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Josh O’Connor is best known for his award-winning performance as Prince Charles in The Crown. But he may be hinting at new endeavors- this time behind the camera. The British actor, celebrated for his emotionally evolved performance in films like La Chimera, recently got candid about his increasing interest in directing.

Who ignited the spark? Harris Dickinson. The Babygirl actor recently made a bold and critically acclaimed directorial debut with the movie Urchin at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Dickinson, primarily known for his brilliant acting skills, has now shifted gears and is riding full speed towards directorial success. Urchin stands as a raw portrayal of humanity’s reality. And it’s this very masterpiece that’s caught O’Connor’s eye. In a recent interview, O’Connor opened up about being inspired by Dickinson.

Harris Dickinson’s work in Urchin has inspired The Crown fame Josh O’Connor

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Malia Pyles (“Pretty Little Liars”), Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), Jamie Hector (“The Wire”), Clara Wong (The Eyes of My Mother), Lily Collias (Good One), and Joe Anders (1917) have joined Apple TV+’s “Cape Fear” TV series, Deadline reports.

They round out the cast lead by Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Amy Adams (Arrival), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring), and Cch Pounder (“The Shield”).

From executive producers Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, the 10-episode series is billed as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.

In it, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison.

It’s based on both John D. MacDonald‘s 1957 novel The Executioners, which was adapted into 1962’s Cape Fear starring Gregory Peck, and...

Exclusive: Lily Collias (Good One), Joe Anders (upcoming East of Eden), and Malia Pyles (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) have come aboard to round out the cast of Apple TV+’s Cape Fear TV series.

No word on roles to be played by the trio. They join an ensemble that will also include Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Cch Pounder, Anna Baryshnikov, Jamie Hector, and Clara Wong.

In Cape Fear — created, written, and showrun by Nick Antosca — a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. The 10-episode series is billed as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.

Hailing from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amblin Television, the show is based on both the novel The Executioners,...

Kate Winslet is hard at work on her upcoming directorial debut movie and she has a talented cast set for the project!

The Oscar-winning actress is starring in and directing the upcoming family drama Goodbye June for Netflix. She was spotted on the set of the film on Tuesday (March 11) in London, England.

Also spotted on set were co-stars Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Timothy Spall.

Kate‘s son Joe Anders wrote the movie, which is “a present day, fictional drama, set in England. A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.”

This will be Kate‘s second time as a producer on a movie project following her work on the film Lee, which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year.

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Kate Winslet going to be directing for the first time – and it’s a family affair!

The Titanic actress will make her directorial debut with Goodbye June, a contemporary family drama produced for Netflix, via Variety.

She will also star in it alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren.

Keep reading to find out more…

The story was written by Joe Anders, Kate‘s 21-year-old son she shares with ex Sam Mendes.

The movie is set in present-day England and revolves around a “fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances,” according to the report.

The movie will go into production on location in the United Kingdom later in 2025.

This is her first time officially directing a film, although she was heavily involved in the making of her movie Lee. Joe previously starred in Lee with his mother.

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Matt Damon goes Greek for The Odyssey

Matt Damon is looking epic. Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan revealed a first-look image from his upcoming adaptatation of Homer‘s The Odyssey, which will feature Damon in the lead role of Odysseus. The star-studded ensemble also includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron, as well as Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Mia Goth, John Leguizamo, Jon Bernthal, and Benny Safdie.

According to Universal, Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer, which he wrote and will coproduce with wife Emma Thomas, will be a “mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new Imax film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to Imax film screens for the first time.” It is slated to open on July 17, 2026.

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Kate Winslet is set to make her feature film directorial debut with the Netflix family drama Goodbye June.

The Oscar winner will also produce and act in the movie, which will star Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren. Joe Anders, Winslet’s son with ex-husband Sam Mendes, wrote the screenplay and Kate Solomon will produce with Winslet.

Solomon also produced Winslet’s most recent feature, the Lee Miller biopic Lee about the model-turned-World War II photographer, which included Riseborough among its cast.

