The Weinstein Company is no longer involved with the project, which will co-star Ellie Bamber as Cosette, Erin Kellyman as Éponine, Josh O’Connor as Marius, and Adeel Akhtar and Olivia Colman as Monsieur and Madame Thénardier.
Olivia Colman
The British actress will take over playing Queen Elizabeth in Seasons 3 and 4 of the Netflix period drama.
The nominees for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced today, and with no surprise, HBO took the top spot raking in 22 nominations while ABC and Netflix tied for second with 14 nods. With critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, the new Donald Glover comedy Atlanta, and the uber-successful The People Vs. OJ Simpson FX ranked fourth.
Richard Adams’ novel Watership Down is getting the silver screen treatment from BBC One and Netflix in a new miniseries and Ben Kingsley, James McAvoy, John Boyega, and Nicholas Hoult have signed on to voice the cast.
A night manager of an Egyptian hotel is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate an international arms dealer’s network.
Flowers is an imaginative, cinematic comedy about an eccentric family – The Flowers – struggling to hold themselves together.
An update of John le Carré’s drama, The Night Manager follows a former British soldier recruited to infiltrate the inner circle of an international businessman and neutralize his alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. The mini-series premieres April 19 on AMC.
With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. The Spotlight, Special Events and Shorts program include something new from J.J. Abrams, Cannes-darling The Lobster, and Don Cheadle as Miles Davis.
Weisz is in talks to replace Kate Winslet in the Queen Anne period film The Favourite. The casting would reunite Weisz with
The inner workings of the political monster that was the reign of Queen Anne are displayed as court members jockey for favor.
Hot off his success with The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos is drawing A-listers to his next project, The Favourite and quickly becoming one of Europe’s hottest directors.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
Logline: Based on real-life events from 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women, leaving a community to deal with being at the center of tragedy.
Story centers on a former teen dance prodigy who attempts a comeback years after a rival ruined his career.
Story centers on a former teen dance prodigy who attempts a comeback years after a rival ruined his career.
Logline: In a future where single people must find a mate in 45 days or risk being turned into an animal, a man and woman start a forbidden romance in the woods outside of their city.
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Thesps show off dance skills in new rom-com!
Logline: Story centers on a former teen dance prodigy who attempts a comeback years after a rival ruined his career.
Logline: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Logline: A little boy discovers a family of little people living under the floor boards of his house.
Logline: Story centers on a self-destructive man whose life is spiralling into despair before he meets a Christian charity shop worker.
Logline: Story follows British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.
