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With Nosferatu now on more than $150m at the global box office Focus Features and Robert Eggers are reteaming on his next film, Werwulf.

Focus Features will produce and finance and distribute in the US on December 25, 2026.

Eggers will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sjón, with whom he co-wrote on The Northman. Both Eggers and Sjón will produce alongside Focus Features, while Maiden Voyage’s Chris and Eleanor Columbusserve as executive producers.

Nosferatu has grossed just over $90m in North America, making it the studio’s second highest grossing release behind Downton Abbey on just shy of $97m.

The cast of Downton Abbey: A New Era is, as fans hoped, also identical to that of Downton Abbey 2019, with one notable exception. However, the Crawley family and their servants also welcome some new visitors to their great house in Yorkshire UK, meaning there are a few fresh faces on screen too. In Downton Abbey: A New Era, the Crawleys travel to the South of France after Lady Violet, the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) reveals a former flame has left her a seaside villa in his will. Meanwhile, a film production arrives to shoot a movie at Downton Abbey, which creates excitement for the servants and chaos for Lady Mary Talbot (Michelle Dockery).

Downton Abbey: A New Era also features the wedding of Tom Branson (Allen Leech) to Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton) after they were engaged in the previous Downton Abbey movie. The Crawleys' lives change forever as the...

Exclusive: ITV’s adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate novel Our House has cast Martin Compston (Line Of Duty), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey), and Rupert Penry-Jones (The Drowning) in headline roles.

Our House tells the four-part story of Fi Lawson (Middleton), who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram (Compston), has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.

Produced by Death In Paradise outfit Red Planet Pictures, Penry-Jones features as the enigmatic Toby, who is in a relationship with Fi. Buket Komur (Honour) plays Bram’s new partner, the mysterious and alluring Wendy. Also joining the cast is Weruche Opia, who broke out in Emmy-nominated BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You,...

The hit British period drama Downton Abbey might have completed its 6 season arc in 2015, but fans couldn't get enough of it, resulting in writer Julian Fellowes creating Downton Abbey: The Movie in 2019 to offer the audience some closure.

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The series became an unprecedented phenomenon as audiences around the world became invested in the story of the Crawley family, representing the last vestiges of the decadent pre-war British aristocracy. But despite the fandom, there are those whose views are often contrary to popular opinion about the series - and fans take to Reddit to vent about the things that everyone else loves, but they hate.

Disney animation second only to Avengers: Endgame in top selling titles.

Disney Animation Frozen 2 has held its lead of digital download sales in the UK, with audiences continuing to look to home entertainment during the coronavirus crisis.

The animated sequel recorded 110,00 downloads in its second week, bringing its total to 328,900 and earning a place in the fastest-selling digital download films of all-time in the UK.

It is just 88,000 sales behind all-time leading title Avengers: Endgame but has surpassed Avengers: Infinity War, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Greatest Showman and Joker (records began in 2017).

The strong performance follows the continued closure of all cinemas in the UK,...

Animated sequel recorded nearly 220,000 digital downloads in its first week.

Disney animation Frozen 2 has landed the second-highest opening week of digital download sales ever in the UK, as audiences turn to home entertainment during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The animated sequel recorded 218,700 digital downloads in its first week, topped only by Avengers: Endgame, which had 335,400 in August 2019, according to th Official Charts Company.

The strong performance follows the closure of all cinemas in the UK, in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus, while the nation has been on total lockdown since Monday (March 23) with people told not to...

Epix has renewed “Godfather of Harlem” for a second season. Forest Whitaker executive produces and stars as Bumpy Johnson on the ABC Signature Studios series.

The 10-episode sophomore season, created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, will begin production in New York later this year.

“‘Godfather of Harlem’ season one was a remarkable success, tripling previous viewership numbers for the network and earning acclaim from both critics and viewers alike,” said Michael Wright, president of Epix. “We couldn’t wait to reunite with Chris, Paul, Forest and the team at ABC Signature to continue telling this compelling and extremely relevant story.”

