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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has partially shuttered production on feature Matilda amid a coronavirus outbreak, making it the streamer’s second UK shoot in as many days to be disrupted by the pandemic after we first told you that Bridgerton was paused on Saturday. Deadline can reveal that the first filming unit on Working Title…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures UK and TriStar Pictures have set a December 2, 2022 theatrical release for Matilda in the UK and Ireland, just in time for the holidays. TriStar is co-producing the adaptation of the beloved West End musical with Netflix and retains rights in the UK. This will not be a day-and-date release…

Offering two superb Emmas (Stone and Thompson) for the price of one, Disney’s anticipated reboot of one of its chief villains, the much-feared Cruella de Vil, is given new life by taking the origin-story route favored by comic book reinventions such as Joker rather than the fairy tale route employed by the Mouse House…

Netflix announced today on social media that two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson and Alisha Weir are joining the Working Title feature Matilda based on the popular musical stage play version of Roald Dahl's classic story. Matilda follows a young bookworm prodigy who battles with her parents and nemesis headmistress…

Emma Thompson is criticizing what is commonplace in Hollywood — older male actors paired on-screen with women half their age. “It's completely acceptable for George Clooney – who is delightful – to have someone who is 40 years younger than him or 30 years younger than him,” she said on the podcast CultureBlast. “If I…

EXCLUSIVE: Announced deal-making out of the virtual AFM has been deafeningly quiet so far, but Cornerstone Films was among sellers to clock up strong pre-sales, we can reveal. We’ve heard from buyers that two of Cornerstone’s light-hearted Brit pics were among their favourites: Emma Thompson sex therapy comedy Good Luc…

Few North American film markets have taken place amid such tumult as this year’s virtual AFM. If it’s not the deadly pandemic, it’s the excruciatingly tense U.S election and its fallout. Will the industry be able to pull itself away from CNN for a minute to focus on the event? “Last week it was very challenging to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. We can reveal that Lily James (Baby Driver), Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) and Emma Thompson (Beauty And The Beast) have been set to star in a new Working Title rom-com: What’s Love Got To Do With It?, which will start next month. Written and produced by Jemima Khan (Impeachment: Amer…

Emma Thompson is set to star in comedy feature Good Luck To You, Leo Grande from filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Animals). The film will follow Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55 year-old widow “who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life. Whilst her husband…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Emma Thompson are among the ensemble cast for coming-of-age fantasy-drama movie The Lost Girls, a female-fronted take on the classic Peter Pan story by J.M. Barrie. Livia De Paolis (Emoticon ;)) is adapting, directing and starring in the film, which also will feature Thompson…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Years And Years finale on HBO. “The point is you don’t need a revolution for a Viv Rook to take over," declares Years And Years creator Russell T Davies of the populist uprising on the HBO dystopian family drama of the near future that literally and digitally…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight. The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO…