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Acorn TV has locked in a deal for prison drama Bariau (Inside). The series, which is largely Welsh language with some English, has proved popular on home turf on S4C. The second season dropped in April.

Acorn TV has acquired both six-episode seasons of the half-hour drama series and will bring it to the U.S. and its service in Australia and New Zealand.

The drama is based on testimonies from real-life prisoners and prison guards. Set within the harsh confines of a fictional prison in Wales, it explores the complex interplay between characters on both sides of the law. It has been hailed for its realistic portrayal of prison life.

In Season 2, inmate Barry (Gwion Tegid) is trying to keep control of the unit in which he is incarcerated as new staff and inmates make life difficult.

The series is produced by Welsh indie Rondo Media. It was written...

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Willa Fitzgerald is one of the most talented and beautiful actresses working in the film industry right now. Fitzgerald began her career with a small role in the little-known 2007 film For the Love of a Dog, but since then, she has starred in several iconic films and TV shows, including the popular Scream TV series and her own leading role in the gripping thriller film Strange Darling. Most recently, she starred in the Netflix medical drama Pulse. So, if you love Fitzgerald’s performances, here are the 7 best movies and TV Shows starring Willa Fitzgerald, you shouldn’t miss.

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Pulse is a medical drama series created by Zoe Robyn. The Netflix series is set in Miami on the premises of Maguire Hospital, and it revolves around the emergency and surgical residents as they deal...

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Dickinson is a comedy-drama series created by Alena Smith. The Apple TV+ series is set in the 19th century, and it follows Emily Dickinson, a budding writer who lives under the constraints of her time, but at every step, she challenges the norms through her writing. Dickinson stars Hailee Steinfeld, Toby Huss, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt, Jane Krakowski, Amanda Warren, and Chinaza Uche. So, if you loved the period setting, a women-centric story, and compelling characters in Dickinson, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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My Lady Jane is a historical fantasy romantic comedy-drama series created by Gemma Burgess. Based on the novel of the same name by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton, and Cynthia Hand, the short-lived Prime Video series is set in an alternate 16th-century England,...

Glass Shard.

April was such a blast on HQ: Trace and I tackled David Nutter’s Disturbing Behavior (listen), John Carpenter’s Christine (listen), as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1997 film Alien Resurrection (listen).

To wrap up the month, we celebrated a belated Earth Day with a revisit of queer director Lee Haven Jones‘ The Feast (Trace reviewed it for Bloody; Joe wrote about it for his site).

In the film, Cadi (Annes Elwy) is a mostly silent young woman who serves privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. This includes MP Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones), his entitled wife Glenda (Nia Roberts), their hyper-sexual son Gweirydd (Sion Alun Davies) and drug addict Guto (Stefan Cennydd).

As the evening progresses, however, strange incidents begin to occur that affects each of the family members differently. Who – or what – is Cadi and why is she doing this?...

If you have to admire commitment – and you do – then you have to admire Wolf, a new BBC detective series from the producers of Sherlock, adapted from the seventh book in Mo Hayder’s Jack Caffery novels. From its traumatised detective to its scenery-chewing baddies, Wolf is fully committed to the pulp crime genre. Don’t go in expecting realism. You won’t find it.

You will find Ukweli Roach as Jack Caffery, a London Di settling in back home after a few years working in Wales. Roach makes a plausible enough lead, and a useful straight man to counter the madness elsewhere. Not that Caffery doesn’t come with his own slice of that.

Caffery’s regulation-issue TV detective Unresolved Trauma is the childhood disappearance of his brother. After a sibling spat, 10-year-old Ewan ran off, never to be seen again. Jack’s convinced that their paedophile neighbour abducted him,...

Stars: Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Siôn Alun Davies, Lisa Palfrey, Rhodri Meilir | Written by Roger Williams | Directed by Lee Haven Jones

A dinner party devolves into a bloodbath in this stylish, slow-burn Welsh language horror from debut director Lee Haven Jones. Fair warning: The Feast is not the kind of movie about a feast that will make you hungry afterwards. Indeed, eating beforehand might not be a good idea either.

Set in the present day, the film centres on a wealthy family preparing for a dinner party at their stylish, ultra-modern home in the Welsh countryside. As the film begins, mother Glenda (Nia Roberts) is relaxing in her purpose-built meditation chamber, her corrupt politician husband Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones) is out trying to shoot rabbits, while her sons Guto (Steffan Cennydd) and Gweirydd (Siôn Alun Davies) are getting high and obsessively training for a triathalon,...

Cannibalism, torture, gory sex and meaty subtexts are all on the menu at a dinner party held by an arrogant local MP

Set and shot in Wales, with dialogue in Welsh (apart from a few loan words from English and the occasional Anglo-Saxon cuss), this is a striking, reasonably original wodge of folk horror. It also represents an auspicious first feature for director Lee Haven Jones (he’s shot a few Doctor Who episodes and the like), working from a script by writer-producer Roger Williams. Said screenplay adroitly incorporates meaty subtexts about class and generational tension, the evils of contemporary land management, and sexual abuse, while still ensuring there’s plenty of screen time devoted to cannibalism, torture and very gory forms of sex.

The feast of the title is a dinner party that arrogant local MP Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones) and his preening, social-climbing wife Glenda (Nia Roberts) are...

Annes Elwy in The Feast

Welsh language films which enjoy international success are rare beasts, genre ones even more so, so it’s no surprise that the festival success of The Feast has got people talking. There’s a lot to admire in this finely crafted film, which we first caught when it screened at last year’s Beyondfest. It tells the story of a dinner party held in celebration of an environmentally dubious deal which is waited on by a young woman who is not what she appears. Themes around class, capitalism and the relationship between people and land collide with ancient tradition and otherworldly cruelty.

Playing that unusual young woman, Cadi, is Annes Elwy, and she and director Lee Haven Jones joined me for a chat ahead of the film finally making it into UK cinemas. Lee began by telling me how the film, which was scripted by Roger Williams,...

Picturehouse Entertainment has debuted a new trailer and poster for the forthcoming haunting slow-burning horror ‘The Feast’, and we’ve got the exclusive just for you.

Filmed in the Welsh language, the story unfolds over the course of one evening as a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. The guests are a local businessman and a neighbouring farmer, and the intent is to secure a business deal to mine in the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be their waitress for the evening, the family’s beliefs and values are challenged as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives – slowly, deliberately and with the most terrifying consequences.

Written and directed by Lee Haven Jones (Doctor Who) – who makes his directorial debut with the feature – the film stars Annes Elwy (Little Women), Nia Roberts (Under Milk Wood...

"What can anyone tell me about our friend in the tollbooth?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for the film Tollbooth, formerly known as The Toll, a dark comedy thriller from Wales about a lone toll-booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him. This premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival and is arriving on VOD in March in the US. Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west to find him for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin's investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading over to the booth at exactly the wrong time... Starring Michael Smiley, with Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Gary Beadle, Steve Oram, Evelyn Mok, and Darren Evans. This looks...

Lee Haven Jones’ slow-burn eco-horror The Feast may feature extended conversations around the dinner table about wealth inequality and the ecological damage of mining environmental resources. But behind a polished aesthetic and explicit metaphor about mother nature’s revenge lies an assured gross-out flick—featuring more than one scene in which vomit becomes a central ingredient of a farm-to-table dish—that announces the first-time feature director as one to watch. Subdued and formalistic for the first two-thirds of the film before, very literally, taking the camera off the tripod for a particularly gory finale, The Feast may test one’s patience but, for those willing to embrace these Welsh-film’s eccentricities, Jones has crafted one of the more horrifying dinner parties this side of The Invitation.

Over the course of a single day, wealthy Glenda (Nia Roberts) and Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones) prepare for a dinner party with the help of a newly hired,...

