Who would have thought that the BBC’s dramatisation of The Night Manager, the very model of a modern spy story, should have had its genesis almost 70 years ago? In 1947, a 16-year-old schoolboy is sent to Paris by his father to collect a debt from the...
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Andrew Davies is pretty pleased with life. As the country’s most fêted TV screenwriter of epic classic adaptations, he has much to be pleased about, but right now his blue eyes are twinkling particularly strongly. First (but probably not foremost) is...
Read moreIs it the bloke with the suspiciously bloody implement in his hand? Or maybe the arsenic-caked lady with the vulpine look and the large jug of arsenic? These are some of the questions the cast of Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House may be asking...
Read moreEdward Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright behind some of the most important and groundbreaking works of American theater and whose 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was famously snubbed by the Pulitzer Board despite the recommendation of...
Read moreBritish TV at its very best: no one in the world can compete when it comes to the lavish thrills of period drama on television. Drawing on the world's most revered authors – Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and beyond – for tales of love, loss and scandal...
Read moreToni Collette, Gillian Anderson, Joanna Lumley and Riccardo Scamarcio (“Burnt,” “To Rome With Love”) will join Clive Owen in the cast of “Andorra,” the upcoming film by veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi. Paris-based Celluloid Dreams will handle...
Read moreEXCLUSIVE: Agatha Christie is finally headed back to the big screen. Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Stefanie Martini, Terence Stamp and Honor Kneafsey are joining Max Irons and Glenn Close to star in an upcoming adaptation of Christie’s whodunit...
Read more“His height, his general hairiness, coupled with a gently expanding belly, suggested a grizzly bear,” wrote JK Rowling of Cormoran Strike. And while Tom Burke may have to strap on a prosthetic belly when he plays the war-damaged detective, otherwise he...
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Entretien avec François Ozon Angel est l’adaptation d’un roman d’Elizabeth Taylor. Pourquoi ce livre ? Après l’avoir lu d’une traite, il y a 5 ou 6 ans, j’ai tout de suite senti que l’adaptation de ce livre était l’occasion de me confronter à un univers...
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