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The Return of Stanley Atwell

Protagonist Pictures is launching sales ahead of the Cannes market on Hera Pictures thriller The Return of Stanley Atwell, which is set to star Nicholas Galitzine (The Idea of You) and Marisa Abela (Industry).

1 May, 2025

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What It Feels Like for a Girl

The BBC has revealed the cast and first-look images of What It Feels Like For A Girl, the adaptation of the memoir by transgender trailblazer Paris Lees.

20 March, 2025

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Hamnet

Focus Features has picked up the worldwide rights to Nomadland and Eternals director Chloé Zhao’s next movie, Hamnet, which stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn.

20 August, 2024

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I Fought the Law

All Creatures Great and Small scribe Jamie Crichton is taking on ITV‘s latest campaigning drama, a series about the fight to repeal the notorious double jeopardy law starring Sheridan Smith.

2 May, 2024

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Mary & George

Starz has picked up the U.S. and Canada rights to Mary & George, an historical psychodrama starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine and created and penned by Killing Eve writer D.C. Moore.

16 November, 2023

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The End We Start From

In a vague near-future world that resembles our own, London faces a devastating flood. At the same time, a young woman (Jodie Comer) is giving birth to her first child. The birth is intercut with the flood, juxtaposing the miracle of life with the death of an old world.

15 September, 2023

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Hamnet

The bestselling author is readying her Shakespeare-inspired novel for the big screen, and re-releasing some of her earliest works in paperback.

12 September, 2023

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What It Feels Like for a Girl

The BBC has commissioned an adaptation of journalist and campaigner Paris Lees’ memoirs.

What It Feels Like For a Girl, which is also the name of the book, will be an eight-part series for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer that’s billed as a “wild, anarchic spin on a coming-of-age drama” inspired by Lees’ story.

20 June, 2023

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The End We Start From

Paramount’s Republic Pictures label has acquired North American rights to dystopian drama-thriller The End We Start From, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).

20 May, 2023

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Hamnet

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are in talks to star in an adaptation of Hamnet for Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions and Book of Shadows. Chloé Zhao will direct the film based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, who will adapt the script with Zhao.

1 May, 2023

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Hamnet

After dominating the Oscars in 2021, Nomadland writer-director Chloé Zhao looks to be building out her future slate. Zhao is set to direct an adaptation of Hamnet for Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions and Book of Shadows. The film is based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, who will adapt the script with Zhao.

4 April, 2023

Hamnet

Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) will direct an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed Shakespeare-era novel Hamnet for Amblin Partners. Zhao is writing the screenplay with O’Farrell. Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions and Book of Shadows are all backing the project.

4 April, 2023

Mary & George

Sky and AMC’s upcoming Mary & George adaptation has found its King James I.

Mayflies lead Tony Curran will play the role opposite previously announced Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.

30 March, 2023

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Mary & George

Nicholas Galitzine (Purple Hearts) has been cast opposite Julianne Moore in Sky and AMC’s buzzy period drama Mary & George about powerful royal family favorites Mary Villiers and her son George.

13 January, 2023

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Mary & George

Oscar winner Julianne Moore is set to lead Sky and AMC period drama series Mary & George, about powerful royal family favorites Mary Villiers and her son George.

17 October, 2022

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Mary & George

Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) and Mark Strong (1917, Kingsman) will join the Jodie Comer-starring apocalyptic thriller The End We Start From.

7 September, 2022

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The End We Start From

Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer is set to star in the thriller The End We Start From from Benedict Cumberbatch‘s SunnyMarch, Hera Pictures, Anton and BBC Film.

9 May, 2022

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The End We Start From

Fresh off her second BAFTA win last night for British drama Help, Killing Eve and The Last Duel star Jodie Comer has found her next project in the shape of feature thriller The End We Start From, which will be a hot package at next week’s Cannes market.

9 May, 2022

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The End We Start From

U.S. streamer BritBox is planning for fall after boarding Keeley Hawes-fronted British crime drama Honour.

The digital platform will launch the two-parter, which is written by Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes, in October, as an original co-production with ITV.

24 April, 2020

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Temple

Sky has renewed crime medical thriller Temple for a second season. The Comcast-backed pay-TV platform has ordered another eight-episode run of the series, which stars Mark Strong, Daniel Mays and Carice Van Houten.

1 November, 2019

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Temple

European pay TV giant Sky has ordered eight-part original series Temple, an adaptation of Norwegian drama Valkyrien, that will star Mark Strong (Kingsman), Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Mays (Line of Duty).

22 August, 2018

A news article webpage with the headline about actress Liza Marshall attending a premiere, showing a photo of her in a polka dot dress standing next to a man in a suit.

Hera Pictures

Liza Marshall’s newly launched indie outfit Hera Pictures is kicking open its doors with English-language rights to coveted hit Norwegian drama series Valkyrien. Mark Strong is set to take the lead role in the adaptation of the high-concept thriller, which will move from Oslo to London.

2 May, 2017