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British actor Shazad Latif, who starred opposite Lily James in romantic comedy What’s Love Got to With It?, is joining Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s buzzy adaptation of Wuthering Heights. MRC and Warner Bros. are backing the feature, which Warners will distribute after picking it up in a twisty bidding war.

Considered one of the great masterpieces of literature, Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel follows the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff. In Fennell’s take, Elordi is playing Heathcliff while Robbie is playing Heathcliff’s secret love, Catherine Earnshaw.

Capping a months-long search for the part, Latif will play Edgar Linton, a well to-do neighbour who falls in love and marries Catherine but must then contend with Heathcliff who returns to enact a revenge on the Catherine and the Earnshaws.

Shooting is...

Exclusive: Hong Chau (The Instigators), Alison Oliver (Saltburn), and Shazad Latif (Magpie) have landed the three remaining major roles in Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell’s buzzy Wuthering Heights adaptation for Warner Bros, MRC, and LuckyChap.

Sources tell us Chau is playing Nelly Dean, the film’s chief narrator, with Oliver as Isabella Linton. Shazad plays Edgar Linton, a wealthy, aristocratic man who marries Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie). The actors come to the project after Warner Bros snapping it up in a fierce bidding war, with a commitment to a theatrical run with a big P&a spend. As previously announced, LuckyChap’s Robbie and Euphoria‘s Jacob Elordi lead the cast.

Fennell revealed that Wuthering Heights would be her next project in a post on X (formerly Twitter) over the summer. Published by Emily Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before her death, the classic novel is...

Exclusive: Molly C. Quinn (Castle) and Cameron Cuffe (Krypton) have wrapped on The Weight, a psychological thriller marking the feature directorial debut of American Gods producer Sallyanne Massimini, who co-wrote the script with Thomas Care.

Shot in Ontario, Canada, with production led by Exit 44 Entertainment and Palo Pictures, the film centers on Mia (Quinn), who wakes up chained in a remote cabin, only to witness her captor, David (Cuffe), burying a body outside. Knowing she’ll be next, she breaks free and flees through treacherous cliffs and waterfalls while David, haunted by remorse and grief, pursues her relentlessly through the wilderness.

Ty Leisher (11th Hour Cleaning) and Eric Brodeur (The Haunting of the Mary Celeste) produced for Exit 44 Entertainment.

Stated Massimini, “Filming in freezing temperatures at a waterfall, the demanding physicality of Molly’s stunts and body burns, and the quick pivot to highly emotionally charged scenes with Cameron.

The world premiere of Movistar Plus+’s period comedy drama The Short Life (La Vida Breve) will headline the second edition of South International Series Festival, which takes place in Cádiz in southern Spain from October 25-30. It will showcase 47 series, including 12 world premieres and 15 Spanish premieres.

Created by Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor, and starring Leonor Watling and Javier Gutiérrez, The Short Life is set during the brief reign of Spain’s King Louis I. It is the only world premiere in competition.

Two competitions, fiction and non-fiction, have been created this year. BetaSeries CEO Rémi Tereszkiewicz heads the...

"Nautilus" is a new France-produced, 10-episode live-action TV series inspired by author Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", directed by Michael Matthews, starring Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, Céline Menville, Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor, streaming October 25, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video:

"...' Nautilus'  follows 'Captain Nemo', an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the 'East India Mercantile Company' ...

"...and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him..."

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jeff Pope (“Philomena”) and Xavier Marchand of “Nautilus” producer Moonriver TV are teaming up on “Castle of the Eagles,” a six-episode limited series based on the true story of Allied POWs who staged a daring prison break from a fortified Italian castle during World War II.

The duo will be presenting the project to an industry audience in Rome during the Mia Market, which runs Oct. 14 – 18.

Written by Pope and based on the book of the same name by Mark Felton, “Castle of the Eagles” is produced by Marchand for Moonriver and Pope for his production label Etta Pictures, which is part of ITV Studios. “Harry Potter” star Jason Isaacs, who played Cary Grant in the four-part ITV biopic “Archie” written by Pope, is attached in a lead role.

The series begins in 1943, with war raging across Europe and some two dozen Allied soldiers and officers imprisoned in Castello Vincigliata,...

Martha Stewart is the original influencer in a trailer for Netflix’s upcoming documentary about the lifestyle icon.

