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Guy Ritchie's attempt to resuscitate his would-be British Upperclass Gangster Film Franchise, The Gentlemen, has gone far better than anyone could have imagined. The original film (with the same name) debuted at the end of 2019 in the U.K.; there were high hopes for it to land
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The 2024 American Film Market in Las Vegas begins November 5, when everyone's attention will be focused elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the deals that ensure next year's movie productions can start filming aren't going to be struggling to find investors. This
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It really was just a matter of time before streaming TV took the British-ish fantasy genre, hyper-fueled by Game of Thrones' smashing success, to the logical endpoint and circled back to the original British-accented fantasy trope that once dominated the big-budget landscape in feature films: the Sword-and-Sandal epic. Once
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Peacock has released the first images from its upcoming Roman historical epic Those About to Die, a sweeping story of Ancient Rome that boasts an all-star cast and a massive narrative scope. It takes its name from the Latin, "Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant," which translates as "
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Peacock has released the teaser for its upcoming Roman period drama Those About to Die, an expensive-looking epic helmed by Roland Emmerich, who is returning to directing television for the first time since 2012. The streamer also announced that the ten-episode series will premiere as a binge-release this July. Based
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For American or international audiences, who perhaps only occasionally peer into the hysteria that is the United Kingdom, there was a year-long obsession in the media with an extremely elderly gentleman called Captain Tom. This military veteran attempted to walk the length of his garden 100 times to raise money
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Anthony Hopkins is making a play for the Oscars this year in One Life, where he plays real-life "British Schindler" Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved the lives of 669 Jewish children during World War II. It's perfect Oscar bait — real-life hero, biopic, period piece, tear-jerker, war
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As of this writing, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are ongoing, but awards season is still on, with hopes that by the time the red carpets roll out in January 2024, there will be stars to walk them. The unofficial kick-off of awards season begins with the back-to-back international film
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Period pieces, especially those set in Roman and Greek antiquity, tend to lean hard into British culture instead of knowing what those cultures were genuinely like. From I Claudius to Alexander The Great, sword and sandal shows and movies are angled to Anglophiles, including current shows like Domina on MGM+
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BBC 2 and Amazon teamed up for a new, star-studded adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous king. King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, the story of a king who slowly goes mad in his final years, alienating those
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The BBC’s latest star-studded Shakespeare adaptation is heading to Amazon Prime’s video streaming service this September. This version of the iconic tragedy King Lear stars acting legends Anthony Hopkins as the titular king and Emma Thompson as his eldest daughter Goneril. These greats are joined by a slew