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Exclusive: Here’s a little Christmas treat for Wham! fans.

The BBC has picked up an hourlong Blink Films and Sony documentary special on the everlasting impact of “Last Christmas” by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, one of the best known festive tunes of all time.

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped will tell the story of how the band turned the track into a cultural phenomenon. It will present a number of those involved with the song including new interviews with Ridgeley, while there will be archive radio and video footage of Michael, who died on Christmas Day 2016.

Directed by BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Nigel Cole, the show includes an exclusive broadcast of Michael performing “Last Christmas” at Wembley Arena in December 2006 along with never before seen outtakes from the original 35mm music video footage. The doc will also reunite some of the group of...

The quest to develop IVF plays out in predictable and thoroughly heartwarming fashion in Ben Taylor’s Netflix film. Here’s our Joy review.

Picture the scene: James Norton, looking less like Happy Valley’s rotten ruffian Tommy Lee Royce and more like an overenthusiastic biology postgrad, is desperate to convince a colleague of his revolutionary idea. What if, he posits with the scientific professionalism of a vaguely northern labrador, we could fertilise an egg outside the womb? What if we could produce an embryo in, to pick a piece of lab equipment entirely at random, a test tube?

The colleague isn’t convinced. “We’ll unite them all against us”, Bill Nighy’s character reminds him. The church, the medical establishment, the media. But Doctor Marley & Me has his trump card. “We’ll have the mothers”, he whispers. The score swells; Nighy’s eyes twinkle; history is made.

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The actor on bringing one of Barack Obama’s favourite books to TV, going clubbing in Berlin and her fascination with espionage

Hammersmith-born Rosamund Pike, 44, studied English literature at Oxford before her breakthrough role as a Bond girl in Die Another Day. Subsequent film roles include Pride & Prejudice, Made in Dagenham, Jack Reacher and A Private War. She was Oscar-nominated for Gone Girl, won a Golden Globe for I Care a Lot and an Emmy for State of the Union. Her latest project is a 10-part BBC audio drama People Who Knew Me. She lives in Prague with her partner, businessman Robie Uniacke, and their two sons.

What attracted you to People Who Knew Me?

It’s a remarkable story and one I felt emotionally drawn to. Anyone who’s ever told a lie quickly finds that in order to support it, you have to tell another, then another.

India’s Kajol To Star Disney+ Hotstar Remake Of ‘The Good Wife’

As Disney+ Day continues ahead of the D23 Expo in Anaheim, India’s Disney+ Hotstar has revealed Hindi cinema star Kajol’s debut streaming series: a local remake of CBS drama The Good Wife, titled The Good Wife — Pyaar, Kanoon, Dhoka. Due to debut soon on the streamer, the Banijay Asia-produced show will see Kajol in the lawyer role Juliana Margulies made famous during the U.S. show’s seven-year run between 2009 and 2016. Suparn Verma is directing. “The beauty of Ott platforms is that they give creators and actors an opportunity to reinvent and experiment with different formats, and with Disney+ Hotstar’s The Good Wife, that’s exactly what I got,” said Kajol. News of the show first emerged over the summer. Rights to the Good Wife format are shopped by Paramount Global Content Distribution and have previously been licensed in China,...

Move Mountains Productions have released the official trailer for new film The Sun Also Rises, due for release in Summer. The Sun Also Rises is the directorial debut of a full-length film by Roland Manookian and is produced by Shane McCormick, Tom Gordon (Good Shout film collective founder), Josh Witcher and Franky Lankester (Ron Hopper’s Misfortune).

The film focuses on Raye (Gina Jones), a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. The film charts her struggle to survive, her journey to escape, and how the cycle of violence affects everyone who comes into contact with it.

The Sun Also Rises is a beautiful film with an ultimately positive message of redemption; it pays homage to the strength of the human spirit. The film draws inspiration from the Ernest Hemmingway book Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, portraying Raye’s journey through the lens of a metaphorical bull run. Producer Shane McCormick...

The governors will serve four-year terms starting in May 2022.

Scott Stuber, the Los Angeles-based head of global film at Netflix, producer Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 FIlms, and Last Night In Soho writer, director and producer Edgar Wright are among five new members appointed to the board of the British Film Institute (BFI).

