Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first four series of Top Boy
We head back to the Summerhouse Estate in East London for one final time with the release of much-loved crime thriller Top Boy‘s final season.
While Netflix refers to Top Boy: The Final Chapter as season three, die-hard fans know that this will technically be the fifth run of the show, as it originally began as a two-series Channel 4 drama back in 2011 before being cancelled before its time.
Thankfully, Netflix revived Top Boy in 2017 with the help of rapper Drake (aka Aubrey Graham), who remains the show’s Executive Producer, and the two original series are also on the streaming platform as Top Boy: Summerhouse.
Like those first two seasons, the three Netflix instalments centre on drug dealers Dushane and Sully, whose tumultuous on-and-off partnership has seen them face brutal rival gangs, perilous prison stints,...
We head back to the Summerhouse Estate in East London for one final time with the release of much-loved crime thriller Top Boy‘s final season.
While Netflix refers to Top Boy: The Final Chapter as season three, die-hard fans know that this will technically be the fifth run of the show, as it originally began as a two-series Channel 4 drama back in 2011 before being cancelled before its time.
Thankfully, Netflix revived Top Boy in 2017 with the help of rapper Drake (aka Aubrey Graham), who remains the show’s Executive Producer, and the two original series are also on the streaming platform as Top Boy: Summerhouse.
Like those first two seasons, the three Netflix instalments centre on drug dealers Dushane and Sully, whose tumultuous on-and-off partnership has seen them face brutal rival gangs, perilous prison stints,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
After the coronavirus pandemic caused the cancellation of popular dating reality show “Love Island” last summer, the show is confirmed to return to U.K. broadcaster ITV for this summer season. The last season of “Love Island” that aired was a winter version filmed in South Africa.
ITV also revealed several scripted series that are in production. “The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe,” a four-part crime drama from “Unforgotten” writer Chris Lang, about how John Darwin faked his own death to claim his life insurance, is being produced by All3Media’s Story Films.
“The Ipcress File,” a six-part adaptation of Len Deighton’s renowned book starring Joe Cole as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander is adapted for ITV by Oscar-nominated writer John Hodge and directed by Emmy award-winner James Watkins.
In “Stephen,” the three-part sequel to the single film “The Murder of Stephen Lawrence,” the cast includes Sharlene Whyte,...
ITV also revealed several scripted series that are in production. “The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe,” a four-part crime drama from “Unforgotten” writer Chris Lang, about how John Darwin faked his own death to claim his life insurance, is being produced by All3Media’s Story Films.
“The Ipcress File,” a six-part adaptation of Len Deighton’s renowned book starring Joe Cole as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander is adapted for ITV by Oscar-nominated writer John Hodge and directed by Emmy award-winner James Watkins.
In “Stephen,” the three-part sequel to the single film “The Murder of Stephen Lawrence,” the cast includes Sharlene Whyte,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
ITV is to follow-up Paul Greengrass’ BAFTA-winning 1999 drama The Murder of Stephen Lawrence with a sequel series following the pursuit of justice for the murdered teenager.
The UK commercial broadcaster has commissioned three-part series Stephen, which will be made by Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production outfit co-owned by Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Productions, the Jimmy Mulville-run indie behind Matt LeBlanc’s Golden Globe-winning Episodes.
Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary And Jackie) and Joe Cottrell Boyce (Treasure) are writing Stephen, while it will be directed by Alrick Riley (The Cops). Madonna Baptiste (The Stranger) is the producer, while Greengrass and Mark Redhead — who produced the original drama — serve as executive producers. Mulville and Mercurio are also executive producers.
With the full support of Doreen and Neville Lawrence, the story will portray events from 2006, 13 years after Stephen’s death in a racially motivated attack while he was waiting...
The UK commercial broadcaster has commissioned three-part series Stephen, which will be made by Hat Trick Mercurio Television, the production outfit co-owned by Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio and Hat Trick Productions, the Jimmy Mulville-run indie behind Matt LeBlanc’s Golden Globe-winning Episodes.
Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary And Jackie) and Joe Cottrell Boyce (Treasure) are writing Stephen, while it will be directed by Alrick Riley (The Cops). Madonna Baptiste (The Stranger) is the producer, while Greengrass and Mark Redhead — who produced the original drama — serve as executive producers. Mulville and Mercurio are also executive producers.
With the full support of Doreen and Neville Lawrence, the story will portray events from 2006, 13 years after Stephen’s death in a racially motivated attack while he was waiting...
- 7/13/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass has been selected by the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors (Ace) to be honored with the organization’s prestigious Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award.
The award will be presented at the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards ceremony on Friday, February 7, 2014 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, it was announced today by the Ace Board of Directors.
“Paul Greengrass is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in cinema today,” stated the Ace Board of Directors. “A Greengrass film simply has its own signature – from the magnificent hand-held camera work, to his ability to engage audiences with riveting storytelling, his canon of work is bold and iconic. His latest film, Captain Phillips, is a masterwork yielding some of the finest filmmaking of the year that has already been honored with four Golden Globe® nominations including Best Director,...
