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Award-winning independent studio The Ink Factory is reuniting with German production company Amusement Park to coproduce a television series adapted from John l...

The Ink Factory is teaming up with Amusement Park to co-produce a series adapted from John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man.

KFTV gets the lowdown from leading international production figures about their experiences and reasons for shooting in the rich variety of locations in this Mediterranean country 

Announcing a new film festival dedicated to SECRETS as a genre News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NYCs number one rated museum and experience SPYSCAPE announces its new film and TV festival SPYFLIX. The festival will showcase new voices and stories focused on the oldest storytelling device of all: secrets. The festival is now accepting submissions through February 28th, 2021 and will kick off screenings starting April 18th, 2021. Cou...

How John Le Carré changed television and paved the way for box-set culture Mark Lawson Curiously, though, the first of these landmarks in upmarket screen drama owed its existence to the second. In the 1970s, the BBC, during one of its periodic crises over justifying the licence fee to politicians and the media, craved a starry, classy, filmed book, and had been negotiating the rights to Waugh’s story of a Catholic aristocratic family. When, unexpectedly, the estate sold the b...

Master spy writer John le Carre dies at 89 Le Carré upended the Bond stereotype with books that portrayed British intelligence operations as cesspools of ambiguity in which right and wrong are too close to call and in which it is rarely obvious whether the ends, even if the ends are clear, justify the means. Sarah Lyall Save Share London | John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenting both Western and Sovi...