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“Godfather of Harlem” tells a story inspired by crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from 11 years in prison...

The Stranger is Netflix's latest supremely bingable thriller, focusing on the secrets and lies circulating within a suburban UK community. Based on Harlan Coben's 2015 novel, the taut mystery that begins with Adam Price's search for his missing wife unfolds over eight nail-biting episodes, and is full of memorable characters who each have something to hide.

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With a highly respected cast including Richard Armitage (The Hobbit Trilogy), Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey), and Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta), the series reveals that appearances can be deceiving. Here are 10 hidden details about the main characters everyone missed in the Netflix Show.

It may be over, but there's no doubt that Downton Abbey is still deeply beloved - so much so that it even managed a follow up film after the original series ended! This high-drama look at a manor house at the turn of the century was packed with great one-liners and incredible plot twists, and of course, it's now become utterly memeable.

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Focusing on those who are ringing the bells for the servants, these are the memes that will have any Downton fan cracking up.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has been set to write the screenplay for The Wind in the Willows, a feature adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic English tale. Ray Griggs is aboard to to direct the project, which will be shot at Peter Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand.

Jackson’s Weta Digital is handling the CGI to bring Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger to life, with Skywalker Sound designing all sound effects and ambient noise. Production is set to begin this year; casting is underway.

Fellowes wrote the book for a Wind in the Willows musical with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe — the trio had collaborated on the long-running Mary Poppins musical on Broadway. Their Wind in the Willows bowed in 2016 and eventually played on London’s West End.

Gerald R. Molen, who won the Oscar in 1994 for producing Schindler’s List, is...

It’s been about 10 years since we first heard about a film adaptation of The Wind in the Willows coming together with the help of Peter Jackson‘s Weta Workshop. At the time, the plan was for Weta’s Ray Griggs to direct a live-action movie using advanced animatronics to bring the four anthropomorphic animal characters, Mole, Rat, Toad […]

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Julian Fellowes, the writer and creator of “Downton Abbey,“ has teamed up with producer Gerald R. Molen on a big-screen production of the classic children’s novel “The Wind in the Willows.”

Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital is on board for the CGI for the four main characters — Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger — who live by a river in Edwardian England, in the Kenneth Grahame novel. The project comes four years after a musical version of “The Wind in the Willows“ premiered in the U.K., with Fellowes having written the script, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

Molen, who won an Academy Award with Steven Spielberg for producing “Schindler’s List,” has hired Ray Griggs and Richard Taylor at Weta Workshop, in coordination with Jackson’s Weta Digital.

Filming will take place at Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in New Zealand, while Skywalker Sound will design...

The classic children's novel The Wind in the Willows is set to receive a movie treatment.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and Oscar-winning producer Gerald R. Molen (Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park) are getting behind a film adaptation of British author Kenneth Grahame’s famed effort. Fellowes will write the script to bring the beloved characters Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger to life on the big screen.

Disney previously turned Grahame book's into a short animated film in 1949, and TV takes followed.

Fellowes will collaborate with director and creative Ray Griggs, Richard Taylor at Weta Workshop and Peter Jackson'...

Five years after Parks and Recreation wrapped its run, Chris Pratt is plotting his return to the small screen: The actor will star in and executive-produce the conspiracy thriller The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr’s novel of the same name.

The series — written by David Digilio (Strange Angel) and directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), who both serve as EPs — follows Navy Seal Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. “Reece returns home with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability,” per the official synopsis. “However, as new evidence comes to light,...

The Hollywood guilds and professional organizations have for the most part finished handing out their awards for the films of 2019, with “Parasite” and “1917” emerging as the year’s big winners.

Bong Joon Ho’s Korean-language black comedy won the most guild awards, five, but Sam Mendes’ World War I drama won four, including two of the biggest ones, from the Producers Guild and Directors Guild. Given the results, it’s no secret why those two films are the clear frontrunners heading into Sunday’s Oscars, or why “Jojo Rabbit” – which also won four – is coming on strong as well.

