The Eddy's Jack Thorne, The Innocents' Stacey Gregg and Utopia's Dennis Kelly are among the A-list writers to back a new writers' scheme organized by Broadchurch producer Kudos. The Endemol Shine indie has teamed with The Royal Court Theatre to support a new fellowship that will offer three writers £10,000 (US$13,000)…

UK broadcaster Channel 4 and Hulu are heading back into national treasure territory with a four-part drama written by Jack Thorne. The two companies have commissioned The Light (w/t) from the prolific writer, who wrote National Treasure and Kiri, which was released in the U.S. under the National Treasure brand. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Mudbound star Garrett Hedlund and Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald are in final negotiations to lead cast in long-awaited movie Dirt Music, I can reveal. The anticipated drama, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s Booker Prize-nominated novel about simmering passion and revenge in the Australian outback, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Heyday Films and Studiocanal’s new take on the classic children’s novel The Secret Garden has found its director. Marc Munden will helm from a script penned by Jack Thorne. Shooting starts in the spring with Studiocanal fully financing. David Heyman will produce via his Heyday banner with the company’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Kiri creator Jack Thorne, arguably Britain's most prolific film and TV writer, has already set up his next project – penning the story of Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini for Working Title. I hear that Thorne is writing the feature after Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's firm picked up the rights to Mardini's life…

Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle, Netflix and IMG are teaming on musical drama The Eddy. To be shot in France, the eight-part series is written by Jack Thorne. Chazelle will executive produce and direct two of the episodes. Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) will also executive produce. The Netflix original…

This Is England‘s Shane Meadows is returning to Channel 4 with a drama series that’s equal parts unlikely love story and an exploration of the conflict between sin and virtue. The Virtues (W/T) is written by Meadows and his This Is England collaborator Jack Thorne; Meadows is directing. Also from This Is England, Steph…

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the most-nominated new play in Olivier Award history, scoring a record-breaking 11 nominations for this year's edition. Nominees for the British theater's most prestigious prizes were unveiled Monday afternoon in London, seeing the two-part Potter extravaganza tie with the record…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi is set to helm Radioactive, a Working Title production based on the 2010 graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout. Studiocanal is fully financing the picture, which is being adapted by hot scribe Jack Th…

EXCLUSIVE: After feverish bidding, Amazon Studios is nearing a deal for Jack Thorne's spec script The Aeronauts, developed and set to be directed by Tom Harper. This has been one of the hottest UK projects floating around, and we’re hearing there were at least six companies vying for the project. But Amazon came out…

Mary Berry, the beloved UK baker who recently ended her run as judge on the BBC's The Great British Bake Off after it was poached by Channel 4, is reteaming with the channel for a new show about Britain's stately homes. In the new BBC One series called Mary Berry's Secrets From Britain's Great Houses, Berry will…

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to star in sci-fi thriller Sovereign, directed by British filmmaker Marc Munden. Arrival producers Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing through their 21 Laps Entertainment banner while Nick Meyer's Sierra/Affinity is financing the project and will oversee…