“Netflix and chill.” Future pop culture historians will likely look back and chuckle at that turn of phrase, which in the 2010s signaled a hefty technological shift from the days of “we can put on records.” It also represents the moment when Netflix dominated the zeitgeist for years. It’s an open question whether that dominance will continue after next month since the most popular streaming service is doing away with its password sharing capabilities. But in the meantime, let’s all “Netflix and chill” one last time, especially with Valentine’s Day around the corner.
Indeed, this Valentine’s season has a winsome collection for the romantics at heart to embrace, with a significant other or otherwise. Below is a list that includes Oscar winners, teen comedies, happy endings, sad endings, young love, old love, and enduring love. Let’s just say if you need something sweet to watch...
Indeed, this Valentine’s season has a winsome collection for the romantics at heart to embrace, with a significant other or otherwise. Below is a list that includes Oscar winners, teen comedies, happy endings, sad endings, young love, old love, and enduring love. Let’s just say if you need something sweet to watch...
- 2/9/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Studiocanal and Blueprint pictures have dropped the teaser trailer and artwork alongside first look images from Gil Kenan’s highly anticipated magical adventure, ‘A Boy Called Christmas’.
Adapted from the bestselling book by Matt Haig, the film tells the story of an ordinary young boy called Nikolas as he sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and a loyal pet mouse, Nikolas soon meets his destiny in this magical, comic and endearing story that proves nothing is impossible…
Stephen Merchant has joined the cast, voicing hero Nikolas’ outspoken pet mouse, Miika. He joins Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones, Michiel Huisman, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) and newcomer Henry Lawfull.
Also in...
Adapted from the bestselling book by Matt Haig, the film tells the story of an ordinary young boy called Nikolas as he sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and a loyal pet mouse, Nikolas soon meets his destiny in this magical, comic and endearing story that proves nothing is impossible…
Stephen Merchant has joined the cast, voicing hero Nikolas’ outspoken pet mouse, Miika. He joins Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones, Michiel Huisman, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) and newcomer Henry Lawfull.
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- 12/21/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Baby Driver" actress Lily James is currently showcased in a new campaign promoting "Burberry Matte Glow", photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:
James began her professional acting career in the Brit TV series "Just William" (2010).
Following her supporting role in the period drama series "Downton Abbey" (2012–15), she had her feature film breakthrough in the romance fantasy "Cinderella" (2015).
James went on to play 'Natasha Rostova' in the period TV series "War & Peace" (2016), and took on starring roles in several films, including "Baby Driver" (2017), war drama "Darkest Hour" (2017), historical drama "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" (2018) and the musicals "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" (2018) and "Yesterday" (2019).
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Lily James...
James began her professional acting career in the Brit TV series "Just William" (2010).
Following her supporting role in the period drama series "Downton Abbey" (2012–15), she had her feature film breakthrough in the romance fantasy "Cinderella" (2015).
James went on to play 'Natasha Rostova' in the period TV series "War & Peace" (2016), and took on starring roles in several films, including "Baby Driver" (2017), war drama "Darkest Hour" (2017), historical drama "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" (2018) and the musicals "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" (2018) and "Yesterday" (2019).
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Lily James...
- 9/6/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with." That feeling of being high on cinema is the feeling I had coming out of Marriage Story at the Venice Film Festival. Bliss. Goddamn I am totally floored by this film. Noah Baumbach has been making beautifully honest stories about families for years, but this one is extra special. It definitely does seem a bit personal, something he has been through himself, but he is able to transfer this honesty to the big screen and tell us an emotional story and show us how love remains, even after a divorce. Marriage Story is actually a Divorce Story, but instead of calling it that Baumbach made "a love story that reveals itself within the breakdown." Baumbach!! Baumbach!! Baumbach!! My god, What A Film! What...
- 8/29/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has boarded Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures’ Santa Claus origins movie “A Boy Called Christmas,” which has just started shooting.
Jim Broadbent (“Paddington”), Kristen Wiig (“Bridesmaids”), and Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) will star. The ensemble cast also includes Zoe Colletti (“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”), Toby Jones (“Infamous”), Michiel Huisman (“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”), Henry Lawfull (“Les Miserables”), Maggie Smith (“Downton Abbey”), Rune Temte (“Captain Marvel”), and Indica Watson (“Sherlock”).
Gil Kenan will direct the picture, having adapted Matt Haig’s bestselling book with Ol Parker. Studiocanal will release the Christmas film theatrically in Australia, China, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the U.K. Netflix has it for the rest of the world, including the U.S.
The film follows an ordinary young boy called Nikolas, who was born on Christmas Day. He sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy...
Jim Broadbent (“Paddington”), Kristen Wiig (“Bridesmaids”), and Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) will star. The ensemble cast also includes Zoe Colletti (“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”), Toby Jones (“Infamous”), Michiel Huisman (“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”), Henry Lawfull (“Les Miserables”), Maggie Smith (“Downton Abbey”), Rune Temte (“Captain Marvel”), and Indica Watson (“Sherlock”).
Gil Kenan will direct the picture, having adapted Matt Haig’s bestselling book with Ol Parker. Studiocanal will release the Christmas film theatrically in Australia, China, France, Germany, New Zealand, and the U.K. Netflix has it for the rest of the world, including the U.S.
