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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is giving serious consideration to mandating vaccinations for cast and key crew across its UK productions. Deadline understands that Netflix executives are looking very closely at extending a rule introduced on U.S. shoots on Wednesday, meaning that vaccinations are now mandatory for everyone…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures UK and TriStar Pictures have set a December 2, 2022 theatrical release for Matilda in the UK and Ireland, just in time for the holidays. TriStar is co-producing the adaptation of the beloved West End musical with Netflix and retains rights in the UK. This will not be a day-and-date release…

Cast has fleshed out on the upcoming Matilda feature, with Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham and Sindhu Vee joining the previously announced Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch. Riseborough and Graham will play Mrs Wormwood and Mr Wormwood, Matilda's mother and father. Matthew Warchus is helming the film…

Netflix announced today on social media that two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson and Alisha Weir are joining the Working Title feature Matilda based on the popular musical stage play version of Roald Dahl's classic story. Matilda follows a young bookworm prodigy who battles with her parents and nemesis headmistress…

Ralph Fiennes is attached to star as Miss Trunchbull in Netflix and Working Title’s movie Matilda, we understand. The film is based on the popular musical stage play version of Roald Dahl’s classic story in which a young bookworm prodigy battles with her parents and nemesis headmistress Trunchbull. Sony will release…