Whether films are set or filmed in Wales, the country and its ability to naturally bring eeriness to the screen thanks to its downcast weather have helped bring to life horror staples like The Old Dark House, The Wolf Man, and An American Werewolf in London. More often than not, you can find these titles on lists of the best horror films, and director Lee Haven Jones and writer Roger Williams throw their hat in the ring with a Welsh horror film of their own. The Feast is a parable of greed that acts as a warning of what could come if we don’t end the exploitation of the land. Themes centering on the environment and the climate crisis are ever-increasing in film, and it hits differently through the lens of horror, as it can more freely convey terrifying truths and present the consequences of actions in a violent,...

Taking “eat the rich” to literal extremes that Luis Buñuel only dreamed of (and famously lamented omitting from “The Exterminating Angel”), Lee Haven Jones’ “The Feast” is a severe Welsh-language horror romp so unsubtle about its class allegory that it might as well pre-chew the human flesh it eventually mama-birds into your mouth. Anyone grossed out by that visual should probably steer clear of the film itself, as . Of course, the rest of you sickos have stomached enough slop over the years to know that a degree of obviousness can be a good thing when it comes to certain fare, just as it can when it comes to certain meals; after all, is the joy of eating a cheeseburger not that every bite reminds you that you’re eating a cheeseburger? That it frees your mind to relish the ketchup?

If “The Feast” is a bit fancier and less satisfying...

The Feast Trailer — Lee Haven Jones‘ The Feast (2021) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Feast trailer stars Anna Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, Annes Elwy, Rhodri Meilir, and Lisa Palfrey. Crew Roger Williams wrote the screenplay for The Feast. Samuel Sim created [...]

Continue reading: The Feast (2021) Movie Trailer: A Dinner Party turns Deadly in Lee Haven Jones’ Horror-tinged Thriller...

This Thanksgiving, if one is looking to bite into some post-Halloween horror, a new Welsh folk horror feature looks to satisfy. Lee Haven Jones’ The Feast, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year and also played at Fantasia Festival, Beyond Fest, and BFI London Film Festival, was picked up by IFC Midnight and now the new trailer has arrived.

Led by Annes Elwy, Lisa Palfrey, Caroline Berry, Steffan Cennydd, and Sion Alun Davies, the story centers on a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.

“The plot is simple and the moral hardly subtle — right up to the blunt Buñuelian sarcasm that is Euros snarfing food off his plate like a pig at a trough while in the background a terrified Glenda hunts for a kitchen knife to use as a weapon,...

"There's a feast waiting for us." IFC Midnight has unveiled an official trailer for a twisted new horror film titled The Feast, filmed in Welsh and directed by Welsh filmmaker Lee Haven Jones. This one originally premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, and has been playing at numerous other genre festivals through the year, including at Beyond Fest and the Telluride Horror Show most recently. This horror feature follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper. Annes Elwy stars as the very creepy Cadi, she's joined by Lisa Palfrey, Caroline Berry, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, and Chris Gordon. Not sure what exactly is going on, but it looks unsettling in many ways. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Lee Haven Jones' The Feast,...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmakers Podcast #236: A strategy to making your indie film with The Toll...

Here’s Kev with a video review of The Toll which is in UK cinemas now.

Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.

Directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper, The Toll stars Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Paul Kaye, Gary Beadle, Steve Oram, Darren Evans and Julian Glover.

Ryan Andrew Hooper’s film stars Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy

Great Point Media has sold Welsh crime thriller The Toll to key territories, at last month’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.

It has a deal for UK-Ireland and Australia-New Zealand with Signature, which will release the film in late August in the UK and Ireland.

Further deals include France with Family Films, and the US with Samuel Goldwyn Films.

“This year’s Pre-Cannes set-up allowed buyers the extra time needed to give each film the attention it deserves, which resulted in more thorough negotiation and better-structured deals,” said Toby Melling, VP of sales at Great Point.

How about something different for Thanksgiving later this year? Perhaps something Welsh? The Welsh-language revenge horror film The Feast has been picked up by IFC Midnight for North American distribution. The company plans a Thanksgiving 2021 release. Our own J Hurtado saw the film during its world premiere at the recent SXSW and, er, feasted upon it, as evidenced by his review, whose opening words are worth repeating: "Set at an ostentatious estate nestled garishly upon the lush green landscapes of rural Wales, director Lee Haven Jones makes his feature directing debut with the astonishingly elegant eco/folk/revenge horror film, The Feast (Gwledd)." It just gets better from there, so be sure to give it a read. Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts and...