The film follows an ordinary young boy called Nikolas, who was born on Christmas Day. He sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy...
- 4/15/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Within six minutes, “Insatiable” tosses out a joke so offensive even a great series might not come back from it. When Bob Armstrong, who’s somehow the second best attorney / beauty pageant coach in a small Georgian town, reveals he’s been accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl, he quips, “I was an accused molester saying the victim had made it up — which was almost as bad as if I’d actually done it.”
Whether this is the pitch-black satire “Insatiable’s” lonely defenders claim pervades the whole series or just a really tone-deaf means to score pity points for a down-on-his-luck wealthy white guy, nothing that comes after this eye-opening faux pas contradicts the idea Bob put out in the world: that being falsely accused of sexually assaulting a minor is as bad as doing it. From this point forward, Lauren Gussis’ Netflix original series only invokes more causes for concern,...
Whether this is the pitch-black satire “Insatiable’s” lonely defenders claim pervades the whole series or just a really tone-deaf means to score pity points for a down-on-his-luck wealthy white guy, nothing that comes after this eye-opening faux pas contradicts the idea Bob put out in the world: that being falsely accused of sexually assaulting a minor is as bad as doing it. From this point forward, Lauren Gussis’ Netflix original series only invokes more causes for concern,...
- 8/13/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Netflix has big end-of-summer plans for original content. August 2018 will see the returns of eight original series from the streaming giant, as well as the premieres of several original films.
“Ozark,” “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” and “The Investigator: A British Crime Story” are among the service’s shows slated to debut new seasons next month, while “Like Father,” starring Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen, and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” starring Lily James, are some of Netflix’s new films set to launch. Additionally, August will introduce various original freshman series, including Debby Ryan’s controversial black comedy “Insatiable.”
The final month of summer will also bring a wealth of acquisitions to the site in the form of popular films, franchises, and TV shows. Inaugural titles in the “Lord of the Rings” and Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” franchises are a couple of the incoming films, while the fifth...
“Ozark,” “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” and “The Investigator: A British Crime Story” are among the service’s shows slated to debut new seasons next month, while “Like Father,” starring Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen, and “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” starring Lily James, are some of Netflix’s new films set to launch. Additionally, August will introduce various original freshman series, including Debby Ryan’s controversial black comedy “Insatiable.”
The final month of summer will also bring a wealth of acquisitions to the site in the form of popular films, franchises, and TV shows. Inaugural titles in the “Lord of the Rings” and Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” franchises are a couple of the incoming films, while the fifth...
- 7/31/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
Arriving Aug. 1: “The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring”
For anyone wanting to brush up on the “Lotr” series before the TV adaptation hits Amazon, now is your chance. The first installment of Peter Jackson’s trilogy hits Netflix on the first of the month.
Arriving Aug. 10: “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
If “Set It Up” had you wanting more from Glenn Powell and “Mama Mia Here We Go Again” had you wanting more from Lily James, we have the perfect movie for you. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name and follows James as a journalist, with Powell playing her love interest. Watch the trailer here.
Arriving Aug. 10: “Insatiable”
Debby Ryan stars in this tale of a high school student used to be teased for her looks finding herself suddenly beautiful.
For anyone wanting to brush up on the “Lotr” series before the TV adaptation hits Amazon, now is your chance. The first installment of Peter Jackson’s trilogy hits Netflix on the first of the month.
Arriving Aug. 10: “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
If “Set It Up” had you wanting more from Glenn Powell and “Mama Mia Here We Go Again” had you wanting more from Lily James, we have the perfect movie for you. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name and follows James as a journalist, with Powell playing her love interest. Watch the trailer here.
Arriving Aug. 10: “Insatiable”
Debby Ryan stars in this tale of a high school student used to be teased for her looks finding herself suddenly beautiful.
- 7/30/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
Next month’s Netflix offerings are decidedly top-heavy, as the streaming giant will add a number of its starriest titles on the first of the month, including “Batman Begins,” “Clerks,” “Million Dollar Baby,” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” along with classic tearjerker “Steel Magnolias” and the also classic Matt-Damon-being-dumb entry “The Informant!” The rest of the month holds other treasures, however, including “No Country for Old Men” and “Hostiles,” a solid double feature for anyone who loves witnessing the brutal dissection of the American dream.
Netflix will also debut a number of original films next month, including the Kristen Bell-starring “Like Father,” their Ya adaptation “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” and the mouth-filling “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.” Tasty!
Check out all the films coming to Netflix this August below.
August 1
Batman Begins
Chernobyl Diaries
Clerks
Constantine...
Netflix will also debut a number of original films next month, including the Kristen Bell-starring “Like Father,” their Ya adaptation “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” and the mouth-filling “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.” Tasty!
Check out all the films coming to Netflix this August below.
August 1
Batman Begins
Chernobyl Diaries
Clerks
Constantine...
- 7/25/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Admissions up 1.5% between January-June 2018 but total box office takings down by 2%.
Admissions to UK cinemas hit 85.5m in the first half of 2018, up 1.5% on the same period in 2017, according to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).
However, box office receipts for the UK and Ireland fell by 2% to £665.8m between Jan 5 – July 5, 2018, compared to the same 26 play weeks in 2017, based on figures provided by comScore.
The six-month period of January to June ended just before the cinema-going slump of mid to early July caused by World Cup fever and warm summer weather.
