ViacomCBS-backed U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 has revealed a teaser for its keenly anticipated series “Anne Boleyn,” starring “Queen & Slim” actor Jodie Turner-Smith.
The teaser begins by quoting Variety, saying “There’s a new Queen in town,” and goes on to show the actor walking tensely through a royal court.
Turner-Smith stars as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn — the most notorious of Henry VIII’s wives, best known for her untimely demise by execution — in the three-part psychological thriller.
Your first look at our Queen Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn, coming soon to @channel5_tv#AnneBoleyn #JodieTurnerSmith #Channel5 @MissJodie pic.twitter.com/n8UHymFgW7
— Channel 5 (@channel5_tv) April 7, 2021
Produced by Fable Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, “Anne Boleyn” garnered headlines last year for Turner-Smith’s casting, which marks one of a handful of times a Black actor has portrayed a major royal figure on a British terrestrial broadcaster. The...
The teaser begins by quoting Variety, saying “There’s a new Queen in town,” and goes on to show the actor walking tensely through a royal court.
Turner-Smith stars as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn — the most notorious of Henry VIII’s wives, best known for her untimely demise by execution — in the three-part psychological thriller.
Your first look at our Queen Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn, coming soon to @channel5_tv#AnneBoleyn #JodieTurnerSmith #Channel5 @MissJodie pic.twitter.com/n8UHymFgW7
— Channel 5 (@channel5_tv) April 7, 2021
Produced by Fable Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, “Anne Boleyn” garnered headlines last year for Turner-Smith’s casting, which marks one of a handful of times a Black actor has portrayed a major royal figure on a British terrestrial broadcaster. The...
- 4/7/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its 18th year, the San Diego Intl. Film Festival, produced by the nonprofit San Diego Film Foundation, once again steals the movie glamour spotlight from its neighbor to the north, combining major regional premieres with a focus on social and environmental issues.
Running Oct. 15-20, the festival received more than 3,000 submissions from 68 countries, including feature films, shorts and documentaries. The result is a lineup that includes 107 films, with five in the narrative spotlight competition, 20 in the narrative contest, nine in the doc competition and 66 short films, says Tonya Mantooth, CEO and artistic director.
Opening night at the historic Balboa Theatre will see the premiere of “Jojo Rabbit,” a World War II black comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro, opens the screenings at the ArcLight Cinema La Jolla on Oct. 17. “A Hidden Life,” a drama set during WWII, written and directed by Terrence Malick,...
Running Oct. 15-20, the festival received more than 3,000 submissions from 68 countries, including feature films, shorts and documentaries. The result is a lineup that includes 107 films, with five in the narrative spotlight competition, 20 in the narrative contest, nine in the doc competition and 66 short films, says Tonya Mantooth, CEO and artistic director.
Opening night at the historic Balboa Theatre will see the premiere of “Jojo Rabbit,” a World War II black comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro, opens the screenings at the ArcLight Cinema La Jolla on Oct. 17. “A Hidden Life,” a drama set during WWII, written and directed by Terrence Malick,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Iain Blair
- Variety Film + TV
Gwyneth Hughes, writer of the BBC and HBO’s The Girl, has created a feature-length drama about slavery in modern Britain for the BBC.
Doing Money will star Romanian actress Anca Dumitra (Las Fierbinti) and Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech. It tells the story of Ana, a young Romanian woman snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of ‘pop up’ brothels. The 90-minute thriller exposes just how big business ‘doing money’ is.
Written by Hughes, who has also written ITV’s forthcoming adaptation of Vanity Fair, and directed by Lynsey Miller (The Boy With The Top Knot), Doing Money is produced by Warner Bros’ Renegade Pictures for BBC Two. It is produced in association with Irish broadcaster Rte, produced by Mike Dormer and exec produced by Alex Cooke and Lucy Richer. It was commissioned by Patrick Holland,...
Doing Money will star Romanian actress Anca Dumitra (Las Fierbinti) and Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech. It tells the story of Ana, a young Romanian woman snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of ‘pop up’ brothels. The 90-minute thriller exposes just how big business ‘doing money’ is.
Written by Hughes, who has also written ITV’s forthcoming adaptation of Vanity Fair, and directed by Lynsey Miller (The Boy With The Top Knot), Doing Money is produced by Warner Bros’ Renegade Pictures for BBC Two. It is produced in association with Irish broadcaster Rte, produced by Mike Dormer and exec produced by Alex Cooke and Lucy Richer. It was commissioned by Patrick Holland,...
- 8/31/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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