Each will serve four-year terms starting from May 2022.

They are joined by Laura Miele, executive vice president and COO of Electronic Arts (EA); and Monica Chadha, a board advisor and consultant.

BFI chair Tim Richards worked with the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) on the recruitment process.

“I’m quite method in the way that I work,” explains Lizzie Yianni-Georgiou. The Oscar-nominated Hair and Makeup Designer recently applied her craft to Edgar Wright’s latest horror-tinged drama “Last Night in Soho.” Her meticulous and specific approach to makeup and hair helped inform the characters of this time-hopping murder mystery. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

The Focus Features film contained a unique challenge for Yianni-Georgiou, thanks to its dual contemporary and 1960’s settings. Thomasin McKenzie portrays Eloise, a budding fashion design student in London. Eloise receives visions from the past where she follows Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy), a singer trying to find success in a world controlled by lecherous men. As Eloise grows obsessed with Sandie’s story, she adopts the chanteusse’s signature blonde locks and style.

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Not only are the characters polar opposites, but the designer reveals that...

Michael Caine said Friday on a BBC podcast that his newest film, Best Sellers, may be his last part, citing the pandemic, a lingering back issue and the lack of projects for “a leading man that’s 88.” But that’s not quite true, he clarified in a statement today.

“Regarding retirement,” said the Oscar-winner, “I’ve spent over 50 years getting up at 6:00 a.m. to make movies, and I’m not getting rid of my alarm clock!”

Caine reinforced the point in a tweet posted this morning saying, “I haven’t retired and not a lot of people know that.”

I haven’t retired and not a lot of people know that

— Michael Caine (@themichaelcaine) October 16, 2021

The actor, who has been remarkably prolific over the decades, told Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo Friday on the BBC podcast “Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review” that he’s now interested in writing.

Actors Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson, who’ve won a brace of Oscars each, will headline the cast of “The Great Escapers,” which Pathé will present at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.

Inspired by true events, the film will tell the story of Bernard Jordan’s (Caine) escape from his care home in 2014 to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France. Jordan’s adventure, spanning 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Irene (Jackson), and the story celebrates their love without sentimentality.

The film will be directed by BAFTA nominee Oliver Parker (“An Ideal Husband”) from a script by BAFTA nominee William Ivory (“Made in Dagenham”). Principal photography is scheduled for June this year.

“No one can resist a script that makes people both laugh and cry – I loved Billy’s writing and the story itself, so inspirational and so moving, seemed...

Oliver Parker to direct drama based on true events

Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson are to star in upcoming drama The Great Escaper, which Pathe will introduce at the virtual European Film Market (EFM) next month.

Oliver Parker, who most recently directed Swimming With Men and a reboot of classic comedy series Dad’s Army, will direct the feature from a script by William Ivory, whose credits include Made In Dagenham. Filming is set to begin in June.

Pathé will distribute the film in the UK, France and Switzerland, and will handle world sales.

Inspired by true events, Caine will play octogenarian Bernard Jordan,...

The trio will be in conversation with Screen editor Matt Mueller on Thursday June 4 at 16.00 BST.

David Oyelowo, Andrea Riseborough and Noel Clarke will be in conversation with Screen International editor Matt Mueller in the next edition of Screen Talks on Thursday June 4 at 16.00 BST.

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The trio of UK actor/producers – who were all named Screen Stars of Tomorrow in the early stages of their careers – will share their experiences as actors and producers during the coronavirus shutdown, including how they’re keeping inspired, future projects and their views on the production guidelines that will allow...

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, made a surprise visit Friday to a high school in Dagenham, East London, to speak about gender parity ahead of International Women’s Day.

Her visit also marked the 50th anniversary of Britain’s Equal Pay Act, which sought to prevent discrimination against women in the workplace. Markle was joined on stage at the school by Geraldine Dear, one of the female workers at the Ford motor plant in Dagenham who went on strike for equal pay in 1968, and whose case helped trigger the legislation.

Talking of their story, which was made into the 2010 film “Made in Dagenham,” Markle said: “Women who had the strength to really stand up for something that they knew needed to be done is the best example of no matter how small you might feel, how low you may feel on the ladder or the totem pole, no matter what color you are,...

