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Express Tribune
4 hours ago
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- Express Tribune
Steven Knight tapped to write next James Bond movie at Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon MGM Studios has officially brought on Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to pen the next installment in the James Bond franchise. Following months of speculation and creative meetings, Knight was confirmed after aligning creatively with Denis Villeneuve, who was previously announced as the director of the upcoming 007 film. The project marks a significant milestone for Amazon MGM Studios, which secured full creative control of the Bond franchise earlier this year after completing a $1 billion-plus acquisition. The studio is taking a careful approach to rebooting the legendary spy series, with Amy Pascal and David Heyman producing and Tanya Lapointe executive producing. While casting for the new James Bond has not yet been decided, sources indicate that the immediate focus is on developing the script. Knight's appointment came after an extensive search, culminating in a final meeting with Villeneuve, who is currently working on Dune: Part Three. Steven Knight's writing credits include the BAFTA-winning Peaky Blinders, Taboo, See, and SAS: Rogue Heroes. His film credits include the Oscar-nominated Eastern Promises, Spencer, and Dirty Pretty Things. Knight also created the global game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? This move signals a bold new chapter for the James Bond franchise, blending Knight's gritty storytelling style with Villeneuve's cinematic vision. Production timelines remain unclear, especially as Villeneuve finishes his Dune trilogy and Knight works on the Bond script. Knight is repped by CAA, United Agents, and Davis Law Group. Fans should expect further announcements once the script progresses and casting begins.
Scotsman
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Kathryn Joseph and Lomond Campbell bring their musical collaboration to the Edinburgh festivals
Off stage they're like bickering siblings but on stage Kathryn Joseph and Lomond Campbell are a magical combination. Interview by Andrew Eaton-Lewis Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... What does a witch and a wizard making music together sound like? I give you Kathryn Joseph and Ziggy (aka Lomond) Campbell. She sings haunting, sometimes harrowing songs that cast a dark spell, including an album devoted to stories of abuse survivors. He invents ingeniously eccentric machines, from Cybraphon, a BAFTA-winning musical robot whose mood was shaped by comments on social media, to his latest, MŮO, which conjures sound from cosmic rays generated by nuclear events in deep space. Lomond Campbell and Kathryn Joseph | Gulabi Independent Film Lab Joseph and Campbell have two joint appearances this August. On 9 August the wizard joins the witch for Up Late with Kathryn Joseph at the EIF. In return, the witch will join the wizard on 3 August as one of his special guests for MŮO Live, part of the Fringe's Made in Scotland showcase. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What will this involve? 'I'm going to dance, I've decided. Interpretive dance, naked,' says the witch with a cackle, playing up to the image. She turns to the wizard. 'Am I playing and singing as well?' 'Yes you f***ing are,' responds Campbell. 'What am I paying you for?' 'Yeah,' confirms Joseph. 'I'll dance naked, and sing, and play, ok?' Off stage, the witch and the wizard are more like bickering siblings; Joseph calls Campbell 'my creepy brother who is really horrible to me but is also really funny so he gets away with it'. It begins even as we arrange the interview. 'As long as Kathryn doesn't go on and on about winning the SAY Award I'm sure we can be done in an hour,' Campbell emails to me, copying in Joseph. 'Haaaaaaaa it's all I have,' she responds. 'How dare you try and stop me.' The pair first worked together on Joseph's 2022 album, For You Who Are The Wronged, but there were several brief encounters long before then. They first met in Aberdeeen in their twenties when Campbell was Joseph's sound engineer at an early gig in Dr Drake's. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I said to Kathryn something like, 'I'm not a real sound man.' And she went, 'but you look real to me', or something weird like that. And then she was just as she is now; very gracious and thankful and everybody was quite captivated by it all.' Their paths crossed again at a festival in Iona when, as Joseph describes it, 'I didn't go to your gig and you were really pissed off. I didn't realise. I didn't feel like I knew him that well for it to be a problem. And then I weirdly took a picture of him, through the porthole of the boat, that I found on my phone ten years later.' Campbell: 'She didn't want to come and see me live but she was happy to creepily take photos of me, unbeknownst to me.' Joseph: 'I put it on a little shrine with incense to manifest him working with me, yeah. I had to do poisonous magic to make it make sense.' Kathryn Joseph The first manifestation was recorded, at Joseph's request, at Campbell's studio in the Highlands. For You Who Are The Wronged kickstarted a productive creative relationship, its sparse, minimal atmospherics evolving, via a 2024 remix EP, into the fierce, claustrophobic electronica of Joseph's 2025 album We Were Made Prey. The duo are performing these songs together for much of this year, including a European tour with Mogwai in the autumn. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad We Were Made Prey was, remarkably, recorded more or less from scratch in one week, at Black Bay Studio in the Isle of Lewis. 'I recorded this record in one day,' clarifies Joseph, modestly, 'and then Ziggy did everything else.' This isn't quite true. While the wizard is prone to poking fun at the witch's inexpert attempts at percussion, Joseph is also credited as a co-producer. 'Her ideas for production are amazing,' he acknowledges. 'Oh, thanks,' Joseph responds. 'You've never been nice to me before. Please write that.' 