In this count, we’re including the guilds or professional organizations who align with an Oscars category. That leaves out the Artios Awards, which is given to casting directors, and the Guild of Music Supervisors, which largely goes to supervisors, though it has one songwriting award for film.

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Unbelievable news for Toni Collette fans: The actress is teaming with Netflix once again for the drama series Pieces of Her, the streamer announced Monday.

Based on Karin Slaughter’s 2018 novel of the same name, Pieces of Her deals with the fallout from an act of violence that rocks a sleepy Georgia town, as well as the bond between 30-year-old Andy Oliver and her mother, Laura (Collette). “Desperate for answers, Andy embarks on a dangerous journey across America, drawing her toward the dark, hidden heart of her family,” the logline reads.

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We never knew we needed one more “Little Women” until Greta Gerwig flexed her adaptive smarts. Now, freshness and fizz has been applied to another oft-filmed classic, Jane Austen’s adored novel “Emma,” which in the hands of photographer-turned-filmmaker Autumn de Wilde, screenwriter Eleanor Catton, and a stellar cast led by rising star Anya Taylor-Joy, is once again a deeply satisfying blend of cross-purposed manners and romantic mismanagement.

Arriving a quarter-century after Amy Heckerling’s delightful Beverly Hills update (“Clueless”) and the shiny 1996 bauble that bolstered Gwyneth Paltrow’s ascendancy, the latest rendering of literature’s most elegantly deluded and self-satisfied female Cupid feels like a flinty, intelligent engagement with Austen’s nuanced characters and lasting ironies rather than a slick excuse to keep “Downton Abbey” fans happy with more English finery and frippery.

Not that this “Emma.” — it’s not just a period piece; there’s a period in...

Despite season 3 having only recently arrived on Netflix, talk has already turned towards upcoming runs of royal drama The Crown. Currently, Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman is the one bringing Queen Elizabeth II to life, but given that she’s only booked in for seasons 3 and 4, we know that someone else will soon be stepping into the role. And earlier today, Netflix revealed who that would be.

Deadline reports that Imelda Staunton will be the one taking over the part in The Crown‘s fifth season. Yes, the diabolical Dolores Umbridge herself will be portraying her Majesty. But unlike her predecessors, the actress will only have one run in the role, as the series will come to an end after season 5.

Of course, Staunton’s casting had been rumored before now, but it’s still nice to have it officially confirmed. And while it remains unclear who else will be joining...

Netflix is facing a “Crexit” crisis!

The Crown will come to an end with Season 5, with Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton officially taking over as Queen Elizabeth in the final season, Netflix announced early Friday. Staunton succeeds Claire Foy (Seasons 1 and 2) and Olivia Colman (Seasons 3 and upcoming Season 4).

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Series creator Peter Morgan initially intended The Crown to run for six seasons. However, he recently had a change of heart, explaining in a statement,...

Directed and co-written by Florian Zeller from his own play, The Father doesn’t have much visual flair. It’s a first feature, largely takes place in one apartment, and centers on two characters. Its most consistent motif being frames within frame: doorways lead to hallways and corridors; paintings domineer rooms like portals to a world half remembered. Scenes, sequences, and arcs fray at the edges until they snake in on themselves. But for a movie as low-key movie as it is quietly brutal, this may have been the most fitting choice.

It’s a simple premise: Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an elderly man living in his London flat. Well, it seems so at first—then comes his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), who makes mention of it being her apartment. Her husband, Paul (Rufus Sewell), comes in and she mentions the two moving to Paris soon. But wait: that means...

Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller about the spread of a deadly virus has been back in the iTunes Top 10 – so is this epidemic another thing we can blame on Gwyneth Paltrow?

Conventional wisdom has it that audiences flock to escapism in troubled times, but an unexpected new entry on the UK iTunes movie rental chart suggests otherwise. Nestling among the current hits is a film made nine years ago that paints a more terrifying picture of humanity than Joker and Downton Abbey combined. As the coronavirus scythes outwards from China, there have been enough rentals of Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller Contagion to propel the movie into the Top 10. The picture, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and concerns a deadly virus with the potential to decimate the global population, has, in a very real sense, gone viral.

