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Exclusive: At the UK premiere of Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club, cast member Henry Lloyd-Hughes revealed he has joined Steven Spielberg’s next project while author Richard Osman praised the UK film industry and Helen Mirren discussed another upcoming Netflix project, Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June.

Lloyd-Hughes stars alongside Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth and Colman Domingo in Spielberg’s untitled Universal feature which wrapped filming in June after shooting for three months in New York.

“It was another galaxy of stars,” Lloyd-Hughes told Screen, referencing The Thursday Murder Club which stars the likes of Mirren, Pierce Brosnan,...

They're awkward, they're all grown up, and they're heading to Vegas. Joe Thomas, who plays Simon in the acclaimed British sitcom The Inbetweeners, has revealed a potential third movie could be in the works, taking the awkward British friends to Sin City. First airing on Channel 4 in 2008, The Inbetweeners followed four unlikely friends as they navigated the highs and low of Sixth Form education (the U.K. equivalent of 12th grade). Starring Simon Bird, Blake Harrison, and James Buckley, alongside Thomas, the series is a comedy staple that still enjoys repeat re-watches from fans.

The series, which ran for three seasons, was turned into a feature film in 2011 and followed the friends on a chaotic vacation to Crete. The first movie was a reasonable box office success, leading to the production of a sequel, which shipped the friends off to Australia.

Fans assumed that The Inbetweeners 2 was the...

Joe Thomas, the actor known for portraying Simon Cooper on the popular British comedy series “The Inbetweeners,” has indicated there could be another film featuring the show’s characters. In a recent podcast appearance, Thomas said he would be open to reuniting with his co-stars for a possible third movie installment.

While speaking on the “Always Be Comedy” podcast, Thomas expressed that he remains close with James Buckley, Simon Bird, and Blake Harrison, the actors who played his friends on the sitcom. According to Thomas, the cast enjoys working together and would consider collaborating again under the right circumstances. He proposed a “stag do,” or British bachelor party, as an engaging plotline that could bring the characters back together years after the original series.

Thomas believes a film format would better suit a potential reunion compared to reviving the television show. He noted challenges in scheduling new episodes years later.

Time to pack your briefcase, the boys could be heading back out on tour.

The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas has said that he and co-stars James Buckley (Jay), Simon Bird (Will), and Blake Harrison (Neil) would consider reuniting for a third movie.

He told the Always Be Comedy podcast that the idea had been discussed in “various forms and all of us feel like it would be nice.”

“We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it,” Thomas said.

“A movie, I think works with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline. But with the film, there are all sorts of options.”

Thomas said a stag do, also known as a bachelor party, could...

To a generation of Brits, Iain Morris may forever be known as half of the duo that created “The Inbetweeners,” the wildly rude sitcom about a group of mostly unpopular teenage boys that ran from 2008-2010 and was followed by two hugely successful films.

But the multi-talented creative has been prolifically busy since then, reuniting some of the “The Inbetweeners” lead cast for BBC comedy series “White Gold,” creating another BBC comedy “First Team,” working on FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” helping write Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy “Next Goal Wins” and recently being tapped to direct Netflix rom-com feature “My Oxford Year.”

For the last few years, he’s also been hard at work on “Time Bandits,” Apple TV+’s small-screen reimagining of Terry Gilliam’s cult 1981 fantasy comedy about a young boy taken on an adventure through time with a band of thieves (mostly played...

Exclusive: BAFTA-nominated Friday Night Dinner director Steve Bendelack is helming a comedy movie about an ageing rock band who reunites.

Bill & Ben Productions and Night Tide Films are combining on Heavenly Waters, which will shoot in Greece later this year.

Heavenly Waters tells the story of a rock band who, after an acrimonious split in the 1970s, agree to come together in Greece to scatter the ashes of their biggest fan, but things don’t go according to plan.

The pic is the writing debut of producer Kim Leggatt and actor David Schaal.

Bendelack is a two-time BAFTA nominee who was nominated in 2012 for Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner. He has also helmed a wealth of iconic British comedies including Spitting Image, Little Britain, The Royle Family and Mr Bean’s Holiday.

Heavenly Waters reunites Leggatt with producers Ben Timlett and Bill Jones.

Producers alliance Pact has played a key role in lobbying for the UK Independent Film Tax Credit (Iftc) that was announced in the budget yesterday by chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

Pact CEO John McVay tells Screen how the Iftc, which offers an effective 40% tax relief for UK-qualifying films costing up to £15m, was secured and how it will work in practice.

What is your reaction to the news today about the UK Independent Film Tax Credit?

I’m absolutely delighted. This is a journey we started in 2017. We proposed then a 40% tax credit for films within a certain budget range. We...

Producers alliance Pact has played a key role in lobbying for the UK Independent Film Tax Credit (Iftc) that was announced in the budget yesterday by chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

Pact CEO John McVay tells Screen how the Iftc, which offers an effective 40% tax relief for UK-qualifying films costing up to £15m, was secured and how it will work in practice.