Disney has the two-highest grossing films of the year...
Admissions to UK cinemas hit 85.5m in the first half of 2018, up 1.5% on the same period in 2017, according to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).
However, box office receipts for the UK and Ireland fell by 2% to £665.8m between Jan 5 – July 5, 2018, compared to the same 26 play weeks in 2017, based on figures provided by comScore.
The six-month period of January to June ended just before the cinema-going slump of mid to early July caused by World Cup fever and warm summer weather.
Disney has the two-highest grossing films of the year...
- 7/24/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Glen Powell is at the point in his career where he’s ready to lead a major studio tentpole, but it turns out “Top Gun: Maverick” won’t be the blockbuster to do the trick. Miles Teller has beat Powell and landed the much-discussed role of Tom Cruise’s younger protégé in the long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel. The character is the son of Goose, played by Anthony Edwards in the original. Powell reportedly screen tested for the role opposite Cruise (via Variety), but he lost out to Teller in the end.
Powell didn’t take long to react to the news of Teller’s casting. Minutes after Variety confirmed the “Whiplash” star was joining Cruise for “Top Gun: Maverick,” Powell took to his Twitter page to send the casting article to his followers with a caption that joked he was tearing down all of his Tom Cruise posters after being passed over for the sequel.
Powell didn’t take long to react to the news of Teller’s casting. Minutes after Variety confirmed the “Whiplash” star was joining Cruise for “Top Gun: Maverick,” Powell took to his Twitter page to send the casting article to his followers with a caption that joked he was tearing down all of his Tom Cruise posters after being passed over for the sequel.
- 7/3/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Sneak Peek StudioCanal's new historical drama "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", directed by Mike Newell, based on the 2008 novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown and Tom Courtenay, streaming August 10, 2018 on Netflix:
...January 1946, as London emerges from the 'Second World War', many local neighborhoods lie in rubble. 'Juliet Ashton', a well-known writer who has lost her home and thirsting for new adventure...
"...writes a column under the pseudonym 'Izzy Bickerstaff', collected and published by her close friend 'Sidney Stark', in a book called 'Izzy Bickerstaff Goes to War'.
"But restless Juliet is searching for a more serious topic that she can write about under her own name..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"...
...January 1946, as London emerges from the 'Second World War', many local neighborhoods lie in rubble. 'Juliet Ashton', a well-known writer who has lost her home and thirsting for new adventure...
"...writes a column under the pseudonym 'Izzy Bickerstaff', collected and published by her close friend 'Sidney Stark', in a book called 'Izzy Bickerstaff Goes to War'.
"But restless Juliet is searching for a more serious topic that she can write about under her own name..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"...
- 7/1/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Old-fashioned date movies don’t fill mall multiplexes the way they did a decade or two ago, before megabudget tentpoles subsumed the bulk of adult moviegoing, but they appear to have a future on Netflix — for couples, at least, who have already reached the staying-in point in their relationship. A sunny, innocuous romcom that matches millennial neuroses to age-old Cupid’s-arrow contrivance, “Set It Up” makes a case for the genre remaining big, à la Norma Desmond, even as the pictures get small. Director Claire Scanlon and writer Katie Silberman’s slight, cutely bow-tied tale of two overworked young PAs tactically engineering a romance between their demanding bosses — only to (surprise!) fall for each other in the process — may be more frothy than it is actually funny, but in adorable stars Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch, it happens upon a perky pairing that might, in another era, have become a fixture.
- 6/15/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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The Leisure Seeker [IMDb]
Francesca Archibugi cowrites this dramedy about an elderly couple on an Rv adventure. Costarring Helen Mirren. (male director)
Every Day [my review]
Angourie Rice stars as a teenager who falls in love with a soul that inhabits a different body every day. (male writer and director)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [my review]
Lily James stars as a writer who uncovers an untold story of British endurance during World War II. Costarring Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, and Penelope Wilton. (male writers and director)
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Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) [my review]
Juliette Binoche stars as a woman seeking new love at midlife. Directed by Claire Denis; written by Denis and Christine Angot.
Never Steady, Never Still [IMDb] pictured
Shirley Henderson costars in this domestic drama about a woman suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Written and directed by Kathleen Hepburn.
Funny Cow [my review]
Maxine Peake stars in...
The Leisure Seeker [IMDb]
Francesca Archibugi cowrites this dramedy about an elderly couple on an Rv adventure. Costarring Helen Mirren. (male director)
Every Day [my review]
Angourie Rice stars as a teenager who falls in love with a soul that inhabits a different body every day. (male writer and director)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [my review]
Lily James stars as a writer who uncovers an untold story of British endurance during World War II. Costarring Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, and Penelope Wilton. (male writers and director)
limited
Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) [my review]
Juliette Binoche stars as a woman seeking new love at midlife. Directed by Claire Denis; written by Denis and Christine Angot.
Never Steady, Never Still [IMDb] pictured
Shirley Henderson costars in this domestic drama about a woman suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Written and directed by Kathleen Hepburn.
Funny Cow [my review]
Maxine Peake stars in...
