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This critic might want to look for a different job. The prospect of seeing the great Ian McKellen take on the role of one of London's most august theater critics of the 1930s must have looked tantalizing on paper, but sadly this is a show that deserved…

EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel Curtain Call. Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), BAFTA nominee Romola Garai (Suffragette), Ben Barnes (Westworld) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen is among the stars of Ken McMullen's Hamlet Within, a part-documentary feature investigating the mythology around the Shakespeare play, which is headed to the Cannes Market. The Art Cinema and Scape Films co-production will be released as an NFT collection on newly formed Blockchain ecosystem…

Sheridan Smith To Headline Channel 5’s ‘Teacher’ BAFTA-winner Sheridan Smith is to headline Teacher, the latest drama series from ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5. Smith will play Jenna in the Clapperboard-produced psychological thriller, which follows a state schoolteacher whose life unravels after being accused of a…

Huzzah! The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will revisit Middle-earth alongside cast members of the epic film trilogy Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Elijah Wood. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has…

The Brexit visa crisis, which is preventing British film and TV employees from working in the European Union without filling out reams of costly paperwork, is now starting to cause issues for spring shoots on the continent, according to The Production Guild of Great Britain. Production Guild CEO Lyndsay Duthie told…

Ian McKellen has become the latest celebrity to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, with the 81-year-old actor scheduled to be back for a second dose of the vaccine in three weeks. Here's the actor's Twitter post about getting inoculated: I feel very lucky to have had the vaccine. I would have no hesitation in…

EXCLUSIVE: UK sci-fi-drama film Infinitum: Subject Unknown has been picked up by Blue Finch Films for distribution in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. From producers Fizz and Ginger Films, the film is written by and stars Tori Butler-Hart (Two Down) with cameo roles for Lord Of The Rings star Ian McKellen…

Get ready, internet haters and cranky critics who have been gunning for Cats, lying in wait since the first revelation of how it was made, because like it or not, the long-awaited movie version finally is upon us, and for this Cat and Cats fan it is a welcome treat this holiday season. Judging by the fevered reaction…

It is hard to believe that Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen, a Dame and a Sir who are lions of the British acting class, never co-starred in a movie together before The Good Liar. It seems a natural teaming, and indeed they have proved that onstage, but until now never on the screen. Fortunately, director Bill Condon has…

New Line Cinema’s The Good Liar, which pairs Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen on-screen for the first time, has a new trailer. The pic, directed by Bill Condon from a script from Condon’s Mr Holmes screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher and based on Nicholas Searle’s novel, hits theaters via Warner Bros on November 15. McKellen…

Ian McKellen has announced a return to Broadway – for charity and one night only. The self-explanatory Ian McKellen On Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others …And You!, directed by Sean Mathias, will play the Hudson Theatre on Tuesday, November 5. All proceeds from the event will benefit the nonprofit theater…