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While Kaley Cuoco is well known for playing the lovable Penny in The Big Bang Theory, she has been mesmerizing fans with a variety of roles, since. Next, she’ll be seen in a thriller series, Vanished, where she is looking for her missing boyfriend. The series has been pre-bought by Amazon for several territories to air on Prime Video.

The announcement was made with a new set picture as cameras are rolling in Paris and Marseille with Barnaby Thompson set to direct. The image sees Cuoco, in character, behind the scenes as she holds a clapperboard, grinning ear to ear. In Vanished, Cuoco plays Alice. Per the logline, a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of Alice’s boyfriend, Tom, aboard a train to France. She is then plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering secrets about the man she thought she knew.

Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin have been added to the cast of the Prime Video mystery thriller series ‘Vanished.’

Karin Viard (Polisse, The Bélier Family), Matthias Schweighöfer (Oppenheimer, Army of the Dead), Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale) and Dar Zuzovsky (Corduroy) will also star. Barnaby Thompson (Pixie, St Trinians 1 & 2, and Mad About The Boy – The Noel Coward Story) will direct the four-part series about a romantic getaway gone awry.

The plot line reads; When a couple’s trip to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.

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The series comes from AGC Studios, created by David Hilton & Preston Thompson, written by...

Vanished starring Kaley Cuoco has landed at Amazon, with filming on the thriller show now underway. Cuoco will be best known to many for her starring role as Penny in The Big Bang Theory, with the hit sitcom running for 12 seasons on CBS starting in 2007. Since the series concluded, Cuoco has kept busy in the world of TV, voicing Harley Quinn in the animated series of the same name and making a splash with The Flight Attendant and Based on a True Story.

Per Deadline, Amazon has now picked up streaming rights for Vanished for the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with a Prime Video release planned for next year. The show hails from creators David Hilton and Preston Thompson, with the latter also serving as writer. The synopsis for the series is included below:

In Vanished, Big Bang Theory star Cuoco plays Alice. When a romantic getaway...

Kaley Cuoco's new thriller television series, Vanished, has received a new release update. A new photo of Cuoco from the set was also revealed.

Per Deadline, Vanished will air on Prime Video next year in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Filming is currently underway on the series in Paris and Marseille, with Barnaby Thompson directing. Cuoco plays Alice, a character who finds herself plunged into a world of mystery and danger after a romantic getaway to Paris results in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom on a train to France. Deadline's description of Vanished teases that Cuoco's character will uncover "secrets about the man she thought she knew."

Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise) stars as Cuoco's boyfriend. The two will be joined by three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard, German actor Matthias Schweighöfer, Simon Abkarian and Dar Zuzovsky for the series. Vanished is created by...

If you have been a fan of Kaley Cuoco since meeting her on 8 Simple Rules or The Big Bang Theory, you're going to be over the moon about the latest news about the Emmy-nominated star's next television role. Following the unfortunate cancellation of her underrated Peacock comedy-mystery series Based on a True Story, Cuoco has already set her next project at Amazon.

Back in March, Cuoco boarded the mystery thriller series Vanished, and the series officially has a release window and a streaming home. On May 6, Deadline reported that Amazon officially picked up the rights to the new series in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Prime Video will release the series in 2026.

Obviously, there's a glaring omission in the territories where Amazon snagged the rights. What about the United States? That hasn't been announced quite yet, but it's extremely likely that Vanished will wind up...

Exclusive: Amazon has picked up AGC Studios’ Kaley Cuoco-starring thriller series Vanished for several territories.

Vanished, which stars Sam Claflin (Peaky Blinders), three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard (The Bélier Family), German actor Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead), Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale) and Dar Zuzovsky (Corduroy), will air on Prime Video next year in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Stuart Ford’s AGC is selling worldwide rights and cameras are rolling in Paris and Marseille. Barnaby Thompson directs.

