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Filming on Channel 4‘s new crime thriller In Flight, starring Katherine Kelly, is underway.

The new six-part series follows Kelly (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, The Long Shadow) as Jo, a flight attendant who finds her life turned upside down when she is blackmailed into drug smuggling when her son is arrested.

Co-created by Mike Walden (Marcella, Whitstable Pearl) and Adam Randall (Slow Horses, iBoy), and directed by Chris Baugh (Wreck, Tin Star), the show will also star Stuart Martin, Ashley Thomas, Bronagh Waugh, Harry Cadby, Corinna Brown and Ambreen Razia.

Set in Bangkok, Bulgaria, Istanbul and London, filming takes place in Belfast with funding support from Northern Ireland Screen.

“I am really excited to be taking on the role of Jo and I can’t wait to tell her compelling story,” Kelly said. “I am delighted to be working with Buccaneer Media again and it’s joy to be filming in Belfast.

Exclusive: UK network Channel 4 has boarded a crime drama starring Katherine Kelly about a single mother who is blackmailed into smuggling drugs.

Filming on the six-part In Flight is underway, with Kelly playing an air hostess who is forced to take desperate measures after her son is arrested. Alongside Channel 4, Prosieben has acquired rights to Germany, Sbs for Australia and Tvnz for New Zealand. Fremantle is handling international distribution.

Mike Walden and Adam Randall are the writers and Chris Baugh is the director. Buccaneer Media is producing.

Kelly’s character, Jo Conran, is a single mother whose son is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bulgarian prison for a murder he swears not to have committed. When she approached by a gang who knows all about her situation, she is blackmailed...

Everything Now will not return for a second season. Netflix has cancelled the British teen comedy-drama series, according to an interview with Dylan Brady on Film Update. The actor (Mary & George), Coronation Street) was involved in the writing of the series and authored the sixth episode.

The Everything Now series, which stars Sophie Wilde, Lauryn Ajufo, Harry Cadby, Noah Thomas, Stephen Fry, Niamh McCormack, Sam Reuben, Vivienne Acheampong, and Alex Hassell, launched in October 2023.

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Exclusive: Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) have landed the lead roles in the BBC’s upcoming crime drama series Dope Girls, we can reveal.

Umi Myers, Eilidh Fisher and Geraldine James have also landed major parts in the series, which we first told you about back in March. At the time, our sources said the BBC sees Dope Girls as a spiritual successor to Peaky Blinders, which ended last year.

Filming on the show, which is set in London’s Soho in the early 20th century, when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine, is now underway. It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and comes from Polly Stenham and Alex Warren (Eleanor).

Nicholson will play Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life...

Netflix has debuted the official trailer for the young adult series ‘Everything Now.’

When 16-year old Mia returns home after a lengthy recovery from an eating disorder, she is thrust back into the chaotic world of sixth form only to find that her friends have moved on with teen life without her. Along with an ever-evolving bucket list, three best mates and a major new crush, Mia throws herself headfirst into a world of dating, parties and first kisses, soon discovering that not everything in life can be planned for.

The eight-episode series has a cast that includes Sophie Wilde, Lauryn Ajufo, Harry Cadby, Noah Thomas, Sam Reuben, Niamh McCormack, Jessie Mae Alonzo, Robert Akodoto, Vivienne Acheampong, Alex Hassell, and Stephen Fry.

Also in trailers – Chris Evans & Emily Blunt star in first look images & trailer from ‘Pain Hustlers’

The series launches on the streamer on October 5th.

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Matthias Hoene’s 2023 crime thriller Little Bone Lodge can be best described by the phrase that ‘appearances can be deceiving.’ Joely Richardson stars as Mama, the protagonist of the movie, where she’s the protective mother of a teenage girl named Maisy (Sadie Soverall) and the primary caregiver of her disabled husband Pa (Roger Ajogbe). Things were going fine until two brothers, Jack (Neil Linpow) and Matty (Harry Cadby), arrived on a stormy night, seeking immediate help. Soon, everything spins out of control to reveal a dark secret about this wholesome family. Here’s a recap of everything that happens in the 2023 thriller Little Bone Lodge.

Where Does Mama Take Jack?

On a stormy and rainy night, a family of three is celebrating a birthday. The mother and the daughter prepare a cake for the girl’s disabled father, Pa, and they feed it to him. The house is way...

Joely Richardson in Little Bone Lodge Photo: Signature Entertainment

Making its début as part of the Frightfest strand at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival and now available on digital platforms, Little Bone Lodge is a small scale thriller which makes a very big impression. Writer Neil Linpow plays Jack, a criminal on the run with his childlike but unpredictably violent young brother, Matty (Harry Cadby). After their car crashes, the two seek refuge in an isolated farmhouse in the Scottish highlands, waiting for their boss to arrive, but what they don’t know is that the householder (Joely Richardson) has secrets of her own which she will do anything to protect. As Matty forms a tender bond with sheltered teenager Maisy (Sadie Soverall), whose disabled father (Roger Ajogbe) sites helplessly on the sidelines, events conspire to plunge everybody’s carefully made plans into chaos.