It was admittedly a “big challenge” for makeup artist and hairstylist Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou to turn Taron Egerton into Elton John for “Rocketman.” “Obviously Elton’s got a huge fan base, so I was very aware of how we needed to please them.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Yianni-Georgiou above.

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Directed by Dexter Fletcher, the Paramount release takes a magical-realist look at the life of the iconic rock star, from his early rise through his struggles with drug addiction. Because the film features fantastical musical numbers set to John’s greatest hits, Yianni-Georgiou realized she couldn’t “overload Taron with huge amounts of makeup because it was a role where he would be dancing and bouncing off pianos,” not to mention aging “through four decades.”

When first sitting down with John himself, “I looked at him carefully to see if there was anything I could...

The first episode looks at what it takes to win an Oscar these days, with guests Daniel Battsek, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley.

Screen International looks at the serious business of awards season in the first of our new Media Business Podcasts, which will be brought to listeners monthly by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast.

In this inaugural episode, Screen International editor Matt Mueller is joined by the director of Film4 Daniel Battsek and Screen International’s chief film critic Finn Halligan and features editor Charles Gant to discuss this year’s awards season, looking...

The first episode looks at the serious business of awards season with guests Daniel Battsek, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley.

Screen International looks at the serious business of awards season in the first of our new Media Business Podcasts, which will be brought to listeners monthly by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast.

In this inaugural episode, Screen International editor Matt Mueller is joined by the director of Film4 Daniel Battsek and Screen International’s chief film critic Finn Halligan and features editor Charles Gant to discuss this year’s awards season, looking at what it...

The producers of Carol and Colette will receive the honour at the 2019 Bafta film awards.

Producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, co-founders of Number 9 Films, will receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at the 2019 Bafta film awards (February 10).

The husband-and-wife producing duo founded independent powerhouse Number 9 in 2002. Known as makers of taste-driven, quality UK cinema, Karlsen and Woolley’s films include Todd Haynes’ Carol, which was nominated for six Oscars in 2016, On Chesil Beach, Their Finest, Made In Dagenham and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (as co-producers).

Upcoming Number 9 projects include So Much Love starring Gemma Arterton as Dusty Springfield,...

Thirty years of bringing compelling stories to the screen have earned Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen the ultimate recognition, the Observer can reveal

It is hard to imagine what students would have put up on their bedroom walls over the past 30 years without the work of Stephen Woolley and his wife and fellow producer, Elizabeth Karlsen. The posters for all the films they have either produced or distributed tell the story of independent cinema.

After bringing audiences foreign arthouse hits such as Paris Texas, Eraserhead and Diva, Woolley had his first triumph as a producer with The Company of Wolves in 1984, going on to make a series of landmarks in British cinema, including Letter to Brezhnev, Absolute Beginners, Mona Lisa, the Oscar-winner The Crying Game, Scandal, The End of the Affair and Made in Dagenham. And this winter, the Observer can reveal, the couple are to be honoured by Bafta...

‘Miranda Richardson.’

Miranda Richardson is joining Sam Neill and Michael Caton in Jeremy Sims’ Rams, a re-imagining of Icelandic drama Hrútar, which is now shooting in Mt Barker in Wa’s Great Southern region.

The Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning (Damage) actress is playing Kat, an expat Brit who works as the veterinarian in a sheep farming town that is overcome by a rare ovine disease.

Neill and Caton star as estranged brothers who live on adjoining farms but haven’t spoken to each other for 40 years. The brothers are forced to find a way to work together to save their flock and their family’s legacy when their sheep and their small town are threatened.

Sims said: “I am thrilled that Ms Richardson is able to join us in telling our version of this beautiful saga about warring brothers. I’ve been a fan forever, from Queenie to Stronger, and fought...

The story of Britain’s Olympic-winning ice-dancing pair Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean will be told in a TV drama for ITV in the U.K. Will Tudor (“Game of Thrones”) will play Dean and Poppy Lee Friar (“Ackley Bridge”) portrays Torvill in the 120-minute drama, which Endemol Shine will sell internationally.

