EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing BerlinEFM addition, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins has been set to star in Cus And Mike, the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato and how he moulded the fighter into becoming the youngest heavyweight title winner ever and one of the most ferocious boxers of his generation.
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The first feature from writer/director Florian Zeller, The Father began its life as an award-winning play.
"I wrote it seven years ago, and it was [inspired by] a personal issue," the director said, in conversation with Deadline in Sundance. "My grandmother raised me, and she started to suffer from dementia when I was…
Sony Pictures Classics started the Sundance Film Festival acquisitions market off early, acquiring US and select international territories on the Florian Zeller-directed The Father. The adaptation of Zellers’s stage play stars Anthony Hopkins, the actor who is up for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Two Popes…
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, arguably two of the greatest actors ever to come out of the British Isles, have surprisingly only worked together once before. The two Welshmen collaborated on a special one-night production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the presence of Prince Charles in December 1992. But as…
We have waited 700 years to live in a time when there are two popes alive at the same moment, but because this unique event has given way to a beguiling new film about the intersection between Popes Benedict and Francis, as imagined by screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Mereilles, it has been well…
Netflix’s The Two Popes, from director Fernando Meirelles and starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, has been making the rounds of the festival circuit, winning awards (including the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Hamptons Film Festival) and today the streamer is giving non-fest-goers a chance to see…
What happens in the Vatican stays in the Vatican. Here’s the first trailer for The Two Popes, Netflix’s film based on the true story of — as the streamer puts it — “one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the last 2,000 years.”
Frustrated with the direction of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan…
Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins (King Lear, Thor: Ragnarok), Anson Mount (Star Trek: Discovery, Inhumans), and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) are set to star inThe Virtuoso, a noir thriller directed by Nick Stagliano. Stagliano's Nazz Productions financed and produced…
Oscar-winning duo Anthony Hopkins (Westworld) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) are to star in Florian Zeller's movie adaptation of his stage play hit The Father.
Hopkins stars in the eponymous role, a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, Camille Rowe, The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Madeline Brewer, and Ray Nicholson (son of Jack Nicholson) will star in the indie drama Now Is Everything, along with Mickey Sumner, Brad Greenquist, Rita Taggart, Juliette Labelle, Mariana Downing, and newcomer Georgian-American actor Irakli…
The BBC and Amazon have unveiled the first-look at the forthcoming adaptation of King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
The broadcasters have revealed the first image of the TV movie version of the Shakespeare adaptation with Hopkins as Lear with Florence Pugh as his youngest daughter Cordelia. The…
Colin Callender’s Playground and Sonia Friedman Productions are teaming for a contemporary TV movie version of King Lear, with a starry ensemble led by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. The duo is reuniting after seminal early ’90s collaborations Howards End and The Remains Of The Day. Richard Eyre will helm the…