Twitter users have been posting variations on the theme of: “Is it just me or did Contagion predict the coronavirus?...

‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Favourite’ lead boost.

Independent UK films secured their highest market share at the local box office for five years, according to the BFI’s official statistics for 2019 which have been published today.

Films including Downton Abbey, The Favourite and Yesterday helped boost the market share of independent UK films to 13% in 2019, up from 11.7% the previous year.

Downton Abbey, the big-screen adaptation of the period TV drama, led the chart having grossed £28.2m following its release by Universal in September. It was produced by Carnival Films with Focus Features and released by Universal.

The Favourite, which won...

The UK’s film and TV industries are undergoing an unprecedented boom. Last year, production spend on these shores exceeded $4.7bn (£3.6bn), a 16% increase on the previous highest on record, according to statistics published by the British Film Institute (BFI) today.

However, while inward investment skyrocketed last year, UK domestic production decreased across the board.

The surge in high-end TV led the boom, accounting for $2.16bn (£1.66bn) in spend. That’s up a whopping 29% on 2018 and a record total. Shows including The Crown, His Dark Materials, Killing Eve, Avenue 5, and The North Water at least part-filmed in the UK last year. There were 123 productions in total.

Overall film production remained ahead of TV, clocking $2.56bn (£1.97bn), a 7% increase on 2018 and the second-highest year on record. Features such as 1917, James Bond pic No Time To Die, and Venom 2 all contributed. There were 188 feature films shot in the UK in 2019.

Inward investment,...

The unofficially-styled DC Extended Universe that began with Zack Snyder’s 2013 film Man of Steel before faltering through his ambitious but fractiously-received Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and his incompletely-realized Justice League seems to have finally regained its footing in its post-Steppenwolf era with the franchise’s first billion-dollar blockbuster, Aquaman, and this year’s highly-anticipated Patty Jenkins-helmed sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.

Now we’re hearing rumblings from the same sources who indicated to us that Viola Davis will be returning as Amanda Waller in The Suicide Squad and that Diana will don the Golden Eagle armor in 1984, both of which have since come to fruition, that the creative team is interested in bringing Liverpudlian occult detective John Constantine back to the big screen within their burgeoning comic book universe, but are having difficulty determining how to best execute his return.

Some execs allegedly want to revive a...

One of the Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design, “Jojo Rabbit,” won with the guild on January 28. This gives the WWII dark comedy a boost just two days before academy members start voting. “Jojo Rabbit” edged out one of its Oscar rivals, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” as well as “Dolemite is My Name,” “Downton Abbey” and “Rocketman” to claim the period costume prize from the Costume Designers Guild.

But don’t count on “Jojo Rabbit” repeating at the Academy Awards. In its 22-year history, the Cdg has previewed only 10 of the Oscar winners for Best Costume Design. This year’s frontrunner at the Academy Awards is “Little Women,” which was snubbed by the guild as were two of the other nominees, “The Irishman” and “Joker.”

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“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” won the fantasy film race at the...

Exclusive: NBCUniversal International Studios has struck a first-look deal with fledgling short form video and audio content company StoryHunter.

The global division of the Hollywood studio has signed a multi-year deal with the company, which was set up by former Fremantle and Sony Pictures exec Kirsty Hunter.

The move will see StoryHunter develop scripted and non-scripted content based on original IP.

It will also work with NBCU’s production companies including Carnival, Heyday Television, Monkey and Working Title Television to support the off-television exploitation of their shows including podcasts and social media activity.

Hunter, who was previously group head of social media content and production at Fremantle, has worked on shows including The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, Made in Chelsea, Grand Designs, Downton Abbey, Sherlock and American Gods. Before joining Fremantle, she was head of international creative development, digital at Sony Pictures Television and spent over eight years as...

PBS' hit series Downton Abbey tackles a lot of issues, from historical events to class relationships to the speed of social progress. Arguably though, the series is far more concerned with one thing: romance. So much of the series is a big game of "will they won't they?."

