When it came to playing the hijinks of Russian empress visionary Catherine the Great and her buffoon husband Peter III in Hulu and MRC’s period series The Great, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult “threw out the history books.”
More specifically, rather than have their performances become bogged down by all the…
While promoting his Oscar-nominated work on 2018's The Favourite, writer Tony McNamara expressed a dissatisfaction with period drama. Industry insiders were surprised, then, when his follow-up project turned out to be Hulu's The Great, a darkly comic satire charting the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the…
David and Nathan Zellner will direct Alpha Gang, with Andrea Riseborough, Jon Hamm, Nicholas Hoult, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mackenzie Davis, Sofia Boutella and Steven Yeun starring. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales with CAA Media Finance handling North American sales. Pic will be unveiled at virtual C…
“I only wanna be a knight to help people in need,” the semi-valiant Patrick says, “because the king is a terrible ruler.” Sounds innocent enough. But this is a king who smiles as he asserts, “We need a public execution! You go down to the dungeon for me and pick out a real all-star.”
Here is the first full trailer…
EXCLUSIVE: WhenMission: Impossible 7 starts production in late summer or early fall, I expect that you will see that Esai Morales has joined the cast. In place of Nicholas Hoult, who was cast in a villain role earlier this year.
The Paramount and Skydance co-production was close to starting production in Italy when…
The czar’s arranged bride tells him how they can move Russia forward “together.” He stands, frowns and reminds her, “No, IÂ rule — you serve!” In the next scene in the first full trailer for Hulu’s cheeky dramedy The Great, he is told, “Your queen is unhappy.”
But should she die for that?
Said queen is Catherine the…
The True History of the Kelly Gang is another hostage from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival that was forced to pass up a theatrical run and will be going out on VOD and digital platforms this Friday. Actually, that’s not totally true because a press release this week trumpets this news: “Also something…
It may have gotten off to a rocky start, but Apple TV+’s first venture into motion pictures, The Banker, is an inspiring and highly entertaining look at a couple of early 1960s entrepreneurs who pull off one of the wildest cons of all, one that has the best of intentions.
Originally slated to have its world premiere…
The Great, Hulu’s period comedy about Catherine the Great from creator and writer Tony McNamara, has been sold to a swathe of international territories.
Starzplay has picked up the series, which stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Latin America and Brazil…
EXCLUSIVE:Sebastian De Souza(Medici: Masters of Florence) is set as a series regular opposite Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in Hulu comedy series The Great, from Civic Center Media in association with MRC Television.
Created, written and executive produced by Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara (The Favourite), Th…
The lines between history and fiction are blurred in Hulu's The Great, but it makes for sharp storytelling that contains the spirit of farce and mixes comedic and dramatic moments. Creator, writer and executive producer Tony McNamara, executive producer Marian Macgowan and co-stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult came…
Director Christopher McQuarrie has tweeted that Nicholas Hoult will join Tom Cruise in the next installment of Mission: Impossible, through Paramount and Skydance.
Hoult has been close on a lot of things recently, getting down to the wire with Robert Pattinson before the latter got the Batman role in Matt Reeves’ The…
