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February proved another positive month at the UK-Ireland box office, with takings up 20% on the same period of last year.

The four-week period from February 7 to March 6, 2025, brought in £100.7m, 20% up on the £83.8m recorded in the equivalent period in February 2024,according to figures from Comscore.

Total box office for 2025 to date is at £195m, up 15% on the £169.1m from the same period in 2024; and up 21% on the equivalent period in 2023. These are encouraging figures for UK-Ireland distributors and exhibitors still searching for solid ground after the disruption of the pandemic, followed by the US actors and writers strikes.

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Rank Film (origin)DistributorFeb 21-23 gross Total Week 1 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us) Universal £6.9m £27.3m 2 2 Captain America: Brave New World (US) Disney £2.9m £13.2m 2 3 Dog Man (US) Universal £2m £11m 3 4 The Monkey (US) Black Bear £1m £1.1m 1 5 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £585,083 £32.3m 10

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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy has topped £27m after just two weekends at the UK-Ireland box office; as Black Bear’s The Monkey climbed into the top five on its first outing.

Universal’s Mad About The Boy added £6.9m on its second session – a relatively slim...

Rosemary’s new radio show, “The Daily Dialogue,” caused chaos on When Calls the Heart.

Rosemary and Fiona encouraged Elizabeth to promote her training curriculum on When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode 8, but that backfired when a superintendent thought Elizabeth’s ideas were naive.

Meanwhile, Ronald Rockwell visited Hope Valley to inform Rosemary and Fiona that their radio show bored viewers and they needed something new and exciting. Therefore, Rosemary decided to air her play production over the air.

(Courtesy of Hallmark Media)

While Rosemary was excited about this new opportunity, her cast was dropping like flies. However, Rosemary never quits.

Neither did Elizabeth or Fiona, even if their spirit took a beating. “The Show Must Go On” demonstrated these women’s fighting spirit and strength in numbers.

The Grosse Pointe Garden Society Premiere Went Right for the Jugular When It Comes to Balancing Comedy with Believable Dramaby Joshua Pleming...

Black Bear’s horror comedy The Monkey leads thenew titles in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend as Oscar best picture contender I’m Still Here also makes its bow.

Osgood Perkins follows up last year’s horror hit Longlegs with The Monkeylaunching in 544 cinemas. It is up on Longlegs which opened in 475 locations, also for Black Bear, with that title debuting on £1.4m and enjoying a healthy run ending on £8.1m.

Based on the Stephen King short story, The Monkey stars Theo James, playing two estranged twin brothers who are brought back together by a childhood curse that is wreaking havoc once more.

When Calls The Heart (Wcth) only has five more episodes for Season 12, and Hearties everywhere are soaking up each and every moment in Hope Valley!

Hallmark just dropped a Sneak Peek promo video for the next show, Episode 8, so what should fans expect to see unfold?

Cts has all the details!

Rosemary Is Determined!

Wcth’s, Season 12, Episode 8 is titled, ‘The Show Must Go On’, and the Sneak Peek video offers a ton of insight.

As Rosemary LeVeaux-Coulter (Pascale Hutton) tries to make ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ radio play happen, the video shows her telling cast members – but specially addressing Mike Hickam (Ben Rosenbaum), “Now for those of you who still haven’t memorized your lines.”

Still, as Mike looks around, he turns to Mei Sou (Amanda Wong) and states, “Everybody’s looking at me.”

Rosemary continues to say, “No worries. You may now read it off of your script.

It was more complicated than it looked to pretend to be another persona, especially when someone else was watching you.

Elizabeth planned a romantic date with Nathan, but their plans were derailed on When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode 7, and they went on a surprise undercover mission at the Davises’ lavish party,

The party featured lots of romance, mystery, and intrigue, and they showed how they worked spontaneously among the wealthy and if they concocted a believable story.

(Jeff Weddell/ Hallmark Media)

Back in Hope Valley, Allie and Oliver worked diligently to find a solution to the cattle problem and convince the governor to support them. Additionally, Lucas and Edie spent time together, but their intentions didn’t match.

Rosemary began a local production of The Importance of Being Earnest, but having Ava nearby and involved rattled her.

Chicago Pd Season 12 Episode 13 Spoilers: Kevin-Centric Teases Ruzwater Return & Dark Secretsby Jasmine...

The National Theatre production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” starring Ncuti Gatwa, has unveiled a trailer ahead of its cinema release on Feb. 20.

The trailer begins with Gatwa, dressed to the nines in a pink gown and matching gloves, playing a piano riff before leaning back to give viewers a sassy wink. Various clips of the filmed performance then tease the show’s offbeat humor, glamorous costumes and talented cast.

The “Doctor Who” and “Sex Education” star plays Algernon Moncrief, a witty yet idle bachelor, alongside Hugh Skinner’s Jack Worthing in the production reimagined by Max Webster.

The play’s provided synopsis is as follows: “While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack (Skinner) lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy (Gatwa) adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves...

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth tells the shocking true story of a couple’s quest for justice after their daughter is killed in a deadly terrorist attack, and it has a great cast to bring its real-life characters to the screen. The five-part miniseries, airing on Peacock in the U.S. and Sky Atlantic in the UK, is adapted from the 2021 book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph. It chronicles Swire’s attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice after his daughter Flora is killed on Pan Am Flight 103.

With a total of 270 fatalities, this 1988 bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in British history. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members on the plane were killed in the bombing, and an additional 11 people died when parts of the aircraft fell into a residential area in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Mourning the loss of their daughter,...

Tennessee Williams sets Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his 1955 play about sexual repression, at a cotton plantation on the Mississippi Delta. You can feel the heat in director Rebecca Frecknall’s production at the Almeida Theatre starring a scorching Daisy Edgar-Jones as Maggie, the cat in question, who does all in her power to jolt her inattentive husband, Brick — played superbly by Kingsley Ben-Adir — out of his self-inflicted stupor.

The play opened just a few days ago and there’s already chatter about it transferring into the West End, most appropriately, next summer, and Edgar-Jones must be persuaded to move with it, along with Ben-Adir, Lennie James’ powerful Big Daddy and Clare Burt’s cotton-headed Big Mama.

Edgar-Jones’ Maggie the cat is a study in the art of allure, and calculation; she prowls the Almeida stage like a hungry feline wanting to play with her prey before gobbling it up,...

Screenis listing the 2024 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch withScreenhere.Screenis also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2025here.

January

Wednesday, January 1

Nosferatu(Universal),2073(Altitude),Vanangaan(DJ Tech),Game Changer(Dreamz),We Live In Time(Studiocanal)

Friday, January 3

Nickel Boys(Curzon),Rocco And His Brothers(BFI),Diabel(Magnetes)

Wednesday, January 8

A Real Pain(Disney)

Friday, January 10

Babygirl(Efd),The Girl With The Needle(Mubi),Maria(Studiocanal),The Damned(Vertical/Miracle),It’s Raining Men...

In the week of the actor’s funeral, a family friend remembers Sunday lunches, photoshoots and first nights with a woman of extraordinary wit, talent and compassion

I first met Maggie through my husband, Robert Fox, the film and theatre producer. He’d first met her in 1974, when he was 22 and she was starring in Snap, a comedy about venereal disease. His task was to drive her to and from the theatre and generally hold her hand, which he remembers as enthralling and terrifying.

But they hit it off: she trusted his taste and he went on to produce her in 10 plays over 22 years, including Lettice and Lovage and The Importance of Being Earnest. That was a huge hit back in 1993 – the year I met Robert – but Maggie famously loathed everything about it, from Nicholas Hytner’s direction to Bob Crowley’s sets. When asked by the Mail’s showbiz...

When Ncuti Gatwa recorded The Graham Norton Show last Thursday, he delivered what appeared to be good news for Doctor Who fans: his third season as the Time Lord would shoot next year.

Gatwa’s comments were briefed to the press by The Graham Norton Show‘s publicity team on Friday morning, but his quote mysteriously changed when the chat show broadcast on BBC1 later that evening.

Speaking to Norton on the famous red sofa, Gatwa originally revealed: “We did the second series this year, the Christmas special is coming up, and we are filming a third series next year.”

But when the show aired, this was edited to: “We finished the second season earlier this year, we’ve got the Christmas episode coming out … at Christmas … But it’s been amazing.”

