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“Paddington” producer-distributor Studiocanal is gearing up to shoot “How To Stop Time,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and with D.C. Moore (“Mary & George”) and Tomas Alfredson (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) on board as key creative talent.

Production on the title by Studiocanal and SunnyMarch will be announced by CEO Anna Marsh on Monday at her keynote at Cannes’ MipTV trade fair.

In it, she also looks set to confirm that Studiocanal has acquired an equity stake in London-based Strong Film & Television, co-founded in late 2020 by “Broadchurch” director James Strong and Matt Tombs, a former executive at the BBC and Paramount.

Both moves come as Studiocanal parent, Vivendi’s Canal+ Group, is ramping up its own international ambitions, operating throughout Africa, in six territories in Eastern Europe and two in Asia with 16 million of its 25.5 million subscribers now outside France. It also holds a leading 30.3% stake in Africa’s MultiChoice Group, the biggest...

Seasoned drama producer Helen Gregory (“Gangs of London”) is joining See-Saw Films in the newly created position of creative director from Sept. 1, reporting into joint MDs Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.

Based in London and working closely with the MDs and COO Simon Gillis, Gregory will be responsible for steering the creative strategy of the company and the development of their growing television slate. She will be responsible for leading See-Saw’s team of executive producers across the U.K. and Australia.

Gregory joins See-Saw from her company Trapeze Entertainment and was most recently an executive producer on Pulse and Sister Pictures’ season 2 of “Gangs of London” for Sky/AMC. At Trapeze, she set development projects up with the BBC, Netflix, Sky and with Jude Law’s production company Riff Raff Entertainment — relationships she will continue to build on at See-Saw.

Before founding Trapeze Entertainment, Gregory was managing director of...

Helen Gregory is set to join See-Saw Films in the newly-created senior role of creative executive, based out of the London office.

Gregory joins See-Saw from her company Trapeze Entertainment, with recent credits including executive producer on Pulse and Sister Pictures’ season two of Gangs of London for Sky/AMC.

Prior to, Gregory was managing director of Twelve Town (formerly Pinewood Television), and has held other senior roles such as head of film and TV at Ruby FIlm & Television, joint head of drama at World Productions and commissioning editor for drama at Channel 4. Her credits include The Child In Time, The Enfield Haunting and The Catch.

While at Trapeze, Gregory set development projects up with the BBC, Netflix, Sky and with Jude Law’s production company Riff Raff Entertainment, which she will continue to build at See-Saw.

Effective September 1, Gregory will be responsible for steering the creative strategy of the company,...

She shot to fame in Trainspotting, and has starred in Gosford Park, Boardwalk Empire and even as a Disney princess. So why did the Scottish actor panic about her new role in Line Of Duty?

Kelly Macdonald’s roles are typically quiet, fraught with internal conflict and entailing journeys that are more reflective than active. As a grieving mother in The Child In Time, a gangster’s wife in Boardwalk Empire and the titular role in The Girl In The Cafe, the 45-year-old has, over the last 25 years, become known for the kind of thoughtful performances signified by the image of a woman staring out of a window. All of which makes our encounter today doubly surprising; that Macdonald, appearing via Zoom from her home in Glasgow, is here to talk about Line Of Duty, possibly the least reflective TV show ever made. And that she is a complete hoot.

A girl meets her mother as a child in the woods in a moving jewel of a film about memory, friendship and kin

Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and very moving. I fell instantly under its spell, and found myself thinking of classic English tales such as Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce, or The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. And there is an extra-textual pleasure in wondering exactly what its child stars thought about it during filming – and what they think about it now.

Joséphine Sanz plays Nelly, the eight-year-old daughter of Marion (Nina Meurisse). The latter is under enormous stress. Marion’s mother has just died in a care home, from long-term complications of a hereditary bone disorder, which Marion herself had to avoid with a painful operation when she was about Nelly’s age.

Long-time Studiocanal executive Rola Bauer is joining MGM as President, International Television Productions.

Bauer will oversee development, production and co-productions for MGM’s international scripted TV content, reporting to MGM TV Group Chairman Mark Burnett.

Based in Munich, she will split her time between MGM’s European and U.S. offices.

A highly respected veteran of international TV production, Bauer previously steered Studiocanal’s TV content, including Years And Years and War Of The Worlds, while also spearheading acquisitions for Midnight Sun, The Last Panthers, and Below the Surface. On the international co-production and distribution front, she handled ZeroZeroZero as well as Harlan Coben’s Safe, her third Coben series, for Netflix and the Canal+ Group.

