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Netflix is continuing to experiment with a new trick to entice first-time subscribers — making the first episode of season three of The Crown available for free in the UK. Netflix has carried out similar tests with other shows in India and South America, and the hope is that by giving British viewers a taste of its…

EXCLUSIVE: Internal BBC documents have revealed how the British broadcaster conducts repeated research on its biggest stars and scores how well they are performing with audiences. So-called BBC “talent reports” were released as part of the corporation’s legal battle with presenter Samira Ahmed, who has taken the BBC to…

The most gripping thriller of 2019 is here. It's official. This one will have you talking – and it should. Official Secrets is a pulse-pounding true drama about the rarest of government workers these days: someone who actually has a conscience. Set in the post-9/11 era — early 2003, to be exact — the story concerns…

The Crown's Claire Foy and Matt Smith are reuniting after their royal outing – this time on stage at London's The Old Vic Theatre. The pair are set to star in Duncan Macmillan's Lungs, an "emotional environmental rollercoaster". The play, which is directed by The Old Vic's Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, who…

IFC Films has released the first trailer to Charlie Says, the film which focuses on the females who fell prey to the manipulation of the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson. American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron directed the film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year. The Crown‘s Matt Smith…

Leave No Trace‘s Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie and The Crown‘s Matt Smith have joined the cast of Last Night in Soho, the psychological thriller from Edgar Wright and Working Title. The duo joins Anya Taylor-Joy in the pic, which Wright co-wrote with Penny Dreadful scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Details are scant about the…

The official trailer for director Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe biopic is out, portraying the controversial artist as he ascends from nowhere to become one of the most talked-about media creators of the 20th Century. Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is Robert Mapplethorpe, with Marianne Rendon as punk poet/rocker Patti…

EXCLUSIVE: Ondi Timoner, the documentary filmmaker who is making her narrative feature debut with the Matt Smith-starring biopic Mapplethorpe, has signed with APA and Dialed-in Entertainment. Timoner has won a pair of Sundance Film Festival grand jury prizes — first in 2004 for her feature documentary debut Dig!, then…

BREAKING: The Crown star and Doctor Who alum Matt Smith has reportedly joined J.J. Abrams Star Wars: Episode IX. It is not known if he’ll be on the side of the Rebels or the Empire. Smith joins a cast that includes Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver, as well as new Star Wars castmembers Keri…

With crowns all the rage, The Late Late Show with James Corden pulled a royal flush last night with its fake commercial for Lizzie & The Duke, a faux-cop drama tapping into the latest British Invasion with a special appearance by ex-Doctor Who himself, Matt Smith. Watch the video above. Smith, of The Crown, plays a…

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Mapplethorpe, Ondi Timoner's biopic that stars Matt Smith as artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The company is eyeing a late fall release date. The film, which bowed at the Tribeca Film Festival, explores Mapplethorpe's life from moments before he and Patti Smith…

For the last 15 years, Bring It On and Dollhouse actress Eliza Dushku and her brother Nate Dushku have been trying to mount a biopic about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. “It’s not the easiest thing to get an art film financed, we’re not a Marvel comic,” she told Deadline at our Tribeca studio. In…