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Golden Globe-winner Idris Elba and Riviera and Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier are entering into a joint venture that will see their respective production companies, Elba's Green Door Pictures and Thykier's Archery Pictures, working together on multiple film and TV projects. Through the new partnership with Archery, UK…

EXCLUSIVE: More than two years after it was announced and after a couple of delays, George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance-drama Three Thousand Years Of Longing is now underway in Australia, we can reveal. The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days…

Luther actor Idris Elba is set to interview former Beatle Paul McCartney for a 60-minute BBC One holiday special. Produced by The Graham Norton Show outfit So Television, Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney will be filmed in London over the coming weeks in line with local Covid-19 rules. Elba, who moonlights as a musician…

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Berger, President and Managing Director of Warner Bros UK, Ireland and Spain and President of Harry Potter Global Franchise Development, has decided to step down from his posts after working for the company for more than 30 years. The well-liked and respected veteran will depart Warners in December…

Deadline has confirmed that Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Ricky Staub’s feature directorial debut Concrete Cowboy  starring Idris Elba and Stranger Things breakout Caleb McLaughlin. A release date has not been set, but it’s looking like 2021. The father-son drama made its world premiere at TIFF last month…

Deadline has confirmed that the New Mexico shoot of Netflix’s Idris Elba-Regina King western The Harder They Fall has stopped after an actor tested positive for COVID-19. Production stopped Thursday, continued into Friday and it’s unclear when filming will resume. Production has been occurring for about five…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won Heads of State, a pitch package designed to re-team John Cena and Idris Elba, who star in the upcoming The Suicide Squad sequel at Warner Bros. The project was sold after a Zoom pitch presentation with the actors, screenwriter Harrison Query, and the producers (The Safran Company’s Pet…

BREAKING: Idris Elba will star in Universal Pictures' Beast, a thriller based on an original idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Baltasar Kormakur will direct. Rampage scribe Ryan Engle wrote the script. Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions. Kormakur will produce through his RVK…

Concrete Cowboy is about a different kind of urban cowboy — in this case, an outcast Black teenager who finds an unlikely home amongst a group of horse aficionados in a Philadelphia ghetto. Nicely acted and sympathetic in every way, Ricky Staub's directorial debut has nonetheless bridled himself with an entirely…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Toronto Film Festival father-son drama Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba and Stranger Things breakout Caleb McLaughlin. Set amongst the North Philadelphia urban cowboy subculture, the film is inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables – a black urban horsemanship community…

EXCLUSIVE: As a most unusual Toronto Film Festival in memory gets underway today with the usual acquisitions and media crowd unable to make it across the Canadian border for gala premieres, Endeavor Content has come up with an inventive alternative for three acquisitions titles its sales agents will attempt to sell…

Idris Elba is to step back into the boxing ring for a BBC Two series, in which he will provide seven disadvantaged young people with lessons in discipline, focus and determination by putting them through an experimental boxing school. Idris Elba's Fight School is a four-part series produced by Workerbee, the…