In the Eva Husson-directed Mothering Sunday, based on Graham Swift’s novella of the same name, Josh O’Connor is the high-born Paul Sheringham, embroiled in a passionate affair with Jane (Odessa Young), the maid of a neighboring couple (Olivia Colman and Colin Firth).
In Cannes for the film’s premiere, Husson and…
If the Merchant Ivory factory of well-appointed period British cinema was still in operation, a film adaptation Graham Swift’s novella Mothering Sunday, debuting today as part of the Cannes Film Festival Cannes Premiere section, might have been something they would have snapped up immediately. The bigger question…
Warner Bros has set an awards corridor release in the UK and Ireland for Operation Mincemeat, the John Madden-directed war pic starring Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald, with the film set to land January 7, 2022.
Movie tells the true story of a war time deception that changed the course of the Second World War. Also…
EXCLUSIVE:Rosemarie DeWitt is set to star alongside Toni Collette and Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max's drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.
The eight-episode series from Antonio Campos, who directed the Rebecca Hall-fronted feature Christine, and American Crime Story writer…
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Toni Collette is set to star opposite Colin Firth in The Staircase,HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.
Collette will play Kathleen Peterson, a corporate executive, mother, stepmother of five and wife of Michael Peterson, played by Firth.
The…
The Staircase was one of the first true-crime documentaries to break out into mainstream culture when it was released in 2004.
The series is now being remade as a drama limited series for HBO Max with Colin Firth playing Michael Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
There previously…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has struck a big deal for the Colin Firth World War II movie Operation Mincemeat, we can reveal.
The streamer has pre-bought North America and Latin America rights for around $15 million from The King’s Speech producer See-Saw and Cohen Media Group after seeing footage in recent days.
Shakespeare In…
Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Simon Russell Beale and Paapa Essiedu are attached to star in the period drama Curtain Call with Anand Tucker directing for Mark Gordon Pictures and Fearless Minds.
The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine (Beale), his loyal assistant, a…
Harry Macqueen’s Supernova, which makes its world premiere bow at the San Sebastián Film Festival next week, is a film founded in contrasts. A simple, intimate love story that follows a middle-aged gay couple, Sam and Tusker, on a road trip through England’s Lake District as they get to grips with Tusker’s diagnosis…
There have been (at least) four TV versions, four film versions, Broadway plays and musical versions, other projects with titles like Return To… and Back From…., even a 2017 Steampunk version, for God’s sake. Did we really need yet another Secret Garden?Â
Oh, why not?
This time around, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Rising actress Odessa Young (Assassination Nation), BAFTA-nominee Josh O'Connor (The Crown), Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) are set to star in drama Mothering Sunday for Carol producers Number 9 Films.
The blue chip period-drama becomes one of the…