“Through intimate and revealing interviews with the icon herself and those from her inner circle, [director] R.J. Cutler’s definitive documentary on Martha Stewart traces her rise from teenage model to her reign as the original influencer and America’s first self-made female billionaire,” reads the official logline.

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Last year, a Jules Verne-inspired sea adventure series that explores the origins of Captain Nemo was canceled by Disney+. The show, Nautilus, then found a new home at AMC. It will also stream on Prime in the UK and Ireland and on Stan in Australia. Nautilus had already finished shooting when Disney dropped the series as a cost-cutting measure. As stated by CFO Christine McCarthy, “We are in the process of reviewing the content on our Dtc services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation…As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms, and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” Nautilus has now unleashed a new trailer courtesy of Prime Video, by way of Deadline.

The description reads, “Based on Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus tells the origin...

Prime Video has revealed the official trailer for the live-action series ‘Nautilus,’ which will launch exclusively on Prime Video for customers in the UK and Ireland on 25 October 2024.

The series tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, joining him as he steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a ragtag crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company. The series is inspired by Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”.

Richard E Grant as The Rajah Cr. Vince Valitutti/Disney+ © 2022. (L to R) Chum Ehelepola as Jagadish, Ashan Kumar as Ranbir, Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface, Celine Menville as Loti, Georgia Flood as Humility, Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo, Shazad Latif as Nemo. Cr. Vince Valitutti/Disney+ © 2022.

The show stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant,...

The long-gestating Nautilus live action series has unveiled first trailer. Check it out above.

Based on Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, joining him as he steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company.

The series has been on an interesting journey, having initially been with Disney+ before switching to AMC, Prime Video in the UK and Ireland and Stan in Australia. Deadline revealed Disney was ditching Nautilus around a year ago and soon after AMC announced it was picking it up. Around the same time, Disney also didn’t go forward with The Spiderwick Chronicles, which ended up with Roku.

Nautilus stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville,...

Unspooling in Cadiz over Oct. 25-31, the South International Series Festival is a bellwether on trends and highlights for the current season. What could be some of its star performers? Following, 10 titles to track, which also often say something about the way the market is going.

“The Big Jump” (Atresmedia International Sales)

One of Atresmedia’s biggest bets at Mipcom, a biopic series about the rise to Olympic Gold Medals at Sydney and Athens of Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr and, in a second timeline, his descent into drugs and alcohol, incapable of accepting failure in competition and lost when retired. Oscar Casas plays Deferr, with “Gangs of Galicia” helmer Roger Gual directs. An Atresplayer Original Series, bowing on Nov. 17.

“La Favorita 1922” (Mediterraneo)

From “Grand Hotel” through “Velvet” and “Cable Girls,” Ramon Campos’ Studiocanal j.v. Bambu Producciones has carved out its international reputation, creating modern gender-agenda melodramas that make...

Backed by Mediaset España and Movistar Plus+, Cadiz’s South International Series Festival made an inaugural splash last year, showcasing some of Spain’s biggest series of the season.

In 2024, the Andalusia-based event has moved to a post-Mipcom stop-over berth, and with France as the guest country, attendance could well scale up.

Spain has hosted major TV markets for years now, including Conecta Fiction each summer and Iberseries & Platino Industria, which unspooled in Madrid last week. South sets itself apart by being a true festival in the vein of Canneseries or the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in France. While there will be plenty of roundtables, networking, and B2B get-togethers at South, the event’s main objective is to showcase some of the best new and new-ish series from around the world.

“From the very beginning, the idea was to create something different from what was already being done in Spain,...

"All that matters is we are each other's best hope!" Streaming service Stan based in Australia has revealed the full official trailer for a new series called Nautilus, arriving to watch in October (though only in the UK & Australia to start). This series is a re-invention of the classic tale of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from Jules Vern, by modernizing the concept. Nautilus tells Jules Verne's epic story from Captain Nemo's point of view: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him. Shazad Latif stars in this series as Captain Nemo, acting as an origin story for the Captain – an Indian prince-turned-crusading scientist. Yes, his submarine is in it, taking him on his adventures and into battles with giant sea creatures - including an eel and squid.

In a significant acquisition, Stan has taken over the Australian series Nautilus, originally commissioned by Disney+ UK. Filmed in 2022 on the Gold Coast, the ten-part series is based on Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and will soon stream exclusively on Stan, marking a notable shift from its previous distribution plans with […]

Stan Picks Up Australian Series Nautilus from Disney...

