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STXfilms has closed the rights for an English-language remake of the hit French thriller My Son, with James McAvoy and Claire Foy set to star. The film will be directed by Christian Carion, who also directed the French film. The pic is eyeing a November start in Scotland. STX has locked distribution rights for North…

James McAvoy is to narrate Channel 4 Entertainment reality competition show The Bridge. The show will see 12 strangers come together on the banks of a picturesque lake in the British countryside where they will need to work together to build a bridge in 20 days to an island 250 meters away. Each person in the winning…

X-Men and Glass star James McAvoy has donated £275,000 ($340,000) to a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for protective equipment for NHS staff treating coronavirus. In a video message in support of the Masks 4 Heroes campaign, the actor said “the situation is truly urgent and time is off the essence”. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Shameless creator Paul Abbott is rebooting his award-winning BBC One drama State of Play, which inspired the Russell Crowe movie of the same name. Deadline can reveal that 16 years after the original show aired, Abbott is in active development on a new series of the political thriller having previously…

When your movie makes $700 million, it inevitably is going to trigger a sequel. In the case of the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, the second film is not a sequel by definition but rather the final chapter of a two-part movie. At least that is what Warner Bros says. It makes sense because only about…

HBO introduced Hall H attendees today to its upcoming fall fantasy series His Dark Materials from the famed Philip Pullman series, kicking off the evening session with a fresh trailer. The first season of His Dark Materials follows Lyra (Dafne Keen, the little girl silent mutant from Logan), a seemingly ordinary but…

After 12 films in 20 years including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, we are now told this is the end of the road for the enormously successful, sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good X-Men franchise. Of course, in the Marvel world you should learn to never say never, but following the Avengers: Endgame finale and now…

Saturday Night Live last night, with host James McAvoy, musical guest Meek Mill and appearance by Steve Martin as Roger Stone, averaged a 4.1 Live+same day household rating in the metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters. That was off from last week’s show hosted by The Marv…

Saturday Night Live‘s guest host James McAvoy anchored the show’s return to two favorite targets: The Bachelor and Chronicles of Narnia. The Bachelor riff was punctuated by female cast members asking each other, “Can I steal him for a sec?” before telling the bachelor “Mmm, I missed you.” This go-round featured McAvoy…

Few contemporary filmmakers have come out swinging as impressively as M. Night Shyamalan did when he was heralded as the “new Spielberg” after a series of successes near the start of this century, including most notably his Oscar-nominated The Sixth Sense, Signs and Unbreakable, the latter being the 2000 film with…

Glass star James McAvoy will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live on January 26, the show announced today. Musical guest will be Meek Mill. Glass, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, hits theaters January 18. McAvoy has never hosted SNL before. SNL returns to air this weekend after its holiday break with host Rachel Brosnahan…

The Dark Phoenix saga is one of the most memorable and pivotal stories in the X-Men comics and after waiting with bated breath, we finally got a look at the latest installment of the highly anticipated sequel to the mutant franchise tonight in the new trailer. In the video above, we see Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey as…