Last week was a ‘bumper week’ for UK booksellers as sales hit £33.6 million in seven days. This is an 11% increase on the previous week, and the best first week of September on record. When lockdown relegated us to our homes in March, as a nation we picked up hobbies to pass the time, […]Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced that they will remain closed until 2021, as well as their plans for redundancy consultations, in line with the end of the Coronavirus job retention scheme in October. The news comes after all RSC shows were cancelled or postponed back in April, until June 30 at the earliest. The company had […]Read More
Selling Sunset lured many of us in at some point during lockdown with its glitzy houses, glamourous realtors, and a little bit of help from a very pushy Netflix algorithm. Giving an insight into the lives of the super-rich and their gorgeous houses, with a generous side order of catty drama, Selling Sunset is 2020’s […]Read More
Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield are set to star in College Republicans, Deadline exclusively reported. James Schamus has signed on to direct the picture, which has been in development for over a decade. Set in the summer of 1973, College Republicans follows Karl Rove, a political schemer and deputy chief of staff during the George […]Read More
The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced the rescheduling of their 2020 Winter season, with hopes to reopen theatres as soon as possible- starting with rescheduled performances of The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors. The news comes after all RSC shows were cancelled or postponed back in April, until 30th June at the earliest. Matilda the Musical […]Read More
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has been confirmed for the upcoming historical epic, The Woman King, starring Academy Award winners Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o. The news comes over two years after Sony’s TriStar subsidiary acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film in March 2018. The Old Guard, Prince-Bythewood’s latest work, debuted on Netflix last week to […]Read More
Jude Law is in talks to play Captain Hook in Disney’s upcoming live action Peter Pan reboot, Peter Pan and Wendy. The news comes four months after Ever Anderson and Alexander Molony were confirmed to be playing Wendy and Peter respectively. David Lowery is set to direct, having previously collaborated with Disney on Pete’s Dragon. […]Read More
Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded upcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 is heading to Netflix. The streaming giant recently confirmed that it had bought the distribution rights from Paramount for $56 million. Based on one of the most notorious trials in American history, The Trial of the Chicago 7 follows a group of seven defendants […]Read More
Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has been confirmed as the next up-and-coming play to hit the UK. The world premiere of Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel’s adaptation will travel across the country throughout 2021, opening at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley on 3rd April. Wagstaff and Abel, the Original Theatre Company duo, have […]Read More
A new anthology of short, quarantine-created films is heading to Netflix. Homemade, spearheaded by filmmaker Pablo Larraín, will see 17 filmmakers unite to capture the shared experience of quarantine. In the wake of many film sets shutting down for quarantine or production being postponed – including Warner Bro’s The Batman, Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion, and Disney’s live […]Read More
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced a two month postponement of the 2021 Oscars Awards ceremony due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The eligibility period for films, previously standardised as 31 December annually, has also been extended. The new deadline is 28 February 2021. This comes after the Academy announced […]Read More
Archaeologists have found the remains of London’s oldest playhouse, The Red Lion, in an excavation project on Stepney Way. The site is the former location of a SafeStore self-storage site, and was set to become a new block of luxury flats. Thought to have been built around 1567, The Red Lion originated as a farmhouse, […]Read More
It’s almost one month since I started reading A Little Life, the Man Booker Prize finalist by Hanya Yanagihara published in 2015. Prior to this, my lockdown reading had been speedy – almost frantic – as I tried to consume as much as I could in this unprecedented pause, and to escape the unpleasant truth […]Read More
“I’m sure Somebody died while We made love. Some- Body killed somebody Black. I thought then Of holding you As a political act. I May as well have Held myself.” (‘Stand’ in The Tradition by Jericho Brown) The Tradition by Jericho Brown won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – and rightly so. It is […]Read More
As a nation, we are all looking for a little bit of escapism in these strange times. Arecent report by The Guardian found that many of us are turning to books, withthe average adult’s reading time in lockdown having almost doubled.Where crowds of characters in film and TV often give us a visual reminder of […]Read More
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