"Nautilus" is a new France-produced, 10-episode live-action TV series inspired by author Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", directed by Michael Matthews, starring Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, Céline Menville, Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor, streaming October 25, 2024 on Amazon Prime Video:

"...' Nautilus'  follows 'Captain Nemo', an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the 'East India Mercantile Company' ...

"...and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him..."

Click the images to enlarge...

Writer/Director Luke Sparke (Occupation Rainfall, Bring Him To Me) is adapting author Ethan Pettus’ sci-fi military novel Primitive War, testing a military unit’s survival skills against an unlikely enemy: dinosaurs. A new poster and images have been released, introducing the human side of the equation.

The poster, along with images below, teases dino carnage and promises that Primitive War is arriving in 2025.

Jeremy Piven (“Entourage“, Old School), Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”, “Lucifer”), Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”, Glorious) and Nick Wechsler (“The Boys“) are set to headline Primitive War.

The official synopsis: “Vietnam. 1968. A search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. As they hunt through the primordial depths of the valley, they discover ancient horrors that not only threaten to unravel their minds, but to end their lives as well. Dinosaurs have somehow been unleashed!

Temuera Morrison, Zack Morris, David Field, Pacharo Mzembe and Gideon Mzembe have joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studios’ period feature The Bluff starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

Frank E. Flowers (Bob Marley: One Love) directs the film from a script he co-wrote with Joe Ballarini. Previously announced castmembers include Chopra Jonas, Karl Urban, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Safia Oakley-Green and Vedanten Naidoo.

The Bluff centers on a former pirate (Chopra Jonas) who attempts to keep her family safe when she is confronted with her dangerous past. The project will debut on Prime Video on a yet-to-be-announced release date.

Producing the movie are Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot and Michael Disco for Agbo, along with Chopra Jonas and Cinestar Pictures’ Cisely Saldana and Mariel Saldana. Serving as executive producers alongside Flowers and Ballarini are Chris Castaldi, Ari Costa and Kassee Whiting for Agbo, Zoe Saldaña for Cinestar Pictures, and Thorsten Schumacher for Rocket Science.

While it was originally touted as one of the big new series in development at Disney+, Nautilus hit choppy development waters and ended up in Davey Jones' turnaround locker. Fortunately for those of us in the UK and Ireland the show — inspired by Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea – has been picked up by Prime Video and is due to sail onto screens this October.

Nautilus has James Dormer at its creative helm and chronicles the origin story of Captain Nemo (Star Trek: Discovery and Toast Of London's Shazad Latif): an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family.

So he does what surely any of us would — he steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a ragtag crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company.

The cast for the new show also features Georgia Flood,...

Exclusive: UK-based VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures has hired industry vets Brodie McNeill and Lara Osland to lead their expansion in Canada.

McNeill joins as Senior VFX Supervisor and will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of creative supervision across Toronto-based projects. His 20-year career includes credits such as Palm Royale, Titans, The Gilded Age, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, and the Tim Burton series Wednesday, for which he was Emmy-nominated. He also previously spent time working for Powerhouse VFX, Folks, and Mr. X.

Osland joins as Executive Producer following stints at Rodeo, Spin, and Rocket Science. In the new rule, she will be responsible for managing all Jellyfish Pictures’ VFX projects in Toronto as well as oversight of business operations in the region. Osland has over 25 years of experience across VFX, Animation, and publishing. Her previous credits include Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon film series for Netflix,...

The long-gestating Nautilus live action series has swum to Prime Video in the UK and Ireland.

Based on Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the series was initially in with Disney+ UK before it was culled as part of its notorious streaming content removal plan last year. It wound up with AMC in the States and is now with Amazon in the UK and Ireland.

Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, joining him as he steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian Ocean with a ragtag crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company. It stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor.

Deadline revealed Disney was ditching Nautilus around a year ago and...