Related: Downton Abbey: 10 Actors You Forgot Were On The Show

Obviously, there was the central struggle for Lady Mary to find a proper suitor, but this was an issue for a lot of characters. Throughout the series, whether they were an aristocrat or a servant, there were many near-romantic connections that could have lead to full marriage.

From the pilot episode to the recent film release, Downton Abbey's cast of colorful characters has entertained audiences. Viewers have fallen in love with the likes of Lady Mary, Mr. Carson, Lord Grantham, and more, following their escapades around early 20th century England.

Related: Downton Abbey: 10 Actors You Forgot Were On The Show

While the heroes of the series are some of the most likable on TV, the villains are some of the most despised. The worst of humanity can still be found at a grand house like Downton. Throughout its six seasons and film release, these characters have been a thorn in the side of Downtown's residents.

As The Irishman begins the home stretch to the Oscars are you in need of another mob movie fix? Like Scorsese, this director has a history of flicks about the “thug life” featuring guys and goons that can “lean” on anybody that gets in the way. Well, this is one quite a bit different as it’s not set on the mean streets of East Coast USA, but rather in swinging (like a pendulum do’) London, so it’s got an international flavor. Plus this flick expands past Picadilly into the country estates and castles (hitmen at Downton Abbey. oh dear). So it involves the elite, but people who don’t fret about getting blood spilled on those custom-tailored suits and gowns. Yet, somehow most of the world believes that these “goodfellas'” can still be called The Gentlemen.

After a brief flashforward involving one of the plot principals, the story...

In addition to their respective multiple Oscar and Grammy nominations, “Joker” and Billie Eilish are both frontrunners at the Social Media Superstars Awards, which will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles in Beverly Hills on Feb. 13.

The SMS Awards honor brands and pioneers in the social media and digital landscapes in 10 categories, including sports, travel, technology, film and entertainment. The full list of nominees was announced on Wednesday morning.

Universal Music and Interscope Records’ Eilish marketing campaign will go head-to-head with Warner Bros.’ “Joker” in the Film/Entertainment category. Also in the running are Focus Features for “Downton Abbey” movie, Sony Pictures’ “Jumanji: The Next Level,” Amazon Prime’s Maisel Day, and Netflix/ Coca Cola for their “Stranger Things” ’80s retro campaign.

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“This category is packed with an astonishing array...

Arriving several years after the sixth and final season of the television series, Downton Abbey reintroduced us to the Crawley family and the opulence of the titular location. I honestly wasn't sure how well a feature-film version of the TV series would fare, but the low-budget film went on to gross $192 million worldwide and received largely positive reviews, which, as we know, spells…...

Streamer BritBox has appointed Will Harrison as managing director for the U.K.

Harrison comes to the service from media investment group Ingenious Media, where he was managing director. An industry veteran, he has had previous stints at Warner Bros., HBO, Disney, A+E Television and Turner Broadcasting.

His duties will include profit and loss responsibility, staff management, strategy and stakeholder relationships. He will report into Reemah Sakaan, who will now be in an expanded role as chief brand and creative development officer for BritBox Global.

Sakaan said: “He brings with him great experience and a track record of success in direct to consumer and streaming. I look forward to working with him to take BritBox to its next stage of growth in the U.K.”

“They have done a fantastic job in an incredibly short period of time,” Harrison added. “I’m excited at the growth ahead of us...

Apple TV+’s new Chris Evans-led thriller Defending Jacob will debut this spring with a three-episode premiere, the company announced Sunday. The streaming service will drop the series’ first offerings on Friday, April 24, and new episodes will follow weekly thereafter.

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by William Landay, the character-driven thriller will be a limited-series that unfolds around a shocking crime in a small Massachusetts town. It follows an assistant district attorney (Evans) who “finds himself torn between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son,” according to the streamer’s official description.

Sunday marks Apple TV+’s big debut at the biannual Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, which means a lot of attention will be coming to the streaming service today — especially on Twitter. But not if rival Disney+ can help it.

