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How Lucy Pardee spots future film stars in the wild What made Attack the Block or Bafta favourite Rocks so special? Lucy Pardee's uniquely anthropological brand of 'street casting' Bukky Bakray has been nominated for a BAFTA Rocks is the little film that could. It felt like an industry coup even before it was nominated for a whopping eight Baftas (more than any other title) yesterday. Shot in London in 2018, with the lead cast populated by young people who had never acted before, with a story (by Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson) shaped around them, it’s a miracle of a film, I suggest to its...

January 25, 2021, 7:28 pm John Boyega will star alongside Robert De Niro in Netflix’s car racing drama The Formula (Ian West/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up John Boyega will star alongside Robert De Niro in Netflix’s car racing drama The Formula. Star Wars actor Boyega, 28, will play a Formula One prodigy who is forced to become a getaway driver to save his family, the streaming giant said. John Boyega will ...

Photo: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for Universal Pictures UK It’s time to start serving tea and biscuits at the Netflix offices, because things are starting to get a bit more British. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming service has ordered seven new TV projects from its U.K. branch, including some from big-name British people like Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean himself!) and Sam Mendes (Mr. 1917 himself!). In a statement, Netflix’s U.K. vice president of original shows, Anne Mesah, said that this new crop of projects “provides talent the opportunity to make shows that wi...