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Sony Pictures Classics has pushed back the release for Roger Michell’s film The Duke, starring Academy Award winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, by a month—from March 25 to April 22, 2022. It will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on the latter date before expanding to additional cities over the…

EXCLUSIVE: Roger Michell’s last movie, Elizabeth, about British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, has sold around the world for Embankment Films. Following the pre-sales we revealed with A24 for the U.S. and Signature for the UK, pacts have also been set in in France (Originals Factory), Germany (Square One), Benelux (The…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 will release Roger Michell's last movie, the documentary Elizabeth about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, we can reveal. The stateside debut has yet to be dated. The late British filmmaker, known for movies including Notting Hill, The Duke, Hyde Park on Hudson and My Cousin Rachel…

EXCLUSIVE: Roger Michell’s last movie, the documentary Elizabeth about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, has been picked up by Signature Entertainment and set for a Friday, June 3 theatrical release to coincide with the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee. The late British filmmaker, known for movies including Notting Hill, The D…

Sony Pictures Classics has set a March 25 theatrical release date for The Duke, directed by the late Roger Michell. The film starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will open in theaters in New York and Los Angeles before expanding in the following weeks. The dramedy is currently playing at the Laemmle Royal in Los…

Notting Hill director Roger Michell died yesterday at the age of 65, his publicist has announced. No cause of death was given. The South African-born British theater, TV and film director was in Telluride with his latest film The Duke only three weeks ago. In addition to Notting Hill, the 1999 smash that starred Hugh…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning duo Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren will play husband and wife in Roger Michell's art heist comedy movie The Duke for Pathé. I can reveal that the film is officially greenlighted and will shoot in January 2020. The script by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Clive Coleman is based on the…

“What would you do if you knew that at a certain point, you'd become so dependent, and would have to watch this incredible deterioration?” In discussing playing Lily, a terminally ill woman with ALS in Roger Michell’s Blackbird, Susan Sarandon pondered her mortality at Deadline’s TIFF studio. Sarandon was joined in…

EXCLUSIVE: My Cousin Rachel director Roger Michel and producer Kevin Loader are teaming up under their Free Range Films banner on a feature adaptation of upcoming UK novel Little Darlings, which they have optioned from Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency. Notting Hill director Michel will write and direct the…

Update, 10:06AM: Fox Searchlight is moving My Cousin Rachel further back to Friday July 14 in select theaters. Based on the 1951 book by Daphne du Maurier, pic follows a young Englishman who plots revenge against his cousin who he believes murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated and he falls for…

Notting Hill director Roger Michell’s My Cousin Rachel has added Game Of Thrones‘ Iain Glen and acclaimed Brit stage actor Simon Russell Beale to its cast. As previously revealed exclusively by Deadline, they join Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin and Holliday Grainger in the Fox Searchlight film, an adaptation of the classic…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Reynolds is in final negotiations to star in the dramedy Truth In Advertising with veteran Brit director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) also on board. The Solution Entertainment Group’s co-founders and partners Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel are financing and producing the film alongside Lynn Hendee (Ender…