin of one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars is a story stranger than fiction.

Cary Grant, who appeared in movies including “To Catch a Thief” opposite Grace Kelly, was born Archibald Leach in 1904 to an abusive father in the sleepy city of Bristol, England. While he was a child, Grant’s mother was secretly committed to a mental health hospital and publicly declared dead. The actor only found out she was still alive when he was 31 years old.

Grant is now the subject of “Archie,” a four-part biopic from “Philomena” writer Jeff Pope, made with the cooperation of his ex-wife Dyan Cannon and daughter Jennifer Grant. The series charts the actor’s rise to fame, his struggle with his demons and his relationships with the most important women in his life.

“It was Dyan who told me in much greater detail than you can find anywhere about the whole thing with his mother,...

Jason Isaacs is no stranger to transforming himself on-screen. There’s his straight-talking Soviet Field Marshal Zhukov in :a[The Death Of Stalin]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/death-stalin-review/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'}, his sinister, kidnap-happy scientist Hap in The Oa – and, of course, who could forget the long, platinum locks of his Lucius Malfoy in the :a[Harry Potter movies]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/every-harry-potter-movie-ranked/' target='blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'}? But Isaacs is undergoing perhaps his biggest _physical transformation yet to play Hollywood legend Cary Grant in new series Archie. With the title inspired by Grant’s birth name Archibald Alexander Leach, and written by :a[Philomena]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/philomena-review/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} scribe Jeff Pope, it’s a biographical drama which will explore the acting icon’s extraordinary life story, from his troubled childhood...

The life of Hollywood icon Cary Grant is getting the small-screen treatment in Archie, a four-part drama from BritBox and Itvx. Deadline has more first-look photos of Jason Isaacs as Grant below.

Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant

The series will air in November on ITV in the UK, and in December on BritBox in all its territories: North America, Australia, South Africa and the Nordics.

From writer Jeff Pope and director Paul Andrew Williams, Archie narrates the story of a young Grant’s (born Archibald Alexander Leach) troubled childhood and how extreme poverty, his father’s adultery and the loss of his older brother, John, tore the family apart and sent his loving mother into a downward spiral of grief and depression.

Isaacs will get some assistance in bringing Grant the Bristol, England-born actor to life. Dainton Anderson, Calam Lynch and Oaklee Pendergast play young versions of Archie Leach.

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Cary Grant’s timeless good looks and extensive filmography have made him an enduring topic of fascination for Hollywood scholars and casual moviegoers alike. While his collaborations with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks remain some of the most popular films in the American canon, his personal life continues to inspire as much fascination as his work.

For years, rumors about Grant being sexually involved with other men — including his co-star and roommate Randolph Scott — have swirled from sources of varying credibility. Grant was married to five different women throughout his life, but his sexuality remained a topic of speculation until his death in 1986.

It’s unlikely that questions about Grant’s orientation will ever be fully answered, as neither Grant nor his alleged sexual partners are alive to speak about it. But one of his daughters doubts he was hiding a secret from the world.

In a new interview with The Guardian,...

Born into extreme poverty, Grant was told as a child his mother had died. She had actually been placed in a psychiatric institution. It was the start of a life of repression and extraordinary reinvention

During the casting process for Archie – a forthcoming series for Itvx – about the life of Cary Grant, the late actor’s daughter, Jennifer, had several, unbreakable criteria. The actor playing her dad needed to be suave, of course, per Cary’s public persona. He had to be cerebral – her dad was an avid self-improver. And he had to wow her in a way that reflected the intensity of her relationship with a man who, at the age of 62, gave up a huge career to devote himself exclusively to raising her. Even by the standards of Hollywood, this last detail was eccentric.

It is more than 35 years since Cary died and to talk to his daughter,...

Itvx and BritBox International’s Jason Isaacs-starring Cary Grant biopic Archie has set the rest of its cast.