The Graham Norton Show warns journalists that it is not unusual for certain quotes fail to make the final cut,...

With The War Between The Land and Sea continuing production, current Doctor Who boss Russell T Davies has shared insight on where filming currently stands and the challenges that the project has faced. Davies confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con that a spin-off centered on an uprising by classic series villains, the Sea Devils, was in development. The War Between The Land and Sea will be led by Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in new roles, and see several familiar characters from Unit face the underwater menace, including Jemma Redgrave's Kate Stewart, Alexander Devrient's Colonel Ibrahim, and Ruth Madeley's Shirley Ann Bingham.

Davies recently opened up to Doctor Who Magazine (per RadioTimes) about the current status of The War Between The Land and Sea several weeks into its production. The writer stated that, at the time of writing, the series was into its third week of filming in...

Maggie Smith was a constant in the life of producer Robert Fox for half a century. She could “make grown men cry,” says Fox, because “if you weren’t 100 percent on top of your game, you were dead in the water, and she was right.”

Fox produced Dame Maggie in some of her greatest stage hits from Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage to David Hare’s The Breath of Life, in which she and her best friend, Judi Dench, shared top billing at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Dame Judi got the No. 1 dressing room. “But Maggie wasn’t fussed because she joked that Judi, she’d say, “had all those people in from Surrey to see her, so she needs the space.’ She wasn’t at all unhappy about it. She’d watch all of Judi’s guests troop in to see her. She’d say: ‘Look, there they go.

Christopher Ashley, the longtime artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse, will take over as artistic director of Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway.

He will begin his tenure in July 2026 for the 2027-2028 season. Scott Ellis, current interim artistic director, will continue in the role for the 2025-2026 season, and Ellis will work with Ashley on the 2026-2027 season, as Ashley fulfills prior commitments at La Jolla.

Ellis was named interim artistic director of the nonprofit theater company after Todd Haimes died in April 2023, after holding the position for close to 40 years and growing the theater company into one of the largest not-for-profit theaters in the U.S., with three Broadway theaters and two Off-Broadway.

Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater, its main Broadway house, was renamed after Haimes in 2024.

Ashley comes to the role after leading La Jolla Playhouse, another nonprofit giant based in San Diego, since 2007. While there, Ashley directed Come From Away,...

At the start of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, Sharon (Mia Farrow) has just invited Robyn (Patti LuPone) to stay in her Iowa home. This pair of near-strangers couldn’t be less alike. Sharon is a divorced mother who’s just joined a book club, while Robyn is a lesbian from the Bronx who may or may not be on the lam from a criminal past. Sharon wears a plaid shirt and Pippi Longstocking pigtails, while Robyn wears a leather jacket and sunglasses. And, most crucially, Sharon is a fully realized, sharply crafted human being, while Robyn is a fuzzily drawn sketch of a character that never comes into focus throughout the play.

That contrast lies, in large part, in the casting of Silverman’s 2015 buddy comedy, staged simply but efficiently by veteran Jack O’Brien in its New York premiere. Farrow, in her long-awaited return to Broadway, makes Sharon instantly specific and complex.

Exclusive: Dave Stewart, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with Eurythmics partner Annie Lennox, reveals to Deadline that Elizabeth, What’s Love Got to Do With It? director Shekhar Kapur will shoot feature film musical Ebony McQueen, a 1960s-early ’70s coming-of-age story inspired by the rock legend’s teen years in the North East of England and the discs and soundtracks that sparked his journey to becoming a musician.

The film will feature songs ( music and lyrics) by Stewart and garlanded South Asian composer A.R. Rahman is partnering with Stewart to compose the Ebony McQueen’s musical score.

The production will be located in Stewart’s hometown in the once-mighty shipbuilding city of Sunderland, with plans for filming to start in the spring. The actual streets where Stewart grew up have been redeveloped, though there are areas nearby with buildings that match...

Chicago – Just in time for Pride Month, Strawdog Theatre Co. presents an updated staging of the Oscar Wilde classic, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Strawdog policy … the tickets are Free (donations encouraged), but you must put in a reservation by clicking Earnest.