The film will track the artistic and personal relationship between the two skaters, who were British, European, world and Olympic champions in their discipline. They were national heroes in the U.K., with 24 million viewers at home tuning in to their 1984 Olympics win.

Endemol Shine-backed Darlow Smithson will make the ice-dance drama, which was written by William Ivory (“Made in Dagenham”). The TV movie will also star Anita Dobson (“EastEnders”) as Torvill’s first coach, and Stephen Tompkinson (“The Split”) as her father.

Ivory interviewed his subjects at length and said: “Chris and Jayne are such fascinating characters:...

If you're already having Bates Motel withdrawals and you're going to miss Olivia Cooke's performance as Emma, Rlj Entertainment might have just the cure for what ails you, as they've just acquired the Us rights to The Limehouse Golem, a new serial killer thriller set in London and starring Cooke alongside Bill Nighy.

Keep an eye out for The Limehouse Golem in theaters and on VOD beginning September 8th, and check out the official press release with full details on the film:

Press Release: Los Angeles, June 1, 2017 – Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) has acquired U.S. rights to the thriller The Limehouse Golem. Based on the novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem” by Peter Ackroyd, the film was written by the acclaimed writer Jane Goldman (Kingsmen, The Woman in Black), directed by Juan Carlos Medina (Painless) and produced by Stephen Woolley (Their Finest, Interview with a Vampire), Joanna Laurie...

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Bill Nighy headlines The Limehouse Golem, which threats to spook the nation this September. Here's the trailer...

British cinema screens are currently being treated to a bit of Bill Nighty action with Their Finest, that’s currently playing and well worth seeking out. He’s going to be back in your multiplex later this year too, thanks to the new horror The Limehouse Golem. Penned by Jane Goldman and directed by Juan Carlos Medina, the cast for this one also includes Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth and Eddie Marsan.

A first trailer and official synopsis have been release for the movie, and we’ve got them both right here. As tradition dictates, we’ll do them in the order in which you’re interested.

Here’s the trailer…

And here’s the synopsis…

A serial killer stalks the Limehouse streets of Victorian London in 1880, the terrified population of...

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The beloved Bill Nighy is set to wow again after his latest stint in Their Finest as he takes the lead in 1880’s London on the search for a mythological beast who is believed to be a serial killer in the forthcoming The Limehouse Golem. Watch the new trailer below which has just been released alongside a poster.

Related: Bill Nighy interview on Their Finest

The Limehouse Golem is another big screen offering which is based on a novel, 1994’s ‘Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem’ to be precise. A period thriller in which there are no signs of the Pokemon Golem whatsoever, however the Golem in this tale is based the animated anthropomorphic being from Jewish folklore. Bill Nighy takes the reins in a story set before the murders of Jack the Ripper, where a monster of the same magnitude is on the loose slaughtering all...

There have been many, many movies about World War II, and of course most of them are like Saving Private Ryan, or last year’s Hacksaw Ridge as they focus on the brave heroes who went off to war and found a way not only to survive, but also come home as heroes.

Their Finest, based on Lissa Evans’ 2009 book Their Finest Hour and a Half, instead focuses on the brave women back home who did their part to try to keep spirits up and continue to support the British troops overseas.

In the movie, Gemma Arterton plays Catrin Cole, an ad writer hired to write the female dialogue (or “slop”) for the British Ministry of Information’s propaganda films they release to inspire the people back in England. Working with screenwriter Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin), Catrin finds the story of two twin sisters who borrow their father’s boat...

Industrial relations drama 7 Minutes opened the Italian Film Festival. Michele Placio: 'I demonstrates what's happening in Europe today'

Michele Placido's 7 Minutes (7 Minuti) opened the Italian Film Festival at Edinburgh Filmhouse last night with the director in attendance. Introducing the film, Placido described the festival - which runs until March 16 at venues in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee - as "a small festival and a great festival at the same time".

His film is based on the true story of female workers at a textiles firm who are asked to agree on a small change to their terms and conditions during a takeover of their factory. Echoes of workers rights film Made In Dagenham combine with the tension of 12 Angry Men as the women, from a range of different backgrounds and ethnicities, must put the decision to a vote. It's a subject which will strike a chord across European...