What is your reaction to the news today about the UK Independent Film Tax Credit?

I’m absolutely delighted. This is a journey we started in 2017. We proposed then a 40% tax credit for films within a certain budget range. We...

A teenager in 70s New Zealand dreams of starting a band in Jonathan Ogilvie’s nostalgic comedy, which opens Rotterdam’s international film festival

Jonathan Ogilvie is the New Zealand film-maker who made the gangster drama The Tender Hook (2008) and also Lone Wolf (2021), a postmodern spin on Conrad’s The Secret Agent. Now he hits a lighter, gentler and much more personal note in this coming-of-age comedy, which opens the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) – a nostalgiafest romance from the 70s post-punk era about a kid in New Zealand mooching around in his uncool school uniform, hanging out in the local record shop (which still has its prog-era name of Middle Earth Records) and dreaming of starting a punk band called the Daleks – though wondering if just Daleks sounds cooler — and obsessing about an unattainably sexy girl who sneers at him.

It will have all of us of a certain...

Nicholas Hoult has shared some insight into his adolescence, claiming that it was less like the teenage antics depicted in Skins than people might assume.

The actor played Tony Stonem, a popular sixth-form student with a large group of friends and several romantic suitors, in seasons one and two of the teen drama.

Airing for seven seasons between 2007 to 2013, Skins was considered groundbreaking for its explicit and dark depictions of young people’s lives, covering topics such as mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse and suicide.

However, in a new interview on Hits Radio Breakfast, Hoult claimed that his younger years weren’t nearly as dramatic as those of his character.

“My life was more Inbetweeners,” he told show host Tom Green, adding: “Watching that I was like, this I can relate to in many ways more.”

The Inbetweeners, which aired from 2008 to 2010 and spawned two spin-off films, focused...

Exclusive: Channel 4 has handed Taskmaster an unprecedented six-season renewal and greenlit a junior version of the comedy panel show.

Demonstrating the network’s commitment to Avalon’s long-running format, the eight-part Junior Taskmaster will be aimed at older children and young teens. Kids aged nine to 11 will be recruited to bring their athleticism and creativity to the new show, which will reveal hosts soon.

Junior Taskmaster will air before the 9 p.m. GMT (2 p.m. Pt) watershed and joins a roster of Channel 4 spin-offs for younger people including Junior Bake Off and First Dates. PG and family-friendly versions of Taskmaster already air on YouTube and amass big audiences, while a Taskmaster Education project and School Tasking not-for-profit are utilized by schools across the UK.

Avalon, the producer of the main show, is behind Junior Taskmaster. The Starstruck and Catastrophe producer is also in the midst of making a six-part...

Emily Atack is being praised by critics for her “provocative” new BBC documentary tackling sexual harassment.

In Emily Atack: Asking For It?,the former Inbetweeners star discusses her own experiences of sexual harassment and sets out to learn how something “so grotesque, aggressive, malicious and violent” has evolved.

During the programme, she shared a number of misogynist social media messages she has received, including rape threats, in an attempt to understand how abuse has been normalised online.

She also spoke to a sexual violence and abuse councillor and online safety campaigners, as she asked why harassment has been normalised for so long.

TV critics praised the 33-year-old for asking important questions and doing a “very brave job” on a difficult subject.

“Emily Atack, normally seen as a cheerful TV personality and comedian, did a very brave job here in overcoming deep embarrassment about her daily reality,” read The Times’ review.

2020, as well as being an all-round garbage fire, is likely to go down as a strange year for film. Almost all of year’s biggest titles remain in limbo, waiting for cinemas to be able to safely reopen. That said, more than half way through the year, we have now seen a lot of excellent films getting released. Some managed to sneak in to cinemas in ‘the time before’, but many have made their debuts via streaming or paid VOD.

Even with a much reduced slate, there are still great films out there that have either got lost in the shuffle or might not have had the mainstream appeal to connect with an audience as wide as they deserve. Here, we’ve got several of the Hey U Guys staff together to pick some of their favourites of 2020 so far that you might not have caught up with yet.

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Stars: Joe Thomas, Hammed Animashaun, Claudia O’Doherty, Jemaine Clement, Hannah Tointon, Kurt Yaeger, Noel Fielding, Nick Frost, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Leigh Williams, Lizzy Connolly | Written by Keith Akushie, Joe Parham | Directed by Iain Morris

[Note: With the film out on DVD and Blu-ray now, here's a reposting of our review of The Festival, from the people behind The Inbetweeners]

The team behind the enormous British cultural phenomenon The Inbetweeners returns to screens with The Festival after multiple dips in form with sizeable stabs at original content in both cinema and television, with little to no acclaim or success in either medium.

Revisiting the Inbetweeners franchise has been a mixed bag for writer and directors Iain Morris and Damon Beesley. In 2011 they launched a cinematic event with a feature film that stirred an impressive success earning $88,025,781 worldwide. Three years later they turned to the well of predictability, already dry and running on empty with a sequel that ultimately neglected any common sense contextually that angered fans and led...