Play Rating: 4.0/5.0

“Earnest” – which was first staged in 1895 – is updated to modern day Chicago, within a chic apartment in the first half and a summer home in Michigan in the second. It’s a brunch being thrown by Algernon (Jack Seijo) at the apartment, and his friend Jack (Johnard Washington) is there to announce his hopeful engagement to the flamboyant Gwendolen (Kade Cox). However Jack is not known by Jack, for in the city he is Earnest, a fake name he has given himself to escape the responsibilities he has in the summer home, especially the care for his niece Cecily (Andi Muriel). Gwendolen accepts Earnest’s proposal,...

British actor Stephen Fry remembers being about 10 years old in the late 1960s when he first saw a production of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest” on television.

He immediately checked out the “Complete Works of Oscar Wilde” from the mobile library that visited his town in rural England.

“I went back and said, ‘Have you got anything else?’ And [the librarian] said, “Well, that’s the complete works,’” Fry tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I searched the shelves and I found this book, ‘The Trials of Oscar Wilde.’ I thought, that’s really weird. I thought trials as in trials and tribulations, maybe he had a very unhappy life. So I took the book out and she stamped it out for me looking a bit doubtful as to whether I should read it. I didn’t understand why.”

Fry learned that...

Russell T Davies is confident in the future of Doctor Who, and is working on potential scripts for season 16. The series may expand with spin-offs reported to be in development. Despite uncertainties, Davies' optimism is a good sign for renewal.

While Doctor Who has yet to be renewed for a new season beyond season 15, Russell T Davies is hard at work at a potential third Ncuti Gatwa-led season and confident in the show's future. After debuting in 2023's 60th-anniversary special, Gatwa's first full season has seen the fifteenth incarnation of the Time Lord joined by new companion Ruby Sunday, portrayed by Millie Gibson, for eight adventures. Following a seasonal special set to air in December 2024, both Gatwa and Gibson return in the recently filmed Doctor Who season 15 in 2025, and will be joined by Varada Sethu's new companion.

As Doctor Who season 14 enters its final quarter, Davies revealed to...

Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa and W1A’s Hugh Skinner will star in a National Theatre revival of Oscar Wilde’s play about courtships, betrothals, and confused identities. The Importance of Being Earnest also stars three-time Olivier Award winner Sharon D. Clarke playing the imperious Lady Bracknell.

Director Max Webster, making his Nt debut, told Deadline exclusively that casting Gatwa and Skinner as the idle bachelors Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing -both leading double lives – who pursue two young women, both determined to marry someone called Ernest, and with Clarke as the dreadnaught dowager decreeing her own rules of class, taste, and propriety, was “a dream come true.”

Webster and the Nt’s casting director Alastair Coomer have also assembled Richard Cant to play Reverend Canon Chasuble and comic genius Amanda Lawrence as Miss Prism in the 1895 satire, which will...

In both Ricky Stanicky & The Importance of Being Earnest, fictional characters are used as alibis to avoid responsibilities & legal trouble. The message of honesty & sincerity is a central theme in both stories, highlighting the consequences of deceit and the value of truth. Ricky Stanicky presents a modern twist on the classic play, showcasing how the use of aliases can lead to humorous yet impactful lessons.

Directed by Peter Farrelly, Ricky Stanicky is a raunchy buddy comedy currently available to stream on Prime Video. The story follows three childhood friends who create a fictitious persona they use as a culprit to blame their problems on. As adults, Dean (Zac Efron), Wes (Jermaine Fowler), and Jt (Andrew Santino) continue to use their made-up best friend, Ricky Stanicky, as a get-out-of-jail-free card until their significant others demand to meet Ricky in person.

Although Ricky Stanicky is not adapted from preexisting source material and...

Bruce Campbell's iconic cameo as the Snooty Usher in Spider-Man 2 is recreated in The Amazing Spider-Man #517 with a humorous twist. Marvel Comics continues the Sam Raimi tradition by featuring Bruce Campbell in the Spider-Man comics. Bruce Campbell has made appearances in various Marvel Comics, including playing Mysterio in the Ultimate Universe and featuring in Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness.

One of the most memorable (and memeable) aspects of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy is the recurring appearance of longtime Raimi collaborator Bruce Campbell in a series of cameos. These cameos extend past the films, though, as one of Campbell's characters makes a hilarious reappearance in Marvel's comic book universe as well.