- 4/20/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… A wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored. I’m “biast” (pro): love the era, and I’m desperate for women’s war stories
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
London, 1946. The war is finally over. Juliet Ashton has made a fortune as a writer of lighthearted comic essays that have kept spirits up during the years of conflict, but now she longs to turn to something more serious for her next project. A letter from Dawsey Adams, a pig farmer on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, piques her interest when, in the course of requesting her help in finding an old book,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
London, 1946. The war is finally over. Juliet Ashton has made a fortune as a writer of lighthearted comic essays that have kept spirits up during the years of conflict, but now she longs to turn to something more serious for her next project. A letter from Dawsey Adams, a pig farmer on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, piques her interest when, in the course of requesting her help in finding an old book,...
- 4/20/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
If your first instinct upon seeing the title “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” is to say, “Well, that’s a mouthful,” rest assured that Mike Newell’s film has you covered, for a secondary character does the very same. Indeed, pretty much everyone in this crumbly oatmeal biscuit of a movie does and says exactly what you’d expect of them: based not on the logic of real life, of course, but the cozy conventions of umpteen twee heritage Britpics before it. For Sunday-afternoon comfort-viewing purposes, it’s no problem that “Guernsey” — which follows the post-wwii escapades of a winsome London writer (Lily James) on the eponymous isle — doesn’t stray from its inevitable course as a town-versus-country love triangle. That it offers no surprises as a nominal wartime mystery, however, is rather more bothersome, particularly as what should be a perky trifle trudges past the two-hour mark.
- 4/18/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The world premiere of The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society took place in London on Monday night at the Cuzon Mayfair Theater. The film is based off of the 2008 New York Times Best Selling novel of the same name by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It is a historical drama that follows the story a London-based writer Juliet […]
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- 4/11/2018
- by Tatyana Samonte Escano
- Uinterview
Sneak Peek StudioCanal's historical drama "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", directed by Mike Newell, based on the 2008 novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown and Tom Courtenay, opening April 20, 2018:
...January 1946, as London emerges from the 'Second World War', many local neighborhoods lie in rubble. 'Juliet Ashton', a well-known writer who has lost her home and thirsting for new adventure...
"...writes a column under the pseudonym 'Izzy Bickerstaff', collected and published by her close friend 'Sidney Stark', in a book called 'Izzy Bickerstaff Goes to War'.
"But restless Juliet is searching for a more serious topic that she can write about under her own name..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"...
...January 1946, as London emerges from the 'Second World War', many local neighborhoods lie in rubble. 'Juliet Ashton', a well-known writer who has lost her home and thirsting for new adventure...
"...writes a column under the pseudonym 'Izzy Bickerstaff', collected and published by her close friend 'Sidney Stark', in a book called 'Izzy Bickerstaff Goes to War'.
"But restless Juliet is searching for a more serious topic that she can write about under her own name..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"...
- 4/11/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Netflix has taken multiple territories for Mike Newell’s historical drama The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which stars Lily James and Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Netflix will stream Guernsey in North America, Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Studiocanal, which is financing the pic, will release the film in the UK, starting on April 20, followed by Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.
Guernsey is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows journalist Juliet Ashton (James), who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato...
Netflix will stream Guernsey in North America, Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Studiocanal, which is financing the pic, will release the film in the UK, starting on April 20, followed by Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.
Guernsey is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows journalist Juliet Ashton (James), who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato...
- 3/12/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lately, Netflix has been seen by many as the dumping ground for studio films. Whether it’s the mediocre “The Cloverfield Paradox,” released as a stunt on Super Bowl Sunday, or the amazing “Annihilation,” Netflix has been buying up films that studios just are scared to release. It looks like the latest film to get the Netflix release treatment is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”
According to Variety, Netflix has bought the distribution rights for ‘Potato Peel Society,’ and will release the film in a variety of markets, including the U.S.
According to Variety, Netflix has bought the distribution rights for ‘Potato Peel Society,’ and will release the film in a variety of markets, including the U.S.
- 3/12/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
SVoD service strikes deal with Studiocanal.
Netflix has taken a host of territories on Mike Newell’s Lily James-starring historical drama The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society.
The SVoD service has picked up rights for Us, Canada, Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, while Studiocanal will distribute in its territories the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany. The film has now sold out worldwide and the roll-out commences with Australia on April 19, the UK on April 20 and New Zealand on April 25, followed by France on June 13 and Germany on August 9.
Produced by Studiocanal with...
Netflix has taken a host of territories on Mike Newell’s Lily James-starring historical drama The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society.
The SVoD service has picked up rights for Us, Canada, Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, while Studiocanal will distribute in its territories the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany. The film has now sold out worldwide and the roll-out commences with Australia on April 19, the UK on April 20 and New Zealand on April 25, followed by France on June 13 and Germany on August 9.
Produced by Studiocanal with...
- 3/12/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Author: Zehra Phelan
As filming wraps on the Lily James-led Guernsey (aka The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), two official images from the project have been released of the 1940’s based British production with James leading the charge as journalist Juliet Ashton.
Related: Lily James news and interviews.
The British production of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ best-selling novel, carries one of the oddest titles of recent times, and has Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s Mike Newell at the helm of the Don Roos (Marley & Me, The Opposite of Sex) adapted screenplay.
Set in 1946 Lily James plays free-spirited journalist Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII. Juliet...
As filming wraps on the Lily James-led Guernsey (aka The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), two official images from the project have been released of the 1940’s based British production with James leading the charge as journalist Juliet Ashton.
Related: Lily James news and interviews.
