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A beautiful young Black woman sits alone at a bar, waiting for her date to show. When he does, he orders for her, brays about his job in finance, objectifies her “caramel” skin, and later, tries to secretly film her – and worse.

On a different night out, a man tells the woman that she could be a model – not runway, but print – and that while he doesn’t usually go for Black girls, she’s the prettiest one there. She witnesses another man, whose mates are bellowing about taking girls “to pound town”, taking upskirt photos in a club. She makes a beeline for them all, and not because her dickhead radar is faulty but because it’s fully operational and when she gets these men into a dark corner… well, that would be telling.

Domino Day, the debut series from Gangs of London and Kiss Me First screenwriter Lauren Sequeira...

Goosebumps is a horror comedy series developed for television by Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stroller. Based on a book series of the same name by R.L. Stine, the Disney+ and Hulu series revolves around five high schoolers who try to investigate a death that happened three decades ago. This investigation takes them on a twisty and dangerous journey and also reveals to them some dark truths about their parents. So, if you loved the Disney+ series here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Locke & Key (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them.

Daniel Kaluuya has had an impressive career in Hollywood, solidifying himself as a leading man, Academy Award winner, and household name. Despite starting out with TV appearances, Kaluuya made his mark in significant projects like "Black Mirror" and "Queen & Slim," showcasing his range and talent. "Get Out" will always be remembered as a standout film in Kaluuya's career, earning him critical acclaim and accolades, including Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

Despite his breakout Hollywood film only being released in 2017, Daniel Kaluuya has managed to make waves in Hollywood. In just over a decade, the Get Out actor has taken part in several significant projects, both in film and television. He solidified himself as a capable leading man, Academy Award winner, and household name without breaking a sweat.

Still, this isn't to say Kaluuya hasn't paid his dues. The British actor snagged his first credited role in 2006 in the BBC series Shoot the Messenger,...

Where are the Skins cast now? Short answer: absolutely everywhere.

While the show did earn critical acclaim as well as a cult following over the course of its seven series, when this scrappy teen comedy drama launched on E4 in 2007 few could have predicted just how many household names it would spawn.

Among Skins’ impressive alumni are actors who went on to win Oscars and Baftas, play lead roles in hit movies like Slumdog Millionaire and Get Out, not to mention star in hit shows like Game of Thrones and Peaky Blinders.

Let’s take a look at some of the Skins cast’s best roles:

Joe Dempsie – Game of Thrones

Playing party animal Chris in Skins was in a way good preparation for Joe Dempsie’s later role as Gendry in Game of Thrones, as both characters have some pretty serious daddy issues: Chris’ dad (played by Green Wing...

Exclusive: The meteoric rise of women’s soccer is continuing. The origins of the women’s game is to be explored in a feature from director Farren Blackburn and Free Turn Entertainment.

Lily and the Rockets is set against the backdrop of World War I and is based on Rebecca Stevens’ novel of the same name. News of the UK-made drama could hardly be more timely, with England’s Lionesses set to take on Spain in the World Cup final on Sunday in Australia.

Blackburn — who was an England youth soccer player and director of The Fades and episodes of Doctor Who, The Innocents and The Defenders — has written the script and will direct. Stevens is a creative consultant.

Stevens’ book, which was published by Chicken House in 2019 and aimed at pre-teens, was inspired by the true-life stories of pioneering women’s soccer players Gerty Naylor and Lily Parr.

Lily...

Not too long ago, Netflix was touted as a savior of lost shows. Arrested Development, Lucifer, Designated Survivor, Cobra Kai, Manifest, Top Boy… When a TV network canceled a beloved series too soon, fans looked to the streamer as a potential rescue service. Your favorite TV drama mistreated by its original owner? Let Netflix scoop it up off the streets and rehome it.

Sci-fi and fantasy fans, still smarting from the bad old days of Fox cutting off series in their tracks and messing with episode run-orders, hoped that the home of Stranger Things might also be the home of stranger shows that didn’t fit in elsewhere. British Sff viewers, freshly hurt by the loss of The Fades, In the Flesh and Utopia, wondered if things were finally changing. No more canceled-too-soons? Proper endings all round, yes?

