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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed April this year. The upcoming month will see the release of the brilliant comedy-drama series Dying for Sex and the epic conclusion of the tragedy thriller drama series The Handmaid’s Tale. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 7 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in April 2025.

Dying for Sex Season 1 (April 4) Credit – FX

Dying for Sex is an upcoming comedy-drama series created by Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock. Based on the podcast series of the same name by Nikki Boyer, the FX series follows Molly, a middle-aged woman who is diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Soon after finding out that she doesn’t have much time to live, she ends her marriage of 15 years and tries to explore her sexuality.

This review was originally published during the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.

Domestic thrillers can be deliciously messy, but Magpie, starring the alluring Daisy Ridley in an ambitious and delectable role, takes things to the next level. The psychological thriller is engrossing, its slow-burn buildup feeding the fire that burns brightly in an immensely satisfying final act that is equal parts chilling and petty. Magpie turns certain tropes into narrative weapons, and it works at every turn, culminating in a finale that will leave you wanting more even as it gives us a tension-fueled conclusion.

Magpie

Director Sam YatesRelease Date March 9, 2024Writers Tom BatemanCast Emmet Kirwan, Jenny Galloway, Andy M Milligan, Cherrelle Skeete, Niall Wright, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie, Daisy Ridley, Shazad LatifRating RRuntime 90 MinutesGenres Thriller Magpie Is Riveting & Clever

The fact that first-time director Sam Yates manages to pull off such a stunning and effective film is impressive.

Before returning to the front row of the mainstream with more Star Wars projects, Daisy Ridley has been on a tear lately with smaller, more interesting films, such as the recent Young Woman and the Sea and her wildly different drama, Sometimes I Think About Dying, before that. Those two showcased her ability to pull off a flawless American accent as is the case with many acclaimed English performers but now she's back to her native voice with Magpie, a gripping neo-noir set in the U.K. that sees her taking names as an embattled wife and mom of two trying to navigate a fractured marriage thanks to a somewhat bonehead husband.

The film is directed by Sam Yates and written by Tom Bateman, Ridley's spouse, and she developed the story of Magpie. It's co-produced by Bateman and Ridley, so you know this is a project she's passionate about.

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere of a new work by Suzie Miller, the playwright who created Prima Facie, the legal drama that catapulted Jodie Comer to Olivier and Tony Award trophies.

Pike has been cast in Miller’s Inter Alia, in which she’ll play a British High Court judge forced to reckon with conflict in her private and professional life. The production will reunite Miller with director Justin Martin, who also directed Comer in Prima Facie in the West End and on Broadway.

Inter Alia will be part of the final season of National Theatre director and co-chief executive Rufus Norris, who steps down from his post on March 31, 2025 after a decade at the helm of the UK’s flagship theatrical institution. Norris...

The trailer for Daisy Ridley‘s new dark thriller has been released.

The 32-year-old actress stars in the new movie Magpie, based an original idea she came up with, written by her husband Tom Bateman, and directed by Sam Yates.

Here’s the synopsis: “Magpie is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette (Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif), whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz). As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.”

Keep reading to find out more…Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, and Alistair Petrie also star in the movie.

In a new interview, Daisy opened up about a health diagnosis.

Magpie hits theaters on Oct. 25.

"The funny thing... I didn't tell anyone." Shout Studios has revealed an official trailer for Magpie, a neo-noir thriller from director Sam Yates, most known for theater in the UK. This initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and is set for a theatrical release starting in late October this fall. This looks like it gets quite creepy. When Ben and Anette's daughter Matilda is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, relationships are pushed to the brink. "A twisty, wicked thriller." A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star. Magpie stars Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, and Alistair Petrie. This looks like a dark and nefarious thriller about what happens when jealousy and secrets overwhelm people. Described in reviews as an "engrossing" flick with a "slow-burn buildup.

The stylish neo-noir thriller Magpie is set to play on the big screen in New York, Los Angeles, and select U.S. cities starting on October 25th, and with that theatrical release date just one month away, Shout! Studios has unveiled a poster and a trailer for the film. The trailer can be viewed in the embed above, and the poster can be found at the bottom of this article.

