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‘The Crown’s Jason Watkins Leading Channel 5 Cat-And-Mouse Thriller The Crown star Jason Watkins is leading his second Channel 5 drama of 2024, a cat-and-mouse thriller about a policeman haunted by a case he failed to solve. Catch You Later [working title] also stars Robson Green and Sunetra Sarker. Watkins leads as Huw Miller, a detective haunted by a stalker who taunted his town, mercilessly toying with his victims before eventually killing them. As Huw attempts to settle into retirement, the case is never far from his mind – and when new neighbor, Patrick Harbottle (Green) moves in and utters…

Anne Hathaway sent a personal email of apology to a journalist after a 12-year-old interview resurfaced in which she gave monosyllabic answers. Kjersti Flaa, a Norwegian journalist who has built a career interviewing Hollywood stars, posted a YouTube video this week in which she reflected on the Les Misérables press junket. Flaa came up with the idea of singing her questions in the hope that actors would respond with a tuneful answer. As the video shows, most played ball. Hathaway had other ideas. The Princess Diaries actress declined to participate in the sing-song and proceeded to give brusque answers to…

ITV/BritBox Series ‘Code Of Silence’ Rounds Out Cast EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis will be joined by the likes of Kieron Moore (Vampire Academy, Masters of the Air, The Corps), Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts, You)and and Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman) in upcoming ITV and BritBox International crime drama Code of Silence. Nathan Armarkwei Laryea (The Witcher), Joe Absolom (Doc Martin), Beth Goddard (The Serpent Queen), Andrew Scarborough (Wolfblood), Fifi Garfield (Coffee Morning Club) and presenter Rolf Choutan in his acting debut have also been cast in the six-part show, which commenced shooting today. Code of Silence is told through the point…

The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam has announced the 55 documentary projects selected for this year’s IDFA Forum, chosen from among 820 entries. Among the prominent names heading to the forum, which runs November 17-20, is Emmy winner Eva Mulvad (The Cave), who will pitch her upcoming project House of the Holy Father, co-directed with Andreas Koefoed. “In an intriguing cinematic exercise that straddles fiction and documentary,” a release notes, “the film seeks to bare intricate workings of domination and manipulation, as ex-members of the notorious Christian sect Faderhuset direct scenes with well-known Danish actors, including Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik.”…

MPI Media Group‘s new Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to From Ground Zero, which will represent Palestine in this year’s Oscar race for Best International Feature. The label is planning a full theatrical release and run for the short list for the work from Rashid Masharawi — a collection of short films, both documentary and drama, made in Gaza since January 2024. It had a North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Specifically, the project brings together 22 shorts from Gaza filmmakers in an initiative set against the backdrop of conflict, providing a platform for young…

How many indie movies make money? was one of the questions posed to top European film financiers and producers today at the Zurich Summit, which takes place during the Zurich Film Festival. Vincent Maraval, President Goodfellas / The Veterans; Christian Vesper, CEO of Global Drama and Film Fremantle; Elisabeth d’Arvieu, CEO Mediawan Pictures; Karl Spoerri, Co-Founder & Managing Director Zurich Avenue AG; and Constantin board member Martin Bachmann, all took part in the session. Film sales vet Maraval, who has recently handled high profile movies such as Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez starrer Emilia Perez and Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, responded:…

Insiders, it’s me again. Jesse Whittock here to run you through the main international film and TV news. Off we go, and don’t forget to sign up to the newsletter here. ‘Cheers‘ To That Everett Collection Where everybody knows your script: Making your way in the entertainment world today can take everything you’ve got, so it makes sense that you might think remaking an existing program could make things that little bit easier. That feels part of the thinking behind Big Talk Studios’ plan to relocate the Boston bar that Cheers made famous to the UK. On Monday, Jake revealed that Big Talk, known for…

A TV crowd tuned into a conversation that was in large part about indie film finance models at Iberseries & Platino Industria, Thursday. “TV finance plans are looking more like independent film finance plans,” Creativity Capital co-founder Patrick Fischer, told a packed room. “And that’s not necessarily a bad thing because there’s opportunity.” A sell-out crowd at the Madrid confab for a session on the future of financing demonstrated that TV folk need to find different ways of getting their projects financed. That is becoming a necessity given the TV drama biz has cooled. A commissioning broadcaster plus distributor advance,…

EXCLUSIVE: Production companies Level Ground and Visitor Media are underway on verité doc See You Tomorrow, about musician and octogenarian Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who last week announced his dementia diagnosis as he set off for his final, multi-show tour. Helmed by Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and produced by Samantha Curley (Framing Agnes) and Sean O’Neill (Swan Song), the production is currently travelling with Glenn and his wife and creative partner Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland as they perform a series of final concerts in Canada and the US. Production is set to wrap in early summer 2025.  See You Tomorrow will follow Glenn-Copeland and his wife as they navigate the implications of the…

Nicole Kidman‘s Romy has been a “good girl” — so says Harris Dickinson‘s character Samuel in the official trailer for Babygirl, the buzzy Halina Reijn erotic thriller about a high-powered executive who engages in an illicit romance with her intern. The tantalizing trailer teases the cat-and-mouse relationship between Romy and Samuel, whose immediate, knee-buckling chemistry kickstarts an affair that would certainly raise an HR violation or two. Spliced with shots of the two in hotel rooms, bars and clubs, the duo play with the inherent power and gender dynamics within their personal and professional lives. Hailing from writer-director Reijn (Bodies,…