She led the development and orchestrated the funding of detective series Take Two, the U.S./European co-production from Tandem, Milmar Pictures and ABC Studios. She has also been instrumental in shaping numerous international productions,...

Peaky Blinders’ Helen McCrory is to play the British Prime Minister alongside Hugh Laurie in British drama Roadkill as PBS Masterpiece boards the four-part BBC series.

McCrory will be joined by Westworld’s Sidse Babett Knudsen and Dublin Murders’ Sarah Greene in the series, which is written by Collaterel’s David Hare and produced by National Treasure producer The Forge.

The cast is rounded out by Saskia Reeves (The Child in Time), Patricia Hodge (A Very English Scandal), Ophelia Lovibond (Hooten & the Lady), Iain De Caestecker (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Katie Leung (Chimerica), Olivia Vinall (The Woman in White), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Harlots) Shalom Brune-Franklin (Our Girl), Pip Torrens (Preacher), Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom) and Danny Ashok (Deep Water).

The thriller is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence (Laurie). Peter’s public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is...

In 2008, when Tandem’s Rola Bauer and Tim Halkin began financing “The Pillars of the Earth,” allying with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, they stood nearly alone in Europe in making grand-scale English-language limited series.

Now Bauer and Halkin are in the vanguard of a global TV revolution at the Munich-based company.

The Canadian Bauer and U.S.-born Halkin met when he reported to her at ProSieben in Germany. In 1999, the pair founded Tandem. Bauer wanted to pursue her interest in creating content while Halkin is a marketing whiz. Having him as a business partner allowed her to raise her two children while still working, she has said.

In early 2012, Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, bought a 51% share in Tandem. That deal helped the boutique company, which makes international programming usually with U.S. partners, move ahead.

Run by Halkin, Tandem still makes its own series,...

Red Joan starring Dame Judi Dench is releasing in cinemas nationwide from Friday 19 April and to celebrate we are giving 3 lucky winners the chance to win a copy of the novel on which the film is based on.

The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Dench) is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia.

Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light.

Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question – what price would you pay for peace? – Joan must choose between betraying her country...

Nent Group’s Nordic streaming service Viaplay has boarded “With One Eye Open,” partnering Twelve Town and Nice Drama on the Swedish drama series which brings a fresh look to Swedish and Russian ties.

The eight-part series is based on Martin Österdahl’s “Ask No Mercy,” the first of three books in the Max Anger suspense trilogy.

First pitched at Lille’s Series Mania in May, the project is set in 1996 Saint Petersburg on the run-up to Boris Yeltsin’s election. Max Anger, a former attack diver for the Swedish navy now works for think tank Vektor, set up to help Swedish companies open up shop in Russia. When his Russian/Swedish girlfriend suddenly goes missing, while investigating a neo-Stalinist plot against Sweden, he goes on a mission to rescue her and at the same time, uncovers secrets about his own past.

In the lead-up to TV Drama Vision on Jan.

Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for the adaptation of Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel ‘Red Joan’ starring Judi Dench.

Directed by Trevor Nunn, the cast is led by multi-award winning actress Judi Dench (Skyfall, Shakespeare in Love) and Sophie Cookson (Gypsy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) who star as the eponymous central character, Stephen Campbell Moore (The Child in Time, Goodbye Christopher Robin) as Max, a physics professor and Young Joan’s mentor, Tom Hughes (Victoria, London Town) as Leo, a young communist and Young Joan’s first love, Ben Miles (The Crown, Woman in Gold) as Joan’s son and lawyer Nick and Tereza Srbova as a fellow Cambridge University student and Young Joan’s confident.

Also in trailers – Tessa Thompson and Lily James star in trailer for ‘Little Woods’

The film is out in cinemas April 19th

Red Joan Synopsis

The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Dench) is living...

Studiocanal has pre-sold Movistar+’s original drama “Instinto” to Amazon Prime Video in Latin America and to Pantaya, the premium Spanish-language streaming service recently launched by Lionsgate and Hemisphere Media Group.

An erotic thriller, “Instinto” is produced by Bambú Producciones, the Studiocanal-owned Spanish company behind Spanish-language hit series such as “Velvet” and “Grand Hotel.” The series will mark the first show from Bambú distributed by Studiocanal and the company’s first partnership with Telefonica.