In 2012, Scottish composer Anna Meredith released her first non-classical-music recording, Black Prince Fury, a four-track EP opening with what immediately became her signature tune: “Nautilus,” a ferociously escalating blast of brass running arpeggios up and down at increasingly overwhelming volume. It’s at once visceral and programmatic, applying classical discipline to an earth-shaking instrumental in a mission statement that also opened Meredith’s first full-length album, 2016’s Varmints. In an interview with The Guardian’s Laura Snapes at the time, Meredith was insightful about the economics of choosing to move from the realm of classical music, where she wrote work paid for […]

The post “Massive Decisions Can Be Made In the Mix”: Composer Anna Meredith on Her Film Score Career first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

In 2012, Scottish composer Anna Meredith released her first non-classical-music recording, Black Prince Fury, a four-track EP opening with what immediately became her signature tune: “Nautilus,” a ferociously escalating blast of brass running arpeggios up and down at increasingly overwhelming volume. It’s at once visceral and programmatic, applying classical discipline to an earth-shaking instrumental in a mission statement that also opened Meredith’s first full-length album, 2016’s Varmints. In an interview with The Guardian’s Laura Snapes at the time, Meredith was insightful about the economics of choosing to move from the realm of classical music, where she wrote work paid for […]

The post “Massive Decisions Can Be Made In the Mix”: Composer Anna Meredith on Her Film Score Career first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Exclusive: The UK-based VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures has launched a new VFX production outpost in Toronto.

The company’s move across the Atlantic further expands its international footprint after the launch of Jellyfish Pictures in India last spring. Today, the buzzy company said that setting up a base in Canada “will ensure that the business can continue to work closely with the best global talent available.”

“I am thrilled for us to expand our VFX division into Canada,” said Phil Greenlow, Managing Director of VFX. “ Jellyfish Pictures is powered by a global community of amazing artists. Since some of the world’s finest VFX talent is concentrated in Toronto, it’s the obvious next stop on our international road map. Coupled with the recent influx of production activity in Ontario, we can’t wait for our team to create compelling visual effects in this vibrant location.”

CEO David Patton...

Director Gareth Edwards' 2014 "Godzilla" has become a rather important movie in the history of the now 70-year-old franchise. Not only was it the first American-produced film to feature the legendary monster since 1998's disastrous attempt by Roland Emmerich, but it also kicked off Warner Bros. and Legendary's MonsterVerse, which is still going strong today. But even back then, excitement was palpable and the production had to try and keep a tight lid on things. In some cases, those were fruitless efforts.

Many films use code names during production to help throw people off the scent. For "Godzilla," the powers that be decided to refer to the movie as "Nautilus," which is seemingly a reference to the USS Nautilus. During a 2014 on-set interview conducted by Collider with one of the film's stars, Bryan Cranston, the actor was asked whether or not he says the word "Godzilla" in the film. It's then...

The final season of Snowpiercer has finally found a home.

The fourth season of the sci-fi drama will air on AMC after the company acquired the rights to the Tomorrow Studios-produced series. It comes after TNT scrapped the show last year as part of a wider Warner Bros. Discovery content write down strategy.

Deadline revealed in January 2023 that the fourth season wouldn’t air on its original home, as part of a slew of content cuts that also including the axing of Batgirl, Abrams’ HBO drama Demimonde, and TBS series such as The Big D, Chad and Kill The Orange Bear.

It is the latest series that AMC has saved after being scrapped elsewhere; the network bought Captain Nemo series Nautilus after it was cut by Disney+.

The first three seasons of the show will stream on AMC+ later this year and season 4 will air on the linear network...

Japanese rock band Yorushika, consisting of composer n-buna and vocalist suis, released a music video for their latest digital song "Sunny" on their official YouTube channel today . The song was released digitally on January 5 and is featured as the opening theme for the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End anime's ongoing second cour. CG creator Kohta Morie (Morie Inc.) directed the video as his fourth collaboration with Yorushika, following "Nautilus," "Spring Thief," and "Left-Right Confusion." Yorushika "Sunny" music video Frieren: Beyond Journey's End second creditless opening movie Related: milet Releases Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Anime Ending Theme Music Video "'This is a great music video,' was n-buna-kun's first comment after seeing the completed video," Morie said on his official Twitter . "'Sunny' was a very difficult piece to produce. Yorushika's sound and our drawings were intricately intertwined like capillaries, and finally the sound of birth was heard. When I heard the sound,...

Ewan McGregor plays a Russian count banished to an attic room in a hotel who dances, drinks, and makes snow angels in a trailer for the upcoming eight-part series A Gentleman in Moscow.

The show will premiere Friday, March 29 for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan in the U.S. before its on-air debut on Paramount+ with Showtime on Sunday, March 31. The series will also premiere on Paramount+ in Canada, the U.K. and Australia on March 29 and on Paramount+ in Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and South Korea on May 17.

An adaptation of Amor Towles’ best-selling novel, the series follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by McGregor (Star Wars franchise, Trainspotting). In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, he “finds that his gilded past has placed him on the wrong side of history,” according to a show description. “Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet...