Labor Day celebrates working people and the labor unions that brought working people the 40-hour work week, the 8-hour day, overtime pay, work-place safety, paid holidays and vacations, and a host of other protections and benefits. To honor those hard-working people and organized labor, here is a list (in no particular order) of a dozen worthy narrative films for Labor Day.

Norma Rae (1979)

For many people, the words “labor union” bring to mind the image of Sally Field standing up in defiance in “Norma Rae.” Field won an Oscar for her unforgettable, inspiring character, a worker in a Southern textile factory who becomes involved in labor organizing and stands up to management after the factory workers’ health is threatened in the workplace. This stirring drama, based on a true story, also stars Beau Bridges as Norma Rae’s husband Sonny and Ron Leibman as an union organizer from the Northeast.

Two programmes aim to facilitate budding producers with the skills to deliver first and second features.

UK creative industries agency Creative England has launched two initiatives aimed at emerging film producers.

Producer Hothouse will be a professional development programme in which up to ten successful applicants will undertake a six-month placement at an established production company.

The potential host companies are: Sheffield’s Warp Films (This Is England); Ridley Scott’s London-based Scott Free Productions (Before I Go To Sleep); 42 (Welcome To The Punch), Altitude Film Entertainment (Kill Your Friends), Number 9 Films (Made In Dagenham), Pulse Films (American Honey), Trademark Films (My Week With Marilyn) and Vertigo Films (StreetDance).

The programme will be open to producers based outside of London in England or Scotland who are working on either their first or second features. Entrants will be able to progress their own projects alongside development responsibilities at host companies. They will also receive a bursary of $12,000 (£9,000) to...

Screen canvasses industry opinion on Langan’s tenure and the prospects for one of the UK’s cornerstone funders.

There have been warm tributes to Christine Langan as news broke yesterday of her impending departure from BBC Films to join UK production outfit Baby Cow.

Attention is also now beginning to turn to who is likely to be her successor and what plans the BBC has for its film arm in the long run.

“Christine leaves BBC Films in good shape,” commented producer Stewart Mackinnon of Headline Pictures, who worked with the broadcaster’s film arm on titles including Quartet and The Invisible Woman, among other projects.

Pride producer David Livingstone noted Langan’s “incisiveness.”

“The thing I remember particularly about Christine is her giving very good notes about the final editing of the film (Pride). She was very clear and very precise, and with a light hand on the tiller,” Livingstone said.

“Obviously...

I've somehow never even heard of Watership Down, but I understand it had a profound impact on a lot of people when they were growing up. Now the story will be able to find a larger audience and reach a whole new generation, as the BBC and Netflix are teaming for an animated miniseries adaptation of Richard Adams' novel. Variety reports that the show will be available sometime in 2017. The outlet has a good breakdown of the story and an announcement of its impressive cast:

Set in the idyllic rural landscape of southern England, the adventure tale follows a band of rabbits on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, toward a promised land and a more perfect society.

Roar Uthaug’s The Wave crashes on the shores of Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on June 21st. Also in this round-up: production details on Jessica Cameron’s An Ending, release details for Sacrifice and The Divine Tragedies, and Kickstarter launch details for Night Wolf.

The Wave: “Nestled in Norway’s Sunnmøre region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Åkerneset overlooking the village — and constantly threatening to collapse into the fjord — it is also a place where cataclysm could strike at any moment. After putting in several years at Geiranger’s warning centre, geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner) is moving on to a prestigious gig with an oil company. But the very day he’s about to drive his family to their new life in the city, Kristian senses something isn’t right. The substrata are shifting. No one wants to believe...

Exclusive: Teams behind Carol and Still Alice partner on period-biopic due to shoot in May.

Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game) is in advanced talks to star in biopic Colette, written by Still Alice team Wash Westmoreland and the late Richard Glatzer.

Westmoreland is set to direct the feature from Carol producers Number 9 Films and Killer Films.

Nightcrawler and Whiplash backers Bold Films will finance and co-produce the English-language title, marking the company’s first foray into the UK. Filming is due to commence in May in Budapest.

HanWay Films, which is on a roll following Oscar-nominations for Brooklyn, Carol and Anomalisa, will handle world sales. Additional casting is underway.

