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Sony Pictures Classics takes worldwide on Nicholas Hytner’s ‘The Choral’ starring Ralph Fiennes and Jim Broadbent
Alan Bennett has written the script, with Kevin Loader and Damian Jones producing.
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SPC plots 'The Lady In The Van' awards run
Sony Pictures Classics will schedule a qualifying run for its Toronto-bound Maggie Smith starrer The Lady In The Van.
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Lady in the Van first look
The first image from the Alan Bennett adaptation has been unveiled as well as the release date.
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TriStar, BBC Films ready Lady in the Van
Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith will reprise her stage role in TriStar Productions and BBC Films’ screen version of The Lady In The Van.
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BBC Films to adapt Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van
New feature, starring Maggie Smith, will reunite the team behind The History Boys. BBC Films to also produce crime drama City of Tiny Lights starring Riz Ahmed.
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Alan Bennett adaptation ‘Allelujah’, starring Judi Dench, kicks off UK shoot for Pathe
Cast also includes Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley and Derek Jacobi.
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Hot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase this week include action-thriller London Has Fallen, Alan Bennett’s motion-pictured memoir The Lady in the Van and Chadwick Boseman’s newest venture Message from the King.
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'Spectre' scores UK box office hat-trick
Sony also notch highest new entry as The Lady in the Van posts terrific $3.5m (£2.3m) from 540 sites, and becomes second distributor ever to record a 1-2-3 at the top of the chart.
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Damian Jones signs first-look deal with Fox Searchlight
British producer most recently worked on Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
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