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Searchlight Pictures and Sam Mendes are teaming on his next project as the company has boarded Empire of Light, with Olivia Colman in negotiations to star. This will mark Mendes first film since his Oscar-nominated 1917 and the first time he and Colman have worked together. Empire of Light also reteams Mendes with…

Fargo actor David Thewlis is to star opposite Olivia Colman in HBO and Sky’s limited series Landscapers, which tells the story of a couple who become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in a back garden. Produced by Sister, in association with Colman’s South of the River…

On Monday morning, French playwright Florian Zeller’s first feature film, The Father, collected six Oscar nominations. And it seems there will be more where that came from. Speaking via Zoom after nominations were announced, Zeller revealed to Deadline that he’s currently finishing up an adaptation of the newest of…

The Father has steadily been on the festival circuit since Sundance 2020, but only now is Sony Pictures Classics finally putting it in release for North American consumption. Audiences are about to find out why this has been one of the most critically acclaimed films of the past 14 months as it slips in just under the…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, French playwright Florian Zeller won the Molière Award for Le Pere, a play about an aging man’s bout with dementia. Seven years, a TV series and a French film adaptation later, Zeller brings his words to the big screen and to the Oscar-season awards race. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman…

The BBC is once again turning to Oscar-nominated Magic Light Pictures for its latest animation special. The studio behind The Gruffalo will bring Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s book Superworm to life with a cast including Olivia Colman and Matt Smith. Colman will narrate, while Smith will feature as hero…

There may have a staggering snub for I May Destroy You, but overall, the 78th Golden Globes nominations have been ones to savor for British film and TV talent. Deadline has worked out that British-produced projects and stars accounted for more than a quarter of all 125 Golden Globe nominations, cementing the UK…

Among this morning’s list of Golden Globe nominations, a number of double nominees stood out. Surprising few with their appearances here were Nomadland‘s Frances McDormand, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s Sacha Baron Cohen, and Anya Taylor-Joy, an actress who enjoyed perhaps the most celebrated year of her career to…

The Crown stars Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter are to star in a socially distanced, virtual staging of pantomime classic Cinderella for BBC Two, with Richard Curtis executive producing. The stars will perform from the safety of their homes for the Comic Relief special, which airs on Christmas Eve and will be…

Oscar winner Olivia Colman will take the lead role in Joyride, a feel-good Irish drama marking Emmy-winning doc maker Emer Reynolds' (The Farthest) first foray into film features. Pic will see Colman play Joy, a train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her new-born baby. Joined by a cheeky street urchin…

Can anyone feel a chill? That will be the famously frosty relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II, which — if the latest trailer for The Crown is anything to go by — looks like it will blow icily through Season 4 of Netflix’s lavish royal drama. The streamer has dropped the latest in a line of…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Sharpe, who starred in Netflix and BBC drama Giri/Haji and directed quirky British comedy Flowers, is taking over directing Olivia Colman drama series Landscapers. Sharpe replaces Alexander Payne, who was initially set as the director of the HBO and Sky co-production, which is produced by Chernobyl…