Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant Adapting ‘Fighting With My Family’ Into Stage Musical

Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant Adapting ‘Fighting With My Family’ Into Stage Musical

Dwayne Johnson and Stephen Merchant‘s 2019 film Fighting With My Family is getting the musical treatment. Merchant’s biopic is being developed for the stage by Tilted Musicals, in collaboration with Seven Bucks Productions (co-founded by Johnson and Dany Garcia), Merchant himself, Kevin Misher and Birmingham Hippodrome. With the book and lyrics by Olivier Award-winning playwright…

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ITV’s ‘Believe Me’: Daniel Mays on the Toll of Playing the “Black Cab Rapist” and Writer Jeff Pope on Focusing on Victims Rather Than the Predator

ITV’s ‘Believe Me’: Daniel Mays on the Toll of Playing the “Black Cab Rapist” and Writer Jeff Pope on Focusing on Victims Rather Than the Predator

The upcoming ITV drama Believe Me features established and rising British stars coming together to tell a harrowing British story. Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Mr Burton), Aasiya Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, The Beast Must Die) and Miriam Petche (Industry) feature in the four-episode series opposite Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, Des, A Thousand Blows, Moonflower Murders) as John Worboys,…

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‘Sorda’ Wins European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award, Beating ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident’

‘Sorda’ Wins European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award, Beating ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident’

Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad’s Spanish drama about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the LUX Audience Award from the European Parliament, beating out Joachim Trier’s Oscar champion Sentimental Value and Jafar Panahi’s Cannes winner It Was Just an Accident. Also nominated for the LUX Audience Award were Brendan Canty’s…

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