Not so much. Netflix has invested in the development and production of...

“If you want to make a TV drama about opium smokers, sadomasochists and imperial slavery in the 19th century, then write your own,” whines The Daily Mail‘s Peter Hitchens about Steven Knight’s new Great Expectations adaptation, presumably forgetting that in 2017, Knight did exactly that in 8-part Gothic Regency thriller Taboo.

Knight’s previous series starring Tom Hardy, bleeds into his take on Charles Dickens’ class and snobbery novel, which loses the comedy and grimes up the characters with the addition of adult content. Great Expectations returns to Knight’s constant theme of social mobility, moving away from ones roots, and the upper classes being mad, evil bastards, as explored in six series of Peaky Blinders.

Here’s the impressive cast amassed for this six-part drama.

Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham

Nobody needs an introduction to Olivia Colman, she’s been firmly in national treasure territory for years now,...

Acting head of drama Ben Irving, senior commissioner Manda Levin to leave, while development head Tom Lazenby has deparated.

The BBC drama department has been hit with a triple departure: acting director of drama Ben Irving and senior commissioning editor Manda Levin are leaving the corporation, and head of development Tom Lazenby has already departed.

The trio of departures represents a significant change to the team, and will give incoming director of drama Lindsay Salt scope to reshape it after she joins from Netflix UK on Tuesday.

Irving is leaving to join Severance producer Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) in...

Acting head of drama Ben Irving, senior commissioner Manda Levin to leave, while development head Tom Lazenby has deparated.

The BBC drama department has been hit with a triple departure: acting director of drama Ben Irving and senior commissioning editor Manda Levin are leaving the corporation, and head of development Tom Lazenby has already departed.

The trio of departures represents a significant change to the team, and will give incoming director of drama Lindsay Salt scope to reshape it after she joins from Netflix UK on Tuesday.

Irving is leaving to join Severance producer Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) in...

Exclusive: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne on a new project for the stage that will explore how legendary acting figures Richard Burton and John Gielgud put Hamlet on Broadway in 1964, with a little help from Elizabeth Taylor.

The result of two years of writing and workshops is a Thorne-penned drama called The Motive and the Cue, which Mendes will direct on the UK National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage in Spring 2023. With such heavyweights attached, it already has the weight and feel of a landmark production.

The high profile show is a joint production between the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions, the All3Media-owned indie founded nearly 20 years ago by Mendes with TV and film producer Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, who runs its theater division. The Motive and the Cue follows on from highly successful Nt and Neal...

Exclusive: Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones) are set to star in a new movie about the life and circle of Frankenstein scribe Mary Shelley.

The period film, which will have a contemporary sheen to it, will deal with Mary’s mental struggle to write her seminal novel. Rising Danish actress Rugaard will play Mary Shelley and Harington will be ‘the monster.’

The film’s official synopsis reads: “Mary is seduced by her own inner monster catapulting her into a dangerous, destructive psychological romance. Realising the monster is inextricably linked to her own mental state, her only route to salvation is in bringing him to life”.

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Coda) will play Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian de Souza (Normal People) will play Byron. Additional casting is underway.

Described by producers as a “high-concept, rock’n’roll take” on the Romantic period, the...

Contains spoilers for Pieces of Her episodes one to four

Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.

It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.

Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...

Nikki Amuka-Bird (“The Outfit”) will play the lead in Will Gilbey’s “Jericho Ridge.”

BAFTA award-winner Gilbey (“A Lonely Place to Die”) also wrote the screenplay for the feature, which is billed as a survival thriller.

Amuka-Bird is joined by Michael Socha (“This is England”), Zack Morris (“The Fades”), Chris Reilly (“Wrath of Man”) Philipp Christopher (“Origin”), Solly McLeod (“Boxing Day”) and music artist Capital T.

The film tells the story of North Washington county sheriff Tabby (Amuka-Bird), who finds herself alone in the sheriff’s office one night while her colleagues are out on patrol. But she soon finds out they’ve been set up by a murderous drug cartel while she herself comes under siege at the office, where she must battle desperately to save herself and her son.

“Jericho Ridge” is co-financed by Silver Lining Productions and Dlnqnt, with Dlnqnt’s Alex Tate (“Hope Gap”) and Harvey Ascott...

The revolution is being televised. Fifty years later. Apple TV+’s 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything highlights how musicians were in touch with what was happening around them even as they were making things happen. Marvin Gaye lays down “What’s Going On” in the first episode, and the remainder of the eight-part docuseries builds the basic tracks which became the soundtrack to a changing world.

Solo ex-Beatles took to the streets and concert halls while The Rolling Stones, as a group, went deep into exile. Aretha Franklin went to the courthouse to post bail for former University of California philosophy professor Angela Davis, charged with “aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley.” Bill Withers quit his day job but held tight to his lunch box. David Bowie twisted a knife into the hippy movement, and Alice Cooper went to hell to celebrate.

The His Dark Materials TV series is massive in scope—not only in terms of film production, but in the sheer ambition of the story it is trying to tell. Adapted from the trilogy of the same name from Philip Pullman, the children’s fantasy saga brings together different worlds and the very different kinds of people and creatures who live in them. It’s an enormous project for one storyteller to undertake. In Season 1, the ridiculously prolific Jack Thorne wrote all eight episodes of His Dark Materials by himself. In Season 2, he has help.

Up-and-coming British writers Namsi Khan, Francesca Gardiner, Sarah Quintrell, and Lydia Adetunji joined Thorne in writing Season 2 of His Dark Materials, and in the monumental process of adapting The Subtle Knife from book to screen.

“They really did bring scope and challenged us in really interesting ways,” Thorne said during a BBC press junket of...

HBO Max is packed with new and classic genre titles this Halloween season. From the new Invisible Man and Doctor Sleep, to The Brood and The Blob, here's a look of what HBO Max is offering as part of their "Halloween is Here" lineup:

Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.

In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...

Over the past 20 years, Tom Ellis has slowly but steadily become one of the most visible stars on television. The Welsh native made his acting debut via the 200 TV-movie Kiss Me Kate and has since appeared in well over a dozen American and UK TV series. From 2000 to 2010, Ellis worked on such projects as No Angels, EastEnders, The Passion, Hartley Street, Monday Monday, and others.

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In 2010, Ellis began landing bigger roles in higher-profile series such as Merlin, The Fades, Gates, Once Upon a Time, The Flash, and more. Currently starring as Lucifer Morningstar in the hit series Lucifer, he has plenty of great roles to check out.

Despite the delays caused by the industry-wide Covid-19 shutdown, A Discovery of Witches fans had been crossing their fingers for a late 2020 release date for series two. That’s not quite going to happen, but the wait isn’t going to be much longer. On August the 6th, Sky confirmed on Twitter that the new series will arrive in January 2021.

Here’s the official Tweet confirming the news:

Confirmed: #ADiscoveryOfWitches Series 2. January 2021.

Matthew and Diana will be timewalking on to #SkyOne and @Nowtv in the UK, following soon after on @sundance_now & @Shudder in the US.

Be prepared… pic.twitter.com/f8XvvgDPxc

— Sky TV (@skytv) August 6, 2020

The second series will have two more episodes than the first, bringing the total to 10, five of which were directed by Farren Blackburn, whose back catalogue features a healthy number of supernatural titles including atmospheric Netflix fantasy The Innocents, as well as Marvel’s Daredevil,...

“His Dark Materials” writer Jack Thorne has partnered with actor-turned-writer Genevieve Barr to create a factual drama for BBC Two based on the true story about the campaign for disabled civil rights in Britain.

With a working title of “Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won,” the 60-minute film centres on the people behind a campaign of direct action for disability rights.

The film enters the story through the eyes of Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth (pictured), two disabled cabaret performers who met in 1989 and went on to become the driving force behind Dan (Direct Action Network).

Their incendiary ‘Piss on Pity’ protest slogan helped to re-frame the debate around disability rights in the U.K., while their spontaneous pickets shut down cinemas, restaurants, stations and even the London underground, until their rights were enshrined into law.

The one-off drama is being made by Endemol Shine Group-backed Dragonfly Film...

