Category: TV/Film Projects
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A Spy Among Friends Heads to BritBox
– Must Watch Originals – BBC Studios has announced the titles coming to BritBox in July 2025, which include a range of new BritBox originals and classic British fare-quintessentially crime dramas, sharp-tongued comedies, and real-life stories you won’t find anywhere else. July’s line-up is the service’s most ambitious of the year where you’ll find the…
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Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell’s Bibles Reunited For First Time in 500 Years
– Wolf Hall Comes to Wales – by Mari Grug | BBC News | June 25, 2025 Unique copies of the Great Bibles of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell have been reunited for the first time in nearly 500 years. The copies, made in 1538-9, were printed on parchment and carefully hand-coloured by Europe’s finest…
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Damian Lewis on Returning to Wolf Hall
– Sweet in a Murderous Kind of Way – by Mark Peikert | Gold Derby | June 11, 2025 ”We could have all just said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to do it,’” Damian Lewis tells Gold Derby about returning to the Tudor court for Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. “But the experience in the first series…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Acquired in Several Deals
– Buzzy Cannes Debut – by Melanie Goodfellow | Deadline | May 23, 2025 Goodfellas has unveiled a first round of deals for Raoul Peck’s documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, exploring the contemporary resonance of George Orwell’s work, following its well-received world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. In Europe, the work has been acquired for France (Le…
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Quentin Tarantino to Publish Book on the Making of ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’
– Featuring Interview with Damian Lewis – by Alex DiVincenzo | Bloody Disgusting | May 20, 2025 Quentin Tarantino has teamed with journalist/author Jay Glennie and publisher Insight Editions for making-of books on all ten of his films. The first installment, The Making of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, will be published on November 11. The 400-page coffee table book features an…
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Damian Lewis Attends Orwell Photocall at Cannes Film Festival
– Orwell: 2+2=5 – Damian was back on the red carpet for a second time on day six of the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival held at Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on Sunday, May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France. He posed during a photocall for the film Orwell: 2+2=5, a documentary in which…
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‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: Raoul’s Peck’s Vital Film Shows How We’re Living In A ‘1984’-Style Dystopia
– An Urgent, Indispensable Film For Our Times – by Matthew Carey | Deadline | May 17, 2025 When I was growing up, the lessons of George Orwell‘s Dystopian novel 1984 were thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his people, punishing dissenters. If that had been correct,…
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‘Orwell 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: A Chilling Examination of How Much the Nightmare of ‘1984’ Has Come True
– Lewis is an Excellent Narrator – by Wilson Chapman | IndieWire | May 17, 2025 Raoul Peck’s essay film about the creation of “1984” uses George Orwell’s words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare…