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Claire Sweeney to play Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Claire Sweeney will play the role of Baroness Bomburst in Music & Lyrics and West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, from Wednesday 3 August 2016. The production is touring across the UK and Ireland until February 2017. Michelle Collins, who currently plays Baroness Bomburst, leaves the production… read more >

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool to commence production

IM Global has Acquired International Rights and will Launch the Film in Cannes Friday 6 May 2016, London. Producers Barbara Broccoli (SPECTRE, SKYFALL) and Colin Vaines (GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE YOUNG VICTORIA, Ralph Fiennes’ CORIOLANUS, W.E.) today announced FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL will commence principal photography in the UK on 27 June…. read more >

Matt Gillett to play The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Music & Lyrics and West Yorkshire Playhouse are delighted to announce Matt Gillett in the role of The Childcatcher in the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is touring across the UK and Ireland until February 2017. Matt was already a part of the ensemble when the producers discovered his talent for… read more >

DESIGNING 007 OPENS IN PARIS

Exhibition includes new SPECTRE items Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style has opened in Paris today. The exhibition (a collaboration between EON Productions and The Barbican) will be at Grand Halle de la Villette until 4th September 2016. On display are more than 500 costumes, cars, sketches and gadgets from the Bond archive… read more >

Red Arrow and Smuggler invest in new TV production company, Cove Pictures

Cove Pictures forges creative alliance with Eon Productions Munich, 25 February 2016. A major new international TV production company has been launched, based in London, New York and Los Angeles. Cove Pictures, led by Heather Rabbatts, will produce high-end drama and comedy as well as blue-chip factual programs for the international market. Cove Pictures is… read more >

SPECTRE takes the world by storm

Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment’s SPECTRE’s astonishing global box office take is nearly $200 million this weekend. After setting new box office opening records in nearly every country in which it opened last weekend, SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure, opened wide around the world with stunning results from an additional 72 territories,… read more >

Producers Guild of America to honor Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli

2014 Marks the 25th Anniversary of the Producers Guild Awards LOS ANGELES, CA (October X, 2013) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions will receive the 2014 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures. The award will be presented to Wilson and… read more >

SAM GOLD TO DIRECT DANIEL CRAIG AND DAVID OYELOWO IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO

FALL 2016 AT NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) is proud to announce that NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony Award winner Sam Gold will return to NYTW to direct Daniel Craig (BETRAYAL, SPECTRE) as ‘Iago’ and David Oyelowo (Royal Shakespeare Company’s THE… read more >

Picturehouse Entertainment announce opening for Tom Browne’s RADIATOR

After a warmly received World Premiere at last year’s London Film Festival, Tom Browne’s feature directorial debut, the award-winning RADIATOR, starring the late Richard Johnson alongside Gemma Jones and Daniel Cerqueira, will open on November 27, released by Picturehouse Entertainment. The film won the Audience Award at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, and further prizes… read more >

Sam Smith to sing title song to SPECTRE

Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment today confirmed that Sam Smith has recorded “Writing’s On The Wall,” the theme song to SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure. SPECTRE will be released in the UK on October 26 and in the US on November 6. The song, released by Capitol Records, will debut and… read more >