Directed by Sam Yates from a screenplay by Tom Bateman that was based on an original idea by star Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Magpie has the following synopsis: The lives of married couple Anette and Ben begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia. As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.

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In the coming months, British actors’ union Equity and producer trade body Pact are expected to kick off negotiations to thrash out new contracts that will cover the vast majority of U.K. TV and indie film. There’s going to be several major sticking points on the table, many that are near-identical to those that dominated the lengthy and fraught talks between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP in the U.S. last year, not least secondary payments and the hot-button topic of AI.

But while these may be the headline grabbers up for discussion, a group of actors have been campaigning for another issue to be part of the negotiations: hair and makeup equality.

In her 2023 documentary “Untold Stories: Hair on Set,” British actress and filmmaker Fola Evans-Akingbola brought to light how Afro hair had been shockingly overlooked by the U.K. industry in terms of on-set provisions and knowledge.

Exclusive: Hanna actress Cherrelle Skeete has joined Sky Original drama The Midwich Cuckoos, which is in production in the UK.

Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard) and Max Beesley (The Outsider) lead the eight-part modern-day adaptation of John Wyndham’s sci-fi novel of the same name. The series is written by David Farr, the British writer behind The Night Manager and Hanna, and centers on a British town where women fall pregnant with alien children.

Produced by ITV Studios-backed Route 24 and Snowed-In Productions in association with Sky Studios, Sasha Hails, Namsi Khan, and Laura Lomas are co-writers. Alice Troughton (Baghdad Central) is the lead director, with Jennifer Perrott (Gentleman Jack) serving as director. Exec producers are Marc Samuelson and Robert Cheek for Route 24 and Ruth Kenley-Letts and Neil Blair for Snowed-In Productions. Series producer is Eliza Mellor.

Skeete, who has joined in a supporting role, was most recently seen in Amazon...

Season 2 of “Hanna” is brighter than the first. The show that once tracked its title character (Esmé Creed-Miles) through the Romanian wilderness and in grungy hideouts arrives with a renewed sense of purpose in a fresh set of locations. Sterile interrogation rooms give way more angular holding cells. The stereotypical brainwash aesthetics that popped up as the net of the show’s main conspiracy? In this new season, they give way to pastoral walks and Mediterranean destinations, each with their fair share of pastels.

It’s not just the changing color palette or the extra dose of sun that makes Season 2 such a marked improvement. It’s the other elements of this tangled espionage narrative that makes those changes necessary. The program that led to Hanna’s kidnapping in the first place, largely a whisper until the opening season’s climactic blowout, is now front and center. Set in an idyllic rural English castle,...

Dermot Mulroney (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Homecoming) is now leading the hunt for Hanna in Amazon Prime’s action-drama.

Mulroney has joined the Season 2 cast as John Carmichael, a former mentor of Mireille Enos’ Marissa who takes over at the sinister Utrax organization that has been hunting the series’ titular teen.

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Other Season 2 additions, per our sister site Deadline, include Anthony Welsh (Pure), Severine Howell-Meri (Casualty), Cherrelle Skeete (Doctors) and Gianna Kiehl.

J.K. Rowling‘s much-anticipated “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” West End play opened for previews on Monday and critics have flocked to the Palace Theatre London to see how this latest live installment stacks up to the famed Harry Potter films. Starring Jamie Parker (Harry), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione), Paul Thornley (Ron), Anthony Boyle (Scorpius), Sam Clemmett (Albus), Poppy Miller (Ginny), Alex Price (Draco) and Cherrelle Skeete (Rose), the play is set to officially open this Saturday. Theater-goers are handed badges reading “Keep the secrets” as they leave the show, which hints at the lengths the creators are going to keep spoilers under wraps.

If you're in London and a huge fan of Harry Potter, tonight is the night you've been waiting for. The very first preview performance of the highly-anticipated stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child debuted. The play won't officially open until July 30, but fans have been eagerly awaiting the eighth official story in the Harry Potter canon. Tonight we have the first early reactions, and, thankfully, they heeded J.K. Rowling's spoiler warning.