Roku has released the first teaser trailer for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a live-action series based on the novels by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black.

The Spiderwick Chronicles follows “Helen and her children, 15-year-old fraternal twins Jared and Simon and their sister Mallory, as they move to their ancestral home, Spiderwick. Jared discovers a boggart and realizes that magical creatures are real! The only one to believe him is his great-aunt Lucinda who implores Jared to find the pages of her father’s field guide to magical creatures and protect them from the murderous Ogre, Mulgarath.” The series stars Joy Bryant as Helen, Lyon Daniels as Jared, Noah Cottrell as Simon, Mychala Lee as Mallory, Jack Dylan Grazer as the voice of Thimbletack, and Christian Slater as Mulgarath.

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Exclusive: The UK-based VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures has made two senior hires in an expansion of its VFX division.

Industrial Light & Magic and Nviz alum Jamie Wood has been appointed Head of Compositing. Wood joins with over 22 years of compositing experience. He most recently worked on Netflix’s feature Heart of Stone and has worked on multiple major movie franchises, including Star Trek, X-Men, The Wizarding World, and MCU titles.

Pete Seager has also joined the Jellyfish Pictures VFX team as Head of CG. With a broad background as a CG Supervisor, Lighting Lead, and Rendering Supervisor, Seager has worked in the VFX industry for over 16 years. His credits include work on big-budget features like the latest Bond entry, No Time To Die, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, The Matrix Resurrections, and Avengers: Endgame.

Commenting on the new hires, Phil Greenlow, Managing Director, VFX, said, “It’s a privilege...

Giancarlo Esposito, of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame, will return to AMC in 2024.

On Monday, the cabler unveiled a first-look teaser trailer and photos of the highly-anticipated drama series Parish. 

The six-episode series stars and is executive produced by Emmy® and SAG® Award-nominee and Critics Choice® Award-winner Esposito.

Esposito stars as Gracian "Gray" Parish, a family man and proud owner of a luxury car service in New Orleans.

After his son is violently murdered and his business collapses, an encounter with an old friend from his days as a wheelman resurfaces old habits, sending Gray on a high-stakes collision course with a violent criminal syndicate.

The drama series was shot in New Orleans and features an all-star cast.

Zachary Momoh plays New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster The Horse, while Award-nominee Paula Malcomson is set to play Parish's wife and mother to his two children, Rose.

Skeet Ulrich is on...

Soon it will be time to enjoy Indiana Jones’ truly final crusade from the comfort of your own home.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which opened in theaters on June 30 and grossed over $380 million at the global box office, now has a Disney+ release date. What’s more, the adventure movie is being accompanied by Timeless Heroes, a feature-length documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau and exploring Harrison Ford’s casting in the iconic franchise, and the impact and inspiration generated by the films.

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The drama was originally commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed earlier this year as part of cost cuts.

AMC has secured North American rights to Disney’s live-action UK series Nautilus based on Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

The 10-episode drama was originally commissioned by Disney+ in the UK but was axed by the streamer earlier this year as part of cost cuts. It will air in the US and Canada on AMC and its streaming platform AMC+ in 2024.

Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo who appears in several of...

AMC Networks will license US/Canadian linear and streaming rights to Disney Entertainment's "Nautilus", a 10-episode live-action series inspired by author Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", directed by Michael Matthews, starring Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, Céline Menville, Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor, streaming in 2024 on AMC and AMC+ :

"...' Nautilus'  follows 'Captain Nemo', an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the 'East India Mercantile Company' ...

"...and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him..."

Click the images to enlarge...

After being cancelled by Disney+ earlier this year, Nautilus has found a new home at AMC.

The Captain Nemo origin series had already finished shooting, but Disney dropped the series nonetheless as a cost-cutting measure. As stated by CFO Christine McCarthy, “We are in the process of reviewing the content on our Dtc services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation…As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms, and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” Nautilus will air on AMC as well as AMC+ sometime next year.

Related 20,000 Leagues series at Disney+ preps for 2024 launch

The series stars Shazad Latif as Nemo, the Indian Prince who sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, where he not only battles with his enemy but also discovers a magical underwater world. “Nautilus is a big,...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you know from Monday, October 30, 2023.

Months after Nautilus was canceled before its debut on Disney+, the series has found a new home on AMC.

The 10-episode live-action series is inspired by Jules Verne's beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment.

