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EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that filmmaker Sally El Hosaini has signed with CAA.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentJulianne Moore will preside over the main jury of the Venice Film Festival’s upcoming 79th edition.The Oscar-winning U.S. actor, who most recently starred in A24’s “When You Finish Saving the World,” directed by Jesse Eisenberg, and will next appear in Benjamin Caron-directed “Sharper,” alongside Sebastian Stan and John Lithgow, also from A24, is a longtime Venice regular.Moore was last on the Lido with George Clooney-directed “Suburbicon” in 2017.

Stranger Things’ creators the Duffer bothers are making a new live action adaptation of Death Note for Netflix.Netflix previously released a live-action Death Note movie in 2017, directed by Adam Wingard and starring Nat Wolff.Now, Netflix have announced that the Duffer brothers will make a new live adaptation of the Manga story.While details of the project are sparse as yet, it will be a live-action television adaptation of the manga and anime classic.An all-new live-action television adaptation of the renowned Japanese manga and anime series Death Note.— Netflix (@netflix) July 6, 2022The brothers recently announced a new production company called Upside Down Pictures, which will create more film and television projects for Netflix.Some of those unveiled include a new original series from the creators of Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman in partnership with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Paramount TV.There are also plans for a new stage adaptation set in the Stranger Things universe and a live-action Stranger Things spin-off based on an original idea by the brothers.An original series from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance).— Netflix (@netflix) July 6, 2022A series adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub‘s The Talisman to be created by Curtis Gwinn.— Netflix (@netflix) July 6, 2022A new stage play set within the world and mythology of Stranger Things, produced by prolific and multi award-winning producers Sonia Friedman, Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot, The Reader), and Netflix.

Prepare for an expanded “Stranger Things” universe.

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have announced that a TV spin-off and stage play based on the Netflix series are officially in the works.Netflix announced on Wednesday (July 6) that the duo have formed Upside Down Pictures, a new production company where they’ll develop film and TV projects as part of their overall deal with the streaming service signed in 2019.Along with the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, there’s five other projects in development at the company. These include a live-action spin-off based on an original idea by the Duffer Brothers, which they recently described as being “1000 per cent different” to the main series.A stage play set within the world and mythology of Stranger Things is also in the works, directed and produced by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader) alongside producer Sonia Friedman (The Book Of Mormon, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child).The Duffer Brothers have formed Upside Down Pictures, a new production company through which they will develop film and television projects as part of their overall deal with Netflix.

universe. Following the release of the widely-viewed season 4 finale, the Duffer Brothers announced that they are working on a new, live-action spinoff series based on an original idea that they have come up with. While no other details about the series were released, the news follows comments the two have made while speaking to press about the most recent season of the Netflix hit.“I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff or that it’s another number,” the Duffer Brothers said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (via ).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Stranger Things” universe is expanding at Netflix, with the Duffer Brothers lining up multiple projects within the world they created for the series.Under their overall deal with Netflix, the Duffers — Matt and Ross — have established the production company Upside Down Pictures, bringing on Hilary Leavitt to run the company.Among the new projects they have in development, the Duffers are officially working on a “Stranger Things” spinoff series, though exact plot details remain under wraps. The show will be based on an original idea by the Duffers with Upside Down Pictures and 21 Laps producing.

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking conclusion of the fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” creators Matt and Ross Duffer have formed a new shingle called Upside Down Pictures and have recommitted to their current streaming home. The ambitious inaugural slate for Upside Down Pictures includes a live-action spin-off of the flagship series created and developed by the Duffers; an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s “The Talisman,” which they will produce alongside their hero Steven Spielberg; a British stage play set within the world of “Stranger Things;” and a new adaptation of Japanese manga/anime “Death Note” (previously adapted by Netflix into the underrated 2017 Adam Wingard live-action movie).

"Obi-Wan Kenobi" is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the "Star Wars" show announced Thursday night. West Coast viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT.

Obi-Wan Kenobi” is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the “Star Wars” show announced Thursday night.Viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT. Originally, they were set to become available at midnight.The news was announced in a tweet from the official “Star Wars” account.

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Fellner, Working Title co-chairman, and the creators of the hit Billy Elliot musical, have given their support to a non-replica production that will run at UK regional theatre, The Curve, Leicester, from July 7.

Queen Elizabeth kept a big secret from her family ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games. 

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the London Olympics, BBC 4’s “Reunion” spoke with several members of the production team behind the opening ceremony, which featured a video package commemorating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series. In it, Craig, playing Bond, escorts the queen to a helicopter to perform a base jump over London Stadium.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing A24 and Scott Rudin Productions’ adaptation of 2020 Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain, Deadline can reveal.

Virginia Woolf in The Hours - and now it has emerged that her own depression helped her play the part authentically. In an interview the actress said she felt "removed, depressed, not in my own body" when filming the 2002 drama in which she plays the feminist novelist.

Naman Ramachandran Producer and European Film Academy Chair Mike Downey is being honored with the Kristián Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest.The award will be presented at the opening of the festival on Friday by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning British filmmaker Stephen Daldry.

In Stephen Daldry’s latest, the “Billy Elliot” director tackles life in quarantine and the rhythms of lockdown during COVID-19 with “Together.” The film is immediately bolstered by clever and enlightening dialogue and committed and passionate performances from Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy. The two play a couple who have been together for over a decade but have only remained in a quasi-relationship for the sake of their son.

, the lockdown drama from Bleeker Street, opens on 250 screens this weekend in a specialty market treading water and with little visibility on box office amid daily Covid headlines.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn’t know one another before this year.

One of the more fully formed portraits of life during lockdown, Stephen Daldry and Dennis Kelly’s rapid-fire, fourth-wall-breaking, two-hander “Together” trades the overt sentimentalism of Daldry’s previous film work—“The Reader,” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” etc.—for a darkly comedic study in the ups and downs of a single couple as they contend with the fracturing of their relationship amidst the pandemic.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are living through the ups and downs of the pandemic in Stephen Daldry’s “Together”.

The pandemic has produced a number of films over the past year-and-a-half. Most of them include small casts, limited locations, and reduced budgets.

Bleecker Street has acquired the North American rights to Stephen Daldry’s latest film “Together,” a dramedy filmed during the pandemic that stars James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe”). McAvoy and Horgan play a couple pushed to reflect on both themselves and their relationship amid the abundance of time and stress that the COVID-19 lockdown has presented them.

Bleecker Street has taken North American rights to Stephen Daldry’s new comedy, Together, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan which follows two partners who are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship during lockdown. A theatrical release of Aug. 27 has been set with VOD to follow in September.

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Gallery: These co-stars couldn’t stand each other! (Espresso) "Dennis writes so wittily for these characters and his script had me within the first few pages," he said. "When I heard Sharon was involved with Stephen Daldry directing it was a no brainer.

Over the past year, we’ve seen quite a few attempts from studios to create timely films about the COVID pandemic.

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are to star in a lockdown relationship drama for the BBC, which will be helmed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning director Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot).

Manori Ravindran International EditorJames McAvoy (“Split,” “His Dark Materials”) and Sharon Horgan (“Catastrophe,” “Military Wives”) are set to front “Utopia” writer Dennis Kelly’s drama “Together.”Directed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning director Stephen Daldry (“The Crown”), the film is set in the U.K. from the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 until the present day.