The British production of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ best-selling novel, carries one of the oddest titles of recent times, and has Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s Mike Newell at the helm of the Don Roos (Marley & Me, The Opposite of Sex) adapted screenplay.
Set in 1946 Lily James plays free-spirited journalist Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII. Juliet...
- 5/15/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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What’s it like to record a voice role for an animated series?
Glen Powell and Max Greenfield show us what it’s like in Et’s exclusive sneak peek inside the recording studio as the two actors record voices for the fifth season of Netflix’s Emmy-winning animated series, All Hail King Julien.
A spinoff of Madagascar, All Hail King Julien is about an ill-equipped, self-involved lemur who becomes king and absolutely has no idea what he’s doing. While a family show, the animated series’ fifth season, which debuts Friday, May 12, is an unexpected satire of current events with Powell and Greenfield joining as two stuck-up dolphins, Trent and Kipper, who want to rid the ocean of undesirable sea creatures. (Check out the final animated version below.)
All Hail King Julien is just the latest of many projects for Powell. Following his breakout success on Scream Queens and in...
What’s it like to record a voice role for an animated series?
Glen Powell and Max Greenfield show us what it’s like in Et’s exclusive sneak peek inside the recording studio as the two actors record voices for the fifth season of Netflix’s Emmy-winning animated series, All Hail King Julien.
A spinoff of Madagascar, All Hail King Julien is about an ill-equipped, self-involved lemur who becomes king and absolutely has no idea what he’s doing. While a family show, the animated series’ fifth season, which debuts Friday, May 12, is an unexpected satire of current events with Powell and Greenfield joining as two stuck-up dolphins, Trent and Kipper, who want to rid the ocean of undesirable sea creatures. (Check out the final animated version below.)
All Hail King Julien is just the latest of many projects for Powell. Following his breakout success on Scream Queens and in...
- 5/11/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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“I’m still working my way up the food chain,” Glen Powell tells Et of his breakthrough in Hollywood, which over the past two years includes celebrated roles in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! and Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, as well as portraying John Glenn in the Academy Awards Best Picture nominee Hidden Figures. His latest is playing an Army sergeant in Sand Castle, a film inspired by true events that took place during the Iraq War, debuting on Netflix Friday, April 21. Co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill and Logan Marshall-Green, it’s the latest film to earn buzz for the actor, who has been dubbed one of Hollywood’s hottest rising stars.
While the Austin, Texas, native’s recent breakout success has elevated him to a new level of attention -- fashion spreads in Interview and Coveteur magazines, an invitation to the 2017 Academy Awards -- Powell has been...
“I’m still working my way up the food chain,” Glen Powell tells Et of his breakthrough in Hollywood, which over the past two years includes celebrated roles in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! and Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, as well as portraying John Glenn in the Academy Awards Best Picture nominee Hidden Figures. His latest is playing an Army sergeant in Sand Castle, a film inspired by true events that took place during the Iraq War, debuting on Netflix Friday, April 21. Co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill and Logan Marshall-Green, it’s the latest film to earn buzz for the actor, who has been dubbed one of Hollywood’s hottest rising stars.
While the Austin, Texas, native’s recent breakout success has elevated him to a new level of attention -- fashion spreads in Interview and Coveteur magazines, an invitation to the 2017 Academy Awards -- Powell has been...
- 4/21/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Filming of The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society has begun. The big-screen adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' international bestselling epistolary novel stars Lily James as journalist Juliet Ashton who forms a life-changing bond with an eccentric secret society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during wartime.
The film is being directed by Four Weddings And A Funeral's Mike Newell from a script by Don Roos (Marley & Me), Kevin Hood (A Royal Night Out) and Tom Bezucha (Monte Carlo).
The film co-stars by Michiel Huisman (The Age Of Adaline), Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game), Jessica Brown Findlay (Victor Frankenstein) with Tom Courtenay (45 Years) and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
Studiocanal is financing the project and will distribute in its own territories, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
In the aftermath...
The film is being directed by Four Weddings And A Funeral's Mike Newell from a script by Don Roos (Marley & Me), Kevin Hood (A Royal Night Out) and Tom Bezucha (Monte Carlo).
The film co-stars by Michiel Huisman (The Age Of Adaline), Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game), Jessica Brown Findlay (Victor Frankenstein) with Tom Courtenay (45 Years) and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
Studiocanal is financing the project and will distribute in its own territories, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
In the aftermath...
- 3/23/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Mike Newell just added a number of new actors to his film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which is underway in the UK. Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Michiel Huisman (The Age of Adeline, Game of Thrones), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Tom Courtenay (45 Years) and Penelope Wilton (The Bfg, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) have joined Lily James in the film. James stars as journalist…...
- 3/21/2017
- Deadline
Michiel Huisman, who was last seen by Dany’s side as the fiercely loyal Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones, has landed a role opposite Lily James in post-wwii drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Lifting inspiration from Annie Barros and Mary Ann Shaffer’s novel of the same name, Guernsey chronicles the story of Juliet Ashton (James), a reporter who decides to shed light on the famous Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy during the throes of World War II.
A haven of peace and tranquility during wartime, Ashton’s curiosity is piqued when she receives a letter from a local resident named Dawsey Adams (Huisman). He’s a farmer on the island and, following a series of exchanges between Lily James’ writer and the titular book society,...