Winslet scored a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the film, with Lee also nominated for the BAFTA for outstanding British film of the year.

Netflix describes Goodbye June as a “touching, yet humorous” drama, “which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.”

The England-set present-day drama will begun production soon in the U.K.

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Kate Winslet has had a fantastic career, of course. She has starred in some of your favorite films, such as The Holiday and a small film called Titanic. She has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, and she won for 2009's The Reader. But there is one thing she has never done before.

That would be directing a film. She has produced several projects, and she has even helped write a TV series. But direct? Nope, not yet.

She will soon do that, however. She will be the director of the Netflix movie Goodbye June, which she will also star in. The plotline follows a group of siblings who seemingly have grown apart only to be forced back together again during a trying time. We do not know yet what that trying time is, of course, but do we want to know before we see the film? Unlikely.

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Kate Winslet is set to direct her first film, Goodbye June, a contemporary family drama coming to Netflix. The movie will also feature Winslet in a starring role, alongside a talented cast including Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren.

The story, written by Winslet’s son Joe Anders, focuses on a group of siblings who are forced to come together in the face of challenging circumstances. Set in modern-day England, it promises to explore the complexities of family dynamics.

Along with directing, Winslet is also producing the film, with Kate Solomon as a producer and Working Title serving as executive producers.

The film will be shot on location in the UK later this year. While this marks Winslet’s first time in the director’s chair, she was heavily involved in the production of Lee, a film where she not only starred but also produced.

Kate Winslet is set to make her directorial debut with “Goodbye June,” a contemporary family drama that is being produced for Netflix.

Along with directing and producing the film, Winslet will also star in it alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall and Helen Mirren.

Kate Solomon is producing with Winslet, with Working Title as executive producers. Penned by Joe Anders, Winslet’s son, the movie is set in present-day England and revolves around a “fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances,” the synopsis reads.

The movie will go into production on location in the U.K. later this year. Although Winslet has never directed a film, she was highly involved in Ellen Kuras’s “Lee,” which she produced and starred in as American photographer Lee Miller. She is nominated alongside Solomon for outstanding British film at the BAFTA awards. Screendaily first reported the news of “Goodbye June.

Kate Winslet will step behind the camera for the first time to direct Goodbye June for Netflix.

Winslet is also set to star in the film alongside Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren.

Producers are Kate Solomon and Kate Winslet. The film was written by Joe Anders. The film’s official logline reads: Goodbye June is a present day, fictional drama, set in England. A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances. Netflix has said the film will go into production “soon.”

Winslet last starred in Lee. The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and has been in theatrical and PVOD release. Directed by Ellen Kuras, Lee stars Winslet as fashion model turned World War II photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller.

Winslet’s other credits include Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Revolutionary Road.

Kate Winslet is in preproduction on her feature directorial debut Goodbye June, which is set to shoot in the UK for Netflix and Working Title Films.

Goodbye June is based on a script by Winslet’s son Joe Anders, and will star Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, Winslet and Helen Mirren.

Winslet isalso producing the film withKate Solomon, with Working Title as executive producers.

The film is a contemporary fictional drama about a fractured group of siblings who pull together under sudden and trying circumstances.

Winslet is set to attend the Bafta Film Awards today (February 16), where...

In her feature directorial debut, Bonus Track, Julia Jackman has created an immensely charming romance. With help from a script co-written by Michael Gilbert and Josh O'Connor that is equal parts silly and sweet, the end result seems impossible to dislike. The central pair are George and Max, played by Joe Anders and Samuel Small, two 16-year-old boys living in small-town England. George is far from academically gifted, but his aspirations lie in the music industry. So, when Max — the son of a famous musician — arrives at his school, the two join forces to prepare a song for the end-of-year talent show.

The drama is relatively low stakes: Max having a famous father makes him the topic of tabloid speculation and George's parents are going through a tumultuous time in their relationship. However, those plot threads could really be anything, as they just work in service of the central romance.

