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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake (The Village) as the late, fearless Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in feature Anna. As we revealed last week, production is underway in Riga, Latvia, on the biopic of the journalist, human rights activist and Putin scourge…

EXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon star Emma D’Arcy has dropped out of feature thriller Anna about fearless Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya due to a scheduling clash, replaced by Naomi Battrick (The Postcard Killings). D’Arcy, who broke out as the older Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in Game of Thrones…

EXCLUSIVE: Black Mirror and Peterloo star Maxine Peake is attached to front a British drama about the murder of a young woman and her mother's fight to get the 800-year-old double jeopardy law revoked. Peake, who recently starred in Hulu and Channel 4 comedy drama The Bisexual, is attached to star in Reasonable…

Britain's William McGregor came to Toronto carrying the torch brought by William Oldroyd in 2016 with Lady Macbeth and last year by Michael Pearce with Beast. Starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, his feature debut Gwen landed in the Discovery section, where it drew praise for its bold fusion of classic period drama with…

EXCLUSIVE: Great Point Media has boarded international sales on the latest feature from Deep State and State Of Play (TV) producer Endor Productions, I can reveal. Bafta-nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, The Falling) stars in the BFI-backed Gothic mystery alongside Britannia actress Eleanor Worthington-Cox…

BBC One's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the adaptation of the classic play from Doctor Who‘s Russell T Davies, is part of the network's 2016 Shakespeare Season. Originally announced last month in Edinburgh, the one-off TV event has completed casting. The Theory Of Everything's Maxine Peake will star as Titania with Matt…

A plummy accent and good connections are among essential attributes for moving ahead in Britain’s film and TV industry, according to a new report by two British academics. The production sector is “dominated by the middle classes who hoard opportunities to work on the best contracts,” say professor Irena Grugulis of…