Thanks in large part to the massive global hit series Game of Thrones, British actress Natalie Dormer has risen in popularity over the past decade. Before landing the iconic role of Margaery Tyrell in the sweeping HBO hit, Dormer cut her teeth on such acclaimed U.K. TV series as The Tudors, Silk, and The Fades. Since then, she's appeared in Elementary, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

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Up next for Dormer is the new Showtime series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, which is set to air on April 26, 2020. With just a few days until the show premieres, let's have a look at some of Dormer's cinematic work. Here are Natalie Dormer's 10 Best Movies, according to IMDb.

Exclusive: CW Seed, the CW’s free, ad-supported digital network, has acquired non-exclusive streaming rights to 14 series from BBC Studios.

The second-window deal will bring more than 200 episodes and 150 hours of scripted library content to Seed, which launched as an on-demand service in 2013 and will add a live, linear channel later this winter. The announcement was made today by Rick Haskins, Evp of Marketing and Digital Platforms for the CW.

Among the shows already live on Seed are The Intruders, starring Mira Sorvino and Millie Bobby Brown; Atlantis, with Game of Thrones alum Mark Addy; The Secret of Crickley Hall, starring Thrones‘ Maisie Williams and Tom Ellis; Bedlam, with pop star Will Young; and a new take on Sinbad.

A wave of additional shows will be added in late January and roll out through the month of February. That roster includes James Corden’s Gavin & Stacey; The Fades, starring...

Industry is doing an ‘incredibly bad’ job in on-screen representation, says The Accident writer.

A lack of understanding about the capabilities of disabled actors and concerns over their requirements has erased disability from the diversity conversation, according to writer Jack Thorne.

Thorne, whose Channel 4 drama The Accident starts this week, told Screen’s sister publication Broadcast that the industry is doing an “incredibly bad” job of representing people with disabilities on-screen.

He expressed disappointment that Genevieve Barr has been largely overlooked since appearing in his Bafta-winning BBC3 series The Fades in 2012. He specifically wrote roles for Barr, who is deaf,...

Louisa Mellor Oct 30, 2019

The BBC’s Philip Pullman adaptation is a rich family fantasy that retains the books’ dark power…

This His Dark Materials review is spoiler-free. It was originally published on Den of Geek UK.

Current wisdom teaches that the age of family home viewing is over; parents and kids no longer crowd around the TV in a tumble of wet-from-the-bath hair, pyjamas and shushing. Instead, they’re dispersed around the home and plugged into separate devices.

That may be largely so, but it’s not the whole picture. In 2017, Ofcom reported that 70% of UK families still watch a shared TV programme at least once a week. If you’re among them and open to suggestion, then from Sunday the 3rd of November, make it this one.

In terms of family viewing, His Dark Materials is the real thing: as Douglas Adams might have said, it’s both complicated...

Emily Mortimer is to reboot classic British series Rumpole of the Bailey – the legal drama originally created by her father John Mortimer.

The Newsroom and Mary Poppins Returns star is in the early stages of development with the remake, which will be produced by her own indie King Bee and eOne.

The series, which ran on ITV predecessor Thames Television between 1978 and 1992, starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an elderly barrister in London who defended a weird and wonderful mix of clients. It started as a radio play on the BBC before making the move to television.

The reboot was revealed at a Deadline-moderated Banff Connect event in London by Polly Williams, eOne’s head of scripted development in the UK. The Designated Survivor studio has a first-look deal with Mortimer’s company, which she runs with her husband Alessandro Nivola.

Williams told Deadline that Mortimer has “reimagined” the series...

Joseph Baxter Kirsten Howard Sep 27, 2019

The BBC One/HBO TV series adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials has already begun production on Season 2.

His Dark Materials Season 2 was made official back in September 2018, per an announcement by BBC director general Tony Hall. It was an enormous commitment, especially considering the lavishness of the trailer footage we’ve seen from the yet-to-premiere series, a joint presentation of BBC One and HBO.