Pam Koffler and Christine Vachon (Carol, Still Alice) produce for Killer Films and Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) will produce for Number 9, which is currently in post-production on Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem and Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest Hour And A Half.

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As the Oscar-nominated producer of The Crying Game and Made In Dagenham, stories about gender and equality have always spoken to me, and none more so than Carol, which I am privileged to have co-produced with Elizabeth Karlsen and Christine Vachon. During the 1980s, before I began my producing career, I owned and ran one of London's hippest rep cinemas, The Scala in Kings Cross. From Battle Of Chile to Eraserhead and Pink Flamingos to Battle Of Algiers, The Scala was…...

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Christmas is just around the corner and what better way to celebrate than with a limited edition 3D DVD sleeve of the UK’s most beloved bear, Paddington.

Paddington brings together an all-star cast, with Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Monuments Men) and Sally Hawkins (Made in Dagenham, Blue Jasmine) as Mr. & Mrs. Brown, Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Moulin Rouge) as the evil taxidermist, Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, the Harry Potter series) as Mrs. Bird the housekeeper, Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, The Iron Lady) as Mr. Gruber the owner of the antiques shop, Peter Capaldi (Dr. Who) as the Browns’ neighbour, Mr. Curry and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply send your answer to the following question to contest@whatculture.com…

What kind of bear is Paddington?

A) Peruvian Bear

B) Polar Bear

C) Grizzly Bear

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To celebrate the release of The Walking Dead The Complete Fifth Season, available to own on Blu-ray™ and DVD on from 28th September 2015, we are giving 3 lucky WhatCulture readers the chance to win their very own copy.

The Walking Dead: Season 5 returns with an incredible cast including; Andrew Lincoln (Made In Dagenham, Strike Back) as former deputy sheriff, Rick Grimes; Chandler Riggs (Get Low, Mercy) as Rick’s son, Carl Grimes; Steven Yuen (I Origins, The Soup) as skilled supplies gatherer, Glenn Rhee; Noman Reedus (Stretch, The Soup) as expert tracker and hunter, Daryl Dixon; Melissa McBride (The Mist, The Reconstruction of William Zero) as senior member of the survivors group, Carol Peletier; Lauren Cohan (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Vampire Diaries) as survivor Maggie Greene; and Seth Gillian (Still Alice, Homeland) joins the cast as Father Gabriel Stokes.

After the stunning Season Four finale, Rick...

To mark the release of The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season on 28th September, we’ve been given 2 copies ot give away on Blu-ray. The Walking Dead: Season 5 returns with an incredible cast including; Andrew Lincoln (Made In Dagenham, Strike Back) as former deputy sheriff, Rick Grimes; Chandler Riggs (Get Low, Mercy) as

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Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy stars

The first image of Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy in Lone Scherfig’s romantic comedy Their Finest Hour and a Half has been released.

Recent additions to the film’s cast include Jack Huston (Ben-Hur) and Jake Lacey (Carol). The ensemble also includes Sam Claflin, Richard E. Grant, Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Rachael Stirling and Henry Goodman.

Based on Lissa Evans’s novel of the same name, the screenplay was written by Gaby Chiappe. Filming began in London last week.

Set in the early 1940s, the story centres on a young, female screenwriter working in London under threat of invasion during The Blitz.

The film was developed and financed by BBC Films, Wales Screen and Pinewood Films. Producers are Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn, An Education).

International sales are being handled by Hanway Film. The film is...

For some, Labor Day signals a Monday off from school and work, the final hurrah of the summer and college football games galore.

But for Oscar watchers, the three day break heralds the beginning of the Awards Season with film festivals being held at Venice (Sept. 2 – 12) and Telluride (Sept. 4 – 7).

Getting a shot in the arm from the weekend festivals were Spotlight, Steve Jobs, Black Mass and The Danish Girl. Below is a sampling of the films in play this awards season that screened over the busy holiday weekend.

The Danish Girl (Nov. 27)

Synopsis:

Based on the book by David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne [The Theory of Everything] and Alicia Vikander [Ex Machina]), and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables). Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve...

The task of transforming a popular movie into a stage musical is a tough challenge that has brought successes (Billy Elliot), and disappointments (Made in Dagenham), so Gurinder Chadha's idea of bringing her 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham to the West End was an intriguing one.