Deadline first told you about the project at Series Mania in March, at which point AGC launched sales. In Vanished, Big Bang Theory star Cuoco plays Alice. When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to France, she is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering secrets about the man she thought she knew.

Kaley Cuoco’s Young Sheldon cameo wasn’t exactly a carefully crafted character arc. It was more of a last-minute fix. Turns out, the only real requirement for the role was someone female and kinda s*xy, and Cuoco fit the bill.

Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco in The Big Bang Theory | Credits: Warner Bros

While it was a fun Easter egg for The Big Bang Theory fans, the reasoning behind her casting might raise a few eyebrows.

Kaley Cuoco secretly voiced Sheldon’s nightmare in Young Sheldon — here’s why A Still from Young Sheldon | Credits: Chuck Lorre Productions

Sheldon and Penny reunited… sort of. Kaley Cuoco made a surprise voice cameo in Young Sheldon, but if you weren’t paying close attention, you probably missed it.

In the Dec. 12 episode, “Teenager Soup and a Little Ball of Fib,” Sheldon had a nightmare about a school swim test. And who taunted him?...

Kaley Cuoco has been a steady presence on our TV screens for decades at this point, and when one show goes away, it doesn’t take long for her to find a new show to star in. She was in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules, which ran from 2002 to 2005, then moved on to the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, which ran from 2007 to 2019. She followed that with the comedy thriller show The Flight Attendant, 2020 to 2022, and then the dark comedy show Based on a True Story, which aired in 2023 and 2024. Now, Variety reports that she has signed on to star in a mystery thriller series called Vanished, which is scheduled to begin filming on April 28th. Locations will include Paris and Marseilles.

Cuoco is joined in the cast by Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones & The Six), Karin Viard (The Bélier Family), and Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead). The show will...

Kaley Cuoco isn't waiting around for a Based on a True Story renewal announcement. The fan-favorite actor has been tapped to lead a new television series titled Vanished.

According to Deadline, the Based on a True Story actor will lead the forthcoming suspense drama series, which AGC Television is launching sales for this week at Series Mania in Lille. Also attached to the television project are The Hunger Games alum Sam Claflin, three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard, and Army of the Dead star Matthias Schweighöfer. Filming on Vanished is set to begin at the end of April in Paris and Marseilles with Barnaby Thompson in the director's chair.

Vanished was created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson. The logline for the suspense drama series reads as follows: "When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France,...

There's some good news if you're a fan of Kaley Cuoco and are following her career and television shows. I sure am! The Big Bang Theory and The Flight Attendant star has done so many great projects over the years, including Based on a True Story on Peacock most recently. And now, she's got something new coming up as well!

According to Deadline, the actress is set to take on the role of Alice in the new mystery thriller series, Vanished. The show is set to start filming very soon on April 28 in Paris and Marseilles in France. Ooh la la! Since the production is still in early stages, there's no release date or even a streaming platform set for it just yet. Check out the synopsis provided by Deadline below:

"Vanished follows a romantic getaway to Paris that takes a dark turn. When her boyfriend Tom suddenly disappears aboard...

The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco has landed her next TV role, starring alongside Sam Claflin in the European mystery series Vanished, where she will be tasked with piecing together clues to solve a missing persons case – and in this case, that missing person is her boyfriend. According to TVLine, the couple's romantic getaway to Paris is derailed when Claflin's character Tom disappears at some point during their train journey to the South of France, leaving Cuoco's Alice to pick up the pieces and attempt to solve the mystery.

If this was Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (and we certainly hope for Tom's sake it isn't), it sounds like Alice would be the self-appointed Hercule Poirot of the investigation as she desperately tries to establish her partner's whereabouts. The official logline for the series suggests that Alice will have a difficult time getting the trip back on track,...

A trip to the south of France will ultimately go very south for Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin, who are both attached to star in the mystery series Vanished, TVLine has learned.

