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Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits is a poignant exploration of grief, memory and the transformative power of music, marking his foray into magical realism. At its core, this film, brought to life by a vibrant cast including Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Retta…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV’s drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, is gathering pace and we have an exclusive first-look image of Lucy Boynton in the title role. Scroll down to view it. The series, which has changed title to A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, is set in 1955 in the glamorous…

EXCLUSIVE: Toby Jones is to play the solicitor who tried to save Ruth Ellis in ITV’s upcoming drama about the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Vera producer Silverprint Pictures has rounded out cast on Ruth, with Laurie Davidson (Mary and George), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Joe Armstrong (Happy…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton is to headline an ITV series about the last woman to hang in the UK. Boynton will play Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover David Blakely. Famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint carried out…

Editors note: This review was originally published after Chevalier’s world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 20, 2022. It opens in theaters today. Chevalier is a biopic about violin virtuoso Joseph Bolonge Chevalier de Saint-Georges…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie filmmaker Drake Doremus (Like Crazy) is making his first major move into television with the series One Day in December in development at Netflix, which has Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody) attached to exec produce and star, according to multiple sources. Related…

Chevalier directed by Stephen Williams (Watchmen) and written by Stefani Robinson (Atlanta) follows Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner. St. Georges rose to improbable heights in 18th century French society as a world famous fencer and…

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has acquired and set a September start date for The Greatest Hits. Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby) is directing his script and he has just set Lucy Boynton to star. Boynton takes the role after exiting over creative differences her plan to star as rock singer Marianne…

Hugh Laurie is of course well known as a multi-Emmy-nominated actor, notably in long-running series House among other things. But he also is an increasingly accomplished force behind the camera too, and demonstrates that again in a new take on Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? for which he wrote the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Boynton is set to play Marie Antoinette Searchlight’s biopic Chevalier de Saint-Georges, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr. in title role. Searchlight landed the original feature pitch from Stefani Robinson last summer with Watchmen director Stephen Williams on board to direct. Samara Weaving also recently…

The Revenant star Will Poulter and Bohemian Rhapsody's Lucy Boynton are to lead the cast of Hugh Laurie's three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's murder-mystery Why Didn't They Ask Evans?. Deadline revealed that The Night Manager and House star was behind the adaptation in April and the series is starting…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: ITV is turning Len Deighton’s spy novel The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name, into a television series — and the UK broadcaster has assembled a stellar on- and off-screen team to make the drama a reality. The adaptation will be penned by…