The series will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024.

Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.

Nautilus stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor.

Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe...

Shazad Latif stars in ‘Nautilus’ (Photo Courtesy of AMC)

The Captain Nemo origin series Nautilus has found a new home at AMC Networks after being canceled by Disney. The series, inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was originally set to stream on Disney+ but now will air on AMC and AMC+ in 2024.

The 10-episode live-action series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont, and Céline Menville. Richard E Grant, Anna Torv, and Noah Taylor guest star.

“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” stated Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We are looking forward to bringing it to AMC+ and AMC as a special television event next year.”

Moonriver TV’s Xavier Marchand and Seven Stories’ Anand Tucker...

AMC has saved the Captain Nemo series Nautilus after it was scrapped by Disney+ earlier this summer. Inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the live-action Captain Nemo origin story will premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2024. AMC announced on Monday, October 30 that it licensed the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to Nautilus, a 10-episode live-action series inspired by Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment. An exact release date for its AMC and AMC+ 2024 debut will be announced at a later time. The prequel series, which is being called an “epic adventure,” filmed in Australia in 2022 and had already wrapped production when Disney decided not to move forward with it in August 2023 during a period of cost-cutting at the studio. The Spiderwick Chronicles suffered the same fate, but it, too, was saved by The Roku Channel in early October.

British adventure drama Nautilus will finally be setting sail.

After being commissioned and scrapped by Disney+ in an effort to cut costs, the series has officially been picked up by AMC. The series will air (and stream on AMC+) sometime in 2024, the cabler announced Monday.

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The 10-episode live-action series inspired by the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea “tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo,...

A retelling of the story of Captain Nemo is on the move — and not just under the ocean.

AMC Networks has grabbed linear and streaming rights to Nautilus — a reimagining of Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — in the United States and Canada. The series, which hails from British companies Moonriver TV and All3Media-owned Seven Stories, was initially set for Disney+, which picked it up to series in August 2021. After scrapping the show earlier this year as part of a content write-down, however, Disney Entertainment has licensed Nautilus to AMC and its sibling streamer AMC+, which plan to air the series in 2024.

“Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like Orphan Black: Echoes,” said Ben Davis, executive vp original programming at AMC Networks and AMC Studios.

The Captain Nemo origin story series “Nautilus” lives on, with AMC Networks licensing the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to the live-action series from Disney Entertainment.

The 10-episode show was originally slated to air on Disney+, but it was announced back in August that the show was not going forward at the streamer as part of a wide-ranging cost cutting initiative at the Mouse House.

AMC and AMC+ will now air the show as a special television event in 2024, with an exact premiere date to be announced later. Inspired by Jules Vernes’ “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” the show will explore the early life of Captain Nemo, who is played by Shazad Latif. The character is described as “an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.

AMC Networks has acquired the license for the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to Disney Entertainment’s “Nautilus,” a 10-episode live-action series inspired by “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.”

“Nautilus,” which will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024, tells the origin story of Captain Nemo, an Indian prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.

Disney+ declined to pick up the series after it was finished in August.

The series stars Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Fremont and Céline Menville, with guest appearances from Richard E Grant, Anna Torv and Noah Taylor.

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Nautilus, the ten-part series inspired by Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has found a new home.

The series has landed at AMC, where it will air in 2024 as well as on AMC+. The move comes after the Disney+ UK commission was axed by the streamer earlier this summer as part of its content removal plan.

Nautilus tells the origin story of Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.

It is the latest series axed by Disney as part of its move to cut streaming costs – the Mouse House is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion – to find a new home. The Spiderwick Chronicles, which was similarly canceled at Disney+, found a spot on Roku.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles has found a new home at Roku. The TV series adaptation of the fantasy adventure novels by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black was originally ordered for Disney+, but the streaming service pulled the plug earlier this year, despite the fact that shooting had already been completed.

Roku announced today that they have acquired the exclusive, premiere U.S. rights to The Spiderwick Chronicles, which will debut on The Roku Channel in early 2024. The series follows “the coming-of-age story of the Grace Family, as they move from New York to Michigan and into their family’s ancestral home. Upon arrival, the family not only uncovers mysteries hidden inside their great grandfather’s Spiderwick Estate, but also discovers a secret, fantastical world around them.“

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Exclusive: Freeform has opted not to proceed with While You Were Breeding, the upcoming Kristin Newman hourlong comedy series based on her memoir, Deadline has learned. Producers of the series, from Freeform Studios, will have the opportunity to shop it elsewhere.