Created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson (Kids in Love), Vanished will find Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) and Claflin (Daisy Jones & the Six) playing Alice and Tom, a couple whose romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn after Tom suddenly disappears aboard a train to the south of France. From there, per the official logline, “Alice is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering...

Kaley Cuoco is set to take the lead in upcoming mystery thriller series “Vanished,” announced during Series Mania in Lille, where AGC will launch sales.

Sam Claflin, three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard and Matthias Schweighöfer will also star in the series to be direct by Barnaby Thompson.

“Vanished” follows a romantic getaway to Paris that take a dark turn. When her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) suddenly disappears aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.

The series was created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson, written by Preston Thompson and executive produced by James Clayton (Slow Burn Entertainment), David Kosse (Rockwood Pictures), Barnaby Thompson (Fragile Films), Preston Thompson and AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr. AGC Television — the scripted arm of Ford’s AGC Studios — will fully-finance and co-produce,...

Exclusive: The Flight Attendant and The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco is set to lead buzzy series package Vanished, which AGC Television is launching for this week’s Series Mania in Lille, where it’ll likely be the hottest brand new show on sale.

Starring in the suspense drama alongside Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Cuoco will be Sam Claflin (Peaky Blinders), three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard (The Bélier Family) and German actor Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead).

The logline reads: When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.

Producer, director and Ealing Studios owner Barnaby Thompson (Pixie) is directing ahead of production beginning April 28 on locations in Paris and Marseilles.

Exclusive: Studiocanal and The Picture Company are turning the Agatha Christie thriller classic Endless Night into a feature. They have hired up-and-coming scribe Preston Thompson to adapt it.

Published in 1967, the book follows a young couple who fall in love and move to a secluded property in the countryside of England. Once there, a series of strange events unfolds that turns the couple’s new romance into a harrowing nightmare that they must find their way out of.

Christie is responsible for some of great mysteries ever written, including the famous Hercule Poirot series, first adapted to film by Sidney Lumet and then again by Kenneth Branagh for 20th Century Studios. Latest is the Branagh-directed whodunit Death on the Nile, which opens February 11.

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman will produce under their overall deal at Studiocanal. The producers just wrapped Baghead for Studiocanal in Berlin and recently wrapped Retribution,...

Betty Gilpin is set to star in the series “Blood Sugar” that is currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned.

In the series, when the Sharks of “Shark Tank” laugh the delightful Margot Schultz (Gilpin) and her frozen food business off stage, little do they know they’re setting in motion one of the bloodiest and wildest rises to fame and fortune this country has ever seen.

The project is co-written by Duke Merriman and Preston Thompson, both of whom also executive produce. Gilpin will executive produce in addition to starring. Claire Wilson will executive produce and serve as showrunner. Lucy Tcherniak will direct and executive produce. Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug, and Patrick Chu will executive produce for Annapurna, with Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan executive producing for Clubhouse Pictures.

This is the latest TV project Gilpin has lined up recently, with the actress also set to...

HBO is developing Blood Sugar, a series starring and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Glow alumna Betty Gilpin, from Annapurna.

In Blood Sugar, written by Duke Merriman (Monos) and Preston Thompson (Kids In Love), when the Sharks of Shark Tank laugh the delightful Margot Schultz and her frozen food business off stage, little do they know, they’re setting in motion one of the funniest, bloodiest and wildest rises to fame and fortune this country has ever seen.

Claire Wilson (Gangs of London) serves as showrunner on the project with Lucy Tcherniak (Angelyne) set to direct. The two executive produce with Gilpin, Merriman and Thompson as well as Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug and Patrick Chu for Annapurna, and Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan for Clubhouse Pictures.

For Gilpin, Blood Sugar joins a packed slate. She plays one of the leads of Showtime’s upcoming drama series Three Women, based...

Pixie is exciting new western/thriller set against the Irish countryside, and to mark its release we took part in a virtual junket, speaking to leading cast-members Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack. We also had the pleasure in speaking to director Barnaby Thompson and the writer, his very own son, Preston Thompson.