Jeff Pope’s series, revealed by Deadline in August, will also star Laura Aikman as Cary’s ex-wife Dyan Cannon with Harriet Walter (Succession, Ted Lasso, Killing Eve) as Elise Leach, Grant’s mother. Dainton Anderson (Patrick Melrose), Calam Lynch (Bridgerton) and Oaklee Pendergast (Home) will play young versions of Archie Leach and Kara Tointon (Mr Selfridge, The Halcyon, Sound of Music Live) will play young Elsie. Meanwhile, Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Ragdoll), Ian Pulston-Davies, Ian McNeice (Doc Martin), Jason Watkins (McDonald & Dodds, Des), Lisa Faulkner (EastEnders) and Niamh Cusack (The Virtues) have boarded.

The show from Pope’s rebranded ITV Studios label Etta Pictures is intercuts scenes from Hollywood’s leading man’s early life and 1961 at the height of his fame, with that...

Six years after winning an Oscar for “La La Land,” writer-director Damien Chazelle is gearing up for a return to Tinseltown with his next feature film “Babylon.” This time, he’s taking it back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when silent films transitioned to talkies.

In a recent interview, Chazelle said he first came up with the idea for “a big, epic, multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as,” about 15 years ago. It was only after completing 2018’s “First Man” that he got to work on the script for the “massive” movie.

Like any Hollywood movie about Hollywood, the cast of “Babylon” is as star-studded as they come, playing a mixture of fictional and historical characters. Among them: Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt; Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Tobey Maguire,...

Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs has been cast as classic Hollywood star Cary Grant in a new biopic.

Titled “Archie,” the four-part drama series will tell the story of Grant’s life, from his humble beginnings as Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol, U.K. to the leading man he became in later life.

It has been written by “Philomena” scribe with Paul Andrew Williams (“A Confession”) directing.

“Archie” will debut on ITV’s streaming platform Itvx in the U.K. later this year before airing on ITV in the following months. International sales have not yet been announced.

The drama is produced by ITV Studios with co-production partner BritBox International. Rebecca Hodgson is set to produce while Grant’s daughter, Jennifer Grant, and ex-wife Dyan Cannon exec produce.

“There was only one Cary Grant and I’d never be foolish enough to try to step into his iconic shoes,...

Exclusive: The life of one of Hollywood’s leading men, Cary Grant, is to be portrayed by Jason Isaacs in an ITV and BritBox International drama, Deadline can reveal.

Philomena and Stan & Ollie writer Jeff Pope is writing and exec producing Archie, named after Grant’s birthname Archibald Alexander Leach. ITV Studios is producing and the four-parter will be a flagship premiere on soon-to-launch streamer Itvx.

Grant is widely recognized as one of Hollywood’s leading men, gaining a reputation for his transatlantic accent, sense of comic timing and handsome, debonair demeanor over more than 70 films in a decades-long mid-twentieth century career.

He was twice nominated for an Academy Award, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, and worked with the biggest stars of the day including Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly and Doris Day.

Archie will start with his birth in Bristol in 1904 and tell the story of...

Cary Grant, one of Hollywood’s greatest leading men, was always discomfited by the disconnect he felt between his public image — debonair, to the same degree that Napoleon could be called powerful — and a nagging internal emptiness. He alluded to it in his most famous comment (“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant”), but the private unhappiness went a lot deeper — as you’ll learn from the fascinating new Showtime documentary Becoming Cary Grant.

“For many years I have cautiously peered from behind the face of a man known as Cary Grant. The protection...

We have learned that five senior NBC.com employees were laid off today. The list includes VPs Josie Ventura (VP Primetime Production), Emre Celik (VP technology) and Robert Angelo (VP Late Night, Daytime & Mobile), Senior Quality Assurance Manager Jennifer Grant and Chris Himes, Supervising Digital Producer, SNL, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, 30 Rock. Word is that the shakeup is part of a restructuring and staff overhaul implemented by NBC’s new digital chief, Evp digital media Robert Hayes, who joined NBC last summer. The positions are expected to be refilled. With NBCU as one of the main backers of Hulu, the content on NBC.com and Hulu often overlaps, challenging NBC.com to forge its own identity.

