Richard E. Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis and Weruche Opia are boarding the Netflix comedy Ladies First opposite Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike. Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game, Wicked Little Letters, Me Before You) is directing from a screenplay by Katie Silberman…

Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC-PBS docu-drama about the renaissance. Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the Western world were born out of an era of violence, power politics and rivalry. The BBC said the…

More than 2,000 figures from the UK's arts and culture world have signed an open letter calling for the immediate cessation of Israel's blockade and bombing of Gaza. "We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food…

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Dance-narrated doc feature Savage Waters will be available to watch in the UK following a deal struck with distribution and exhibition outfit Tull Stories. Tull Stories will release Savage Waters theatrically as part of its Adventure Club strand before releasing on VoD after…

Sky News Boss John Ryley Steps Down Sky News Head John Ryley is stepping down next year after almost 20 years at the helm. In a letter to colleagues over the weekend, the UK news vet said he would move on to projects “incompatible with leading a news organisation” and that the plan was always to step…

Realm hopes to scare up listeners for an election-timed, star-studded audio thriller from Trudie Styler. Spark Hunter will debut November 8 and will feature Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Rebecca Ferguson (Dune), and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), who will also executive produce with Styler. The…

It seems like forever, but the wait is about to an end. The anticipated Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s popular comic book series The Sandman is coming together. Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry and Sanjeev Bhaskar have been set to star in the…

With Mank, director David Fincher realized a long-held dream to shoot a screenplay by his father Jack Fincher, who died in 2003. It’s story set in the Hollywood's Golden Age and against the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, a movie many consider still the greatest ever made. But as members of the…

Here’s the first trailer for Carlo Hintermann's English-language drama The Book Of Vision, which will open the 2020 edition of Venice Critics' Week, the independent sidebar of the Italian festival which is pressing on with plans for a physical edition in September. The film stars Charles Dance, Lotte Verbeek, Sverrir…

EXCLUSIVE: Game of Thrones star Charles Dance is to narrate Netflix docu-drama Rise of Empires: Ottoman. The six-part series launches on the streaming service on January 24. Formerly known as Ottoman Rising, the series is produced by STXtelevision, which was behind Nat Geo's Valley of the Boom, and Red Arrow Studios'…

We were just given a taste of what to expect in the first teaser for the forthcoming The King’s Man. Now 20th Century Fox has given us a full trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s prequel to The Kingsman and it is quite stylish, refined and very kick-ass. Based on the comic book "The Secret Service" by Mark Millar and Dave…

Warwick Davis, Gemma Arterton, Charles Dance, Julie Walters and Richard E. Grant are among the voice cast for animated TV special Master Moley. UK outfit Signature Entertainment is selling the 30-minute family special, marking a rare foray into shorter form content for the feature distributor and producer. The show…