Lifting inspiration from Annie Barros and Mary Ann Shaffer’s novel of the same name, Guernsey chronicles the story of Juliet Ashton (James), a reporter who decides to shed light on the famous Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy during the throes of World War II.
A haven of peace and tranquility during wartime, Ashton’s curiosity is piqued when she receives a letter from a local resident named Dawsey Adams (Huisman). He’s a farmer on the island and, following a series of exchanges between Lily James’ writer and the titular book society,...
- 11/29/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman will star opposite Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
The story is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows journalist Juliet Ashton (James), who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy during wartime. It begins when she receives a letter from a resident named Dawsey (Huisman), a farmer on the island. She starts writing letters to the book club, and eventually travels to the island...
The story is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows journalist Juliet Ashton (James), who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy during wartime. It begins when she receives a letter from a resident named Dawsey (Huisman), a farmer on the island. She starts writing letters to the book club, and eventually travels to the island...
- 11/28/2016
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: In-demand British actress Lily James is set to star in The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, with Mike Newell attached to direct. Script is written by Don Roos and Tom Bezucha and is based on the international bestseller of the same name by Annie Barros and Mary Ann Shaffer. Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan from The Mazur/Kaplan Company and Blueprint Pictures' Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin will produce. Studiocanal is financing the project and…...
- 10/20/2016
- Deadline
Few would argue that Rosamund Pike stole the show in David Fincher’s psychological thriller Gone Girl, portraying an unhinged sociopath that still sends shivers down our spines to this day. Imagine our disappointment, then, when the Oscar-nominated actress followed up Fincher’s opus with middling thriller Return To Sender.
No matter, because Deadline reports that Pike is circling her next potential project, and it’s one that goes by the name Guernsey. Mike Newell of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame is behind the camera, and it’s understood that Pike is currently in contention to play the role of Juliet Ashton – a role that’s attracted the likes of Kate Winslet, Lily James and Rebecca Ferguson in recent times.
Billed as an adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ best-seller, Guernsey is the name of a quaint island off the British coast, with the story chronicling Ashton...
No matter, because Deadline reports that Pike is circling her next potential project, and it’s one that goes by the name Guernsey. Mike Newell of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame is behind the camera, and it’s understood that Pike is currently in contention to play the role of Juliet Ashton – a role that’s attracted the likes of Kate Winslet, Lily James and Rebecca Ferguson in recent times.
Billed as an adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ best-seller, Guernsey is the name of a quaint island off the British coast, with the story chronicling Ashton...
- 2/5/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Fatal Attraction director boards script from Captain Phillips writer Billy Ray.
Oscar-nominated Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne is set to make his directorial come-back on Nicole Kidman thriller The Silent Wife.
FilmNation has swooped on international sales rights to the package, which is seen as one of the hottest prestige titles heading into the Afm.
In Billy Ray’s (Captain Phillips) buzzed-about screenplay, Kidman will play Jodi, a dedicated wife who, despite her husband Todd’s frequent indiscretions, continues to play the part with immaculate precision.
When confronted with the brutal truth of him leaving her for a younger woman, Jodi will not accept defeat. What begins as a tragic dissolution of a marriage quickly spirals into a game of cat and mouse with calamitous stakes.
First reported on two years ago, the long-time Kidman passion project - based on the original bestselling book by A.S.A. Harrison - has now got fresh impetus through Oscar-nominee Ray’s script...
Oscar-nominated Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne is set to make his directorial come-back on Nicole Kidman thriller The Silent Wife.
FilmNation has swooped on international sales rights to the package, which is seen as one of the hottest prestige titles heading into the Afm.
In Billy Ray’s (Captain Phillips) buzzed-about screenplay, Kidman will play Jodi, a dedicated wife who, despite her husband Todd’s frequent indiscretions, continues to play the part with immaculate precision.
When confronted with the brutal truth of him leaving her for a younger woman, Jodi will not accept defeat. What begins as a tragic dissolution of a marriage quickly spirals into a game of cat and mouse with calamitous stakes.
First reported on two years ago, the long-time Kidman passion project - based on the original bestselling book by A.S.A. Harrison - has now got fresh impetus through Oscar-nominee Ray’s script...
- 10/29/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Mazur/Kaplan Company and Olympus Pictures have optioned Holly Goldberg Sloan’s bestselling novel Counting By 7s. They’ve attached Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild star Quvenzhané Wallis and will build the movie around her. The bestseller centers on Willow Chance, a bright young girl who, after the death of her adoptive parents, is taken in by an unlikely surrogate family and an unfit guidance counselor. In the wake of tremendous loss, she rises to build a community that she heals and that heals her.
“I am honored to play the role of Willow in Counting by 7s,” Wallis said. “I love the message behind the story. I am excited to be a part of it and to see it come to life.” Wallis just wrapped her first big studio film in the musical Annie, and also will star in the upcoming adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,...
“I am honored to play the role of Willow in Counting by 7s,” Wallis said. “I love the message behind the story. I am excited to be a part of it and to see it come to life.” Wallis just wrapped her first big studio film in the musical Annie, and also will star in the upcoming adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Take another look @ actress Kate Winslet posing for a recent issue of "Harper's Bazaar" (UK) magazine.
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
She was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, as well as a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption...