Scott Mescudi made it out of M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap just in time to land his next role. The actor and "Pursuit Of Happiness" rapper will next appear in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore sequel, alongside Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, and Sandler himself. All three actors are reprising their...

As production on the new Netflix limited series, East of Eden, a drama based on the John Steinbeck novel of the same name, gets underway, more of the shows cast has been announced. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Martha Plimpton and Ciarn Hinds (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) have been added to the cast, joining series leads Florence Pugh and Mike Faist.

Tracy Letts, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders were also announced as part of the East of Eden cast. The series recently began production in New Zealand.

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Recent rumors about a Goonies sequel has Sean Astin telling Steven Spielberg to make it a reality.

The Series Has Been In Development Since 2022

The series was acquired by Netflix in 2022 but was just greenlit in September. It is written and co-showrun by Zoe Kazan,...

Even though she's no stranger to Netflix, having starred in the streamer's original movies Outlaw King, Malevolent, and The Wonder, Academy Award-nominated actress Florence Pugh's biggest Netflix role is still to come. The talented star will lead the cast of Netflix's upcoming limited series East of Eden, based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

Pugh first became attached to star when word of the project was revealed by Deadline back in June 2022, but Netflix officially gave the limited series the green light in September 2024. Along with Pugh leading the cast, three additional cast members were announced at the time of the green light: Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Hoon Lee.

On Oct. 21, the ensemble cast of East of Eden was rounded out with Tracy Letts, Matha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders. With the cast set, it's reported that production on the seven-episode...

Netflix is adding to the ensemble for its adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

The limited series starring and executive produced by Florence Pugh has begun production in New Zealand. Joining the cast are Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciaran Hinds, Joseph Zada and Joe Anders, who will appear alongside Pugh and the previously cast Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist and Hoon Lee.

Netflix formally greenlit the seven-episode drama in September, having acquired the rights in a bidding war back in 2022. Zoe Kazan — the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, who directed a 1955 feature film based on the novel — and Jeb Stuart (Die Hard, Vikings: Valhalla) are co-showrunners, with Kazan adapting Steinbeck’s book.

East of Eden tells the intertwined stories of two families in California’s Salinas Valley, the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Netflix says the series will “explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new attention on its indelible antihero,...

The “East of Eden” limited series adaptation at Netflix is rounding out its cast.

Variety has learned that Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders have all joined the series.

They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Hoon Lee.

Letts will play Cyrus Trask, while Plimpton will play Faye, Hinds will play Samuel Hamilton, Zada will play Cal Trask, and Anders will play Aron Trask.

Based on the John Steinbeck novel of the same name, the series is said to “explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new attention on its indelible antihero, Cathy Ames (Pugh).”

Production on the seven-episode series is now underway in New Zealand. In addition to writing, Zoe Kazan serves as executive producer and co-showrunner. Her grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the original film adaptation starring James Dean. Jeb Stuart serves as co-showrunner and executive producer as well.

Netflix has rounded out the main cast of its limited series East Of Eden, starring and executive produced by Florence Pugh and written and executive produced by Zoe Kazdan.

Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada and Joe Anders have boarded the project, joining previously cast Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist and Hoon Lee.

Production on the seven-episode limited series, produced by Fifth Season and Anonymous Content, has started; it will be filming across multiple locations in New Zealand.

East Of Eden, a modern interpretation of Steinbeck’s classic, will explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new attention on its indelible antihero, Cathy Ames (Pugh).

Joseph Zada and Joe Anders

Letts will play Cyrus Trask; Plimpton will play Faye...

"I can play, and you can sing." Sunrise Films & Vertigo have revealed an official trailer for Bonus Track, a teen romance film out to watch this fall. The film originally premiered at the 2023 London Film Festival last year. It also played at a few other festivals and is actually getting a small theatrical release in the US this October. In 2006, George Bobbin, a 16-year-old who lives in a small English town and dreams of becoming a pop star, meets Max, the son of a famous musical duo. He teams up with this son of a rock star to try and win the school talent show. This musical coming-of-age romantic comedy film is directed by Julia Jackman, and is based on an original story by actor Josh O'Connor. The film stars Joe Anders as George, Samuel Small as Max, with Jack Davenport, Alison Sudal, Ray Panthaki, & Susan Wokoma. Josh O'Connor makes an appearance as well.

Sunrise Films has set a U.S. release date for “Bonus Track,” the feature directorial debut from director Julia Jackman, written by Mike Gilbert, with a story by Josh O’Connor.

The coming-of-age queer rom-com stars Joe Anders (“1917”) and Samuel Small (“So Awkward”), supported by an ensemble cast including Ray Panthaki (“Boiling Point”), Susan Wokoma (“Enola Holmes”), Jack Davenport (“Ten Percent”), Alison Sudol (the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise) and O’Connor (“Challengers”) in a cameo role.

Set in 2006 England, the story follows 16-year-old aspiring musician George (Anders), who befriends Max (Small), the son of a famous musical duo, as they prepare for a year-end talent show. Their friendship evolves in unexpected ways.

“Bonus Track” made its debut at the BFI London Film Festival and was released in the U.K. as a Sky Original film. The film is an Erebus Pictures and Sky production, in association with Lunapark Pictures and Fortune Films[/link]Fortune Films.

The next project for one of the stars of 2024's spiciest movie yet just got a juicy new update. A new report from Variety revealed that Bonus Track, the queer teen romance starring Joe Anders, Samuel Paul Small, Susan Wokoma, and Ellie Kendrick will be released both theatrically and digitally in October later this year. The film comes from Challengers star Josh O'Connor, who serves as a scribe on the project, with Julia Jackman making her directorial debut. Jackman has previously worked on a series of shorts, but this will be her first time stepping into the spotlight to direct a project of this magnitude.

Sunrise Films has secured the U.S. rights for “Bonus Track” from Bankside Films, with plans for a theatrical and digital release in October.

The feature directorial debut from Julia Jackman, “Bonus Track” is a coming-of-age queer rom-com written by Mike Gilbert, with a story by Josh O’Connor. The film stars Joe Anders (“1917”) and Samuel Small (“So Awkward”), supported by an ensemble cast including Ray Panthaki, Susan Wokoma, Jack Davenport, Alison Sudol and O’Connor in a cameo role.

Set in 2006 England, the story follows 16-year-old aspiring musician George (Anders), who befriends Max (Small), the son of a famous musical duo, as they prepare for a year-end talent show. Their friendship evolves in unexpected ways.

“Bonus Track” made its debut at the BFI London Film Festival and was released in the U.K. as a Sky Original film. The film is an Erebus Pictures and Sky production, in association with Lunapark Pictures and Fortune Films.

Movistar Plus+ Shooting Comedy ‘Muertos S.L.’

Cameras are rolling on Muertos S.L., an eight-part Spanish sitcom for Movistar Plus+ set in a family-owned funeral home. Laura and Alberto Caballero are directing the series, which is a Movistar Plus+ production in collaboration with Contubernio Sl. Carlos Areces leads the cast, which also includes Ascen López, Salva Reina, Aitziber Garmendia and Adriana Torrebejano among others. Plot reads: “When Gonzalo Torregrosa, owner and founder of Torregrosa Funeral Home, passes away, Dámaso Carrillo, his right-hand man in the company, doesn’t hesitate that the best for the business is taking the reins himself. However, against all odds, Nieves, the septuagenarian widow, decides to take the lead in the family business, with the assistance of her inept yet enthusiastic son-in-law, Chemi, a Marketing expert, and in defiance of her daughters’ plans to close the Funeral Home and start a gym.

Bifa sets partnership with talent support organisation We Are Bridge.

The final longlist for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) has been unveiled, with actors from Rye Lane and Scrapper among those longlisted for the breakthrough performance award.

Fifteen actors are on the list, including David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah, co-leads in Raine Allen-Miller’s romantic comedy Rye Lane; and Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun from Charlotte Regan’s Sundance drama Scrapper.