The eight-part drama, directed by Carlos Sedes, will premiere on Movistar+ in Spain and will also roll out on a first-run basis across the U.S. on Pantaya. Amazon Prime Video will then stream the series in the entire Latin American region, including Brazil.

“Instinto” stars Mario Casas (“The 33”) as Marco, a tormented young businessman who regularly escapes to a private club to fulfill his fantasies. The show was created by executive producers Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés.

British broadcaster ITV and Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures are developing a family drama from newcomer writer Devin Doyle after he won their talent discovery scheme.

Dublin-based writer Doyle won the Red Planet Prize 2018, which is run by Tony Jordan’s production company and the commercial network and will now work with the two firms to develop his project Devoted Wife and Mother. The award is intended to recognize talented writers who can create “fresh, original and inspiring popular drama” projects.

Doyle’s Devoted Wife and Mother script follows a woman as she has her life turned upside down when her debt dealing husband is kidnapped with a £500,000 ransom deadline for 5pm that day. He will work closely with Kate Rowland to develop the project; Rowland has previously worked with writers including Lee Hall (War Horse), Stephen Butchard (The Child in Time) and Sarah Phelps (And Then There Were None).

“I’m excited,...

Kelly Macdonald on working with Puzzle director Marc Turtletaub and Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler, Austin Abrams, and Liv Hewson: "It's very much on the day, on set, I believe that's when it really begins for me." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the second half of my conversation with Kelly Macdonald at the Langham Hotel in New York we go from Natalia Smirnoff's Rompecabezas to Anna Karenina, Robinson Crusoe, and Philippa Lowthorpe's Swallows And Amazons based on the book by Arthur Ransome. Kelly's feelings about jigsaw puzzles are revealed: "I love them"; and she talks about her upcoming projects which include working again with The Child In Time director Julian Farino on a BBC and Netflix mini-series Giri/Haji, created by Joe Barton, and a Sherlock Holmes comedy directed by Etan Cohen, starring Will Ferrell and John C Reilly as Holmes and Watson with Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Laurie,...

Kelly Macdonald with producer Wren Arthur and director Marc Turtletaub on her Puzzle costumes: "Mirren Gordon-Crozier did a great job." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The day after Marc Turtletaub introduced me to Kelly Macdonald at Sony Pictures Classics, the star of Puzzle met with me for a conversation that started out with the meal that Kelly as Agnes prepares for her husband Louie (David Denman), their two sons Ziggy (Bubba Weiler) and Gabe (Austin Abrams), and his girlfriend Nicki (Liv Hewson). Kelly and I leap from Isabelle Huppert's shoes to the stoop that Jack Lemmon sits on in Billy Wilder's The Apartment, from a Fred MacMurray resemblance to her The Child In Time co-star Benedict Cumberbatch to Cameron Crowe's persistence, and her character in Marc Turtletaub's Puzzle.

Kelly Macdonald on appearing saintly as Agnes in Puzzle: "I knew that Chris Norr, the cinematographer, was filming it in...

Exclusive: Puzzle and Boardwalk Empire star Kelly Macdonald has lined up a leading role in BBC One/Netflix’s upcoming thriller Giri/Haji, Deadline understands. I hear Macdonald will play Sarah, a London-based forensics lecturer and policewoman who forms an unlikely friendship with a Japanese detective searching for his brother who has become entangled with the Yakuza.

First announced in May 2017, Giri/Haji (Duty/Shame) hails from Humans writer Joe Barton, and Jane Featherstone’s Sister Pictures. BBC One will air in the UK with Netflix handling globally.

The eight-part series follows middle-aged Tokyo detective Kenzo who travels to London in search of his wayward younger brother Yuto. Once thought dead, Yuto is now believed to be posing as a Yakuza gangster in London and wanted for the murder of a Japanese businessman there.

It is described as a dark, character-driven crime story which cuts between London and Tokyo, exploring...

Once again, the Emmy Awards nominations don’t include a ton of TV favorites, including past winners Sean Hayes, Eric McCormack and Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”) as well as fan favorites like “Outlander” stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan. We pride ourselves on being able to predict which way TV academy voters will go, but we didn’t see their shunning of such Emmy darlings as five-time Best Comedy Series champ “Modern Family” and previous Best Drama Series winner “Homeland.”

We had already written off “Roseanne” after its star imploded on social media. Among the other highly-rated TV fare that didn’t fair well with the Emmys are “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Good Doctor,” “The Good Fight” and “Young Sheldon.”