The 10-episode series had wrapped production and was headed into post-production when it paused days into the WGA strike. Newman on May 13 wrote an emotional Facebook post explaining her decision to shut down post-production.

As a result, While You Were Breeding, starring Chelsea Frei, missed its August premiere date. After a review of Freeform’s pipeline in the context of Disney’s companywide content spend trim and emphasis on curation, it was determined that the comedy no longer fit the linear network’s programming strategy, sources said.

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Nautilus is not headed to Disney+ after all. Ordered two years ago by the streaming service, the live-action UK series has been cancelled due to cost-cutting measures announced in May by Disney.

Based on Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the series tells the origin story of Captain Nemo and his famous submarine, The Nautilus. Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Frémont, Pacharo Mzembe, Arlo Green, Tyrone Ngatai, Ling Cooper Tang, Andrew Shaw, Ashan Kumar, Céline Menville and Kayden Price star in the series.

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After shooting 8-episodes, Disney+ has now decided to cancel a 'woke'  live-action TV series based on "The Spiderwick Chronicles", as well as canceling the 10-episode un-aired "Nautilus" series, based on Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea":

"...Paramount, who produced 'Nautilus' and originally sold the series to Disney+, is shopping the series to other networks and streaming platforms. 

"In 'Nautilus', 'Captain Nemo' is now an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the 'East India Company' and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him. 

"But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring 'Nautilus', he not only battles with his enemy, he also discovers a magical underwater world..."

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The House of Mouse has shut its door in the face of two upcoming Disney+ series, as both Nautilus and The Spiderwick Chronicles have removed from their upcoming slate of programming. Both series, which had already concluded filming, are now being shopped to other studios.

As reported by Deadline, the move to ax both Nautilus and The Spiderwick Chronicles comes as Disney+ is looking to cut some serious costs. As previously stated by CFO Christine McCarthy, “We are in the process of reviewing the content on our Dtc services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation…As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms, and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” This aligns with the studio removing such titles as Willow, Y: The Last Man and dozens of others from Disney+.

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Exclusive: Nautilus, the UK live-action Captain Nemo series commissioned by Disney+ two years ago, is no longer headed to the streamer, Deadline has learned.

The decision is part of Disney’s streaming content removal plan unveiled in May, for which the company is taking an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion. It followed the February announcement by Disney that it intends to cut $3 billion in non-sports content spend across the company.

As part of the cost-reduction strategy, Disney’s streaming platforms, particularly flagship Disney+, have been taking a closer look on their programming with a new emphasis on content curation.

As Deadline reported exclusively Saturday, Disney+ also is not going forward with another upcoming original series, the The Spiderwick Chronicles, a U.S. live-action series adaptation of the popular children’s fantasy books.

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Exclusive: UK VFX firm Misc Studios, which worked on the likes of Alex Garland movie Men and Amazon’s The Rig, has shuttered.

The Central London-based outfit called in administrators on July 12, according to Companies House.

Misc started accepting work in 2020, formally launched in 2022 with around 60 staff and had plans to expand to around 200 and open internationally. The company was run by VFX vets Adam Luckwell and Michael Elson, with Luckwell continuing to run advertising post house The Unit, which he founded in 2011. Elson, a 30-year industry vet, resigned as a Misc director late last year, according to Companies House.

At launch, Misc said it would aim to build its ethos around mental health, inclusivity, sustainability, and an open culture. It worked on multiple high-profile projects including the likes of Alex Garland movie Men, Amazon’s The Rig and Disney+’s Nautilus.

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Spain’s fast-growing production house Mediacrest Entertainment is launching high-concept eco-reality contest format “El pueblo” (“The Village”), which will have its international market premiere at this week’s MipTV trade fair.

Designed as a primetime reality show, “El pueblo” has been structured as a social experiment, charting five families’ attempt to settle in an abandoned village, guided by the principles of sustainability and globally connected self-sufficiency.

The families’ will create their own rules, events and traditions, will initiate agriculture and livestock initiatives and start trading with nearby towns, sand later with the world. The twist: Only one winning family finally gets to stay in the village.

“Our goal is to provide the audience with content not only attractive in terms of television, but also that makes a social contribution,” said Daniel Domenjó, entertainment & factual business manager at Mediacrest.

“We believe the format is closely linked to the needs, concerns and...