Studiocanal, Netflix and Blueprint Pictures have begun production on live-action family movie A Boy Called Christmas. Gil Kenan (Monster House) will direct the feature whose starry cast includes Jim Broadbent (Paddington 1 & 2), Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark), Toby Jones (Infamous), Sally Hawkins (The…

Netflix has taken rights in key markets to upcoming Lily James romance-drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I have learned. The online titan will release in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe and SouthEast Asia.  Release date hasn’t been set yet but it should be this year, I’m…

EXCLUSIVE: The recently announced BBC One drama, A Very English Scandal, is based on the true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder. Hugh Grant has now been set to return to British television for the first time since the early ’90s as the disgraced center of the…

EXCLUSIVE: In-demand British actress Lily James is set to star in The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, with Mike Newell attached to direct. Script is written by Don Roos and Tom Bezucha and is based on the international bestseller of the same name by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. Paula Mazur and…

Sony Pictures Television has taken a minority stake in UK production banner Blueprint Television. The new venture led by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures, which has enjoyed global success with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for Fox, will focus on high end, returning drama series that originate…

EXCLUSIVE– Ol Parker, who wrote both instalments of the hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films, has been tapped by Studio Canal and Blueprint Pictures to adapt Matt Haig’s acclaimed novel A Boy Called Christmas. The book follows the early life of Father Christmas. Frequent partners Studio Canal and Blueprint…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Mazer, all-around comic whiz and long-time Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator, has come on-board to co-write, direct and exec produce Three Miles North Of Molkom for Euro film major StudioCanal. Graham Broadbent and Czernin’s Blueprint Pictures are producing. Also writing the script is Jamie Minoprio…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Weisz (The Light Between Oceans) is in talks to star opposite Colin Firth in director James Marsh’s untitled Donald Crowhurst biopic. The story is based on the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the first round of the World Yacht Race in 1968. The film is produced by…