Below, we enumerate the top 50 snubs in our estimation. These were the shows and performers that we thought had a strong chance to number among this year’s nominees.

Benedict Cumberbatch has two chances for an Emmy nomination this year: Best Movie/Mini Actor for the PBS Masterpiece film “The Child in Time” and the Showtime limited series “Patrick Melrose.” If he does hear his name called when nominations are announced on June 12, it will be his sixth bid in the category, which would put him in rarefied territory. That would tie him with the legendary Laurence Olivier for the second most ever nominations in the category, and it would put him one bid shy of Hal Holbrook‘s all-time record of seven.

Cumberbatch has gotten all of his prior nominations just since 2012; he has contended in five of the last six years. His first bid was for playing the title role in “Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia” (2012). A modern update of Arthur Conan Doyle‘s famous detective stories, “Sherlock” took the next Emmy season off, but Cumberbatch was...

Outstanding Comedy Series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Atlanta,” “black-ish,” “Silicon Valley,” “Barry,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Glow” Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Tracee Ellis Ross, “black-ish”; Allison Janney, “Mom”; Debra Messing, “Will & Grace”; Alison Brie, “Glow”; Pamela Adlon, “Better Things” Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Donald Glover, “Atlanta”; Anthony Anderson, “black-ish”; William H. Macy, “Shameless”; Bill Hader, “Barry”; Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”; Eric McCormack, “Will & Grace” Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”; Alex Borstein, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Megan Mullally, “Will & Grace”; Zazie Beetz, “Atlanta”; Rita Moreno, “One Day at a Time”; D’Arcy Carden, “The Good Place” Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live”; Henry Winkler, “Barry”; Tony Shalhoub, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Titus Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; Louie Anderson, “Baskets”; Brian Tyree Henry, “Atlanta” Outstanding Drama Series: “The Handmaid’s Tale,...

Is David Lynch just too damn weird for Emmy voters?

That’s a question that could be answered by Emmy nominations in the limited series and television movie categories, where Lynch’s return to “Twin Peaks” on Showtime is both a monumental achievement and one of the strangest things ever put on television.

Among the top contenders in the limited series category, the 18-episode “Twin Peaks” is longest piece of work by more than six hours — and it’s also so bizarre that it makes the last season of “Westworld” look like a model of concise storytelling. There’s a real question as to whether Lynch’s flights of fancy will be embraced or scorned by voters.

Among the other contenders, FX’s Ryan Murphy is always a major presence in these categories, with his big entry this year not the post-election edition of “American Horror Story” but the second...

The made-for-tv movie was a programming staple for the broadcast networks in the 1970s and 1980s. While it fell out of favor in the 1990s and was even dropped as an Emmy Awards category for three years beginning in 2011, it has been on an upswing as of late. This year, 34 telefilms are in contention for the five nominations that will be revealed on July 12.

All 22,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 25 to cast their ballots for their favorite TV movies. In the past, voters were limited in the number of telefilms that they could put forth. Last year, that cap (which was usually 10 per category) was lifted. And, as opposed to the Oscars, voters for the Emmys do not rank their choices and nominees are determined by a simple tally.

Unlike comedy and drama series, which are simply listed on the ballot by name, the television...

The 9th Annual TCM Film Festival recently ended its takeover of Hollywood’s famed Chinese Theater and its vicinity. For four days the festival filled the large theater as well as the small upstairs multiplexes with classic films from many decades as well as a plethora of Oscar winners discussing their work — and of course tons of film fans from all over the world. The festival still seems to be finding its feet a bit after the tragic loss of Robert Osborne last year. (I had to wonder what Osborne would have to say about raunchy films like “Animal House” and “The Big Lebowski” being the prime attractions on the main screen on two evenings.)

While no match for Osborne, Ben Mankiewicz has become a great host for the festival and provided many in depth interviews. On the negative side it is still baffling why Illeana Douglas is so critically...

Here is the third part of Gold Derby’s coverage of the 9th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival where Oscar winners and film fans gathered at Hollywood’s famous Chinese Theater. (Also check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our report.) Each day was filled with Oscar winners sharing stories and here are some of the best.

William Friedkin (1972 Best Director for “The French Connection”) gave one of the most enthusiastic and engaging presentations of the festival for “The Exorcist.” At 82 he clearly still loves talking about one of his biggest successes. Friedkin discussed how a lot of bigger stars were approached before the role of the mother was eventually given to Ellen Burstyn (who was a relative newcomer to film at this point.) Audrey Hepburn agreed to take the role but only if it would be shot in Italy. Anne Bancroft was interested but then found out she was pregnant.