'I'm just doing it in front of Andrew, okay,' shoots back Campbell. 'Just trying to be professional. Your managers told me to behave.' Still, if you're a Kathryn Joseph fan looking for insight into the wizard's contribution to the witch's spells, you should check out MŮO, on show for most of the month as an installation in addition to nine limited capacity live performances. The project began with an invitation from the University of Glasgow. As Campbell tells it, 'They said, I don't suppose you'd be interested in making one of your music machines using our muon detectors that can detect harmless radiation in the atmosphere that comes from massive nuclear events in space. And obviously, I am the absolute person to send that email to and I was pretty excited about it.' Lomond Campbell With Made in Scotland support, a technical challenge evolved into something more public-facing and 'a little bit more immersive'. When we speak, the wizard is still fine-tuning. 'With these machines, they've always got a behaviour. It's like you have to learn how to collaborate with them. So I've still got to learn how the machine behaves and how it wants to make music, and write probably about 45 to 50 minutes' worth of music for the show, and then a generative installation version as well that will run sort of at the same time as the performances. And I've got some special guests.' Still under wraps at the time of our interview, these turn out to be King Creosote (on 5 August) and Kathryn Joseph (3 August). Which brings us back to the witch. 'Did you see his Instagram reveal, Andrew, see how obvious it was, how cruel a drawing?' says Joseph, referring to a sketch Campbell posted online a few weeks ago, teasing MŮO's mystery guests. 'I'll find it, I've got my diary here,' says Campbell gleefully and shows me what is clearly a caricature of Joseph's face. 'I hate you,' says Joseph. 'All of my paranoia is there in that drawing.' 'Oh come on now, it's flattering,' grins the wizard, as the witch looks like she wants to put a hex on him. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Heartbreaking Channel 4 drama to return after three years with Derry Girls star
The latest instalment of the critically acclaimed anthology series is created, written and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Dominic Savage and big names are signed up Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan will star in the return of BAFTA-winning series I am the show's three-year absence was ended. The popular female-led series has been given the green light for a fourth season, with Nicola set to star opposite Peaky Blinders ' Joe Cole. Previously, Vicky McClure has appeared in I Am Nicola, with Samantha Morton starring in I Am Kirsty and Kate Winslet wowing in I Am Ruth. Acclaimed filmmaker Dominic Savage is heading up the show, which is being produced by Emmy-winning Me+You Productions. It return with I Am Helen, a two-parter comprising of hour-long instalments and Nicola, Penelope Featherington in the Netflix drama Bridgerton, is excited that it is her turn next. She said: 'It's an absolute honour to be part of telling the next I Am… story alongside Dominic Savage — a singular talent and a storyteller deeply committed to exploring the breadth of the female experience. To follow in the footsteps of the brilliant women who've collaborated with him on this series feels truly surreal, and I feel incredibly fortunate to be embarking on this journey.' Gemma Boswell, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Drama at Channel 4, said: 'We are delighted to welcome back Dominic Savage alongside the supremely talented Nicola Coughlan in I AM HELEN. The I AM series is a powerful and timely portrait of our times, and we are thrilled to have the powerhouse combination of Dominic and Nicola to tell such a distinctive and impactful story.' Krishnendu Majumdar and Richard Yee of Me+You Productions, said: 'It's a genuine privilege to continue our creative relationship with Dominic Savage, one of the most brilliant and uniquely talented filmmakers today and to be working with Nicola Coughlan, one of the standout performers of her generation. Their collaboration on this two-part instalment of I Am promises to be something truly special, and we're deeply grateful to Channel 4 for their continued support and belief in this powerful series.' Nicola rose to fame for her eccentric and comedic role as Clare Devlin in Derry Girls, which she joined in 2018. Clare is the voice of reason in her friendship group and is intelligent and studious, often being more intimidated by her friends than by authority figures. She came out as lesbian as the end of season one. The show follows five teenagers living in mid-1990s Derry while attending Our Lady Immaculate College, a fictional girls' Catholic secondary school. The first series became the most-watched series in Northern Ireland and was followed up by two more series on Channel 4. She gained even more recognition when she joined Bridgerton, which premiered in December 2020. She plays the fan-favorite character Penelope Featherington, who is Lady Whistledown. In Bridgerton, each season focuses on a different love story. The first season followed Daphne Bridgerton (played by Phoebe Dynevor), while the second focussed on her brother Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) as he courted Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley). Season three, however, shined the spotlight on Nicola's character, Penelope, allowing fans to see more of her talent. On the show, Nicola plays the youngest daughter of a nouveau-riche family in the Regency era in London and has since become a fan-favourite. Outside of work, Nicola has been notoriously quiet about her love life but has been linked to fellow actor Jake Dunn as of August 2024. The pair were spotted in October enjoying a stroll in London on a cosy date night out as well as many other occasions. Fans had also speculated she was dating her Bridgerton co-star and on-screen love interest Luke Newton (who plays Colin Bridgerton) after the two held hands at the season three launch event. However, she shut down rumours as she said they are strictly friends and nothing more than that.