Indeed, Hall explained, via Variety, “We are making two series of Philip Pullman’s ‘[His] Dark Materials,’” adding, “The cost per episode is high – it’s really ambitious.” He also referred to it as “the sort of piece the BBC should make.”

Produced by Doctor Who and A Discovery Of Witches company Bad Wolf, His Dark Materials follows Philip Pullman’s bestselling fantasy book series, which includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, seemingly with...

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” actress Jenn Murray is joining the cast of “Maleficent 2” starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, sources tell Variety.

Michelle Pfeiffer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Ed Skrein are also on board to star. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” helmer Joachim Ronning is set to direct.

Joe Roth is producing the film, with Jez Butterworth and Linda Woolverton penning the latest script. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster wrote the most recent draft.

It is not clear where this film will pick up following the first movie, which was based on the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty.” The original story centered on an evil fairy who cursed an infant princess to eternal sleep, only to realize the young girl was the only one who could save the kingdom from its dangerous ruler. “Maleficent” broke several box office records on its way to making $758.5 million worldwide.

Louisa Mellor Oct 1, 2017

Timothy Spall gives a moving performance in Electric Dreams’ strongest and most emotionally satisfying story yet…

This review contains spoilers.

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At the centre of The Commuter is one of those truths that, like the inevitability of death, or how much salt they put in Kellogg’s Corn flakes, most of us prefer not to acknowledge. In a different life without our kids, we might be happier. We’d have fewer wrinkles, a tidier house and a better sex-life. The people we love aren’t always good for us.

The more uplifting side of that truth is that most of us choose them anyway. Whatever the hardship, our family is ours and no other option—even if it’s easier—can replace them.

We are still a ways away until the finale of the current Star Wars trilogy, Episode IX, hits theaters, but there is already news that Disney and Lucasfilm needed to bring in a new writer. Come inside to find out what's going on.

While we wait with bated breath for Rian Johnson's Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi to come out this December,  Episode IX Director Colin Trevorrow has already begun working on the finale of this trilogy.  Specifically, the script.  As it turns out, the script he and his writing partner, Derek Connolly, have put together may have hit a snag, according to a report by THR.

Jack Thorne has been brought in to provide a "fresh set of eyes" and make rewrites to the script Connolly and Trevorrow wrote.  Thorne is an English writer responsible for penning and co-creating several TV shows like National Treasure, The Last Panthers,...

Looks like “Star Wars: Episode IX” is getting a fresh pair of eyes. The Hollywood Reporter reports that rising British screenwriter Jack Thorne will be contributing rewrites to the script of the upcoming ninth installment of the beloved franchise. While Thorne is a relatively new name in Hollywood, he’s already having a big year: his “Wonder” will arrive on November 17.

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As THR notes, “Trevorrow and his writing partner, Derek Connolly, have been working on the script, but sources say a fresh set of eyes was needed. It is unclear how extensive the rewrites will be.” THR is also quick to note that, despite previous reports, the script for “Episode IX” is not based on a treatment from filmmaker Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Ryan Lambie Aug 2, 2017

Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars: Episode 9 is getting a rewrite courtesy of Jack Thorne, writer of The Fades...

The Last Jedi isn't even out yet, but thanks to the complexity of the Star Wars universe at Disney-Lucasfilm, work is already well under way on Episode IX.

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Due for release in 2019 and directed by Colin Trevorrow, Episode IX will mark as the capstone to the current trilogy of sequels, which means it should tie off the saga of Rey, Finn and Kylo Ren. The movie was initially written by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly - the pair previously worked together on Jurassic World and Safety Not Guaranteed. 

Their script is now about...

British screenwriter Jack Thorne has been tapped to finish the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode IX, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Thorne will take over for director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly. According to sources, a new set of eyes was needed to finish the final installment of the franchise reboot, though it's unclear how much of the script needs to be rewritten.

Thorne has created several acclaimed British television shows including National Treasure, the crime drama The Last Panthers and the sci-fi series The Fades.