Earlier today, J.K. Rowling posted a YouTube video where she plead with fans to keep the secrets that will be unveiled in this story. Of course, we likely won't know for quite some time what these secrets are, but it seems that the fans are keeping true to their word, posting a number of glowing reactions on Twitter that doesn't spoil anything for those who weren't at tonight's debut performance. With previews slated to run nearly...

Over the past couple of days, we've gotten our first look at several of the main players in upcoming play Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. There's Harry Potter (Jamie Parker), his wife Ginny (Poppy Miller), and their son Albus (Sam Clemmett), who you can see here. Then there's Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley), Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni), and their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete), who you can see here.

Now thanks to Pottermore we have our first look at Draco Malfoy, who is being played by Alex Price, and his son Scorpius, who is being played by Anthony Boyle. As you can se,e they were perfectly cast in their roles as they definitely look the part. According to J.K. Rowling, "Scorpius is going to do nothing to turn girls off the Malfoy men." So I guess he's going to be a hit with the ladies.

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Yesterday, we gave you a first look at the adult Harry Potter (Jamie Parker), his wife Ginny Potter (Poppy Miller) and their son Albus Severus Potter (Sam Clement) in the highly-anticipated stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The play debuts with previews in London starting June 7, with the first official performance set for July 30. As we get closer and closer to this play's debut, today we have even more photos which reveal the Weasley family, Ron (Paul Thornley), Hermione (Noma Dumezweni) and their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete).

The photos, which offer our first look at the actors in their official costumes, debuted on Pottermore, where these cast members also shed new light on the story and their characters. Paul Thornley revealed that the play opens as the Weasley daughter is about to follow in her parents' footsteps by attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here's what...

After getting a glimpse of Harry Potter's family, it's time to meet the Granger-Weasleys. Another batch of new cast photos show Harry's pals Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley) and Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni) along with their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete) in the London stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The photos, released on Pottermore, reveal the characters in full costume with wands in their hands. Loyal Potterheads know that Ron and Hermione have another son, Hugo, but he isn't old enough yet to attend Hogwarts during the play's first act. But while the youngest child of the...

After getting a glimpse of Harry Potter's family, it's time to meet the Granger-Weasleys. Another batch of new cast photos show Harry's pals Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley) and Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni) along with their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete) in the London stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The photos, released on Pottermore, reveal the characters in full costume with wands in their hands. Loyal Potterheads know that Ron and Hermione have another son, Hugo, but he isn't old enough yet to attend Hogwarts during the play's first act. But while the youngest child of the...

Yesterday we got our first look at Harry Potter, Ginny, and their son Albus in the upcoming new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Today we get to meet the Granger-Weasley family, which includes Ron Weasley played by Paul Thornley, Hermione Granger played by Noma Dumezweni, and their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley, who will be played by actress Cherrelle Skeete. When talking about the characters Thornley says:

"It’s 19 years later when the play begins. Ron is married to Hermione Granger and they’re now the Granger-Weasleys. Our magnificent daughter Rose Granger-Weasley is about to start at Hogwarts, which is obviously a big day for everyone."

In an interview with Pottermore, Skeete talked about her character Rose explaining:

"Rose is ambitious, obviously her mum is Hermione so she’s got a lot to live up to. I think they’re quite similar in the fact they put a lot of pressure on themselves.

It's not often I get to write about my first love, theatre, but thanks to the buzz surrounding Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts One and Two, I get to do just that today. Why is everyone talking about this production? Well, because it's based on a story "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling had a hand in writing and is an officially-sanctioned sequel to her now-classic books about the boy wizard. Those books famously gave way to eight movies, and now this new story she's written is getting the stage treatment.

The play, coming to the Palace Theater London in July, will be the eighth story in the Potter series and it takes place 19 years after the events depicted in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. Basically, it's set in the same period as that epilogue scene at the end that depicted Harry, Ron, and Hermione as adults with...