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Following its world premiere at the virtual SXSW Film Festival, The Feast has been acquired for North American distribution by IFC Midnight, with a release planned for this Thanksgiving.

We have the official press release with additional details below, and in case you missed it, check out Heather Wixson's SXSW interview with director Lee Haven Jones and writer/producer Roger Williams.

Press Release: New York, NY - IFC Midnight announced today that they are acquiring North American rights to the Welsh-language supernatural revenge horror The Feast, directed by BAFTA-winning television director Lee Haven Jones in his feature debut. IFC Midnight will release the film Thanksgiving 2021.

Directed by Jones and written and produced by Roger Williams, The Feast stars Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, and Julian Lewis Jones alongside Sion Alun Davies, Steffan Cennydd, Rhodri Meilir, and Lisa Palfrey. The Feast was produced through Ffilm Cymru Wales’ Cinematic scheme and was funded by S4C,...

Exclusive: IFC Midnight is acquiring North American rights to The Feast, the first feature from BAFTA-winning TV director Lee Haven Jones.

The company plans to release the supernatural revenge horror pic this fall.

Rooted in the potent mythical fables of Wales, and filmed in the Welsh language, Jones’s debut feature unfolds over the course of a single night, as an affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside.

When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family’s waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives – slowly, deliberately, and with the most terrifying of consequences. A slow burn meditation on history and tradition, greed and responsibility, identity and difference, The...

The Feast Review — The Feast (2021) Film Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Lee Haven Jones, and starring Caroline Berry, Steffan Cennydd, Sion Alun Davies, Annes Elwy, Julian Lewis Jones, Rhodri Meilir, Lisa Palfrey, and Nia Roberts. Mother Nature and humanity exist in [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: The Feast: Palatable Environmentalist Folk Horror With a Delectable Dessert of a Finale [SXSW 2021]...

“The things of my mother’s that I kept don’t suit the place now,” says Glenda (Nia Roberts) absently as she preps dinner in her modernist sculpture of a house, set on a remote hillock. “They feel … primitive.” Lee Haven Jones’ sharp, striking Welsh-language SXSW midnight movie “The Feast” is designed as a critique of Glenda’s disdain, her casual snobbery toward the heritage and history of the farmland she grew up on. And yet this austere and engrossing little horror could almost be charged with a similar crime: “The Feast” laments our grasping era’s loss of respect for the ancient land, its flora and fauna and earthy folk culture, but it is itself as coolly, gleamingly modern as brushed steel.

Glenda is talking to Cadi (Annes Elwy), the last-minute replacement for her usual domestic help. Bedraggled and untidy, with a tendency to leave dirty marks on linens...

What do you get when you blend together an Elvis impersonator and well-crafted political satire against the backdrop of a rural setting in Wales? You get the unexpected in Ryan Hooper’s feature length directorial debut, The Toll.

Written by Matt Redd it is a story, like the ‘Toll Booth Man’ himself (Michael Smiley), that lures you into a false sense of security as appearing to be remarkably unremarkable. You instantly get Fargo vibes but swap the distinctive tones of Minnesota for Wales when we meet local policewoman Catrin (Annes Elwy). It is a strong, subtle and at points an emotional performance from Elwy.

The story starts with our two main characters in the toll booth where Smiley is calmly about to tell the tale of the series of events that led to this particular moment with an air of smoke and mirrors.

We are then taken on a retrospective journey,...

The BFI London Film Festival has added a new, annual works-in-progress showcase as part of its industry program, and has invited seven projects to participate, including two featuring “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker” and “The End of the F***ing World” actor Naomie Ackie and “ZeroZeroZero” actor Andrea Riseborough.

The showcase features works made for cinema, television and immersive platforms by U.K. emerging talent and will be presented to an invited audience of international buyers and festival programmers.

