Jeymes Samuel Talks ‘The Book Of Clarence,’ Casting Omar Sy & And Crafting His Own “Era” Of Subversive Filmmaking — London Contenders

EXCLUSIVE: Jon S. Baird, the Scottish filmmaker known for his work on Tetris and Stan & Ollie, has signed with Range Media Partners.

EXCLUSIVE: Utkarsh Ambudkar (Ghosts) is attached to co-star in dramedy The Book Of Jobs, which Concourse Media is handling for world sales.

Scots TV presenter Storm Huntley is now the bookies' favourite to replace Holly Willoughby on This Morning.

AGC International has nabbed international rights to Late Night With The Devil from Aussie filmmaking duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes and will launch sales at the upcoming American Film Market. 

EXCLUSIVE: Indian powerhouse producers Guneet Monga Kapoor and Karan Johar, who have previously collaborated on movies including lauded drama The Lunchbox and TIFF 2023 title Kill, are moving ahead with their Hindi-language adaptation of French smash Intouchables, by hiring director Collin D’Cunha.

In a blind taste test, Which? pitted Baileys against Aldi, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s to find the best value Irish cream liqueurs. Baileys triumphed overall, but only just, with several supermarket liqueurs impressing the tasters. The top cheaper pick, Lidl, scored just 1% less than Baileys overall and is nearly half the price.

EXCLUSIVE: British actress Sophia Brown has signed with Anonymous Content.

Ellise Shafer It’s been a year since Katie Gregson-MacLeod went viral on TikTok with “Complex,” a devastating piano ballad about unrequited love that poised the 22-year-old for singer-songwriter stardom — and she’s still processing it all. “When your life changes that drastically, that quickly, I don’t think there’s ever any way of processing it,” MacLeod tells Variety over coffee and croissants at a North London café.

Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle, Count Baldor, Phil and Cash Cobain among others.Speaking of the LP in a press release, the singer said: “The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness. Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m ok with being there.”‘Heaven Knows’ is set for release on November 10 via Warner.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The grand-scale Biblical epics that midcentury Hollywood churned out to roaring box-office returns had many drawcards as (so to speak) mass entertainment — brawny action, transporting spectacle, then jaw-dropping effects — but a sense of humor, by and large, wasn’t one of them. That’s something British musician-turned-filmmaker Jeymes Samuel attempts to rectify in his offbeat messiah story “The Book of Clarence,” a newly invented tale that runs parallel to the life and death of Jesus in ways both blithely blasphemous and sincerely Christian.

A Scottish woman says she has found her true calling - walking dogs down the aisle on their owners' big days. Olivia Thompson makes thousands every month as a chaperone for pooches at their owners' weddings.

What could be better than a brisk wander through woodland turned golden by the changing of the season, surrounded by the oranges and reds of autumn in one of the UK’s most breathtaking locations?

It’s not every day that a filmmaker will rise up during an interview and recite Old Testament tales and sing out their favorite hymn. Well, hallelujah, brother Jeymes Samuel for spreading the gospel’s good news.

The SNP "should stop thinking about Labour" and focus on independence, one of its longest-serving MPs has said.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content By the time Martin Scorsese‘s music documentary “The Last Waltz” premiered in 1978, the legendary Americana music progenitors the Band, whom the film explores, had gone from “Cahoots” to kaput for two years. The 1976 farewell concert at the center of the film was already a piece of rock and roll history by the time the film debuted.

A mum has shared her heartbreak after the death of her son, who wrote a speech for his own funeral after being given a devastating brain tumour diagnosis.

It’s been reported that Fergie is set to bail out Prince Andrew in a bid to help him stay at his Royal Lodge mansion on the Windsor Estate.

Here’s your first look at This Town, the latest TV drama from Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes creator Steven Knight, starring Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey, Anatomy of a Scandal), Nicholas Pinnock (Life, Marcella), and David Dawson (My Policeman, The Last Kingdom). 

Lupin season 3 is set to arrive on Netflix later this week, continuing the story of the professional thief Assane Diop after a near-three-year break.The third season finds Omar Sy reprising his role as Diop, who was last seen on the run from police after getting his own revenge against Hubert Pellegrini (Herve Pierre) for framing his father.The series takes inspiration from Arsène Lupin, the character of a master thief created by French novelist Maurice Leblanc in the 1900s, and references Leblanc’s books in the story.An official synopsis reads: “Now in hiding, Assane must learn to live far from his wife and son. With the suffering they endure because of him, Assane can’t stand it any longer and decides to return to Paris to make them a crazy proposal: leave France and start a new life elsewhere.

Generally I don't like talking about Christmas until at least November.