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Bridgerton icon leads BAFTA-winning series as it returns with Peaky Blinders star
The popular series featuring one of Bridgerton's biggest stars is set to return for a second season. An award winning series featuring a Bridgerton icon and Peaky Blinders star is set to return to screens. Today Channel 4 has announced a brand-new story of the much loved drama anthology series I Am. The latest instalment of the BAFTA-winning female-led drama will be titled I Am Helen. I Am Helen will be led by Bridgerton and Derry Girl's star Nicola Coughlan, opposite Joe Cole, who is known for Gangs of London and Peaky Blinders. Nicola will follow the list of high profile names who have previously headlined the I Am series, including Kate Winslet in 2023. I Am Helen follows the standout success of three previous I Am series, authentically exploring the personal experiences of women through provocative, emotionally raw storytelling. Since its debut in 2019, the series has quickly become Channel 4's most successful new 10pm drama and is praised for its emotionally raw story telling and strong female lead. I Am Helen will air on Channel 4, though no official release date has been shared yet. Nicola Coughlan said: 'It's an absolute honour to be part of telling the next I Am… story alongside Dominic Savage — a singular talent and a storyteller deeply committed to exploring the breadth of the female experience. To follow in the footsteps of the brilliant women who've collaborated with him on this series feels truly surreal, and I feel incredibly fortunate to be embarking on this journey.' Since its first debut, the I Am anthology has become a hit with fans, as one person said: "Love the series! Very good acting and a refreshing, rare authentic representation of women on screen." Another added: "Honestly the best show for every woman to watch. Possibly the only true representation of women I have ever seen." Previous high profile names include Vicky McClure starring in I Am Nicola; Samantha Morton starring in the BAFTA nominated I Am Kirsty; and Gemma Chan starring in I Am Hannah. Series two was equally successful, starring Suranne Jones in the BAFTA nominated I Am Victoria, Letitia Wright in I Am Danielle and Lesley Manville in I Am Maria. The latest instalment of the critically acclaimed anthology series is created, written, produced and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Dominic Savage. Gemma Boswell, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Drama at Channel 4, added: 'We are delighted to welcome back Dominic Savage alongside the supremely talented Nicola Coughlan in I AM HELEN. "The I AM series is a powerful and timely portrait of our times, and we are thrilled to have the powerhouse combination of Dominic and Nicola to tell such a distinctive and impactful story.'
Pink Villa
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Nicola Coughlan Set to Lead BAFTA-Winning ‘I Am Helen' with Joe Cole in New Season of Channel 4 Anthology Series
Nicola Coughlan is set to lead the upcoming season of Channel 4's critically acclaimed 'I Am' anthology series, the broadcaster has announced. The BAFTA-winning drama, created by Dominic Savage, will return for its fourth season with a new two-part story titled 'I Am Helen', co-starring Joe Cole. According to Variety, Coughlan, known for her roles in Bridgerton, Derry Girls, and Big Mood, joins the list of high-profile female leads who have previously headlined the 'I Am' series, including Kate Winslet, Letitia Wright, Samantha Morton, and Lesley Manville. What is 'I Am Helen' about? The story for I Am Helen has been developed in creative collaboration between Nicola Coughlan and Dominic Savage, who continues his signature approach of working closely with his lead actors to shape the narratives. 'It's an absolute honour to be part of telling the next I Am story alongside Dominic Savage, a singular talent and a storyteller deeply committed to exploring the breadth of the female experience,' said Coughlan. 'To follow in the footsteps of the brilliant women who've collaborated with him on this series feels truly surreal, and I feel incredibly fortunate to be embarking on this journey.' Joe Cole, known for Gangs of London and A Small Light, will star opposite Coughlan in the two-part installment. The exact plot and broadcast date are yet to be revealed, but I Am Helen will air on Channel 4. Why 'I Am Helen' could be the most powerful chapter yet Since its debut in 2019, 'I Am' has become Channel 4's most successful new 10 pm drama in six years, praised for its emotionally raw storytelling and focus on female-led narratives. Winslet's I Am Ruth won two BAFTAs in 2023, while earlier stories like I Am Nicola (Vicky McClure), I Am Kirsty (Samantha Morton), and I Am Maria (Lesley Manville) received critical acclaim. Krishnendu Majumdar and Richard Yee of Me+You Productions said, 'It's a genuine privilege to continue our creative relationship with Dominic Savage, one of the most brilliant and uniquely talented filmmakers today, and to be working with Nicola Coughlan, one of the standout performers of her generation.'
