Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters director Paul Feig has signed on to direct Universal Pictures’ Last Christmas, which has been scripted by Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) and playwright Bryony Kimmings (A Pacifict’s Guide to the War on Cancer). Deadline reports that plot details for Last Christmas are being kept under wraps, but the film is said […]
New trailer for The Children Act starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Fionn Whitehead
A24 has released a new trailer for Richard Eyre’s upcoming adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel The Children Act which stars Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead; watch it here… Based on the best-selling novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal, Iris), THE […]
Trailer, poster and images for The Children Act starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Fionn Whitehead
Entertainment One has released a trailer, poster and images for the upcoming drama The Children Act. Based on Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name, the film is directed by Richard Eyre and stars Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead; take a look below… Based on the best-selling novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and […]
Trailer for King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson
Ahead of its premiere on BBC Two this coming Monday, a new trailer has arrived online for director Robert Eyre’s modern re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The adaptation stars Anthony Hopkins in the title role alongside Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, John Macmillan, and Andrew Scott; watch it here… The 80-year-old […]
Laika announces fifth film Missing Link, starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis, for Spring 2019
Animation studio Laika has revealed that its fifth film is Missing Link, which will see Hugh Jackman as an English gent in search of Zach Galifianakis’s mysterious, mythical beast. The studio, best known for Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, unveiled its new movie ahead of meetings at the Cannes Film Festival. Annapurna will […]
Rowan Atkinson is a deadly tool in trailer for Johnny English Strikes Again
Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer, poster and images for director David Kerr’s upcoming spy comedy sequel Johnny English Strikes Again which sees Rowan Atkinson returning as the titular British Secret Agent and also stars Ben Miller, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, and Jake Lacy; check them out here… JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN is the third […]
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle voice cast revealed
While we’ve got a few more weeks to wait until the release of Avengers: Infinity War, Robert Downey Jr. has taken to his Twitter page to reveal the full voice cast for his next film, The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. Joining Downey as his animal cohorts is Emma Thompson as Polynesia the parrot, Selena Gomez as Betsy […]
Emma Thompson teams with Bad Wolf and HBO for Harrow Alley TV series
Originally penned by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Walter Newman back in the 1960s, it seems that the period horror thriller Harrow Alley could finally see the light of day, with Deadline reporting that Emma Thompson and producers Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials) are teaming up to develop a TV adaptation for HBO. According to the site, Harrow […]
Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Holland join The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
It looks like the long-gestating The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle is finally staring to pick up some steam, with Deadline reporting that director Stephen Gaghan has started assembling his supporting cast to join Robert Downey Jr. in the title role. Deadline is reporting that Antonio Banderas will play the main antagonist, a pirate called Rassouli, […]
Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson to lead all-star cast of BBC Two’s King Lear
BBC Two and production company Playground have announced that Anthony Hopkins (The Dresser, Nixon, Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (The Children Act, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility) are set to lead the cast of a star-studded adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear from BAFTA-winning director Richard Eyre (The Dresser, Notes […]