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Love, Actually writer/director Richard Curtis has teamed with Locksmith Animation for an animated feature based on his Christmas children's books. Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral and Yesterday, is writing The Empty Stocking with Peter Souter (Married Single Other). Bonnie Arnold (How to Train Your Dr…

EXCLUSIVE: John Battsek’s Oscar-winning Passion Pictures (One Day In September), James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis are teaming up to make a defining documentary about the Paralympic Games. Provisionally titled Harder Than You Think, the film will chart the history…

Well over a half-century after they landed in America and hit the stage on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles are still the real deal. Yesterday is proof. The new film, a teaming of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a…

NBC requested the honor of our presence tonight at One Red Nose Day and a Wedding, a mini-sequel to the beloved 1994 rom-com film Four Weddings and a Funeral, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell. The short reunited Grant and MacDowell with the film’s Rowan Atkinson and Kristin Scott Thomas, adding Lily James…

Robert De Niro was not playing Robert Mueller on SNL this Saturday night but across town introducing the world premiere of Yesterday at the film festival he founded 18 years ago. The movie is about the human race losing all memory of the Beatles. Still, he just couldn't resist. "We had an idea for a movie where the…

Few films have had a more transformative impact on their local industry than Four Weddings And A Funeral, which was released twenty five years ago this week. Grossing a remarkable $245M off a $4M budget, the film about a committed bachelor who unexpectedly finds love, helped pave the way for a string of globally…

The cast and creators of iconic Brit comedy Four Weddings And A Funeral are reuniting to make charity short film One Red Nose Day And A Wedding. Richard Curtis, who wrote the original film and is the co-founder of charity telethon Red Nose Day, has written the short for the 2019 edition of the charity fundraiser. It…

UPDATED: Universal we hear is stoked from what they’ve seen in the early clips from Danny Boyle’s untitled musical comedy and are moving the pic from its Sept. 13, 2019 release to June 28 next year. Another reason for the Boyle pic move: Focus Features’ Downton Abbey movie which will roll out on Sept. 13 abroad, Sept…

EXCLUSIVE: The cast for Universal and Working Title’s untitled Danny Boyle-directed, Richard Curtis-scripted comedy keeps expanding with Sophia Di Martino (Channel 4's Flowers), Joel Fry (Paddington 2, HBO's Game of Thrones) and Harry Michell (Chubby Funny) joining the already announced Lily James, Himesh Patel, Kate…

EXCLUSIVE: Ana de Armas has joined Universal/Working Title’s Danny Boyle untitled romantic comedy scripted by Richard Curtis. The Blade Runner 2049 actress will play the role of Roxanne and joins Lily James,  Himesh Patel, Kate McKinnon and Ed Sheeran in the upcoming feature. The plot is still under wraps. De Armas…

Here’s a hot one. Deadline has learned that Danny Boyle is teaming up with fellow UK stalwart Richard Curtis on a music-themed comedy feature for Universal Pictures and UK powerhouse Working Title. Currently in development at Universal, the project is being written by Love Actually scribe Curtis with Slumdog Millionair…

The Paper Mill Playhouse will host the world premiere of Unmasked, the musical celebrating the career of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The New Jersey theater said today it will open the 2018-2019 season with a limited run of the brand-new production starting September 27 and running through October 28, 2018. The news comes as…