#DisneyPlus is currently the top — and sponsored — “Worldwide” trends on Twitter. That means The Walt Disney Company paid to promote the hashtag, placing it atop the naturally trending terms and tags.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because Disney did the same thing ahead of HBO Max’s big unveiling back in October.

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Clicking on the #DisneyPlus promoted Twitter trend today takes a user to a video previewing movies and original series coming to the Disney+ service in 2020.

“It’s happening,” the tweet read. “From the biggest blockbusters to the most exciting new originals,...

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will start working on a sequel to the ITV and PBS drama’s feature film once he’s finished scripting HBO drama The Gilded Age.

Fellowes, speaking after his Winter TCA press tour session to promote Epix and ITV drama Belgravia, said that he is currently in pre-production for that long-gestating drama series and expects to shoot later this year.

When asked when he would start writing a movie sequel, he joked, “Give us a break, gov. Not until I’ve finished the scripts for The Gilded Age.”

He added that The Gilded Age, which moved from NBC to HBO last year, was in “reasonably good shape” and was pleased with the casting, which includes The Good Fight star Christine Baranski, Sex and the City alumna Cynthia Nixon, Brockmire’s Amanda Peet and The Plot Against America’s Morgan Spector.

The Gilded Age, which is...

Julian Fellowes admits that his new Epix historical period limited series “Belgravia” bears a lot in common with “Downton Abbey,” but they are not, in fact, the same show. “Well, I think there are bound to be some similarities because they’re written by the same guy and there’s a kind of limit to how many voices one possesses,” Fellowes said at the Television Critics Association press tour on Saturday. “I think it is different from ‘Downton’ because it has a tauter narrative. It’s a single narrative; a completed story at the end. By the end of Episode 6, we’ve gotten to the end of the story. It isn’t open-ended in [the same] way.” “Belgravia,” based on Fellowes’ own novel, is a story of secrets and scandals amongst the upper echelon of London society in the 19th century. Fellowes, along with “Downton” collaborators Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant and Liz Trubridge...

Epix has put into development a trio of scripted series: one that takes place in King Arthur’s time, another from the Elizabethan era and the third in 1984.

“The Winter King,” a drama series adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s trilogy of Arthurian novels “The Warlord Chronicles,” hails from Bad Wolf.

“Gibson Station,” from producer/writer/director Edward Burns, is a dramedy set in 1984 that revolves around three 20-something best friends setting out to pursue their dreams and seek out their place in Ronald Reagan’s America.

“A Column of Fire” is based on the novel by international best-selling author Ken Follett. The Elizabethan-era drama follows the romance between Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald and is written by Lizzie Mickery and produced by Snowed-In Productions and Sony Pictures Television. Ruth Kenley-Letts and Mickery are executive producers.

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Exclusive: Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey) and Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) are joining Keira Knightley and JoJo Rabbit star Roman Griffin Davis in the Christmas-themed movie Silent Night. Production gets underway February 17.

Elements of the project were first revealed earlier today. This is the whole story.

Marv Films’ Matthew Vaughn (Rocketman) will finance and produce the project alongside Trudie Styler (American Honey) and Celine Rattray (The Kids Are All Right) of Maven Pictures.

Camille Griffin will make her directorial feature film debut from her own original screenplay. Griffin, the mother of Golden Globe-nominated JoJo Rabbit breakout Griffin Davis, has written and directed five shorts before this. She started her career working in the camera department alongside cinematographers including Darius Khondji and Ben Davis.

While Silent Night’s plot details are being kept largely under wraps, the festive comedy will focus on an extended family having a Christmas dinner in a country setting.

In her Toronto International Film Festival review, Sara Clements wrote that Albert Shin's Disappearance at Clifton Hill (formerly titled Clifton Hill) is "...a Canadian work that’s not to be missed..." Starring Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross, and the legendary David Cronenberg, the film is coming to theaters and VOD this February from IFC Midnight, and ahead of its release, we've been provided with the official trailer to share with Daily Dead readers.