We discuss this brilliantly fun movie, the well-crafted characters, and ask McCormack to recount some scary stories he told his colleagues on set. And in our second interview we discuss the collaboration between a father and a son, and how that helped benefit the project. Watch both interviews in their entirety below.

Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack

Director Barnaby Thompson and writer Preston Thompson

Synopsis

To avenge her mother’s death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.

Pixie is released...

Paramount Pictures to distribute in UK and Ireland.

Saban Films has picked up North American rights from to comedic thriller Pixie starring Olivia Cooke, Alec Baldwin, Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack and Colm Meaney.

Barnaby Thompson (St. Trinians) directed and produced from a script by Preston Thompson.

James Clayton also produced with Ingenious Media’s Peter Touche and Samantha Allwinton on board as executive producers.

Cooke stars in the titular role as a young woman who ends up on the run in the Irish countryside when a planned heist as a way of avenging her mother’s death goes wrong.

Jonathan Saba...

Saban Films is closing a deal to acquire the North American distribution rights to “Pixie,” which stars Olivia Cooke, Alec Baldwin and Ben Hardy, the distributor announced Friday.

“Pixie” also stars Daryl McCormack and Colm Meaney. Barnaby Thompson directed and produced the comedic thriller based on a script by Preston Thompson. James Clayton also produced alongside Ingenious Media’s Peter Touche and Samantha Allwinton serving as executive producers.

The film follows Pixie (Cooke), who seeks to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist. However, she soon finds herself on the run across the Irish countryside with two young men who are being chased by a psychotic hitman.

Jonathan Saba and Bill Bromiley negotiated the deal for Saban Films along with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. Endeavor is also handling the film’s international sales.

Saban Films’ successes have included Hilary Swank’s “Homesman” as well as...

Saban Films is closing in on a North American distribution deal for Pixie, a comedy thriller that stars Olivia Cooke and Alec Baldwin.

Pixie also stars Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack and Colm Meaney, with Barnaby Thompson directing from a script by Preston Thompson (Kids in Love). The pic centers on a character played by Cooke who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist.

Her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run across the wild Irish countryside with two young men, played by Hardy and McCormack, who are in over their own heads and being chased by ...

Saban Films is closing in on a North American distribution deal for Pixie, a comedy thriller that stars Olivia Cooke and Alec Baldwin.

Pixie also stars Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack and Colm Meaney, with Barnaby Thompson directing from a script by Preston Thompson (Kids in Love). The pic centers on a character played by Cooke who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist.

Her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run across the wild Irish countryside with two young men, played by Hardy and McCormack, who are in over their own heads and being chased by ...

The London-born producer and director is working on his third feature, penned by his son Preston. Filming has just begun on Barnaby Thompson’s new project, a comedic thriller entitled Pixie. This is the director’s third feature, following St Trinian’s (2007) and St Trinian’s II: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009), two independent films revolving around a group of troublesome schoolgirls and based on the works of cartoonist Ronald Searle. Barnaby Thompson started his filmmaking career directing documentaries back in the late 1980s, such as the award-winning Kiss the Sky (1989). The script, penned in its entirety by Preston Thompson, follows the story of Pixie (Olivia Cooke), who seeks to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist. However, her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men (Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack), who are way out of their depth being chased across the wild.

The cast is filling out for Oscar-nominated director Barnaby Thompson’s comedic revenge thriller, Pixie. Olivia Cooke is starring in the film, alongside Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody), Daryl McCormack (Vikings), Colm Meaney (Con Air), Dylan Moran (Shaun of the Dead), and Alec Baldwin. The film is being written by Preston Thompson.

Deadline reports the following rundown for the movie:

The plot centers on Pixie (Cooke), who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters. She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.

