HBO Max Developing Dystopian Thriller ‘In Memoriam’ With ‘Mr Robot’ Director Niels Arden Oplev, Playwright Charley Miles, Participant & Buccaneer

Kat and the Band, a plucky British teen movie about a fast-talking high schooler who dreams of becoming a big league band manager. Since finishing the film (which co-stars McFly bassist Dougie Poynter), her career has skyrocketed stateside thanks to a role in Apple TV+’s punk period series Dickinson.

The Official Charts Company has published some charts showing the UK’s best-selling vinyl albums and singles for the first half of 2020. Despite everything, vinyl sales look set to increase for their thirteenth consecutive year.

While traveling isn’t an option right now, let the dark and moody trailer for “Lost Girls & Love Hotels” transport you to Japan. The film, based on Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 book of the same name, follows an American English teacher named Margaret, played by Alexandra Daddario (“True Detective”), in Tokyo.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorHang on to your filler paper, The Office fans: The NBC sitcom turns 15 this year.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorNBCUniversal International Studios’ UK production outfit Monkey Kingdom has signed a development deal with educational YouTuber MC Grammar.Monkey will work with school teacher Jacob Mitchell to create animated and live-action content after he went viral for rapping children’s book The Gruffalo and later appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.Represented by Encanta Talent Management, MC Grammar teams learning with music and broadcasts live weekly sessions on his

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorE! is expanding its programming slate with new celeb-focused series Celebrity Call Center, based on the UK series, and executive produced by Nick Cannon, and 10 Things You Don’t Know from Jupiter Entertainment, both for premiere this summer, along with plastic surgery series Dr. 90210, from Entertainment One, for debut this fall.

Jon Burlingame Leave it to British composer Max Richter to find a way to apply the language of classical music to today’s most compelling human concerns.“All Human Beings,” released today, is the first track off his new Decca album “Voices” (due July 31).

Peter White Television EditorAMC will air British drama Gangs of London in the U.S. after HBO’s Cinemax dropped out of the project, which has been renewed for a second season.The series, which was created by The Raid’s Gareth Evans, was originally commissioned by Sky and Cinemax in 2017, as revealed by Deadline.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the French production company behind Netflix shows Narcos and F Is For Family, is in the early stages of adapting Gaston Leroux’s iconic novel The Phantom Of The Opera into a six-part TV miniseries.The project is being led out of Gaumont’s UK unit, which is working with writer Anthony Horowitz to reimagine Leroux’s gothic story about a disfigured composer, who lives in the depths of the Paris Opera House and falls for singer Christine Daae

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Gurin Company, run by Phil Gurin, whose credits include exec producing ABC’s Shark Tank, and rising British producer Strawberry Blond have teamed up to co-develop formats in the U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentPrior to the pandemic, British filmmaker Peter Chelsom (“Serendipity,” “Shall We Dance?,” “Hannah Montana”) shot an Italian-language movie titled “Security” based on the novel of the same name by U.S. author Stephen Amidon.

Steve McQueen is calling out the British film and television industry for what he describes as “blatant racism.”