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Also listed are Mia McKenna Bruce for her lead role in Molly Manning Walker’s clubbing holiday drama How To Have Sex; and Keenan Munn-Francis,...

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Julia Jackman’s feature debut about two teenagers with a shared passion for music is entertaining and sympathetic if a bit formulaic

Writer-director Julia Jackman is an award-winner for her short films and now makes her feature debut at the London film festival with this teen romcom, based on an idea co-authored by Josh O’Connor – who shows up in an amusing cameo playing a masked graffiti artist and part-time body piercer with a sub-Banksy reverence for his own anonymous glamour. It’s sweet-natured and engagingly laid-back, if a bit televisual and reliant on that time-honoured staple that dates from Richard Curtis’s Love Actually: the end-of-term school show in which a romantic declaration becomes an unscripted part of the programme.

The year is 2006 and, come to think of it, this is the second Lff movie set in 2006, after Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn; perhaps it will...

Exclusive: It’s a Sin star and musician Olly Alexander has created an original song for upcoming Sky’s coming-of-age love story Bonus Track.

Alexander is also an executive producer on the film, which comes from Josh O’Connor and Mike Gilbert and is set to premiere at BFI’s London Film Festival this October before launching on Sky Cinema.

The film, set in 2006, follows small-town teenager George (Joe Anders), who dreams of being a star though no-one else sees his talent. When Max (Samuel Small), the son of a mega-famous musical duo and takes and takes an interest in his music, George can’t believe it. But as they grow closer, George begins to question why he wants to spend time with Max — he’s faced with a dream come true, if only he can figure out what that dream actually is now.

Susan Wokoma, O’Connor, Ray Panthaki, Alison Sudol...

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its lineup for the Industry Selects program of films beyond the official fest lineup and available for worldwide acquisition as each gets an in-person screening for film buyers and industry execs.

Leading the selection is director James Marsh’s Dance First, a biopic with Gabriel Byrne playing the literary giant Samuel Beckett and Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Aidan Gillen and Fionn O’Shea also starring; and director Neil Burger’s Inheritance, a thriller that has a woman played by Phoebe Dynevor learning her father Sam (Rhys Ifans) was once a spy, which puts her at the center of an international conspiracy.

Also picked for market screenings in Toronto is Jimmy Warden’s Borderline, set in 1996 Los Angeles and starring Eric Dane, Ray Nicholson and Samara Weaving as a pop star taken hostage; The Home, a horror pic from Purge series creator James DeMonaco, and starring...

Fest also announces Connections, Microsessions, and Spotlight sessions.

TIFF has announced the Industry Selects acquisition titles available to buyers during the festival, a 12-strong roster featuring new work from James Marsh, Rebecca Snow, and Neil Burger.

Gabriel Byrne plays literary giant Samuel Beckett in Marsh’s Dance First alongside Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Aidan Gillen, and Fionn O’Shea. Film Constellation represents worldwide rights and the film will close San Sebastian.

Phoebe Dynevor stars with Rhys Ifans for Burger in Inheritance, a thriller about a woman who uncovers her father’s espionage past. CAA Media Finance handles sales.

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Kate Winslet has revealed why she felt it was “really important” for I Am Ruth to be set in “a middle-class world”.

Winslet stars as concerned mother Ruth, in Channel 4’s newest instalment of director Dominic Savage’s I Am anthology series, whose daughter Freya slowly retreats into herself as the pressures of social media begin to weigh on her.

Freya’s played by Winslet’s real-life daughter Mia Threapleton, 22, whom she shares with ex-husband Jim Threapleton.

In a new interview with Sky News, published on 8 December, Winslet spoke about the feature-length drama and her reasoning for it being set in a middle-class world.

“Setting this in a middle-class world was really important to me,” she explained.

“I said to Dominic [Savage], we can only do this if we don’t set it in a lower socioeconomic environment because I feel that often when stories like that are told on television or on film,...