Colin Trevorrow has been attached to direct Star Wars: Episode IX for a while now, and while the reviews of Trevorrow’s The Book Of Henry probably made a lot of Star Wars fans worried about how he’d handle the end of this new trilogy, LucasFilm itself didn’t seem to show any concerns. Now, though, it’s hard not to think of The Book Of Henry when The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the studio is bringing in a new writer to revise the previous draft of the script that Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly wrote. Again, LucasFilm would probably never say that it was worried about Trevorrow’s work, but this does seem to indicate that it’s not taking any chances.

The new writer is Jack Thorne, the creator or co-creator of British TV shows like The Fades, The Cast-Offs, The Last Panthers, and National...

La La Land director Damien Chazelle will direct a new musical TV series called The Eddy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The drama will center around a club in modern-day Paris, its owner, the house band and "the volatile city that surrounds them."

British screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne will write The Eddy. Thorne is known for co-writing the This Is England spin-off series with Shane Meadows and creating the supernatural BBC show The Fades. He's also written for the hit teen drama Skins and the original British version of...

Jordan Peele is best known as a comedian and one-half of the hilarious duo of Key & Peele but as it turns out, Peele is also a big horror buff and Get Out, a writing exercise he never figured would get made, is a perfect example of what can happen when an artist is given the opportunity to try something different.

Daniel Kaluuya ("The Fades," "Black Mirror," Sicario) stars as Chris, a talented photographer who is going away for the weekend with his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams of "Girls" fame) to meet her parents for the first time. He's very black; she's very white and she hasn't told mom and dad. Rose argues race is a non-issue and though at first reluctant, Chris goes along with the weekend plans but rather quickly, even before the pair arrives at the posh family [Continued ...]...

It almost never happens with studio releases but over the weekend I was completely blindsided by a trailer for a movie I hadn't heard about.

Somewhere along the line, I missed the trailer for Get Out when it was first released and thought that's not usually a big deal when a movie looks this interesting, I just have to rectify the oversight.

Written and directed by Jordan Peele, one-half of the comedic duo Key and Peele, Get Out stars Daniel Kaluuya ("The Fades," Sicario) as Chris, a guy in an interracial couple who is meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time. Though weird at first, the meeting seems to be going well until it becomes clear that her parents are members of some weird Stepford Wives-like brainwashing of all of the African Americans t [Continued ...]...

Nick Harley Oct 19, 2016

Writer Jack Thorne and director Marc Munden move from the TV drama National Treasure to sci-fi movie Sovereign...

Sovereign, the upcoming science fiction thriller from director Marc Munden, has found its star in Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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Gordon-Levitt has signed on to the project from director Munden, who directed the recent Channel 4 TV miniseries National Treasure. Jack Thorne, who penned lots of things we love - including the aforementioned National Treasure, the TV series The Fades, and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - has written the latest take on the screenplay.

The script for Sovereign from a draft by Geoff Tock and Gregory Weidman, and will see Gordon-Levitt as a man grasping with the dissolution of his marriage while he struggles to locate the crew of a space station, which includes his wife, after they mysteriously vanish.

If Jack Thorne was considered hot property before Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, penning the adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s wildly successful story has only ensured Thorne is one of the most in-demand writers on the other side of the pond. Soon after breaking onto the scene with British teen drama Skins, the screenwriter enjoyed a streak that comprised award-winning contributions to This Is England ’88, The Fades, Don’t Take My Baby and This Is England ’90.

Imagine our excitement, then, now that Deadline has relayed news that Jack Thorne was inked a deal to collaborate with War & Peace helmer Tom Harper for The Aeronauts, a true-life period drama said to revolve around two enthused hot air balloonists who scaled higher than anyone else in the 19th century. Both Thorne and Harper are currently in possession of a spec script, meaning this project won’t be ready to fire up production anytime soon.

Naomi Watts hasn’t made a horror movie in many moons, but she’s hardly a stranger to the genre. “The Ring” solidified her as a star after she made her breakthrough with David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” and the two-time Oscar nominee will soon reconnect to her genre roots with “Shut In.” The upcoming thriller just debuted its first trailer via USA Today, and thanks to the wonders of the internet you can watch it below.