Yesterday, Pottermore delighted us all with the first photos from the upcoming play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and now today, we get our first glance at the Granger-Weasley family. In a post today, Pottermore revealed character portraits for Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley), Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni), and their child Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete). Over the winter, there was some ridiculous controversy surrounding the casting of a black Hermione Granger, even though Hermione's race was never specified in the books. J.K. Rowling herself went on to endorse the casting decision on Twitter.  But based on the beautiful photos below, it's hard to imagine that anyone could hate on this family. Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley (Credit: Pottermore)   Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger? (Credit: Pottermore)  Cherrelle Skeete as Rose Granger-Weasley? (Credit: Pottermore)  The whole family (Credit: Pottermore)...

Following on from a first look yesterday at the Potter family, today comes photos of the cast members playing the Granger-Weasley family in the upcoming stage production "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child".

The photos show off Paul Thornley who plays a now adult Ron Weasley, Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger and Cherrelle Skeete as their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley. These follow on from yesterday's pics of Jamie Parker as Harry, Poppy Miller as Ginny, and Sam Clemmett as their son Albus.

Jack Thorne wrote the play from an original story he created with author J.K. Rowling. The story follows a now grown up Harry who has become an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic along with a husband and father of three school-age children. As he grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted.

Yesterday brought us our first look at the Potter family of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, featuring Jamie Parker as Harry, Poppy Miller as Ginny, and Sam Clemmett as their rather unfortunately named son Albus. Today it’s time to meet their best friends, the Granger-Weasleys. Paul Thornley plays Ron Weasley and Noma Dumezweni is Hermione Granger, and Cherrelle Skeete plays […]

The post ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Photos: Meet the Granger-Weasleys appeared first on /Film.

It's time to meet the Granger-Weasleys! Yesterday, fans got their first looks at Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, and their son Albus, in images from the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" stage play that starts previews in London on June 7.

(Update: Check out the Malfoys in the third batch of photos over here.)

Today's Pottermore pics show Ginny's bro/Harry's best friend Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley) and the great Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni), along with their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete), who is about to start at Hogwarts (like Albus Potter).

Check out individual images below (with their wands!), along with thoughts about the characters from the stars and author J.K. Rowling.

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It sounds like young Rose is more like her mother than her father (which, let's be honest, is probably a good thing). As actress Cherrelle Skeete put it, "Rose is ambitious, obviously her mum is Hermione...

In the second set of Charlie Gray's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child portraits, joining the previously announced Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley and Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger is Cherrelle Skeete who will play Rose Granger-Weasley. Previews for Part One of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin on 7 June with previews of Part Two starting 9 June 2016. The Official Opening performances of Part One and Part Two will take place on Saturday 30 July 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look below...

After our first look of Harry and family, we now get a glimpse of the Granger-Weasleys that will appear in the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, set to open in London this summer. Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley) and Hermione Granger (Noma Dumezweni) are now married and have a daughter, Rose Granger-Weasley (Cherrelle Skeete). The producers of the play revealed that the story will focus on Harry's youngest son Albus, the "cursed child" who has to deal with his legacy. Cursed Child is set 19 years after the events of Deathly Hallows and though written for the

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Next week, fans in the U.K. will get to see a brand new Harry Potter story unfold when the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opens for previews on June 7, ahead of its first official performance on July 30. Actors Jamie Parker (Harry Potter), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione Granger) and Paul Thornley (Ron Weasley) were cast in December, with the full cast announced in February, although it was never confirmed which characters the other actors are playing. Today we have new photos of some of these actors in character, along with details on their roles.

Pottermore revealed new photos of Jamie Parker as Harry Potter, alongside Sam Clemmett as Albus Severus Potter and Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter. The photos below reveal some of the actual costumes these actors will be wearing, along with a glimpse at Harry Potter's infamous scar. Here's what Jamie Parker had to say about his costume.

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J K Rowling has taken to her Twitter account to once again confirm that Harry Potter And The Cursed Child won't be heading to the movies...

J K Rowling, not for the first time, has iterated that there are no plans whatsoever to bring the hit West End play, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, to the movies. A rumour this time had sprung up that Warner Bros had been chatting to Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint about reprising their roles for a movie, before spinning the younger characters from Harry Potter And The Cursed Child off into movies of their own.

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Rowling has quickly shot this story down, though, with the following Tweet...

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