The majority of the feel and the plot of the original film remains in the musical. Set in suburban west London, it focuses on Jess, who worships David Beckham and has a desire to play football that doesn't fit in with her Punjabi Indian parents' plans.

She secretly plays for her local women's football team and soon falls in love with coach Joe, which creates a difficult love triangle with her best friend Jules, a role which helped transform Keira Knightley into an international star.

The film's musical leaning lends itself well for a musical adaptation, and composer Howard Goodall and lyricist Charles Hart...

According to Deadline, Relativity Studios is in negotiations with Andrea Riseborough to play the villain in Corin Hardy's remake of The Crow, which will star Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston as the doomed Eric Draven. Riseborough ( Birdman, Oblivion, Disconnect, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go) would play a character named Top Dollar, who was originally written as a man and was played by Michael Wincott in the first adaptation back in 1994. Top Dollar runs a crime syndicate, and is indirectly responsible for the deaths or Draven and his fiancée Shelly (Jessica Brown Findlay). The remake is being produced by Edward R. Pressman, Kevin Misher, Relativity’s CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, and Jeff Waxman. James O’Barr is also on board as a consultant. The Crow will take flight in 2016.

Jamie Campbell Bower made his first big impression when appearing in the movie adaptation of musical Sweeney Todd in 2007.

Eight years and several big Hollywood films later, he's finally making his West End debut in the upcoming musical version of Bend It Like Beckham as musician and football coach Joe.

Digital Spy chatted with the actor about nerves, football skills and swapping Hollywood for the West End.

Bend it Like Beckham: Where are the cast of the 2002 box office hit now?

The original film has become a cult favourite. Were you a fan?

"Yeah, of course. For me, it was a point in time when I was growing up. I was either turning a teenager, or had just turned into a teenager, and obviously I was madly in love with Keira Knightley. One of the first movies that she did was a film called The Hole, and this [Bend It Like Beckham] came shortly after that,...

Lone Scherfig to direct BBC Films’ wartime romcom; HanWay to handle worldwide sales.

Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has signed on to star as a young screenwriter in a romantic comedy set in wartime London, Their Finest Hour And A Half.

The film, directed by Lone Scherfig (The Riot Club, An Education), will also star Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Pride), it was announced today.

BBC Films developed and will co-finance the feature, which is being produced by Oscar-nominated Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn, An Education).

It has been adapted for the screen by Gaby Chiappe - whose script appeared on the 2014 Brit List - from Lissa Evans’s comic and 2009 novel.

Executive producers are Christine Langan and Ed Wethered of BBC Films, which featured the film on its 25th anniversary slate.

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Exclusive: Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are set to star in Their Finest Hour And A Half, with Lone Scherfig (An Education) directing. BBC Films developed and co-finances the film, which is being produced by Oscar-nominated producers Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Made In Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn). Gaby Chiappe has adapted Lissa…...

‘Who would play me? Emma Stone, if she could pull off a Kent accent’

Born in Kent, Arterton, 29, graduated from Rada. Her movies include St Trinian’s, Quantum Of Solace, Tamara Drewe and Song For Marion. On TV, she played the title role in Tess Of The d’Urbervilles, and her stage work includes The Duchess Of Malfi and, currently, Made In Dagenham. Her new film, The Voices, opens on 20 March. She is divorced and lives in London.

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It’s 10 p.m. in London, and Rosamund Pike has just roasted a chicken, finished the washing up, folded the laundry and tended to a wee sick one. Now she sits for a moment in her kitchen, spent but happy, her four-day-old baby son snoozing in his basket beside her.

The setting may be calm and pastoral, in keeping with Pike’s new life, but it’s sharply at odds with the actor we now know her to be. This year she delivered a career-making performance as Amy Dunne, the stunningly beautiful, dangerously secretive and cynically vicious wife in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,...

Gemma Arterton has claimed that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have made feminism fashionable.

The Made in Dagenham actress praised the impact social media has had on changing attitudes towards women's rights.

Speaking on Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Arterton said: "Feminism is in fashion, as made by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Now that they're feminists, everyone else is."

She added: "I think social media has helped a lot. People like Caitlin Moran have changed everything, Lena Dunham - so there's loads of people who are being more outspoken and being listened to and having an influence. I think it's great."

Recalling how she spoke about equal pay for women in the Houses of Parliament recently, she said: "It was cold. It's huge - it's very cavernous, The Great Hall and everything - it's so old obviously, so it's all stone and wood.

"But no, it was great, I wish I could have explored a bit further,...

Rosamund Pike nearly stole the show in David Fincher's "Gone Girl" but he stole the hearts of the Palm Springs International Film Festival's committee members. The actress is getting the Breakthrough Performance Award! Last year, "12 Years A Slave's" Lupita Nyong'o received the same award and walked all the way to Oscar glory!

Pike is joining recently announced recipients Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, and J.K. Simmons. Here's the press release:

Palm Springs, CA (November 21, 2014) . The 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Rosamund Pike with the Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress at its annual Awards Gala. The Gala will also present awards to previously announced honorees Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne and J.K. Simmons. Presented by Cartier, and hosted by Mary Hart, the Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 2-12.

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Rosamund Pike, the British blonde beauty whose performance in David Fincher's Gone Girl has blown away critics and moviegoers alike, will receive this year's Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival's 26th annual Psiff Awards Gala on Jan. 3. The fest will run Jan. 2-12. The 35-year-old is also known for her work in Die Another Day (2002), Pride & Prejudice (2005), An Education (2009) and Made in Dagenham (2010). Previous recipients of Psiff's Breakthrough Performance Award include Lupita Nyong’o (2014, for 12 Years a Slave), Carey Mulligan (2010, for An Education), Marion Cotillard (2008,

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We have added a set pictures from the event ‘Made in Dagenham’ Musical Photocall at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Guests included Adrian Der Gregorian and Gemma Arterton, Gemma Arterton, Sophie-Louise Dann, Adrian Der Gregorian, Gemma Arterton and Sophie-Louise Dann. Photos are copyright by Landmark / PR Photos Adrian Der Gregorian and Gemma Arterton during the “Made in Dagenham” Musical Photocall at the Adelphi Theatre in London, The Strand in London, UK. Photo is copyright by Landmark / PR Photos.

The 2010 seriocomedy Made in Dagenham fit so snugly into a certain template for British films — what with its feisty working-class underdogs, left-leaning, issues-driven script and stalwart acting ensemble, led by Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Rosamund Pike — that it's a surprise it did such moderate business. The release earned only $12.4 million worldwide, nearly half of that on its home turf. Maybe it was a sleeper on auxiliary platforms, but that figure rather undermines the marketing claim for the new musical that it's based on a "hit" film. This stage version, starring Gemma Arterton (Hansel and Gretel:

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Mel C has praised her fellow Spice Girl Mel B as an X Factor judge.

The singer told Digital Spy and others that she believes Mel B's "honesty" is helping to stand her out on the panel.

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"She's doing a great job on X Factor. We're dead proud. I think she's the best thing on it," Mel C said at the launch of West End musical Made in Dagenham on Wednesday night (November 5).

"I just think she's a great woman for the job. She's straight-talking, she's not playing a role. She's just being herself, and I think you have to appreciate her honesty.

"I wouldn't want to be a contestant... but she's doing a wonderful job."

Meanwhile, Mel B made a Twitter gaffe at the weekend when she asked fans to save the already-eliminated Jake Quickenden.

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The BBC has released a new image of Tom & Jerry with the Strictly Come Dancing judges ahead of their brand new episode, to air on Children in Need later this month.

The duo will return to screens as part of the annual fundraiser, which will be shown live on the BBC next Friday (November 14).

Our judges have never looked so animated! See them in a Tom & Jerry #Cin special. 14th Nov @BBCOne. That's all folks! pic.twitter.com/pMQz8QHnUH

— BBC Strictly (@bbcstrictly) November 4, 2014

They will be joined by Sir Bruce Forsyth, who is making a special return to the dance floor as four young ballroom champions take part in a competition alongside the Strictly professionals.

Meanwhile, the stars of EastEnders past and present will make appearances as Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) is visited by ghosts from his life, including mum Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), ex-wife Cindy (Michelle Collins) and...