In 2005's The Amazing Spider-Man #517 by J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr., Mark Brooks, Joe Pimentel, Jaime Mendoza, Matt Milla, and Brian Reber, Peter Parker rushes to a play rehearsal to warn Mary Jane that Charlie Weiderman,...

Wilkinson died “suddenly at home” according to a statement on behalf of his family.

UK actor Tom Wilkinson, who starred in films including The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and Batman Begins, has died suddenly at the age of 75.

His death was confirmed in a statement shared by his agent on behalf of his family.

“It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him. The family asks for privacy at this time,” read the statement.

Wilkinson received two Oscar nominations, for best...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s new book, “Prequel,” delves into the dangerous rise of fascism here in the United States in the Thirties and Forties. Picking up the story from her hit podcast “Ultra,” Maddow explores the forgotten history of what amounted to a fifth column on the home front. The book is essential reading in our perilous political moment. As Maddow recently told “Rolling Stone”: “Trump is saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood’ of America. He’s saying my political opponents are ‘vermin.’ He’s saying, I want...

While movie fans are hopefully enjoying Stephen Fry's wonderful performance as Leonardo da Vinci in the delightful film The Inventor, they can now anticipate another ebullient vocal performance, this time alongside some of the best and brightest voices in UK comedy. Fry will reunite with his old sketch comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, in an animated reimagining of the Oscar Wilde classic, The Canterville Ghost, opening exclusively in US theaters just in time for Halloween on October 20, 2023, via Shout! Studios and Blue Fox Entertainment.

The star-studded cast features Fry (Gosford Park) as Sir Simon de Canterville, along with Hugh Laurie (House), Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor), Emily Carey (House of the Dragon), David Harewood (Supergirl), Meera Syal (Yesterday), Miranda Hart (Spy), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Imelda Staunton (The Crown). You can check out an exclusive look at the trailer below.

Related: Exclusive: The Inventor Filmmakers Talk da...

ListicleWhile there have been raging debates over whether a film adaptation of a literary work does justice to the original, some of these films have fulfilled the expectations of book lovers.YouTube screengrabWhat better delights a literature enthusiast than a film adaptation of their favourite literary work? While there have been raging debates over whether a film adaptation of a literary work does justice to the original, it is no doubt that movies make them more accessible. Apart from accessibility, cross cultural adaptations also bring the stories closer to home. Here are five south Indian movies that were adapted to suit local tastes while maintaining the spirit of the original works: Kandukondein Kandukondein (2000) The Ajith Kumar starrer is adapted from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility which revolves around the romantic entanglements of two sisters who are forced to live in more meagre conditions along with their widowed mother. Even...

Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snooty professor who takes an instant disliking to Rodney Dangerfield’s crude self-made man in 1986’s Back to School, died June 16 at a hospital in Arlington, Va. He was 85.

His death has been confirmed by his son Charles Whitehead, with many friends and colleagues sharing their memories on social media.

Actor Dana Ivey wrote: “We first worked together in My Fair Lady in 1964, and the last time was in Importance of Being Earnest in 2010 — friends for 59 years. I loved him so. Heartbroken.”

Tony-nominated for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot, Paxton, born in English village of East Malling, made his Broadway debut in a short-lived production of Ronald Millar’s The Affair. His next Broadway show — Beyond the Fringe...

Paxton Whitehead, the distinguished English actor and theater mainstay known for playing stuffy types in films and TV shows including Back to School, Mad About You and Friends, has died. He was 85.

Whitehead died Friday at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, his son, Charles Whitehead, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Whitehead earned a Tony nomination for his turn as Pellinore in a 1980 revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot opposite Richard Burton and appeared 16 other times on Broadway from 1962-2018.

Notably, he starred as Sherlock Holmes in 1978-79’s The Crucifer of Blood, which ran for 236 performances at the Helen Hayes Theatre, co-starred Glenn Close and was nominated for four Tonys, winning one.

He also was in Broadway productions of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain, Lettice and Lovage, Noises Off and The Importance of Being Earnest.

After years on the stage, Whitehead made his movie debut in Back to School (1986), in which he portrayed Dr.