IFC Midnight will release Disappearance at Clifton Hill in theaters and on VOD beginning February 28th. Check out the official trailer, poster, and synopsis below, and in case you missed it, read Clements' full review here.

"Following the death of her mother, Abby, a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a...

NBC Universal's Peacock will open its doors in April for a select group of people, before having a full-fledged launch in July, it has been announced.

Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Flex customers will get early access to the service beginning Wednesday, April 15, while everyone else will be able to stream effective July 15.

NBC Universal has announced a free ad-supported tier for the service called Peaock Free, but there will also be Peacock Premium ($5 a month for Comcast and Cox subscribers and $9.99 for everyone else).

There is a major caveat with the free option, however, with the company noting that subscribers will only have access to “select episodes of marquee Peacock originals,” as opposed to the full seasons the Peacock Premium crowd will have access to.

The network has a lot of scripted series in development, including a Saved by the Bell revival, a Battlestar Galactica reboot, a sequel to Punky Brewster,...

NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock goes live on April 15, and here is a list of all the programming it will offer in the first year. Subscribers will get original and acquired series and movies, sports, news and — on Peacock Premium — a nightly pre-broadcast look at NBC’s late-night shows hosted by Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

Among the highlights of the new service are Dick Wolf’s Law & Order and Chicago franchises, which were announced today; the Kevin Costner-led Yellowstone; hit shows including Cheers, Saturday Night Live, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Downton Abbey and Will & Grace; and original series including Tina Fey’s Girls5Eva (announced today), David Schwimmer-fronted Intelligence, a new season of A.P. Bio, a new Battlestar Galactica and sitcom revivals Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster.

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Another modern-classic sitcom has found its streaming home — but it’s not going to the home that produced it. “Two and a Half Men” will stream exclusively on NBCUniversal’s forthcoming streaming service, Peacock, the platform announced during a Comcast investor event in New York on Thursday.

The Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones — and later Ashton Kutcher — comedy, which ran for 12 seasons from 2003 to 2015 on CBS, was produced by Warner Bros. Television. As you may have heard, that studio’s parent company, WarnerMedia, will be launching its own streaming service, HBO Max, this spring.

The fact that the streaming rights to “Two and a Half Men” were acquired by a direct competitor — which will be the first Svod to house the comedy — is a surprise, given that HBO Max has snapped up the rights to its other classics, like “Friends” and “The West Wing,” from Netflix and paid...

NBCUniversal has revealed a launch date for Peacock: The new streaming service will debut nationally on Wednesday, July 15, the company announced on Thursday. However, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers will get early access to the platform beginning Wednesday, April 15.

It was also revealed that the service will offer a free, ad-supported tier, as well as options for ad-free service. Peacock Free and Peacock Premium (the latter of which costs $4.99 a month for non-bundled Comcast and Cox subscribers) both will come with ads, but premium customers can upgrade to an ad-free experience for an additional $5 per month. (Any customer...

U.K. cinema admissions exceeded 176 million last year, worth over $1.63 billion (£1.25 billion) at the box office, according to industry body Cinema First.

The 2019 admissions figure is just short of 2018’s 177 million, when U.K. cinema-going reached its highest level in 50 years.

The figures suggest that cinema-going is holding up in the market, despite the popularity of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.

Cinema First said it is the third consecutive year that the U.K. box office has exceeded $1.63 billion (£1.25 billion). Since 2010, the U.K. box office has grown by 27% over the decade.

Box office takings were led by “Avengers: Endgame,” “The Lion King,” “Toy Story 4,” “Joker” and “Jumanji: The Next Level,” in addition to British films including “Downton Abbey,” “Rocketman,” “Last Christmas,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” and “Yesterday.”

Cinema First also cited break-out successes such as “Judy,” “Knives Out,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,...

Maggie Smith became a major celebrity thanks to her role as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter franchise. However, to be honest, that is a sad thing to say. Smith is a tremendous actress who has a lot more to her than a young adult movie franchise, no matter how popular it was. As a matter of fact, she is just one of many British heavyweights that signed on as adults in the world of the Boy Wizard.

