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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first pair of exclusive tracks from Thomas Newman’s score for Operation Mincemeat, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records tomorrow, as Warner Bros. releases the film in the UK and Ireland. The film hits select U.S. theaters on May 6 and debuts on Netflix on May 11. Operation…

Operation Mincemeat, the Second World War spy pic starring Colin Firth, has had its UK release date pushed by Warner Bros amid rising cases of the Omicron Covid variant in the country. Deadline has confirmed with exhibition sources that the studio is moving the title off its planned January 7, 2022 date, and is now…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has struck a big deal for the Colin Firth World War II movie Operation Mincemeat, we can reveal. The streamer has pre-bought North America and Latin America rights for around $15 million from The King’s Speech producer See-Saw and Cohen Media Group after seeing footage in recent days. Shakespeare In…

Archery Pictures, the UK production outfit behind Sky drama Riviera, has hired Working Title Television’s Georgina Gordon-Smith to the newly-created role of head of development. Gordon-Smith was a development producer at Working Title and before that, worked at United Agents, where she created and ran the talent agent…

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Beast) and Tom Wilkinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are joining Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald in John Madden's WWII drama Operation Mincemeat, which reunites Firth with The King’s Speech producer See-Saw Films. Also joining the cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, The Girl in the Café, No Country for Old Men) has been cast alongside Colin Firth in the See-Saw Films and Cohen Media Group film Operation Mincemeat, directed by John Madden. The WWII drama, which is an adaptation of Ben Macintyre's 2010 book, takes place in…

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) is on board to direct Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech) in WWII story Operation Mincemeat. Set in 1943 when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on 'Fortress Europe,' the film will follow two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and…