Coyote, the British sci-fi feature film debut from American filmmaker Dustin Curtis Murphy, has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures and is set for release in North America on June 20th, 2023. The film, which was recently nominated for a National Film Award, stars The Witcher actress Therica Wilson-Read and Absentia actress Borislava Stratieva.

Coyote is a story of forbidden love in a dystopian future where teleportation technology enables two refugees to escape genocide. When they trust the wrong back-alley teleporter, Ekaterina (Wilson-Read) and Anya (Stratieva) are separated. In a desperate attempt to be reunited, our heroines are entwined in an insidious human trafficking ring involving corrupt politicians.

The cast also features BIFA winner Ruhtxjiaih Bellenea (The Last Tree) and Ailish Symons (The Importance of Being Earnest), Tian Chaudry (You Were Never Really Here), Beruce Khan (RSC Live: Twelfth Night) and Richard Glover. The film had its international premiere on March 24th...

Barbara Bryne, the British actress who portrayed mothers in the original Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods, has died. She was 94.

Bryne’s death Tuesday was announced by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The first of her more than 60 plays there was Arsenic and Old Lace in 1970, and she performed in 20-plus productions from 1998-2013, including a memorable turn in 1999 as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.

“Barbara was a cherished member of the Guthrie family,” theater reps said in a statement, “and we’re grateful she shared her artistry with us for so many seasons. Her legacy will live on at the Guthrie and in our hearts forever.”

The delightful Bryne was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 1982 for her off-off-Broadway performance as Kath in a revival of the Joe Orton-written Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Three years later,...

Eugene Lee, the six-time Emmy-winning production designer for Saturday Night Live since 1975 and a multiple Tony winner for such Broadway hits as Wicked, Sweeney Todd and Candide, died Tuesday in Providence, Ri. He was 83.

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As the production designer of SNL since the year of its debut, Lee was the longest-serving member of the NBC show’s production staff. He also served as production designer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon from 2014-2018 and numerous SNL specials.

He also led the production design for Late Night with Seth Meyers and the 2000 television movie On Golden Pond, among others. For his work in television production design,...

There are no flirtations with the fourth wall in Frances O’Connor’s “Emily.” There is no synthpop on the soundtrack. No one ranks the relative attractiveness of the Brontë sisters on a scale out of 10, or attempts, bustle be damned, to twerk. Yet despite lacking all markers of the recent trend for girlbossified costume drama, the directorial debut from O’Connor — an actor who is no stranger to corsetry herself after “Mansfield Park” and “The Importance of Being Earnest” — gives us a strikingly current take on the Brontë behind “Wuthering Heights.” Unlike many a literary biopic, it feels anything but pagebound. If “Emily” were a book, however, it would be a fresh reissue of a Penguin Classic, with its timeless orange cover unobtrusively updated to be crisp and covetable all over again.

In attentively reimagining Emily Brontë as a new woman unluckily born into old days, O’Connor’s chief ally is her star,...

This June on HBO and HBO Max will play host to a new season of “Westworld,” a new adaptation of “Father of the Bride” and much more.

The big new Warner Bros. release on HBO and HBO Max this month is “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” which actually debuted on the HBO Max streaming service on May 30. The third film in the Wizarding World prequel franchise first hit theaters in April, and is now available to stream in 4K.

There’s also the updated version of “Father of the Bride” premiering on June 16, while a pair of noteworthy documentaries are coming on the early side this month: “The Janes” premieres June 8 and follows unlikely outlaws in pre-Roe v. Wade America who defied state legislation that banned abortion, while “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” debuts on June 9.

As for original series, the fourth season of “Westworld” premieres on June...

With its list of new releases for June 2022, HBO Max is joining in what should be a TV summer to remember.

Not content to let Netflix’s Stranger Things or Prime Video’s The Boys to dominate the summer TV landscape, HBO is coming through with a new season of one of its big hits. Westworld season 4 is set to premiere June 26 on both HBO and HBO Max. What will this season of the increasingly confusing sci-fi drama be about? Per HBO’s synopsis it will be “A dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on earth.” So you know, only that.

Irma Vep is the only other Max Original of note this month. Based on a 1996 cult classic of the same name, this limited series stars Alicia Vikander as a disillusioned movie star looking to remake the early 20th century French silent film serial Les Vampires.