The projects include psychological thriller “Here Before” by Stacey Gregg (“Little Birds”), produced by Sophie Vickers (“Surge”) and Julia Godzinskaya (“The Other Lamb”), starring Riseborough, Martin McCann (“Wildfire”) and Jonjo O’Neill (“Pennyworth”); and heist film “The Score,” directed by Malachi Smyth (“Nocturne”), produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (“Yesterday”), Ben Pullen (“Light of the World), alongside co-producer Isabelle Georgeaux (“Calibre”), starring Johnny Flynn (“Stardust”), Ackie and Will Poulter (“Midsommar”).

Experimental filmmaker Baff Akoto,...

Bankside Films has boarded sales on Welsh-language contemporary horror “The Feast” (Gwledd), the directorial debut of Lee Haven Jones. Bankside will be talking to buyers about the project and showing a promo during the Virtual Cannes week, which starts on June 22.

Best known for his directorial work in television, Haven Jones has helmed episodes of “Doctor Who,” “The Bay” and “Vera.”

“The Feast” was written by Roger Williams, who also produces through production outfit Joio. It stars Annes Elwy (“Little Women”), Nia Roberts (“Under Milk Wood”) and Julian Lewis Jones (“Justice League”), alongside Steffan Cennydd (“Last Summer”) and Sion Alun Davies (“The Left Behind”).

The film unfolds over the course of one evening as a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. The guests are a local businessman and a neighboring farmer, and the intent is to secure a business deal to mine in the surrounding countryside.

Great Point Media has boarded sales on “Gwledd,” Lee Haven Jones’ Welsh horror movie.

The film stars Annes Elwy (“Little Women”), Nia Roberts (“Under Milk Wood”) and Julian Lewis Jones (“Justice League”), alongside Steffan Cennydd (“Last Summer”) and Sion Alun Davies (“The Left Behind”). Filmed in Welsh, the picture follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.

Jones has helmed episodes of numerous TV shows, including “Doctor Who,” “The Bay,” and “Vera.” “Gwledd,” which means “feast” in Welsh, is his feature directorial debut. It was written and produced by Roger Williams (“Bang”) and produced through Ffilm Cymru, Wales’ cinema initiative.

U.K.-based film and TV producer, financier, and sales outfit Great Point will be selling world rights to “Gwledd,” starting at Afm. Its market slate...

Lee Haven Jones’ feature debut stars Annes Elwy.

Lee Haven Jones’ directorial debut Gwledd is the sixth feature film to wrap through the Ffilm Cymru Wales Cinematic scheme, which is backed by the BFI.

The initiative is dedicated to supporting innovative and unique filmmaking talents in Wales.

Gwledd is a contemporary horror film written by Roger Williams, about a waitress at a dinner party who causes the host family to confront personal failures and environmental responsibilities. Annes Elwy stars with Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis, Steffan Cennydd and Sion Alun Davies.

It is produced by Haven Jones and Williams’ outfit Joio.

Iwan Rheon also stars in feature from Western Edge Pictures.

Ryan Andrew Hooper’s feature debut The Toll, starring Michael Smiley and Annes Elwy, has wrapped after shooting on location in Wales.

Produced by Vaughan Sivell and Mark Hopkins for Western Edge Pictures through the Ffilm Cymru Wales’ Cinematic scheme, the thriller features Smiley as a man working solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. Elwy plays a traffic cop who heads to the booth at exactly the wrong time. It is written by Matt Redd.

Smiley’s...

"Your eyes... they've seen things. Who are you...?" Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for Gareth Evans' new film Apostle, his follow-up and latest film since making The Raid and The Raid 2, and the V/H/S/2 segment. Apostle is set to premiere at Fantastic Fest, then the Sitges Film Festival over the next month before arriving on Netflix. Set in 1905, the film is about a man who travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will rue the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built. Starring Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Sheen, Kristine Froseth, Bill Milner, Elen Rhys, and Annes Elwy. This looks super creepy and twisted, extra intense and ultra violent,...

