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Himesh Patel teases new superhero movie-making comedy The Franchise: 'I'm excited for it'

Exclusive: The British actor teams up with director Sam Mendes on the hotly-anticipated series

Evening Standard

Sam Mendes to direct new Jez Butterworth play in London’s West End

The show, opening next January, will be one of the most anticipated productions of 2024

The Independent UK

‘We’ve spoken about it enough’: Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp cuts interview short

Blomkamp is best known for the 2009 sci-fi hit ‘District 9’

The Independent UK

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Mandy Moore and Wendell Pierce lead tributes to Ron Cephas Jones: ‘He did not go gently into that good night ‘

Emmy-winning actor died over the weekend

The Independent UK

HBO Greenlights Comedy Series ‘The Franchise’

Himesh Patel, Aya Cash to star in superhero movie-making show

Multichannel News

Skyfall Composer Thomas Newman Talks Getting To Work On A Bond Movie, And Yes There Were ‘2 AM Sweats’ Involved

After landing the gig to score Skyfall, composer Thomas Newman wound up with a case of the "2 A.M. sweats" because of the opportunity at hand.

Cinemablend

From Princess Beatrice to Louis Theroux: Who is in the Royal Box on the 12th day of Wimbledon?

The Royal Box is usually occupied by members of the royal family, celebrities and public figures

The Independent UK

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‘I’ve become more fearless’: Tuppence Middleton on OCD, motherhood and playing Elizabeth Taylor

The Downton Abbey actor loves to keep a low profile. So how does she feel about portraying one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and headline-grabbing stars – and writing a book about her own mental health?

The Guardian - UK

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre: Runners and riders to replace Rufus Norris in top job

Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre leaves a gap at the top of British Theatre but there is no shortage of potential successors.

Evening Standard

London’s Donmar Warehouse appoints Tim Sheader as artistic director

After more than a decade running Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, the hit-making director is to take over the Covent Garden venue next year

The Guardian - UK

The Motive and the Cue review: a ‘heartfelt plea’ for the ‘power of theatre’

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,…

The Week

The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Flynn: ‘rehearsal spaces can turn toxic’

The star of hot new Sam Mendes play The Motive and the Cue talks fame, fraught rehearsals and theatre’s big culture shift. By Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

Evening Standard

Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

Nottingham Post

Nottingham soap stars who bring the drama to our TV screens

And what a lying, cheating, adulterous bunch they are

The Guardian - UK

‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage

The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths

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The Conversation

Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Guardian - AU

Escape to the English seaside and sink into the red velvet seats of Empire of Light

With cinematography by Roger Deakins and performances from Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, Empire of Light captures the vintage splendour of England’s past

The Canberra Times

Character study almost succeeds

The film follows Hilary (Olivia Colman), the duty manager at a seaside cinema in the south-west of England in the early 1980s.

Manchester Evening News

The new films and shows out on Disney+ this weekend – March 3

Disney Plus has some great new content dropping this week

ABC News

Empire of Light, Sam Mendes's homage to cinema, remains lifeless despite moving performances from Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward

In Empire of Light, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917; Skyfall) draws on his mother's experiences to craft an unusual love story and ode to cinema, set against the backdrop of Thatcherism.

France 24

'Empire of Light': Sam Mendes takes us on nostalgic trip to the cinema

British director Sam Mendes takes a stroll down memory lane, conjuring up the magic of cinema and the healing power of friendship in "Empire of Light", starring actress Olivia Coleman. Film critic Emma Jones tells us why the film deserved more attention at the awards ceremonies. We also discuss Michael…

ABC News

Sam Mendes's latest film, Empire of Light, is about the power of cinema and the stigma of mental illness

The COVID pandemic gave a lot of people time to think and reflect. Some made sourdough, some learned to knit. Director Sam Mendes wrote his first film.

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