Outside of Steven Soderbergh, we’d have to say that Guy Ritchie is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the past decade or so. Over the past couple of years, he’s had three major films released. Sure, not all of them did well at the box office, but the man is fast. Now, he’s already putting together a cast for a new film that will begin production in 2025.

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According to Black Bear, Guy Ritchie has tapped Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike, and Anthony Hopkins to lead his new film, “Wife & Dog.” Written and directed by Ritchie, the film is said to showcase the colorful, back-stabbing world of the British aristocracy. 

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Without much flash, Rosamund Pike has become one of our best actors working today. Just look at the last several years of films, including a standout role in “Saltburn,” as well as “I Care A Lot,” for proof. Now, it appears she’s ready to dive into TV work with a new Netflix series.

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According to a report from Puck, Rosamund Pike is set to lead the cast of a Silicon Valley drama series from acclaimed writer Scott Z.

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We often wax effusive about movies, their meaning, their craft, their intention, how they are sculpted and shaped, but sometimes we forget about the director’s mantra: that casting is everything and we arguably sometimes take for granted how some movies that seem so perfect, may not work at all without the actors and performers at their center.

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2023 was a great year for movies, see our Best Films Of 2023 list, but let’s be real, so many of these movies were make or break based on their performances.

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TELLURIDE – Let the record show that Emerald Fennell is an utterly fearless filmmaker. I mean, we already knew that to an extent after her audacious debut, “Promising Young Woman,” but to say she’s taken that to another level with her latest extravagant concoction, “Saltburn,” is an understatement of epic proportions. This is a swinging-for-the-fences with the bases-loaded type of movie. An irreverent monster of a film that leaves you buzzing.

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How many secrets can one family have? Filmmaker Emerald Fennell returns with “Saltburn,” a darkly comedic drama centered on a group of wealthy Oxford students who escape to a lush estate for the summer. A follow-up to her critically acclaimed effort “Promising Young Woman,” the upcoming project sees a hapless college student search for a welcoming clique; what he discovers is another student offering a different world and the prospect of an irresistible invitation.

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What happens after the Dark One is vanquished? Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” returns with a world still plagued by evil. This time, Rand and his closest companions from Two Rivers find themselves apart; their distance creates the perfect opportunity for something far more sinister to create chaos. The series is an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s popular fantasy books.

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The project looks toward an impressive cast that includes “Gone Girl” star Rosamund Pike, who returns to reprise her role as Moiraine Damodred.

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Rosamund Pike, best known for her Academy Award-nominated turn as the tormented Amy Elliot Dunne in David Fincher’s 2014 Gone Girl, is set to team up with director/writer Emerald Fennell in a new drama concentrating on a “grand, aristocratic English family.” Reportedly titled “Saltburn,” the film will be familiar territory for Fennell, as she attended the prestigious boarding school Marlborough College in the eponymous English city.

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Amazon Prime’s “The Wheel of Time” is a ponderous slog, a show that wants so badly to be the next “Game of Thrones” or even “The Witcher” that it telegraphs its pretentious self-seriousness with every line of dialogue and slow turn in the plot. It’s a death march through fantasy TV clichés that likely worked splendidly on the page in Robert Jordan’s books, wherein readers could imagine the exciting world that the people behind this show never bothered to create.

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We are still a full year away from the highly-anticipated debut of “The Lord of the Rings” TV series on Amazon. But, in the meantime, if you still need your large-scale fantasy fix, the streamer has another offering for you in November, “The Wheel of Time.”

As seen in the trailer for “The Wheel of Time,” Robert Jordan’s iconic fantasy novel series is coming to Amazon Prime Video next month and tells the story of a woman, who is part of an organization of all-female magic users.

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We are still about a year off from when Amazon debuts the highly-anticipated, billion-dollar TV adaptation of “Lord of the Rings” on its Prime Video streaming service. However, if you’re a fantasy fan that is desperate to find the next big thing to satisfy your “Game of Thrones” withdrawals, Amazon hopes you consider “The Wheel of Time.”

READ MORE: Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series Releases First Image & Announces Fall 2022 Release Date

As seen in the new trailer for “The Wheel of Time,” Robert Jordan’s beloved fantasy series is getting the big-budget TV adaptation treatment from Amazon, with a cast led by the incredible Rosamund Pike.

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This was probably not the Golden Globes ceremony that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Dick Clark Productions, and NBC were dreaming of just weeks ago. And, no, we’re not even referring to the controversy over the HFPA’s lack of Black membership or questionable practices within the organization itself (which was mentioned numerous times by the hosts, nominees, and winners). No, despite the fact we’re almost 12 months into television programs having to use multiple zoom interfaces to pull of interviews or remotes due to the COVD-19 pandemic the Globes telecast started off with more embarrassing gaffes than you’d catch in a local high school homeroom newscast.

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It’s that time of year again—where the biggest names in Hollywood get all glammed up, gather in front of their webcams, and wait for their Zoom meeting to begin so they can find out who won this year’s Golden Globes. With COVID-19 still a major issue in the US and around the world, this year’s 78th Annual Golden Globes Awards did things a bit differently, as the ceremony was mostly a digital affair but with some familiar elements.