The main title sequence for PBS’ “Little Women” is sublime in its simplicity. As a tune is plucked out on a banjo, soon joined by a fiddle and guitar, watercolor flower and bird sketches either bloom or fly thanks to stop-motion animation. It only lasts 30 seconds, but it’s modest, clear, heart-stirring, and utterly without guile. It’s the perfect encapsulation of why Louisa May Alcott’s 19th-century tale of the four March sisters continues to appeal to this day.

“Little Women” was part of many young girls’ childhoods, required reading from mothers who had also been inculcated in the March sisters’ lessons on how to be good and find meaning in domesticity and virtuous deeds. Incredibly moral and square by modern standards, this should feel dated but it doesn’t. The “Masterpiece” adaptation manages to do what previous versions didn’t execute nearly as well: transport the viewer back...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for PBS under their legendary “Masterpiece” umbrella. For this season, the public network has TV movie “The Child in Time” (Benedict Cumberbatch), limited series “Little Women” (Angela Lansbury) and drama series “The Durrells in Corfu” (Keeley Hawes), “Poldark” (Aidan Turner) and “Victoria” (Jenna Coleman) as their 2018 campaign.

Seea long overdue Emmy awaits Angela Lansbury (‘Little Women’), 73 percent of readers believe [Poll Results]

Below, the list of “Masterpiece” lead and supporting submissions for these programs. Keep in mind that other shows and specials not under the “Masterpiece” label will also be submitted. More names might be added by the network before final Emmy paperwork deadlines. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

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Maya Hawke comes from Hollywood royalty, but she is a relative newcomer in front of the cameras.

Hawke, who is Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke’s daughter, makes her on-screen debut in Masterpiece’s Little Women.

The 19-year-old actress read the book in eighth grade and says landing a role in the period drama was a dream come true.

“I had a remarkable time. I made some of the best friends of my life,” Hawke said during Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event. “It was a great honor.”

The adaptation of American novelist Louise May Alcott’s beloved book follows the March sisters – Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Beth (Annes Elwy), Amy (Kathryn Newton) and Jo (Hawke). Emily Watson plays family matriarch Marmee and Angela Lansbury co-stars as the girls’ aunt.

While the story has been told before, Senior Series Producer Suzanne Simpson says this latest adaptation offers something different.

“Masterpiece is...

Last year, Tribeca was one of the first places to bring “The Handmaid’s Tale” to the TV world. Time will tell what the biggest story out of the 2018 festival will be, but there’s plenty to look forward to.

Tribeca unveiled a mammoth 2018 TV program, covering established series with network homes, all the way to pilots that have yet to be distributed. Some of the for-sure big stops in this year’s Tribeca guide: a screening of the “Westworld” Season 2 premiere, the first look at the upcoming Pablo Picasso season of “Genius,” and the debut North American look at Amazon’s TV adaptation of “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” starring Natalie Dormer.

Also in the mix out in New York next month? Surprise new episodes of “The Staircase,” the legendary French godfather of true crime TV. Netflix will also make their presence felt with a preview of their new Bobby...

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This evening the red carpet was unfurled at the opening gala of the Newport Beach Film Festival UK Honours held at The Rosewood Hotel in London.

Those attending the event included Simon Pegg who talked about the Henry Cavill Mission Impossible/Justice League moustache controversy, Sir Patrick Stewart, Andy Serkis, Celia Imrie, Jason Isaacs, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gurinder Chadha, Mark Gatiss, Anya Taylor-Joy who told us about New Mutants and working with Bruce Willis on the Split sequel Glass, Game of Thrones and Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sophie Skelton, Edward Holcroft, Rungano Nyon and many more.

The event marked the launch of the festival as well as the bestowing of several awards, details of which you can see below.

Outstanding Achievement In Global Cinema:

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Sir Patrick Stewart, Gurinder Chadha, Celia Imrie & Andy Serkis

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Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Jason Isaacs & Thomas Brodie-Sangster...

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Here's our review of the BBC's flagship Christmas 2017 Little Women adaptation...

This review contains spoilers.