This is the second part of Gold Derby’s coverage of the 9th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival where Oscar winners and film fans gathered at Hollywood’s famed Chinese Theater. (Read Part 1 of our report here.) Every day was filled with Oscar winners sharing stories and here are some of the best.

Martin Scorsese (2006 Best Director for “The Departed”) received the first Robert Osborne Award on the opening night of the festival from Leonardo DiCaprio (2015 Best Actor for “The Revenant”) and gave an impassioned speech about the importance of preserving film culture. He also joked that he refuses to stay in a hotel that doesn’t have TCM on their cable television and that he and DiCaprio’s film “The Aviator” is probably the only film of his that TCM would be able to show unedited.

SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: PBS ‘Masterpiece’ categories for ‘Little Women,’ ‘The Child in Time’ and...

Angela Lansbury, 2018 Emmy contender for Masterpiece Theater’s adaptation of “Little Women,” has one of the most unique awards histories of any performer. In her over 75-year career she has managed to amass a significant number of nominations for all three of the major acting awards: three Oscar noms, 18 Emmy bids and seven Tony citations. While she has sailed through the Tony Awards winning five times, the other awards have been more elusive.

Her Oscar nominations all came early in her career and she came up empty handed all three times (the Academy did remedy that with an honorary Oscar in 2013). Lansbury’s Emmy history has been downright infuriating for her fans since she has lost a staggering 18 times. That streak may come to an end this year if Lansbury is able to achieve the award for her work in PBS’s “Little Women.”

SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: PBS ‘Masterpiece’ categories for ‘Little Women,...

Emmy-winning “Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch returned to TV in a big way on May 12 with a critically acclaimed performance in the title role of “Patrick Melrose.” This five-part adaptation of the bestselling series of books by Edward St. Aubyn concludes on June 9, just before TV academy voters start casting their Emmy Awards nominations ballots. Watch an extended video clip from the Showtime limited series above.

St. Aubyn’s quintet of novels — “Never Mind” (1992); “Bad News” (1994); “Some Hope” (1996) “Mother’s Milk” (2005) and “At Last” (2012) — was re-released as “The Patrick Melrose Novels” in 2012. The author adapted “Mother’s Milk,” which contended for the Booker prize, for a 2012 film version directed by Gerald Fox. “Smash” star Jack Davenport played the part.

Tackling the adaptation this time around is BAFTA-nominated David Nicholls. He crafted the 2015 film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic “Far From the Madding Crowd” that starred Carey Mulligan as well as...

In her 74 years in show business, Dame Angela Lansbury has become a legend in film, theater and television. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards and was bestowed with an honorary Oscar in 2013. In addition, she has won two Golden Globe Awards for her film work, as well as two additional nominations. She has also won five Tony Awards (from seven nominations) for her work in the theatre. It has been quite a career. She is one of the few performers equally known for all three entertainment genres, and for that effort she was recognized with a Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: PBS ‘Masterpiece’ categories for ‘Little Women,’ ‘The Child in Time’ and more

Yet the only major award to have eluded Dame Angela is the Emmy. Famously, she has been nominated 18 times for the golden statue and yet has never won the golden statue. All of her...

Vision Films has picked up China rights to upcoming story “The Child In Time.” The film, about a writer dealing with the disappearance of his daughter, stars and is produced by Benedict Cumberbatch.

The pictures is adapted from Ian McEwan’s prize-winning novel and produced by Pinewood Television and SunnyMarch TV for BBC One in the UK and Masterpiece in the U.S. The screenplay is written by Stephen Butchard (“The Last Kingdom”) and directed by Julian Farino (“Entourage”).

“The Child in Time” is the first TV drama produced by Cumberbatch’s U.K. production company SunnyMarch TV. Studiocanal, which is handling international rights, became an investment partner in SunnyMarch TV in 2016.

“’The Child in Time’ is an amazing piece of drama with a real cinematic look and feel. The performances of the entire cast, in particular that of Benedict Cumberbatch, are breath-taking. We are delighted to bring this exceptional...

StudioCanal has inked a theatrical deal in China for the British TV movie The Child in Time.

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, who is confronted with the unthinkable when his only child, four-year-old Kate, disappears.