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“It’s not my son,” Watts’ character says of her catatonic child in the trailer’s opening moments. “It’s just a body that I feed and wash and clothe.” She has disturbing dreams of drowning him in the bathtub, shares her troubles with her therapist (Oliver Platt) and experiences all the usual joys of being in a thriller: doors shutting for no apparent reason,...

Rob Leane Feb 15, 2017

Having stalled at Channel 4 and AMC, Electric Dreams has moved to Amazon...

Last year, Channel 4 announced an alliance with Sony Pictures Television and AMC. This cross-Atlantic collaboration was focused on producing a “hugely ambitious” anthology series inspired by the works of sci-fi writing legend Philip K Dick.

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The show was given the title Electric Dreams: The World Of Philip K Dick, and Ronald D Moore (Battlestar Galactica), Michael Dinner (Justified) and Bryan Cranston – who will also star in the show – all signed on as executive producers.

However, AMC apparently dropped out and left the show without a home. Channel 4 had been very close to green-lighting the series, but without AMC the whole process stalled.

Hollywood hit the ground running this week. Let’s catch up on the new developments. There’s something for everyone! Rejoice!

• The first footage for the upcoming animated adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic comic Batman: The Killing Joke has been unleashed and it has us panting for more. Due to be released this summer, the 23-second teaser gives us mere glimpses into the Joker origin story. The one-off graphic novel was published in 1988 and was an instant classic, done with Moore’s trademark complex characters and story. Take a gander here and let me know what you think!

• Warner Bros. has announced plans to give its most famous Mexican mouse the big-screen treatment. That’s right, folks, Speedy Gonzales is headed to a theater near you. First seen onscreen in a 1953 short called “Cat Tails for Two,” Speedy made his real splash of a debut in a self-titled short...

Following on from making history by scoring three BAFTA nominations last week, acclaimed British scribe Jack Thorne ("Skins," "The Last Panthers," "The Fades") has signed on to pen an event series adaptation of Philip Pulman's epic fantasy novel trilogy "His Dark Materials" for BBC One.

The novels follow an orphan girl who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Searching for a kidnapped friend, she uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In the second book, she is joined on her journey by a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds.

The "His Dark Materials" series has been published in more than forty languages and has sold worldwide close to 17.5 million copies. The first book, "Northern Lights," was adapted into the 2007 Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman film "The Golden Compass" which was a critical and commercial disappointment.

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With great writing, a strong cast and a gripping story, Jack Thorne’s 2011 supernatural drama The Fades was one of the best…

According to former BBC Three controller Zai Bennett, fans of The Fades have themselves to blame for Jack Thorne’s superb fantasy drama not being recommissioned. We were too few and too old.

The BBC Three remit aimed to attract 16-34 year olds, Bennett explained at the 2012 Edinburgh International Television Festival. Because The Fades found more love among those with mortgages and middle-age spread than it did with fresh-faced teens and twenty-somethings, it didn’t fulfil that remit.

However much critical acclaim (plaudits from The Guardian, The Telegraph, some website called Den Of Geek) or however many awards (a Bafta for Best Drama, nominations for Best Writer, wins for Best Music and Digital Effects) The Fades received, the kids weren’t down so it had to go.

Though 2015 brought an absurd bounty of great television, not to mention the proclamation that we had entered the era of #PeakTV, there’s absolutely no reason to think that 2016 will let up. At all. In the first few months of the year alone, there are a whole host of great returning series gearing back up, as well as a wide variety of new ones. There are so many, in fact, that it took some difficulty to narrow them down to under 30. But here we are.

So please note that this is by no means a comprehensive list – for those so inclined, by all means, get excited for Legends of Tomorrow, American Crime Story, The Magicians, Lucifer, and, sure, why not, Fuller House. The list below are just a few that seemed, for one reason or another, to be especially noteworthy. (In at least one instance, “noteworthy” is not necessarily a compliment.

Kirsten Howard Feb 20, 2018

The BBC's long-awaited adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is finally inching forward again...

The BBC have had their eight-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy in the works for such a long while, but it finally looks as though we'll be seeing some imminent movement on the series.

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Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner, who run Bad Wolf Productions, have been hard at work on adapting Deborah Harkness' A Discovery Of Witches, which is due to air later this year on Sky, but as filming wrapped on that mammoth series, the pair turned their attention to their next big project, and their plans were music to our ears…...