It’s a smart, punchy,...

Secrets are revealed as Richardson’s matriarch turns out not to be just a simple farmer’s wife when protecting her family

This story is set in a farmhouse in present-day Britain, but its occupants – hypercompetent Mama (Joely Richardson), ailing Pa (Roger Ajogbe) and teenage daughter Maisy (Sadie Soverall) – live like they’re in the 1950s, with no mobile phones or landline, no TV and certainly no internet. Nevertheless, they seem content enough even if Mama is a bit overprotective of Maisy. Perhaps that’s due to the fact that Pa wouldn’t be much help in a crisis, given he uses a wheelchair and is nearly mute, heavily medicated with the painkillers that Mama dispenses on a strict schedule. It’s understandable that she would be hesitant to admit the strangers who come hammering on the front door in the middle of a ferocious storm, pleading desperately for help...

"She can be glorious, or filled with wrath..." Signature Ent. in the UK has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror film titled Little Bone Lodge, formerly known as The Last Exit. There's no US date set yet, but it's available on VOD later in May in the UK. Set during a vicious storm, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. Taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds dark secrets of its own. Sounds like another Texas Chain Saw Massacre inspired horror with the overused trope that the random home owners are the evil ones in this story. Little Bone Lodge stars Joely Richardson, Neil Linpow, Sadie Soverall, Harry Cadby, Roger Ajogbe, and Euan Bennet. It looks like another messy mish-mash of horror ideas and finicky characters that won't amount to much. For horror fans only... // Continue Reading ›...

Stars: Joely Richardson, Neil Linpow, Sadie Soverall, Harry Cadby, Roger Ajogbe, Euan Bennet | Written by Neil Linpow | Directed by Matthias Hoene

Matthias Hoene follows up the awesome Warriors Gate (a film I still Love to this day), which was a movie that dealt with time travel and featured a cast of thousands in Huge action sequences, with Little Bone Lodge, a small-scale but oh-so-taut thriller that both conforms to and somehow also defies expectations and skewers stereotypical characterisations, continuously switching up the traditional hero and villain roles as it goes on.

During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own. Including a fearsome family matriarch who will stop at nothing to protect her kin and the shocking mysteries that surround their very existence…...

“It’s said that mother is the name for God on the lips of all children,” comes the narrator’s voice as the camera drifts through a remote stretch of the Scottish highlands. Quoting The Crow may not exactly raise expectations for Matthias Hoene’s most recent venture into horror, which screened in the Frightfest strand at the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival, but set your worries aside. This is a great little horror thriller and his best work to date.

It’s founded on a strong script by Neil Linpow, who also stars as Jack, one of two brothers on the run in the aftermath of a robbery. The other is Matty (Harry Cadby), who arrives at the farmhouse, where most of the action plays out, in a panic after their car has gone off the road. Jack is badly injured and at risk of bleeding out. He’s tremendously lucky that the owner.

The title was picked up from UK sales outfit Sc Films International.

UK-based production and distribution outfit Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Irish rights for horror Little Bone Lodge, directed by Matthias Hoene and starring Joely Richardson.

Signature picked up the film from UK sales outfit Sc Films International, for a spring release.

It follows two criminal brothers on the run, who seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. They take the whole family captive, only to find the house holds dark secrets of its own.

Richardson plays the formidable family matriarch, with Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow and Harry Cadby rounding out the cast.

Exclusive: Legendary British actor Stephen Fry has boarded Netflix’s The F**k it Bucket from The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, joining a clutch of highly-rated newcomers including lead Sophie Wilde (You Don’t Know Me) and Boiling Point’s Lauryn Ajufo.

Fry will play the role of Mia Polanco (Wilde)’s doctor, Dr Nell, in his latest Netflix show, having appeared as Headmaster Barnes in hit young adult drama Heartstopper and Gilbert in Neil Gaiman’s upcoming The Sandman.

Unveiled on a UK slate last year, The F**k it Bucket is Netflix’s latest big UK young adult bet, following on from the critical and commercial success of Heartstopper.

Newcomer Ripley Parker’s show follows a 17-year-old Londoner who is released from hospital after a lengthy battle with anorexia nervosa. She is thrust back into the chaotic world of sixth form, only to find that her friends have...

The film is directed by Matthias Hoene.

UK-based sales agent Sc Films International has boarded Matthias Hoene’s Little Bone Lodge starring Joely Richardson, which wrapped shooting in the UK last month.

The company has released a first look at the film, above; sales will begin at next month’s Cannes.

Little Bone Lodge follows two criminal brothers on the run who seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. Taking the resident family captive, they find that the house holds dark secrets of its own.

Richardson plays the family matriarch, with Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow and Harry Cadby also in the cast.