The movie is based on Ian McEwan's prize-winning novel of the same name. Julian Farino (Entourage) directs.

Vision Film Entertainment has picked up all rights for the drama in China and is planning a theatrical release in the territory. The deal is StudioCanal's first-ever theatrical sale to China.

The Child in Time is the first movie produced...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s TV drama The Child in Time is set to receive a theatrical debut in China after Studiocanal closed a deal in the Middle Kingdom.

The distributor sold the 90-minute TV movie, which aired on BBC One in the UK and PBS’ Masterpiece in the U.S., to Vision Film Entertainment, which plans to launch it theatrically and has retained all rights in China.

The unusual deal was struck by Anna Marsh, Evp International Distribution, Studiocanal.

The Child In Time, which was adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel by The Last Kingdom’s Stephen Butchard and directed by Entourage’s Julian Farino, tells the story of love, loss and the power of things unseen. Cumberbatch stars as Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, whose four-year old child Kate disappears. The drama was the first TV project to emerge from Cumberbatch’s Studiocanal-backed production company SunnyMarch TV,...

StudioCanal has inked a theatrical deal in China for the British TV movie <em>The Child in Time</em>.

<em>Sherlock</em> star Benedict Cumberbatch plays Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, who is confronted with the unthinkable when his only child, 4-year-old Kate, disappears.

The movie is based on Ian McEwan's prize-winning novel of the same name. Julian Farino (<em>Entourage</em>) directs.

Vision Film Entertainment has picked up all rights for the drama in China and is planning a theatrical release in the territory. The deal is StudioCanal's first-ever theatrical sale to China.

<em>The Child in Time </em>is the first movie ...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for PBS under their legendary “Masterpiece” umbrella. For this season, the public network has TV movie “The Child in Time” (Benedict Cumberbatch), limited series “Little Women” (Angela Lansbury) and drama series “The Durrells in Corfu” (Keeley Hawes), “Poldark” (Aidan Turner) and “Victoria” (Jenna Coleman) as their 2018 campaign.

Seea long overdue Emmy awaits Angela Lansbury (‘Little Women’), 73 percent of readers believe [Poll Results]

Below, the list of “Masterpiece” lead and supporting submissions for these programs. Keep in mind that other shows and specials not under the “Masterpiece” label will also be submitted. More names might be added by the network before final Emmy paperwork deadlines. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

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Lille, France — Sweden’s Nice Drama and the U.K.’s Twelve Town, formerly Pinewood Television, have purchased the rights to Martin Österdahl’s bestselling Max Anger novels, and optioned them as a high-end multi-season drama series, which the companies presented at the Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions in Lille.

Executive producers Stefan Baron of Nice Drama and Christian Wikander of Twelve Town were at the Series Mania Forum on behalf of the series, looking to secure European partners to aid in making “With One Eye Open” a high-end series, intended for the international market.

A development deal has already been signed with Swedish pubcaster Svt for two scripts, written by TV veterans Lars Lundström (“Real Humans”) and Anders Sparring (“Farang”), and an outline based on th3 first of Österdahl’s books, “Ask No Mercy,” with shooting planned for spring 2019.

The series, adapted from the first of Österdahl’s two...

Last Year’s Winner: Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: A nominee from HBO or FX has won this category nine times in the last 10 years — Laura Linney’s victory for “The Big C: Hereafter” in 2013 is the lone standout.

Fun Fact: Helen Mirren has the most trophies in this category. She’s won four times, including two for the “Prime Suspect” series.

Can Laura Dern become an Emmy winner two years in a row? After snagging her first trophy last year for “Big Little Lies,” Dern seems fated to snag another nomination (at least) for her hailed turn in HBO’s “The Tale.” The film earned rave reviews out of Sundance before the premium cable network picked it up, and the beloved Dern is front-and-center in the landmark cinematic memoir.

But she’s not the only one earning early Emmy buzz. Jessica Biel generated a...

Just weeks after his performance in the acclaimed PBS telefilm “The Child in Time,” Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role in Showtime’s lavish new limited series “Patrick Melrose.” This five-part adaptation of the bestselling series of books by Edward St. Aubyn debuts on May 12, just a few weeks before TV academy voters start casting their Emmy Awards nominations ballots. Watch the first extended trailer above that showcases the Emmy-winning “Sherlock” star.

