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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor-starring Aisha, which will premiere at Tribeca in three days’ time. Wright plays the lead, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, she struggles…

Neon has landed North American rights at Cannes to La Chimera, the tomb-robbing drama from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher that stars Josh O’Connor and Isabelle Rossellini. Set during the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers, La Chimera tells the story of a young English archaeologist…

Luca Guadagnino has set himself quite an ensemble for his next film with Zendaya set and Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist in final negotiation to star in Challengers. MGM recently acquired rights to the package with Amy Pascal, Guadagnino, Zendaya and Rachel O'Connor of Pascal Pictures producing. Justin Kuritzkes penned…

The Crown Emmy winner Josh O'Connor and Normal People star Paul Mescal have been set to star in The History of Sound, a World War I love story adapted from Ben Shattuck’s Pushcart Prize-winning short story. Oliver Hermanus (Beauty, Moffie) is aboard to direct the pic, which hails from Cop Car producer End Cue…

UPDATED, 9:59 AM: Sony Pictures Classics said today that its film Mothering Sunday will get a limited release on February 25 in Los Angeles and New York following its weeklong awards-qualifying run in November. The pic, which premiered at Cannes in July, will expand to other markets in the ensuing weeks, the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that makes for as hot a package as you’ll find at the Virtual American Film Market, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will join Kate Winslet in LEE, the Ellen Kuras-directed film about the wartime experiences of Lee Miller. Miller traded a glamorous career as…

Josh O’Connor took home the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series on Sunday night, for his portrayal of Prince Charles in Netflix’s hit The Crown. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage This is O’Connor’s first Emmy win and his first nomination. The series has racked up 11 golden…

Three past winners in the category meet three first-time nominees in an interesting showdown that does not include an opportunity for last year's winner, Jeremy Strong, to repeat, since his series Succession was delayed by Covid. This means that acting winners from other recent Emmy seasons do have a chance to come…

Just when you thought we’ve seen it all when it comes to period dramas from Merchant-Ivory to Downton Abbey, comes Eva Husson’s feature adaptation of Graham Swift’s novella Mothering Sunday. Yes, true, there’s some steamy sexy in this upstairs-downstairs drama about high-born Paul Sheringham having an affair with the…

Peter Morgan's The Crown showed that the fourth time might yet be a charm for the Netflix series, which tied with Disney+'s The Mandalorian to net the most nominations—a hefty 24—at this year's Primetime Emmys. Why is this season so strong? It's possible that, as the series moved into the 1980s and hence closer to the…

In the Eva Husson-directed Mothering Sunday, based on Graham Swift’s novella of the same name, Josh O’Connor is the high-born Paul Sheringham, embroiled in a passionate affair with Jane (Odessa Young), the maid of a neighboring couple (Olivia Colman and Colin Firth). In Cannes for the film’s premiere, Husson and…

If the Merchant Ivory factory of well-appointed period British cinema was still in operation, a film adaptation Graham Swift’s novella Mothering Sunday, debuting today as part of the Cannes Film Festival Cannes Premiere section, might have been something they would have snapped up immediately. The bigger question…