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Empire of Light, written and directed by Sam Mendes, is a loving tribute to the power of cinema and a poignant story about the healing qualities of genuine human connection. The film follows the budding romance of two employees working at a grandiose but crumbling seaside cinema on the southern coast of England. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker, photographer and creative director Anton Corbijn has completed his debut feature documentary Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis) about the iconic album art design studio Hipgnosis, which was responsible for creating some of the most recognizable album covers of all time for artists…

It was a quiet year for British shows at this morning’s Emmy nominations, but major UK talent acting in U.S. hits including Brian Cox, Colin Firth, Andrew Garfield and Jodie Comer all secured noms, along with a number of British Ted Lasso stars. Cox unsurprisingly was nominated in the Lead Actor drama category for his…

A war of words has broken out between the filmmakers who have brought audiences two different versions, nearly two decades apart, of the real-life mystery behind The Staircase. French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's 2004 Peabody Award-winning documentary told the story of the fortunate Peterson family who lived in…

Colin Firth is tackling a character far removed from the British gentlemen he’s played throughout much of his career in HBO Max’s The Staircase, premiering in the Spring. The eight-episode limited series—based on a true story— sees Firth portray Michael Peterson, who was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Firth (Operation Mincemeat, Mothering Sunday), Toby Jones (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, First Cow) Crystal Clarke (Sanditon, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain) and Tanya Moodie (Motherland, A Discovery of Witches) have signed on to star alongside Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward in Empire of…

UPDATED, 9:59 AM: Sony Pictures Classics said today that its film Mothering Sunday will get a limited release on February 25 in Los Angeles and New York following its weeklong awards-qualifying run in November. The pic, which premiered at Cannes in July, will expand to other markets in the ensuing weeks, the…

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…