Jennifer Grant will be watching Sunday (Aug. 21) as her screen-legend father inhabits Turner Classic Movies for 24 hours straight.

Still widely considered one of the most singular of all film stars, Cary Grant will have his turn in the channel's annual, month-long "Summer Under the Stars" festival that showcases one actor's work each day. The lineup includes such Grant staples as "Bringing Up Baby," "Gunga Din," "The Philadelphia Story" and the Alfred Hitchcock-directed "North by Northwest."

Jennifer Grant's book "Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant" was published in May. Regarding Sunday's TCM picks, she tells Zap2it, "I love the movies they're showing. I'd seen all of Dad's films prior to writing the book, but the book really wasn't about his career. Many people could write better books about his history in the cinema, but the way I know him is as a father. And I...

BBC Exec Responds to All My Children, One Life To Live Cancellations

John Yorke, BBC's Controller of Continuing Drama and the man behind shows like Eastenders, said: "Our primetime soaps are much more resilient. Partly there are more people available to watch, but also they reach a wider demographic, so at their best they still offer something for everybody. All TV audiences have dropped here from a high of maybe 15 years ago, and some like Heartbeat and The Bill have been lost, but the survivors work well because they're properly funded and — most of the time — are actually pretty good."

The Happy Death of Soap Operas

Jennifer Grant writes: "Although it’s true that fewer women choose to – or can afford to – stay home during the early years of their children’s lives, and that 'housewives' were the audience for which these shows were created, there are still plenty of...

 

Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer Grant has written a new book about life with her legendary father. The 45 year old part time actress is the product of Grant's marriage to actress Dyan Cannon, which ended in divorce. Unlike many books written by bitter children of Hollywood legends, Jennifer Grant's celebrates her relationship with her father, who she adored. She recalls that Grant retired from acting primarily to be there for her. She remembers the difficulties they had trying to obtain any privacy at all. The solution: Cary brought her to remote dude ranches where the "wow" factor of his stardom was kept low-key. For more click here

Click here to order the book Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant discounted from Amazon...

Lgbt News! Cary Grant daughter speaks out about life with gay father? [May 4] Discussing your sexuality or sexual orientation, is a difficulty step, especially when you are a Hollywood screen legend, such as Cary Grant. During his career as an actor in films like North by Northwest with costar James Mason and Operation Petticoat alongside Tony Curtis, Grant was viewed as a strong man, often portrayed as a single, swinging bachelor in his movies. Who would have thought this strong actor was gay too? Grant’s daughter, Jennifer Grant has now released a memoir titled Good Stuff discussing the relationship she shared with her gay father, how he adored her, and what she thought of his career. With so much legislation taking place within the Lgbt community regarding gay marriages, proposed constitutional amendments, and the move for increased same-sex relationship rights, it appears Jennifer Grant has released her memoir at the perfect time.

Hers was a Hollywood fairy-tale existence few, if anybody, can live: being the child of arguably the most famous movie star in the world - and, certainly, the most dapper, elegant and charming. His name was Cary Grant. "Okay, I had a crush on Dad. Okay, more than a little crush on Dad," Jennifer Grant, 45, writes in her warm memoir, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, which Alfred A. Knopf is publishing May 3. "My other real crushes were Donny Osmond and Jean-Paul Belmondo." But it was Cary Grant who picked up young Jennifer at school, who read to her,...

The 41st edition of the USA Film Festival will open with a tribute to Cary Grant and a screening of Nick Tomnay's "The Perfect Host," starring David Hyde Pierce. The Grant tribute will include a 55th Anniversary screening of "To Catch a Thief" and a book signing and conversation with Jennifer Grant, Grant's daughter and author of "Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant." Pierce will be in ...