Related: The 10 Best Emma Watson Movies That Aren't Harry Potter (According To IMDb)

Luckily, a lot more people got to know her thanks to her role in the top-rated television series Downton Abbey. That was just another feather in the cap for an actor with an entire legacy of amazing roles. Here is a look at the 10 best Maggie Smith movies that aren't Harry Potter, according to IMDb.

Twas the night before Oscar nominations and all through the ballroom, the Barker Hanger was buzzing as critics mixed and mingled with A-listers inside the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night. Big winners Life Achievement winner Eddie Murphy, #SeeHer honoree Kristen Bell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bong Joon Ho played to the audience in the room and at home with top-notch speeches but Variety was inside the ballroom bringing you everything you didn’t see on television.

Half of the fun of the award shows is eating and drinking with the stars. Accepting the first award of the night, Joaquin Phoenix thanked the Critics’ Choice Association “for going plant-based and trying to offset our carbon footprint. It’s a really amazing message.” And overall, the menu change seemed to be received quite well.

Waiters carried trays of food in the early hours of the show, so guests could choose...

The 2020 Oscar nominations went pretty much as we predicted although there were several surprises included on the roster of contenders and even more shocking omissions. With only nine Best Picture nominees, there was no room for our final Top 10 finisher, “Bombshell.” It numbers among the films up for Best Ensemble at the SAG Awards.

Even bigger jaw-droppers came from the directors branch who snubbed the DGA nominee Taika Waititi (“Jojo Rabbit”) and denied “Little Women” helmer Greta Gerwig the chance to make Oscar history as the first female director with two nominations.

Likewise, we were surprised that the writers branch spurned several of the Writers Guild of America Awards contenders including the teams behind the original script “Booksmart” and the adaptation “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”

Scroll down for our list of the top 20 biggest snubs in these four top races, and check out the full list of the 92nd annual Academy Awards nominees.

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is predicted to lead with the most Oscar nominations on Monday morning, racking up a whopping 10 bids. Right behind Quentin Tarantino‘s fable about Tinseltown will be two very different movies — Martin Scorsese‘s crime drama “The Irishman” and Sam Mendes‘ WWI epic “1917” — with nine nominations apiece for the 92nd annual Academy Awards. All three of these films will number Best Picture nominations among their haul for their 2020 Oscars.

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“Little Women” is likely to reap eight nominations despite falling short at the Golden Globe and SAG Awards. And four more films will each earn a half dozen nominations: “Joker,” “Marriage Story,” “Parasite” and “Rocketman.” We are predicting that all of these, except “Rocketman,” will reap Best Picture bids.

If the Best Picture race, which can have as few as five nominees, expands...

The 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards rewarded many of the best television shows and films of 2019 in a ceremony Sunday night in Santa Monica, California that saw Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix and many more win big.

Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman came into the night with 14 nominations, while Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood followed with 12 overall nods.

Scroll down for the complete list of winners.

Film Best Picture

1917

Ford v Ferrari

The Irishman

Jojo Rabbit

Joker

Little Women

Marriage Story

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Parasite

Uncut Gems

Best Actor

Antonio Banderas — Pain and Glory

Robert De Niro...

With the shortened awards timeline, ceremonies hit hard and fast. Sunday night marks the 25th annual Critics’ Choice Awards, airing on The CW beginning at 7pm Est/7pm Pst. Taye Diggs returns as host the proceedings, which take place in the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. On the film side, this year’s nominations are led by Netflix’s “The Irishman,” with 14 nods. However, Martin Scorsese’s film came home empty-handed at the Golden Globes last Sunday. Netflix also leads on the television side, with six nominations for Ava DuVernay’s true-crime miniseries “When They See Us.”

Follow along below for IndieWire’s live and updating winners list, and stay tuned for further analysis. See the nominations below, with winners bolded.

Best Picture

“1917”

“Ford v Ferrari”

“The Irishman”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Joker”

“Little Women”

“Marriage Story”

“Once Upon a Time…...