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Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Jo (Maya Hawke), Beth (Annes Elwy), and Amy (Kathryn Newton) are sisters living together with their mother (the divine Emily Watson) in Massachusetts during the American Civil War. Their father (Dylan Baker) is away with the Union Army and though the fighting is distant, its effects are still very much felt. Their neighbour Laurie (Jonah Hauer-King) becomes their close friend as the sisters grow up, each with their own very set ideas of the lives they want to lead.

Still immensely popular all these years after Louisa M. Alcott’s first instalment of Little Women was published, it is a tale of sisterhood that everybody has some awareness of, whether...

"Sometimes, we simple have to do the bravest thing." PBS has released the first trailer for their upcoming TV series adaptation of Little Women.Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, the miniseries “follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood.” The cast includes Emily Watson, Michael Gambon, Angela Lansbury, Maya Hawke, Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy, Kathryn Newton, and Jonah Hauer-King.Read More…...

“Four small children is a recipe for heartache, headache and indigestion.” So says Angela Lansbury’s Aunt March at the opening of the first trailer for Little Women, the TV adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel from Masterpiece, BBC One and Playground. Set against the backdrop of a country divided, the story follows the four March sisters: Jo, played by newcomer Maya Hawke, Meg, played by Willa Fitzgerald, Beth, played by Annes Elwy and Amy, played by Kathryn…...

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Coming to BBC One in the not too distant future is a brand new adaptation Louisa May Alcott’s universally beloved novel, Little Women and a brand new trailer is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Set against the backdrop of a country divided, the story follows the four March sisters: Jo (Maya Hawke), Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Beth (Annes Elwy), and Amy (Kathryn Newton) on their journey from childhood to adulthood while their father (Dylan Baker) is away at war. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee (Emily Watson), the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage.

Accompanied by the charming boy next door Laurie Laurence (Jonah Hauer-King), their cantankerous wealthy Aunt March (Angela Lansbury) and benevolent neighbour Mr. Laurence (Michael Gambon), Little Women is a coming of age story that is as...

Bobby Cannavale just wants the free milkshake he’s earned in a sneak peek at Mr. Robot‘s Season 3 premiere.

In the opening seven minutes below, the Vinyl alum plays the series-regular role of Irving, a laconic, no-nonsense used car salesman. The video also features a conversation between Whiterose (Bd Wong, now a series regular) and his right-hand man, in which they discuss Elliot’s future.

VideosMr. Robot Season 3 Trailer: The Dark Army Strikes Back — Plus, Check Out Glitchy New Character Posters

Mr. Robot returns this Wednesday at 10/9c on USA Network.

This is just the beginning. Watch the first 7 minutes of season_3.0 now.

Masterpiece, BBC One and Playground have released a first-look image from the TV adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, Little Women. Set against the backdrop of a country divided, the story follows the four March sisters: Jo, played by newcomer Maya Hawke, Meg, played by Willa Fitzgerald, Beth, played by Annes Elwy and Amy, played by Kathryn Newton, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother Marmee, while their father is away at…...

Exclusive: Lionsgate has come on board to handle worldwide distribution outside the U.S. and UK on BBC One and Playground Entertainment’s Little Women adaptation that’s co-produced with Masterpiece on PBS. The three-part mini has also added cast including Dylan Baker, Julian Morris and Mark Stanley.

They join the previously set Angela Lansbury, Emily Watson and Michael Gambon as well as the four young actresses playing the March sisters, Maya Hawke, Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy and Kathryn Newton.

The coming-of-age story based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic is set against the backdrop of the Civil War, and follows the four sisters on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother Marmee, while their father is away at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman.

Baker is playing Mr March, the army chaplain who’s called away to war,...

Little Women has some new company. Deadline reports Emily Watson and Michael Gambon have joined the upcoming BBC/PBS TV show.Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, the miniseries "follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood.” The cast also includes Angela Lansbury, Maya Hawke, Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy, Kathryn Newton, and Jonah Hauer-King.Read More…...

The upcoming <em>Little Women</em> adaptation for the BBC/PBS has found its women (and a couple of men). 