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Director Sam Raimi has imagined a host of alternate realities in the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But on the press tour for the latest MCU film, Raimi has given fans a glimpse of a different world that almost came to be, one in which he joined Sony to make a fourth Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson. As Raimi began developing the project following 2007’s Spider-Man 3, rumors circulated that Maguire would star opposite John Malkovich as Adrian Toomes aka the Vulture. But the bigger questions surrounded Raimi’s longtime partner Bruce Campbell. Who would he be in a fourth Spider-Man film?

Raimi partially answered that question in an interview with Rolling Stone. Among the regrets he has for the canceled film, the biggest might be losing the “really great cameo we had designed for Bruce Campbell.

Adapting “The Importance of Being Earnest” in a Malaysian setting is not exactly the easiest thing to do, but Al Jafree Md Yusop’s effort also stumbled upon a number of issues, including financial ones and the pandemic, which in the end resulted in the film forgoing theatrical release, instead streaming on Mubi, in a practice that seems to gain more and more traction as time passes. Let us see what it is all about however.

“Mencari Rahmat” is streaming on Mubi Malaysia

The story revolves around two men, Razak and Azman. The first one is an adopted orphan who inherited the fortune of his adoptive parents along with the obligation to take care of his his 19-year-old adopted niece, Ratna. Razak has managed to become a successful businessman, but the pressure he felt both in his line of work and regarding Ratna, has led him to invent a problematic younger brother,...

She is the Bride of Dracula. That is what they whispered whenever Florence Balcombe Stoker stepped into public view. Once an ethereal beauty whose features could capture Oscar Wilde’s imagination, if not his true ardor, the widow of author Bram Stoker spent the final decades of her life being haunted by her husband—but not his ghost; it was his vampire that refused to give her rest.

Today, Florence is chiefly remembered as the architect behind what some might call the greatest act of attempted vandalism in cinematic history. She did, after all, pursue with the tenacity of Abraham Van Helsing a scorched earth crusade intent on having all prints of Nosferatu burned to ash. If she had succeeded, F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist masterpiece, and one of the finest horror films ever produced, would have been lost to posterity—instead of still being watched and celebrated exactly 100 years since its Berlin premiere.

After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.

Metrograph

A Kurt Russell retrospective—featuring Escape from New York, The Thing, Used Cars and more—is underway, while Tsai Ming-liang’s masterpiece Goodbye, Dragon Inn has been restored, which paves way for a wuxia series featuring films by King Hu, Ang Lee and more.

IFC Center

A Clockwork Orange and Princess Mononoke are available for a double feature, if you’re fucking insane, while a double feature of Scorsese’s Italianamerican and American Boy is underway.

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On Friday our friends at Screen Slate are presenting a print of the Japanese nunsploitation...

Frances O’Connor is in week two of the edit for her debut feature as writer-director, “Emily,” which brings to life the world of author Emily Brontë in the years leading up to the creation of her seminal novel “Wuthering Heights.” Variety speaks to O’Connor about the film, which has been pre-sold by Embankment Films to multiple major territories.

As an actor O’Connor has had a successful career, appearing in such films as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and series such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Missing,” with the latter two each earning her a Golden Globe nomination.

About 10 years ago, a love of Emily Brontë led her to start writing a script about the author’s life. “She’s a very inspirational character, but we know so little about her,” she says. “And there are certain issues that I was interested in exploring about being authentic as a woman,...

Helen McCrory has died at the age of 52. On Friday, the Harry Potter star's husband, Damian Lewis, confirmed the news in a statement on Twitter. "I'm heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from family and friends," he said. "She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and we know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you."

Helen got her start in theater with a production of The Importance of Being Earnest and is best remembered for her roles as Polly Gray on Peaky Blinders, Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, and Clair Dowar in Skyfall. She is survived by Damian and their two children, 14-year-old...

Four-time Oscar nominee Peter Lamont, who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for production design for “Titanic,” has died. He was 91.

Lamont’s death was disclosed Friday by the official 007 account on Twitter, which posted a statement by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli that reads, “Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry. Inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger (1964).”

“He became Production Designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981) working on 18 of the 25 films including nine as Production Designer. He was a true success story proving that with talent and hard work you will achieve your dreams,” the statement went on. “He won the Academy Award for Titanic in 1998 as well as nominations for Fiddler On The Roof (1971), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and Aliens (1986). Our hearts go out to...

