I just beat Britain First.

Scoop. Elizabeth Debicki is to play an alien who tries to seduce Zazie Beetz on a tropical Colombian resort and take her back to her planet in Iuli Gerbase’s THIS BLUE IS MINE.

This year's Cannes market projects are getting wild. Yesterday we had a 'Hedonistic '80s Vampire Thriller.' Today there's a 'Psychosexual Sci-Fi Drama.' More of this please.

Wonka AND Paddington 2 writer, fyi

Got to admit I quite enjoyed writing this headline, especially the middle section

Boris Johnson, whose government introduced voter ID for voting, was turned away from a polling station today because he’d forgotten his… voter ID.

Quite a few boxes being ticked with this new film...
- K-Stew
- Oscar Isaac
- Mandy director Panos Cosmatos
- Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker
- Adam McKay
- Set in 'glittering 80s LA' and about 'a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence'
- Vampires

How the U.K. Film and TV Industry Could Get Closer to Hair and Makeup Equality Through Upcoming Equity-Pact Contract Negotiations bit.ly/4a0AZM0

First Joaquin Phoenix, now the Bible. What’s Brian Cox going to slam next on his big diss tour… cheese?

“Three tickets for Challengers please.”

Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold dlvr.it/T63VCV

For her role as an IRA gang leader in 'In the Land of Saints and Sinners,' Kerry Condon channeled Begbie from 'Trainspotting.'

'He’s not the biggest guy, but you’re absolutely scared of him.' bit.ly/49Suueo

An interview in which Kerry Condon told me that, after shooting Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and promoting The Banshees of Inisherin practically simultaneously in 2022, she was 'bollocksed'

I had the joy of interviewing Ncuti Gatwa, Russell T Davies and Millie Gibson about their new era of “Doctor Who”💙

“Anyone that has a problem with someone who’s not a straight white man playing this character, you’re not really, truly a fan,” Gatwa says.
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For any concerned Brits reading ellise’s excellent Doctor Who piece…
🩲- wearing
👖- not wearing

And here are those redacted allegations from Rebel Wilson's memoir. They feature in a chapter poetically entitled 'Sacha Baron Cohen And Other Assholes'

Gareth Evans rom-com starring Dan Stevens, anyone?

“If Adam Wingard or Tilman Singer or Radio Silence or Gareth Evans came to me and said, ‘Actually, I just want to do a rom-com,’ I’d be like, ‘Absolutely, fucking sign me up,'”

Very much enjoyed talking to Dan Stevens who, less than 12 years after turning his back on the British aristocracy (Downton) and heading to the US, finds himself going head-to-head against himself in two of the biggest studio releases of the season (Abigail and Godzilla x Kong)

So no Mike Leigh in #Cannes this year. We know Hard Truths was submitted to the festival, so many of us assumed it was a dead cert.

Maybe he'll do what he did when Vera Drake was rejected and instead take it to Venice and win the Golden Lion.

As many people who know me may have realised, I quite like ridiculous things. Chris Dane Owens' music video for Shine on Me is among the most gloriously ridiculous things I've ever seen. And now he's turned it into a feature film. Obvs I had to write something.