Angela Lansbury, Emily Watson and Michael Gambon are set to star in the three-part drama, based on Louise May Alcott's classic novel and due to start shooting in Ireland later this month. Watson will play Marmee Maya Hawke, with Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy and Kathryn Newton playing the iconic March sisters alongside Jonah Hauer-King as Laurie Laurence. 

The latest <em>Little Woman </em>adaptation comes from the award-winning creator of <em>Call the Midwife</em>, Heidi Thomas, with Vanessa Caswill directing.

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HBO’s TV-movie about Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize has found its Mr. Roarke, in Oscar-nominated actor Andy Garcia.

My Dinner With Hervé stars Game of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage in the title role, while Garcia will play Richardo Montalbán aka the Mr Roarke to Villechaize’s Tattoo on the aforementioned 1970s/80s ABC drama.

In addition to Dinklage, Dinner‘s invite list includes Jamie Dornan, Mireille Enos, Oona Chaplin, Harriet Walter and David Straithorn.

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* Marvel’s Luke Cage has added Mustafa Shakir (The Deuce) and Gabrielle Dennis (Rosewood) for Season 2, playing John McIver,...

Masterpiece on PBS is rounding out the main cast for its upcoming adaptation of the popular Louisa May Alcott novel “Little Women” with some newcomers and some acting veterans. Emily Watson (“Theory of Everything”) will play Marmee, mother and matriarch of the March family and of the sisters who are at the core of the story. The sisters, meanwhile, will be played by four young actress, including newcomer Maya Hawke, who will play Jo. Willa Fitzgerald (“Scream: The TV Series”) will play the eldest sister Meg; Annes Elwy (“Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams”) will play Beth and Kathryn Newton (“Big Little.

More details are emerging for Gareth Bryn's The Passing. A full length trailer has been released, along with a movie poster. The trailer shows a couple involved in a car crash and their rescue. But, where has Stanley taken them? The Passing centrally stars: Annes Elwy, Dyfan Dwyfor and Mark Lewis Jones. The script was developed by Ed Talfan (Bypass, 2014). And, fans can find the first trailer for the film here and the official artwork. The Passing is a BAFTA award winner. This title has already won "Best Actor" (Mark Lewis Jones), "Best Writer" and "Best Production Design." This prestigious charity, from London, continues to support excellence in film, including Gareth Bryn's latest. The Passing will be available in mid-June. On June 13th, the film will be available via Global Digital Releasing, through Video-on-demand. The release will be worldwide. Digital hosting platforms, for The Passing, include: iTunes, Amazon Instant,...

Terror Films and iflix recently forged a partnership to distribute films digitally in multiple global markets, including Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary. Also: Monster Hunt DVD release details, The Passing clips, Matthew Quinn's The Thing in the Woods, and the winners recap for the 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.

Terror Films and iflix's Global Distribution Digital Deal: Press Release: "Los Angeles, California (Friday, May 26th, 2017): Genre distributor Terror Films has teamed up with the world’s leading Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service, for emerging markets, iflix. This newly formed partnership will allow the distributor to expand their digital reach into multiple territories within iflix’s footprint including South East Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with future territories to be announced.

The films set to launch under the deal will include a wide variety from the label. They will include: the post- apocalyptic film,...

The Passing is a supernatural film from Wales. This title is slated for a mid-June release. And, two new clips have been released for The Passing, titled "Transgressions" and "Not Alone." The film, directed by Gareth Bryn, stars: Annes Elwy and Dyfan Dwyfor, along with Mark Lewis Jones. Also, The Passing involves a brutal car crash, in an isolated locale. They are rescued by a mysterious figure and taken to a farmhouse, "untouched by time." A preview of this Global Digital Releasing launch is hosted here. The "Not Alone" clip shows the film's supernatural element. A child's? hand reaches out for Sara (Elwy) as she recovers from the accident. But who is the child? The Passing will release on most Video-on-demand platforms. This title will show on: iTunes, Amazon Instant, Seed & Spark, Google Play, Sony Psn, X-Box Live, Vudu, Vimeo on Demand, Steam, Roku, Crackle, Hoopla and Tubi TV. And,...