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Following its debut as the opening night gala at the London Film Festival last week, Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical now has an official trailer – check it out above. The new take on the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical stars Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, who plays Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a book-loving schoolgirl and her classmates in Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical, has revealed how she had trouble getting her child co-stars to loathe her. "They thought I was Nanny McFucking…

There are stories so good they can withstand any amount of retelling. Matilda began life as Roald Dahl's rollicking tale of an outrageously spirited, clever little girl who defeats the bullying headmistress whose vocation is to make children miserable. The Royal Shakespeare Company turned it into a…

Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham, and Lashana Lynch passed through the London Film Festival on Wednesday to discuss their new film Matilda The Musical, directed by Matthew Warchus. The musical is having its world premiere tonight as the opening-night film. The musical is a modern take on Roald Dahl's…

Sorry Sean Bean, Emma Thompson begs to differ. In the latest reaction to Bean’s recent controversial remarks criticizing the use of on-set intimacy coordinators, Thompson said on an Australian radio show that such coordinators are “fantastically important.” Although she didn’t mention Bean by…

The 66th BFI London Film Festival has set Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical as its Opening Night Gala. Directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee and Alisha Weir as the eponymous Matilda, the film will have its world premiere on October 5 at the…

Searchlight Pictures today unveiled the trailer for its dramedy Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, starring Emma Thompson (Love, Actually) and Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), which will stream exclusively as a Hulu Original in the U.S. starting June 17th. The film from director Sophie Hyde follows Nancy Stokes…

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has closed a deal around $7.5 million for U.S. rights to Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. the Sophie Hyde-directed film that stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (The Wheel of Time & Peaky Blinders). Deadline reported yesterday  that Searchlight was poised to win the film that was bid…

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has emerged as the favorite to acquire Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, the Sophie Hyde-directed drama that stars Emma Thompson as a widow who decides to seek out something that has eluded her over a 31-year marriage: a proper, mind-blowing, toe-curling orgasm. Negotiations are underway…

Even in its truncated virtual Covid-afflicted form last year, the Sundance Film Festival was remarkably able to debut several movies that a year later we are still talking about in the Oscar conversation including CODA, Jockey, Passing, Flee, and Mass. Maybe this success was due to the fact they all had one word…

The ongoing pandemic can’t stall the fountainhead of cinematic creative bursting from the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 lineup, which was unveiled Thursday. Sundance festival director Tabitha Jackson told Deadline that the upcoming lineup of 82 features for the virtual and in-person Park City event is “doubling down…

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…