Despite lobbying from Chris Columbus, there isn't a new Harry Potter film on the cards just yet.

But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play in two parts: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below is everything you need to know about the theatrical event.

Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best

9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic

1. It isn't a prequel - it's a sequel

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— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015

The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.

It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is actually a sequel. The eighth part of the story picks up where Deathly Hallows left off,...

Despite lobbying from Chris Columbus, there isn't a new Harry Potter film on the cards just yet.

But the Potterverse will expand next year with the launch of a new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Below, we round up everything we know so far about the production.

Harry Potter's 8 movie adventures ranked from worst to best

9 reasons why Harry Potter author Jk Rowling is pure magic

1. It isn't a prequel

pic.twitter.com/JgbAz5iQKl

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2015

The play was first spoken about in 2013, just two years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded the movie series.

It was long-rumoured to be a prequel to the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Not so.

"I don't want to spoil what I know will be a real treat for fans. However, I can say that it is not a prequel!

Mike Cecchini John Saavedra Brian Berman Mar 8, 2019

Everything you need to know about Star Wars Episode IX, including latest news, release date, cast, and much more!

Star Wars Episode IX will conclude the Star Wars saga as we know it. J.J. Abrams, who previously directed The Force Awakens, returned to the director's chair once again for this installment.

Previous director Colin Trevorrow left the project over creative differences. Trevorrow had worked on a draft of the script with Derek Connolly, before Jack Thorne (who has worked on cult genre favorite The Fades and who is currently working on a new adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials) was brought in.

The current script was written by Chris Terrio. John Williams will return to score his final Star Wars movie.

Filming has wrapped and the movie is now in post-production, as revealed by Abrams on Twitter:

It feels impossible,...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is following yesterday's news of Colin Farrell's Wizard casting with a lesser-known but possibly just as vital addition.

Irish actress Jenn Murray will have a "key role" in the Harry Potter spinoff, according to The Wrap.

Jk Rowling has written the script, expanding her Potter universe, with director David Yates returning to the series.

Eddie Redmayne will play the lead Newt Scamander, a magical zoologist on an adventure in New York.

Katherine Waterston and Alison Sudol have been cast as sisters alongside Ezra Miller and Dan Fogler.

Murray will apparently appear in scenes with Miller, who is expected to be Scamander's rival.

The actress has previously starred in Dorothy Mills alongside Carice van Houten, while she has upcoming roles in Love and Friendship opposite Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Fry, and Brooklyn with Saoirse Ronan. She also appeared in BBC dramas Truckers and The Fades.

Here's one of those 'This'll make you feel old' factoids - it's two years since the last ever episode of Skins aired.

E4's groundbreaking hormone-fest wrapped up on August 5, 2013 - with an older Cook (Jack O'Connell) heading off into an uncertain future at the close of 'Rise (Part Two)'.

Cook was but one of 27 major characters featured on Skins across three 'Generations' - in a total of 61 episodes, split into seven series. But where are the teen tearaways of Roundview College now?

Generation One

1. Nicholas Hoult

Hoult played Tony Stonem - the pre-eminent bad boy of Skins - across its first two series. Later badly hurt in a traffic accident and forced to rely on others, Tony had mellowed by his final episodes.

Now aged 25, Hoult has become a bona-fide Hollywood star with roles in this year's Mad Max: Fury Road and the much-anticipated book adaptations Dark Places and Kill Your Friends.

Harry Potter is heading to the London stage in the summer of 2016...

2016 is going to be a big year for Harry Potter. Already, the first in a new trilogy of films has been set for November 2016. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will be set around 70 years before the existing Potter stories, and Eddie Redmayne has already been cast in the lead role.

But now we learn that Harry Potter is heading to the stage too. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is set to open in London in 2016, and J K Rowling has been working with The Fades and Sandman movie writer Jack Thorne to put it together.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Rowling has revealed that it'll tell "an untold part of Harry's story". John Tiffany is set to direct the production.

An official website for the play has been launched, and you can find it here.