St. Aubyn’s quintet of novels — “Never Mind” (1992); “Bad News” (1994); “Some Hope” (1996) “Mother’s Milk” (2005) and “At Last” (2012) — was re-released as “The Patrick Melrose Novels” in 2012. The author adapted “Mother’s Milk,” which contended for the Booker prize, for a 2012 film version directed by Gerald Fox. “Smash” star Jack Davenport played the part.

Tackling the adaptation this time around is BAFTA-nominated David Nicholls. He crafted the 2015 film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic “Far From the Madding Crowd...

Benedict Cumberbatch, who never seems to stop working (or juggling multiple projects) can be seen three times on screen within the span of 6 weeks. He just appeared in the deeply emotional TV movie The Child in Time (review), and will of course be making an appearance as Dr. Strange in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War on April 27th. And just after that, he is starring as Patrick Melrose in Showtime's limited series of the same name, based on the novels of Edward St. Aubyn. Each hour of the new series will focus on one of the Patrick Melrose …...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s production outfit SunnyMarch has pre-empted the TV rights to Ambrose Parry’s upcoming novel, The Way Of All Flesh, I can reveal. The book is the first in a new historical series set in the medical world of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1840s.

Ambrose Parry is the pseudonym for a collaboration between author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Marisa Haetzman. The novel will be published by Canongate as their superlead title in August 2018. SunnyMarch’s Managing Director Adam Ackland and Executive Producer Claire Marshall inked the deal with Charles Walker at United Agents and now plan to adapt the novel into a returning drama series but Cumberbatch is unlikely to star in this one, I understand.

Based on real historical figures, The Way of All Flesh is set in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh in 1847, a city home to brilliant advances in medical science but also great poverty with a truly unsavory,...

NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” broadcast on Easter Sunday, April 1, to excellent reviews (with a current MetaCritic score of 81). In recent years these live theatrical shows have become more popular on broadcast TV, and a few of them have gone on to win Emmys, like Fox’s “Grease Live” and NBC’s own “Hairspray.” But they haven’t broken through in movie/limited series acting categories yet. That could change this year with standout performers Sara Bareilles, Brandon Victor Dixon and Alice Cooper entering wide-open supporting races.

It’s true that John Legend could be nominated for and win Best Movie/Mini Actor for his leading role as Jesus, and he would gain Egot status in the process, but that race is stacked with admired A-list actors like Al Pacino (“Paterno”), Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose” and “The Child in Time“), Antonio Banderas (“Genius:...

Benedict Cumberbatch returns to PBS Masterpiece on April 1. However, he isn’t playing Sherlock, the role for which he won an Emmy in 2014. Rather he is headlining an acclaimed adaptation of Ian McEwan‘s 1987 bestseller “The Child in Time.” McEwan also wrote “Atonement,” which was adapted into the 2007 Oscar-winning film that launched Cumberbatch’s career. In this new film, for which he earned rave reviews, he plays Stephen Lewis, a children’s author whose marriage is rocked by the loss of his daughter.

This is a passion project for the actor who readily admits, “I read the novel years ago and it stayed with me: profound, beautiful and very moving. Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty.” And he is just as enthusiastic about his partners. “We’re very excited to have Stephen Butchard’s subtle and brilliant adaptation, and in Julian Farino we have an...

“The Child in Time” is a challenge to watch, especially in the beginning as it spins its tale of loss by shuttling back and forth chronologically. We see the emotionally spare present-day life of children’s author Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch) juxtaposed with flashbacks to the despair of the previous year, when his young daughter Kate goes missing while she’s out with him.

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As brutal as it is, dipping back in time over and over again serves several purposes. It clues viewers in to the breakdown of Stephen’s marriage with grieving wife Julie (Kelly Macdonald), it keeps the pain fresh for viewers so that we understand Stephen’s daily purgatory in the present, and it also introduces the concept of how time is not merely a linear experience when it comes to emotions.

Before tackling her challenging role in PBS’ “The Child in Time,” Kelly Macdonald was thrilled to be able to work through scenes with her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch. In the adaptation of “Atonement,” author Ian McEwan’s novel, the actors portray couple Julie and Stephen Lewis, who suffer a heartbreaking loss when their child goes missing.

“We were really privileged to be able to have rehearsal time beforehand which doesn’t always happen,” Macdonald said in an interview with IndieWire. “We talked through all the scenes… It’s always really helpful if for nothing else than to get to know your co-star a little bit when you have to play quite intimate scenes. That’s quite helpful. If it’s a stranger on Day One, it’s a bit more difficult.”