The award will be presented at the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards ceremony on Friday, February 7, 2014 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, it was announced today by the Ace Board of Directors.
“Paul Greengrass is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in cinema today,” stated the Ace Board of Directors. “A Greengrass film simply has its own signature – from the magnificent hand-held camera work, to his ability to engage audiences with riveting storytelling, his canon of work is bold and iconic. His latest film, Captain Phillips, is a masterwork yielding some of the finest filmmaking of the year that has already been honored with four Golden Globe® nominations including Best Director,...
- 1/16/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
In the last few years, a number of Martin Luther King Jr. biopics have been bubbling. Universal wanted to tackle his assassination, Steven Spielberg is working on a biopic, Samuel L. Jackson was looking to play him on Broadway and Lee Daniels is looking into the bloody events at Selma. But as time passes, the Universal project has gone into hiding and there's a new assassination piece in the works to fill the void.
Vulture reports that as we gear up for the 83rd anniversary of Mlk's birth, filmmaker Paul Greengrass is prepping a new feature called 'Memphis.' Insiders say that Greengrass wrote the film from his own research, which will look at King's life as he tried to organize the Tennessee city's sanitation workers in the spring of 1968, right before he was murdered on April 4. As the site points out, King was facing...
In the last few years, a number of Martin Luther King Jr. biopics have been bubbling. Universal wanted to tackle his assassination, Steven Spielberg is working on a biopic, Samuel L. Jackson was looking to play him on Broadway and Lee Daniels is looking into the bloody events at Selma. But as time passes, the Universal project has gone into hiding and there's a new assassination piece in the works to fill the void.
Vulture reports that as we gear up for the 83rd anniversary of Mlk's birth, filmmaker Paul Greengrass is prepping a new feature called 'Memphis.' Insiders say that Greengrass wrote the film from his own research, which will look at King's life as he tried to organize the Tennessee city's sanitation workers in the spring of 1968, right before he was murdered on April 4. As the site points out, King was facing...
- 1/13/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
In the last few years, a number of Martin Luther King Jr. biopics have been bubbling. Universal wanted to tackle his assassination, Steven Spielberg is working on a biopic, Samuel L. Jackson was looking to play him on Broadway and Lee Daniels is looking into the bloody events at Selma. But as time passes, the Universal project has gone into hiding and there's a new assassination piece in the works to fill the void.
Vulture reports that as we gear up for the 83rd anniversary of Mlk's birth, filmmaker Paul Greengrass is prepping a new feature called 'Memphis.' Insiders say that Greengrass wrote the film from his own research, which will look at King's life as he tried to organize the Tennessee city's sanitation workers in the spring of 1968, right before he was murdered on April 4. As the site points out, King was facing...
In the last few years, a number of Martin Luther King Jr. biopics have been bubbling. Universal wanted to tackle his assassination, Steven Spielberg is working on a biopic, Samuel L. Jackson was looking to play him on Broadway and Lee Daniels is looking into the bloody events at Selma. But as time passes, the Universal project has gone into hiding and there's a new assassination piece in the works to fill the void.
Vulture reports that as we gear up for the 83rd anniversary of Mlk's birth, filmmaker Paul Greengrass is prepping a new feature called 'Memphis.' Insiders say that Greengrass wrote the film from his own research, which will look at King's life as he tried to organize the Tennessee city's sanitation workers in the spring of 1968, right before he was murdered on April 4. As the site points out, King was facing...
- 1/13/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
British director Paul Greengrass will portray the serpent of the Nile as political strategist and warrior in a new blockbuster film
Dio Cassius, the Greek historian, said Cleopatra "was a woman of surpassing beauty… and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone". So it stands to reason that the greatest Hollywood beauties of succeeding eras have been cast as the Egyptian queen: from Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh, to Elizabeth Taylor and, now, Angelina Jolie. But, judging by the creative team being lined up by Sony Pictures, Jolie's 3D outing in the royal barge of beaten gold is set to rip up all our other assumptions about the fabled temptress.
The screenplay of the forthcoming blockbuster is risking a budget that rivals the studio-busting Taylor epic of 1963 on a fresh, revisionist interpretation of Cleopatra and, it seems, the vision of a maverick British director: Paul Greengrass.
Greengrass,...
Dio Cassius, the Greek historian, said Cleopatra "was a woman of surpassing beauty… and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone". So it stands to reason that the greatest Hollywood beauties of succeeding eras have been cast as the Egyptian queen: from Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh, to Elizabeth Taylor and, now, Angelina Jolie. But, judging by the creative team being lined up by Sony Pictures, Jolie's 3D outing in the royal barge of beaten gold is set to rip up all our other assumptions about the fabled temptress.
The screenplay of the forthcoming blockbuster is risking a budget that rivals the studio-busting Taylor epic of 1963 on a fresh, revisionist interpretation of Cleopatra and, it seems, the vision of a maverick British director: Paul Greengrass.
Greengrass,...
- 1/10/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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