An actor, producer, television presenter, director as well as donning the cap of an Rj, call him what you may but Nani a.k.a Naveen Babu Ghanta is inarguably a jack of all trades in the Telugu film industry.

Right from his debut film, the 2008 romantic blockbuster Ashta Chamma, here is an all-rounder who has been delighting the audience with his boyish charm and exceptional talent. Know to be an actor who is completely natural, Nani has a reputation of living every role and f portraying the kaleidoscope of emotions demanded of him.

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After being recognised as a terrific actor through a series of Awards, this boy-next-door is at the top of his game and a bonafide Tollywood Superstar. There were actors before him, there will be actors after him, but winning...

There are plenty of disturbing films in the world. One of them is a 1990 release, directed by Paul Schrader and written by Harold Pinter in an adaptation of the book by Ian McEwan. The film in question is The Comfort of Strangers, the latest disturbing film I'm trying to wrap my head around, and it's out this week on Blu-ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection. Mary and Colin are a well-bred couple that seemingly have no issues...

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KollywoodActors Khusbhu, Nasser, Prabhu, director Ks Ravikumar and many others were also part of the Zoom call.Tnm StaffVinodh VelayudhanJune 10 marked the one year death anniversary of ‘Crazy’ Mohan whose contribution to Tamil cinema with his witty one-liners, puns and smart wordplay is fondly recalled by fans. Tokyo Tamil Sangam organised a Zoom conference call to celebrate the screenwriter and theatre personality by inviting people such as actor-politician Kamal Haasan, his close friend and many-time collaborator, actors Khusbhu Sundar, Nasser, Prabhu, director Ks Ravikumar, singer Nithyasree, musician Rajhesh Vaidhya and many others. Many participated in the Zoom conference, co-hosted by Mohan’s brother Maadhu Balaji along with Tokyo Tamil Sangam, to share their fondest memories of having known or worked with Crazy Mohan. “In Anbe Sivam film, there’s a dialogue that we wrote together on friendship and brotherhood between two men. “Idhenna kadhala, asingama solikitrukarthuku. Iruku. Vitrunga.”. It is there.

For more than three decades, Spanish rock legend Enrique Bunbury has spun fantastic stories of dark fantasy and probed the depths of universal human emotions through his songs. Yet in his disquieting and introspective 10th studio album, Posible, he delves into the many alternate worlds that exist within himself.

“Other versions of yourself exist, whether that’s being a better husband, better father, or better lover,” he says of his new album, out Friday. “Those options torture me, and they give me hope.”

Born Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy in Zaragoza,...

The coronavirus pandemic is inspiring plenty of comedians to perform sets from their homes, and musicians to give mini concerts from the comfort of their living rooms.

Now, Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of “Moana,” and “Detective Pikachu” star Justice Smith are among a group of young actors coming together to perform a live play reading to raise money in aid of arts students whose schools have been closed due to the pandemic.

At 2 p.m. Pt today, the duo will join Mc Brando Young in a performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which will be live streamed on the Facebook page of Acting For a Cause, the organization behind the reading.

Other participants in the play reading will include “Hereditary” star Alex Wolff, “Ozark” season 3 actor Jessica Frances Dukes, “Parenthood” alum Sarah Ramos, “Cirque du Freak” actor Jessica Carlson, and “Assassination Nation” star Odessa Young.

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Australia is burning. It’s hard to comprehend the scope of the disaster: a blaze covering an area that would stretch around the borders of the contiguous United States, leaving a billion animals dead, likely rendering numerous species extinct, and creating smoke plumes that cloud even New Zealand’s skies, two thousand kilometres away. It is, along […]

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Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic DirectorCEO presented a one-night only Benefit Reading of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest starring the legendary 5-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury as Lady Bracknell. The cast also includes Daniel Davis as Lane, John Glover as Reverend Canon Chasuble, Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell as Miss Prism, Simon Jones as Merriman, Hamish Linklater as John Worthing, Rebecca Night as Cecily Cardew, Lily Rabe as Gwendolen Fairfax and Tom Rhoads as Algernon Moncrieff.

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