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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Colin Firth has signed on to star in New York Will Eat You Alive (tentative title), the STXfilms and Tencent Pictures action-comedy based on the digital comic Zombie Brother. Todd Strauss-Schulson (Isn't It Romantic) is attached to direct the adaptation, which is being co-produced by Tencent…

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?  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…

Raindog Films, the UK-based production company co-founded by Colin Firth and music industry veteran Ged Doherty, is moving into TV, hiring writer and producer Trish D Chetty. “I have always admired the films that Raindog make, each one of their films is bold and ambitious and the diversity of their work speaks for…

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Beast) and Tom Wilkinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are joining Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald in John Madden's WWII drama Operation Mincemeat, which reunites Firth with The King’s Speech producer See-Saw Films. Also joining the cast…

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) is on board to direct Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech) in WWII story Operation Mincemeat. Set in 1943 when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on 'Fortress Europe,' the film will follow two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and…

DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced today that Sam Mendes’ 1917 will start shooting on April 1 on location in England and Scotland. The film follows two young British soldiers (Captain Fantastic's George MacKay; Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) on a single day at the height of World War…

STXfilms has secured the North American distribution rights to Studiocanal/Heyday Films’ The Secret Garden, the Marc Munden-directing family adventure film starring Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and young actress Dixie Egerickx as Mary Lennox. Based on classic children's novel of the same name written by Frances Hodgson…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has picked up U.S. rights to James Marsh's sailing biopic The Mercy, starring Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz and David Thewlis. Seth Needle of Screen Media negotiated the deal with Loubna Berrada on behalf of Studiocanal and the former is planning to release stateside this December. Pic was released…

Principal photography is getting underway Monday on Studiocanal and Heyday Films’ The Secret Garden with Colin Firth and Julie Walters starring. As Deadline revealed in January, Marc Munden is directing the new take on the classic children's novel. Jack Thorne adapted the book for the big screen and has moved the…