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Normally, when a person has to make the decision to transition their aging loved one into a nursing home, the conclusion is reached after a ton of discussion and emotional conversations. That’s not the case in the upcoming film, “I Care A Lot.”

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As seen in the trailer for the film, “I Care A Lot” stars Rosamund Pike as Marla Grayson, a professional guardian of older people that turns a profit from shipping off folks to nursing homes and cashing out with their other possessions.

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Every week, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

There’s not much to speak of in terms of new releases this week, aside from a new (and enjoyable) Werner Herzog documentary, but no worries; we’ve got an embarrassment of riches from the catalog, including three great New York movies from Criterion, three engaging Clint Eastwood movies from KL Studio Classics, a pair of ‘80s comedies, and an Allison Anders gem that’s ripe for rediscovery.

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It’s been almost two years since we had the first trailer for the upcoming thriller, “The Informer.” And while delays almost never mean a good thing for a film, perhaps the long delay for “The Informer” is actually a benefit for the profile of the feature. You see, over the past two years, one of the leads, Ana de Armas, went from a relative unknown to one of the biggest names in Hollywood after her role in “Knives Out” and her upcoming role in “No Time to Die,” making “The Informer” a star-studded affair.

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Rosamund Pike clearly relishes the opportunity to play characters with a bit of a nasty streak. Whether it’s earning critical acclaim as the conniving Amy in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” or as a surgeon on a mission of revenge in the little-seen B-movie “Return to Sender.” Her latest film, “I Care A Lot,” is screening at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and, once again, finds her going full throttle as an unexpected anti-hero.

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Fans of “Gone Girl” who have been patiently waiting for star Rosamund Pike to sink her teeth into another delectably devious role, rejoice. J Blakeson’s “I Care a Lot” provides the best showcase of Pike’s darkly ambitious drive since her Academy Award-nominated breakthrough in 2014. None of this is intended as a slight to her work in the interim, to be clear. But there’s just something joyous in seeing that devilish twinkle return to Pike’s eye as she charges forward to fulfill her objectives, regardless of the pain it causes others or the lies she must tell along the way.

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Maybe it’s just because 2020 has felt like a full decade already, but it’s surprising that we’re still waiting on Rosamund Pike’s new film, “Radioactive,” to be released in the US. Sure, it only just debuted at TIFF last year, but it sure seems like we’ve been talking about this movie for so much longer. Well, the good news is that the film is a mere two weeks away from landing on Amazon Prime.

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There are few scientists in history to achieve a level of notoriety in the same was as Marie Curie. So, naturally, you have to expect that her story would get the feature film treatment. And that’s exactly what happens in the new film, “Radioactive.”

As seen in the new trailer for the film, “Radioactive” tells the story of Curie’s life and career, including her discovery of a new element, coining the term radioactive, as well as her personal life with her husband and the discrimination that faced her.

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After handing out 46 winners last night, the Television Academy bestowed another 49 winners on Sunday night for the second and final night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.  The remaining honors will be announced on Sunday, Sept. 22nd during a primetime telecast on FOX.  Tonight’s winners, in particular, showed a potentially fierce battle brewing for Comedy Series between “Fleabag” (two wins tonight), “Barry” (2 sound wins tonight)“Marvelous Mrs.

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Rosamund Pike is an Oscar-nominated actress that really is trying to land that next big role. She’s talented, without a doubt, but for some reason, Pike can’t seem to find a role that launches her into the awards season conversation quite like her performance in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl.” Maybe the upcoming “Radioactive” will be that film?

As seen in the trailer for “Radioactive,” Pike plays Marie Curie, the famed scientist that won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.

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The earth was once flat, the sun revolved around us, and polonium and radium were unknown. In time, there were societal combustions—ripples across space that devastated longstanding establishments. Marie Curie ignited the fuse, discovering polonium and radium en route to two Nobel Prizes. “Radioactive” opens with an elderly Curie—adorned with frazzled grey hair and wearing thin-oval sunglasses—walking through Paris in 1934 to her lab. Once there, she collapses, rushed to the hospital as her life flashes before her eyes.

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Amazon isn’t content with having the grandfather of the fantasy genre, “Lord of the Rings,” coming to TV. No, it also is prepping another major fantasy novel series for its small-screen debut, “The Wheel of Time.” And now, we know who’s going to be the lady leading the way in bringing Robert Jordan’s series to life.

Variety is reporting that Rosamund Pike is signed to star in the upcoming Amazon “Wheel of Time” series that is about to begin production.

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Planned for the first half of 2020, popular indie filmmaker Marjane Satrapi is teaming up with Rosamund Pike to tell the story of the famous Marie Curie. The film, entitled “Radioactive,” will be based on the biographic graphic novel of the same name by Lauren Redniss, focusing on the relationship and love Curie had with her work and her husband.

Satrapi, a French-Iranian artist, made a name for herself first through comic books and her illustrations for children’s literature.

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Oh, boy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association somehow managed to spread the love as much as possible with their 2019 Golden Globe nominations and still make almost every studio and network in town want to scream. Well, unless you’re Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. or Annapurna Pictures. If you’re Disney it’s pretty much a great morning especially when you take into account the success of future acquisition Fox Searchlight this rainy LA morning, too.

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