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
She was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, as well as a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption...
- 11/23/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ actress Kate Winslet ("Divergent") in a recent issue of "Harper's Bazaar" (UK) magazine.
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
Winslet was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption of the 2011 novel "Divergent" by author Veronica Roth.
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
Winslet was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption of the 2011 novel "Divergent" by author Veronica Roth.
- 11/8/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Following in Kate Winslet’s footsteps? Not a bad move for a rising British actress. The Daily Mail reports “Downton Abbey” star Michelle Dockery has been offered the lead role in Simon Curtis’ adaptation of bestselling novel “The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Socity”, a role Winslet had been previously attached to when Kenneth Branagh [...]
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- 4/26/2013
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
Sneak Peek new images of actress Kate Winslet in the April 2013 issue of "Harper's Bazaar" (UK) magazine.
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
Winslet was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption of the...
Winslet was the youngest actress to receive six Academy Award nominations, winning the Oscar for Best Actress in "The Reader (2008).
This was followed by numerous awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globes.
Winslet was also nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her TV mini-series role as "Mildred Pierce" (2011) and in 2012 received an Honorary 'César Award' for her acting career.
Winslet's next film, an adaptation of author Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel "Labor Day" will be released in 2013, followed by director Kenneth Branagh's film "Guernsey", based on the novel "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society" by authors Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows, a starring role in Alan Rickman's period drama "A Little Chaos" and in Neil Burger's adaption of the...
- 3/27/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Actress Kate Winslet will have to wait another year to reunite with her Hamlet co-star Kenneth Branagh - their forthcoming war tale has been postponed until next year.
The Titanic beauty was due to begin shooting actor/director Branagh's next film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, this spring, but the project has been delayed due to "continued casting and timing issues", according to a representative for Guernsey's Commerce and Employment Department.
And the movie's creative producer Paula Mazur is convinced the postponed schedule will work in the crew's favour.
She says, "It really is important to get the right cast on board... It (the delay) will also allow for the shoot to take place when the wild flowers and vegetation are at their best in Guernsey, which personally was my ultimate goal."
The movie is based on Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' bestselling 2008 book, about a group of Guernsey islanders who outsmarted their German occupiers during World War Two.
Winslet will play a modern-day magazine columnist who uncovers evidence of the book club the locals set up amid the chaos of war.
The Titanic beauty was due to begin shooting actor/director Branagh's next film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, this spring, but the project has been delayed due to "continued casting and timing issues", according to a representative for Guernsey's Commerce and Employment Department.
And the movie's creative producer Paula Mazur is convinced the postponed schedule will work in the crew's favour.
She says, "It really is important to get the right cast on board... It (the delay) will also allow for the shoot to take place when the wild flowers and vegetation are at their best in Guernsey, which personally was my ultimate goal."
The movie is based on Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' bestselling 2008 book, about a group of Guernsey islanders who outsmarted their German occupiers during World War Two.
Winslet will play a modern-day magazine columnist who uncovers evidence of the book club the locals set up amid the chaos of war.
- 4/2/2012
- WENN
Since deciding not to return for superhero sequel Thor 2, Kenneth Branagh has been mulling over at least two potential projects . novel adaptation The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society and romantic drama Italian Shoes. It looks like he's pushing ahead first with Pie Society, grabbing Kate Winslet for the female lead.
Adapted by The Opposite Of Sex writer/director Don Roos from Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer's book, the film will find Winslet as writer Juliet Ashton, who penned magazine columns during World War II. In the aftermath of the conflict, she's contacted by Channel Islander Dawsey Adams, who tells her the intriguing tale of the book society formed to help undercut the Nazi presence on Guernsey. Ashton decides to investigate, and romance blossoms.
It'll be a reunion for the pair, as Winslet played Ophelia in Branagh's Hamlet, which the actor starred in and directed back in 1996. This time around,...
Adapted by The Opposite Of Sex writer/director Don Roos from Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer's book, the film will find Winslet as writer Juliet Ashton, who penned magazine columns during World War II. In the aftermath of the conflict, she's contacted by Channel Islander Dawsey Adams, who tells her the intriguing tale of the book society formed to help undercut the Nazi presence on Guernsey. Ashton decides to investigate, and romance blossoms.
It'll be a reunion for the pair, as Winslet played Ophelia in Branagh's Hamlet, which the actor starred in and directed back in 1996. This time around,...
- 1/14/2012
- icelebz.com
Since deciding not to return for superhero sequel Thor 2, Kenneth Branagh has been mulling over at least two potential projects: novel adaptation The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society and romantic drama Italian Shoes. It looks like he’s pushing ahead first with Pie Society, grabbing Kate Winslet for the female lead.Adapted by The Opposite Of Sex writer/director Don Roos from Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer’s book, the film will see Winslet play writer Juliet Ashton, who wrote magazine columns during World War II. In the aftermath of the conflict, she’s contacted by Channel Islander Dawsey Adams, who tells her the intriguing tale of the book society formed to help undercut the Nazi presence on Guernsey. Ashton decides to investigate, and romance blossoms…It’ll be a reunion for the director and star, as Winslet played Ophelia in Branagh’s Hamlet, which he...
