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…
EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies has closed a deal to play Prince Philip in Season 3 of Netflix's The Crown. This is the role that Paul Bettany had been in early talks to play before he abdicated for unspecified reasons. Menzies has signed on for the next two seasons, and begins shooting this summer in the UK.
Menzies…
“Were Claire Foy and Matt Smith paid equally for their star turns on Netflix's The Crown?” I thought it was a topical, yet relatively straightforward, question that would illicit some variation on the “We'd rather not talk about money, we're British” answer.
However, it didn't, and it turns out they weren't. When I…
Left Bank Pictures, producer of Netflix’s The Crown, has issued a statement apologizing to Claire Foy and Matt Smith for fallout from comments made last week about the salaries of the series’ stars. The actors “have found themselves at the center of a media storm this week through no fault of their own,” Left Bank…
At the INTV conference in Jerusalem last week, Deadline’s Peter White got the scoop that Claire Foy, star of Netflix’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning The Crown, had been paid less than her co-star in the first two seasons, Matt Smith. Producers were responding to a question regarding gender pay equality during the…
The producers of The Crown, Netflix's Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, sat down with Deadline's Peter White today in Jerusalem for a chat about the drama's success and what's to come. They also confirmed that “going forward, it’s really important for the Queen to be…
Ahead of its global launch on December 8, Netflix’s award winning period drama The Crown has bestowed upon us the first full trailer for the next step inside the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The story this time begins with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt, and ends with the…
Season 2 of Netflix’s heavily Emmy-nominated period drama, The Crown, has been set for a December 8 global release. The streaming service has also unveiled a first-look teaser for the next step inside the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The story this time begins with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an…
EXCLUSIVE:Matt Smith, best known for playing Doctor Who in that iconic BBC series, is taking on another larger-than-life figure. He has landed the lead role as avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic titled Mapplethorpe in the works from writer-director Ondi Timoner, the two-time Sundance-winning…
John Lithgow has been cast as Sir Winston Churchill in Netflix original series The Crown, and Claire Foy and Matt  Smith have been confirmed as Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, respectively, in Peter Morgan’s decades-spanning story of Queen Elizabeth II and Britain’s post-war Prime…