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“He’s just amazing.

Elisabeth Moss is expected to be nominated at the Emmys this year for her lead performances in both the drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the limited series “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” There have been 104 instances in Emmy history of someone receiving nominations in the same year for multiple performances, but only 11 have been with both nominated performances in lead categories. It has been five years since it last happened and it was actually Moss then too, in Best Drama Actress for “Mad Men” and Best Movie/Limited Actress for the first season of “Top of the Lake.” Click through our gallery above of the performers who have received simultaneous Emmy nominations for multiple lead roles.

SEEthe teaser for the second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Moss would be the first actress to achieve the feat twice if she pulls off a pair of nominations this year.

Elisabeth Moss is expected to be nominated at the Emmys this year for her lead performances in both the drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the limited series “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” There have been 104 instances in Emmy history of someone receiving nominations in the same year for multiple performances, but only 11 have been with both nominated performances in lead categories. It has been five years since it last happened and it was actually Moss then too, in Best Drama Actress for “Mad Men” and Best Movie/Limited Actress for the first season of “Top of the Lake.” Click through our gallery above of the performers who have received simultaneous Emmy nominations for multiple lead roles.

Moss would be the first actress to achieve the feat twice if she pulls off a pair of nominations this year. Alan Alda is the only actor who has been simultaneously...

It seems significant that two new British dramas premiering within a week of each other in the U.S. — one a movie, one a miniseries — would both be delving into the grief of losing a child. And yet, the film The Child in Time on PBS and Hulu’s National Treasure: Kiri explore that loss in completely different ways. Kiri, a new installment of what has become the National Treasure anthology, focuses largely on image and the role the media plays both in its dogged invasion of the private lives of those affected, and how it shapes the national conversation …...

Benedict Cumberbatch brings his critically acclaimed acting chops to Showtime’s new five-part series “Patrick Melrose”. The “Sherlock” and “Doctor Strange” star expresses a range of emotions from confident-to a sad mess-to ill-tempered and everything in between in a new trailer. Related: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays Grieving Father ‘The Child In Time’ Trailer Cumberbatch’s character in Showtime’s new limited […]...

In the wake of no more Sherlock being produced for the foreseeable future, the detective drama’s two stars are keeping themselves busy with an array of interesting projects both big and small.

Benedict Cumberbatch recently featured in emotional TV movie The Child In Time, for instance, ahead of his role in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War next May. Martin Freeman, meanwhile, is also joining Cumberbatch in the McU next year, as he’ll be appearing in February’s Black Panther. Before then, however, The Hobbit actor will be starring in indie zombie thriller Cargo.

With filming now complete and the movie knee-deep in post-production, the first clip from the upcoming UK project has arrived online and introduces the setting – that being the barren but beautiful landscape of rural Australia – before zeroing in on Martin Freeman’s desperate father Andy.

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The BBC adaptation of Ian McEwan’s The Child In Time is a sensitively told story about resilience. Spoilers ahead…

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“Keep breathing”. The final words from Benedict Cumberbatch’s character in A Child In Time are a summary of its message. Through trauma and though loss, the film urges, keep going. Keep breathing.

When their three year old daughter Kate goes missing from a busy supermarket, central characters Stephen and Julie (Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald) suffer the kind of loss from which recovery seems impossible. Kate is never found and her fate is never told. She spends the film both alive and dead, a presence and an absence.

The Child In Time though, isn’t Kate’s story; it’s Stephen’s. And it’s resolutely a story about emotional resilience, not child abduction. In...

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The first television adaptation of Ian McEwan’s work, the BBC’s upcoming TV movie version of award-winning novel The Child In Time will also mark the first outing for Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch as producer with his company, SunnyMarch.

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Set in present day rather than the 80s setting of the novel, The Child in Time follows children’s author Stephen Lewis (Cumberbatch) as he struggles to come to terms with and move forward from the disappearance of his daughter two years earlier. His marriage to wife Julie (Kelly Macdonald) crumbling and left alone by his friends Charles (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Thelma (Saskia Reeves), Stephen must reckon with the nature of grief,...

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The Dark Tower is heading for its home release in the UK in December. Here are all the details you need...

Off the back of not very impressive reviews, the first film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga - starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey - struggled to gain much traction at the Us box office, only scrounging up $19.5m in its opening weekend. Whilst plans are still afoot for a television series based on the books, there are surely a few question marks over the planned film sequel to this particular movie.

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