This is a great cast, and a cool and interesting sounding story. I love a good revenge story, and I love the setting.

Exclusive: Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, and Daryl McCormack will star in Pixie, a comedic thriller directed by Oscar nominee Barnaby Thompson and written by Preston Thompson. Rounding out the cast are Colm Meaney (Layer Cake), Dylan Moran (Black Books), and multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alec Baldwin.

Filming is currently underway. The plot centers on Pixie (Cooke), who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters. She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.

Thompson, who picked up an Oscar nom as a producer of the short film Dear Rosie,...

Rising Brit actress Olivia Cooke, who broke out in Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and last year starred in Ready Player One, is set to play the lead in upcoming comedic thriller Pixie. 

The film, being directed by Barnaby Thompson (St. Trinian's 1&2), will also star Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse) and Daryl McCormack (A Very English Scandal, Peaky Blinders), with Colm Meaney (Layer Cake, Con Air), Dylan Moran (Shaun of the Dead) and Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live, Mission: Impossible - Fallout).

Thompson, who will direct from an original script by Preston Thompson (Kids in Love), also produces alongside James Clayton ...

Rising Brit actress Olivia Cooke, who broke out in Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and last year starred in Ready Player One, is set to play the lead in upcoming comedic thriller Pixie. 

The film, being directed by Barnaby Thompson (St. Trinian's 1&2), will also star Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse) and Daryl McCormack (A Very English Scandal, Peaky Blinders), with Colm Meaney (Layer Cake, Con Air), Dylan Moran (Shaun of the Dead) and Alec Baldwin (Saturday Night Live, Mission: Impossible - Fallout).

Thompson, who will direct from an original script by Preston Thompson (Kids in Love), also produces alongside James Clayton ...

Clerkenwell Films, the British production company behind teen sci-fi drama Misfits and Netflix and C4’s The End of the Fxxxing World, is developing a scripted series based on the life of British entrepreneur Jamal Edwards.

Edwards, the founder of online video channel Sbtv, which was responsible for helping the careers of pop stars such as Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora, said that the series would be akin to Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum, which debuted on E4 and is available on Netflix globally.

He revealed the news at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, where he was hosting a session titled Jamal Edwards MBE: Sbtv, Music and Mental Health with The Revolution Will Be Televised’s Jolyon Rubenstein. Edwards began his career filming videos on a UK housing estate and has since moved on to record interviews at 10 Downing Street and the Bermuda Triangle, which finding time to take selfies with Royal...

There are a lot of films that take aim at the youth of a particular moment in time and hope to speak to and for a generation. Most are just so much noise amongst the zeitgeist they pretend to thumb their noses at. The ones that work usually hold up well as films generation after generation, because they are close enough to their own generation and smart enough to realize that they aren’t exatly saying anything new.

Kids in Love, for example, while a stunning portrait of a sub-section of youth-ish today, reminds of nothing more than Metropolitan, a 26-year-old film that it has almost nothing in common with, except an extraordinary understanding of how its characters represent their own societal woes.

This is a film that sets us up with stereotypes and then delivers characters that, like real people, can’t see themselves as a demographic representative, and...

Rob Leane Published Date Friday, August 26, 2016 - 06:17

Kids In Love tells a very specific coming-of-age story. Not a universal one by any stretch, but rather an exploration of what it’s like to be a middle class British young man who’s just reached the end of compulsory education. Options are sprawled in front of Will Poulter’s Jack - an unpaid internship, a gap year, a university course – but none of them particularly interest him.

Enter Alma Jodorowsky as Evelyn, a Frenchwoman living in London who parties at places that Jack can’t even describe. She lives in a big quirky house filled with free-spirited pals, including Cara Delevingne’s Viola (an interesting role for the Suicide Squad alum, with a certain wit and warmth emerging alongside a vast collection of colourful headbands), Evelyn’s loathsome boyfriend Cassius (co-writer Preston Thompson) and the film’s breakthrough comedic force Milo (the other co-writer,...

Coming-of-age feature to world premiere at Edinburgh festival.

Kids In Love, starring Will Poulter (The Revenant), Alma Jodorowsky (Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad), is set for release in UK theatres and on demand on August 26.

Signature Entertainment, which is handling the release of the coming-of-age British feature in theatres, will then release the film on DVD on August 29.

It will receive its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival in June, where it will feature in the Best of British strand.

In Kids in Love, Poulter plays a young man drifting through his ‘gap year’ when a chance encounter with a beautiful woman (Jodorowsky) swerves his life radically off course. He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild nights in London’s hidden dives with her charismatic friends.

The cast also includes Sebastian De Souza (The Borgias) and Jamie Blackley (Snow White And The Huntsman), Preston Thompson and Gala Gordon...

Exclusive: Alma Jodorowsky, Cara Delevigne also star in coming-of-age drama.

Signature Entertainment and Factoris Films have acquired the UK and French distribution rights respectively to coming of age drama Kids In Love, starring The Revenant’s Will Poulter and Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) .

Model-turned actress Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad), Sebastian De Souza (The Borgias) and Jamie Blackley (Snow White And The Huntsman) co-star.

The deals were struck between Carnaby International’s CEO, Sean O’Kelly, together with Signature Entertainment managing director Marc Goldberg and Factoris Films CEO Alexandre Simard.

Barnaby Thompson and Ben Latham-Jones produce with director Chris Foggin making his directorial debut. Screenplay is from Preston Thompson and Sebastian De Souza.

In Kids in Love Poulter plays a young man drifting through his ‘gap year’ when a chance encounter with a beautiful woman (Alma Jodorowsky) swerves his life radically off course.

He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild...

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Cheer on local talent with these potentially great UK films from 2016, including drama, comedy, action, horror, fantasy & more…

While Batman Vs Superman, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men Apocalypse and other mega franchises are expected to dominate cinemas in 2016, let’s hear it for the films below. None are sequels, few have titanic budgets, all of them are British and each of them has the potential to be great.

2016 looks to be a particularly strong year for UK crime drama, with Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us and Michael Apted’s Unlocked on their way. Military thrillers are also well represented this year, with Gavin Hood’s Eye In The Sky, Fernando Coimbra’s Sand Castle, and Simon West’s Stratton incoming. There’s also comedy, fantasy, drama, horror and even a musical waiting for you below.

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UK cinema in 2015 has plenty to recommend it. Here are 36 UK films of all genres to look forward to this year…

Dig past the litterfall of Kray Brothers biopics and tales of nubile teens on camping trips gone wrong, and you’ll unearth plenty for the UK film industry to boast about in 2015. From sci-fi romps and thrillers like Robot Overlords and Ex Machina to dramas like High-Rise, comedies like War On Everyone, spy flicks like Spectre and kids’ films like Bill, there’s no shortage of inventive, highly promising cinema coming from these isles.

We’ve included a few choice co-productions in 2015’s pick of the year’s most interesting-looking pictures, which bolsters our list in both size and breadth (and mostly means we Brits can claim partial credit for ace-sounding dystopian flick The Lobster).

In alphabetical order then, here are the 36 UK (or UK-ish) movies we’re excited about seeing this year…...

The way things are shaping up, it could be a really strong year for talented British actor Jamie Blackley, as he has U Want Me 2 Kill Him? recently coming out in the States, and If I Stay – alongside Chloë Grace Moretz this Summer. However before then we get to see Blackley in Justin Edgar’s We Are The Freaks.

We spoke to the actor, currently La based, over the phone, discussing the strong spirit on set for the film, and the friendships he’s taken away from it. He also speaks about what he shares in common with his character Jack, and about his future projects and where he can see his future…

So what first attracted you to getting involved in this project?

The first thing really, was that it kind of went against most teen movies that we know and I found that attractive. I liked the character,...