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At a meeting with his agents way back in January 2022, Malachi Kirby recalls for the first time describing his dream project when pondering the direction his career may take next.

Kirby, whose star was soaring following a BAFTA-winning performance in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, said he wanted to fulfil a life-long dream of playing a boxer, wanted to tell the story of someone who had existed, wanted to find a project set in the past and fancied his next gig being based in London.

“I never thought that would end up all being the same job,” says Kirby three years on as we chat in the weeks leading up to premier of Disney+’s A Thousand Blows.

In what was an incredible bout of serendipity, Kirby’s agents soon after received the scripts for A Thousand Blows. Steven Knight’s latest drama series spotlights Hezekiah Moscow, who was indeed...

Exclusive: Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter's Salon Pictures is to produce a feature documentary about the mysterious death of an Israeli spy and has closed an international sales deal with distributor Kew Media Group. The Cancer Conflict director Tom Meadmore, who has worked with Salon on docs including Fred and The Guv'Nor, will direct The Spy Who Fell To Earth, based on a Dr. Ahron Bregman's eponymous book. Salon negotiated the rights to Bregman's book for use in the…...