- 1/14/2012
- EmpireOnline
Kate Winslet is attached to star in director Kenneth Branagh's "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," TheWrap has confirmed. The pairing for Fox 2000's drama-romance marks a reunion for Winslet and Branagh, who previously teamed for 1996's "Hamlet." "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is adapted by Don Roos ("Marley & Me") from the 2008 bestselling novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. The film is produced by Mitchell Kaplan and Paula Mazur. Also read: Kate Winslet, Sam Mendes Splitting Up Set in post-World War II London, the story deals...
- 1/13/2012
- by Kurt Orzeck
- The Wrap
It doesn’t get much more British than this: Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh are making a movie called The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. (At least that’s the title until somebody renames it Taters!: A Love Story) A rep for Fox 2000 confirms that Branagh will direct the whimsical drama —based on the 2008 best-selling novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — about a British writer (Winslet) who travels to the remote island of Guernsey after WWII to learn about how a book club helped the islanders weather the war. Don Roos (Marley & Me, Bounce) is...
- 1/13/2012
- by Adam Markovitz
- EW - Inside Movies
Save for a few exceptions here or there, I don’t normally pay a lot of attention to what roles an actor ends up taking — unless they’re crashing and burning, a la Matthew McConaughey a couple of years ago. But Kate Winslet — thanks to, of course, being a terrific actress who almost never makes a bad choice — is one of those exceptions.
Hence my interest in Variety‘s story, which tells us that she’ll star for Kenneth Branagh in Fox 2000′s romance, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The story, based on the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — and adapted for the screen by Don Roos — is set in post-wwii London and centers on “a magazine columnist who enters into a correspondence with a man from Guernsey, and learns how the islanders used a book group during the war as cover to outwit their German occupiers.
Hence my interest in Variety‘s story, which tells us that she’ll star for Kenneth Branagh in Fox 2000′s romance, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The story, based on the novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — and adapted for the screen by Don Roos — is set in post-wwii London and centers on “a magazine columnist who enters into a correspondence with a man from Guernsey, and learns how the islanders used a book group during the war as cover to outwit their German occupiers.
- 1/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
After finally winning her Oscar for "The Reader" at the start of 2009, Kate Winslet's had a little break from awards-bait movies. Not that she's avoided the glitter altogether -- she won an Emmy, deservedly, for her starring role in Todd Haynes' "Mildred Pierce," and has two Golden Globe nominations this weekend, both for that and for her turn in "Carnage." But the latter is an atypical kind of role for the star, an acerbic dark comedy, and most of her other choices of late, like Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" and a role in portmanteau comedy "Movie 43" have been designed to let her have a little fun, rather than court awards voters. But you can't stay away from prestige fare forever, and it looks like Winslet's just found her next contender as Baz Bamigboye reports that Winslet will star in "The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society,...
- 1/13/2012
- The Playlist
Kate Winslet will star in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , to be directed by Kenneth Branagh ( Thor ) for Fox 2000, reports Variety . Winslet previously played Ophelia in Branagh's Hamlet in 1996. Don Roos adapted the Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows book, which is officially described as follows: January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Branagh previously described the movie as "a beautiful romance, very touching and uplifting." Paula Masur, Mitchell Kaplan and David Barron are producing the film,...
- 1/13/2012
- Comingsoon.net
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society casts Kate Winslet. Kenneth Branagh is set to direct the Fox 2000 release which Winslet is attached to, reuniting with the helmer since playing Ophelia in 1996's Hamlet, reports Variety. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society is adapted by Don Roos, based on the bestselling novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. The love story which takes place in the Channel Islands and London after the second World War, has Winslet as a columnist who starts corresponding with a Guernsey man, finding out how the islanders made use of a book group during Ww II as a cover to outsmart the Germans. She's mesmerized by their stories and the influence of the books, and decides to travel to Guernsey, which changes her life forever.
- 1/13/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will be directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor) for 20th Century Fox, based on the Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestseller by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. Variety reports that Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan are producing the film scripted by Don Roos (Happy Endings, Marley & Me). The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set in London on the island of Guernsey; a love story taking place shortly after WWII. This marks the first major directing job for Branagh after Paramount Pictures' Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman...
- 8/4/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will be directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor) for 20th Century Fox, based on the Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestseller by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. Variety reports that Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan are producing the film scripted by Don Roos (Happy Endings, Marley & Me). The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set in London on the island of Guernsey; a love story taking place shortly after WWII. This marks the first major directing job for Branagh after Paramount Pictures' Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman...
- 8/4/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will be directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor) for 20th Century Fox, based on the Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestseller by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. Variety reports that Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan are producing the film scripted by Don Roos (Happy Endings, Marley & Me). The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set in London on the island of Guernsey; a love story taking place shortly after WWII. This marks the first major directing job for Branagh after Paramount Pictures' Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman...
- 8/4/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Update: Random House Publishing Group head Gina Centrello just announced Susan Kamil's and other promotions. See memo below: Exclusive: Susan Kamil, who has been editor-in-chief of the Random House imprint as well as the Dial Press imprints, will be elevated to publisher of both imprints by Random House Publishing Group head Gina Centrello. The post had been vacant and Centrello had handled the publisher duties. I’m told Random House will make it official sometime today and she starts that job later this week. Kamil will continue as editor-in-chief of Random House and Dial, where she has edited such recent successes as The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, as well as Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists, Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic novel series. She also oversees two successful imprints. Random House just scored...
- 7/27/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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