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Carey Mulligan is set to star alongside Adam Sandler in the latter’s upcoming Netflix film Spaceman.

The film is set to adapt The Spaceman of Bohemia, a 2017 novel by Jaroslav Kalfar focusing on an astronaut embarking on a solo mission to space.

• READ MORE: ‘Promising Young Woman’ review: darkly funny revenge thriller pulls the rug on predators

Mulligan’s casting in the film, which is set to be helmed by Chernobyl director Johan Renck, was reported by Deadline. The screenplay was penned by Colby Day.

Spaceman is set to follow “an astronaut (Sandler) sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust. He soon finds his earthly life falling to pieces, and he turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together. It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship.”

Mulligan is set to play the wife of Sandler’s character.

Elsewhere, Mulligan is nominated for an Oscar at next week’s ceremony, in the running to be named Best Actress for her appearance in Promising Young Woman.

Reviewing the film, NME wrote: “In Emerald Fennell’s heady, challenging debut, the word rape is never spoken aloud. Nina, the woman whose sexual assault and consequent suicide catapults best friend Cassie onto a path of bloody retribution, is never shown.

“Instead, Promising Young Woman details the cause and effect of rape, every scene scripted in a serrated, satirical voice.”

Ahead of the film’s release, college students in the United States have been offered free screenings of the Oscar-nominated film as part of a collaboration between the film’s creators, Focus Features, anti-sexual violence organisation RAINN, raising awareness for violence on college campuses.

The new film follows medical school dropout Cassie (Mulligan) who aims to avenge the death of her best friend, who was raped.

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Ricky Gervais has confirmed the filming start date for season three of series After Life.

• READ MORE: ‘After Life’ season two review: Ricky Gervais’ dark comedy is his most moving work to date

In a tweet posted yesterday (April 17), Gervais revealed that filming on the third – and reportedly final – series of the show would begin tomorrow (April 19).

“I’d better learn my lines”, Gervais tweeted, along with a picture of him holding up the season 3 script.

You can see the tweet here:

The show, which first aired in 2019, follows character Tony (played by Gervais) after he struggles to cope following the death of his wife Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman).

In a four star review of season 2, NME‘s Beth Webb wrote: “It’s an extraordinary feat to capture an audience this big with a show that doesn’t promise any notion of a happy ending. Maybe there’s some level of catharsis in watching a man with seemingly nothing left to lose stomping around doing what he likes.

“More understandable perhaps is that After Life is the best example of Gervais’ ability to find beauty in the banal without glossing over life’s more depressing moments. His body of work post-The Office has always attempted this to some degree, but After Life seems to bottle exactly what Gervais set out to do. It’s some of his most moving work to date, and if you can stomach the occasional C-bomb, his most rewarding.”

Gervais had previously spoken about season three in an interview with GQ Hype. “Yeah, this is the first time I want to do a third series of anything I’ve ever done,” he admitted.

“The world’s too rich. I don’t have to go over old ground. There’s ten characters [in After Life] who could be the lead in something.

“The first [series] was establishing a central character going through the world almost as if it’s a videogame. Now there’s lots of ‘meanwhiles.’”

You can read more about season three news of After Life here.

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Ricky Gervais has confirmed the filming start date for season three of series After Life.

• READ MORE: ‘After Life’ season two review: Ricky Gervais’ dark comedy is his most moving work to date

In a tweet posted yesterday (April 17), Gervais revealed that filming on the third – and reportedly final – series of the show would begin tomorrow (April 19).

“I’d better learn my lines”, Gervais tweeted, along with a picture of him holding up the season 3 script.

You can see the tweet here:

The show, which first aired in 2019, follows character Tony (played by Gervais) after he struggles to cope following the death of his wife Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman).

In a four star review of season 2, NME‘s Beth Webb wrote: “It’s an extraordinary feat to capture an audience this big with a show that doesn’t promise any notion of a happy ending. Maybe there’s some level of catharsis in watching a man with seemingly nothing left to lose stomping around doing what he likes.

“More understandable perhaps is that After Life is the best example of Gervais’ ability to find beauty in the banal without glossing over life’s more depressing moments. His body of work post-The Office has always attempted this to some degree, but After Life seems to bottle exactly what Gervais set out to do. It’s some of his most moving work to date, and if you can stomach the occasional C-bomb, his most rewarding.”

Gervais had previously spoken about season three in an interview with GQ Hype. “Yeah, this is the first time I want to do a third series of anything I’ve ever done,” he admitted.

“The world’s too rich. I don’t have to go over old ground. There’s ten characters [in After Life] who could be the lead in something.

“The first [series] was establishing a central character going through the world almost as if it’s a videogame. Now there’s lots of ‘meanwhiles.’”

You can read more about season three news of After Life here.

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Snoop Dogg has become the latest addition to the cast of upcoming Netflix vampire thriller, Day Shift.

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The film was originally announced last year with Jamie Foxx cast early on to play a vampire hunter.

Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Snoop Dogg will join Foxx alongside Scott Adkins, Meaghan Good, Karla Souza, Eric Lange and Zion Broadnax.

As stated in The Hollywood Reporter, “Day Shift sees Jamie Foxx play a hard-working, blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted daughter, but his mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income, hunting and killing vampires as part of an international union of vampire hunters.”

The film will also see J.J. Perry making his directorial debut.

Last week, the new season two trailer for Mythic Quest was released in which Snoop Dogg also makes an appearance.

The series, released on Apple TV+, was created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz. The second season will premiere on May 7 exclusively on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes. A further seven episodes will premiere weekly every Friday thereafter.

The new trailer revealed that Snoop Dogg will guest in season two, as will comedian, actor and Drunk History creator Derek Waters.

Snoop Dogg also recently announced his next album will be called ‘From Tha Streets 2 Tha Suites’.

Taking to social media to share news of his next single, the legendary rapper revealed the title of his 18th studio album – the follow up to 2019’s ‘I Wanna Thank Me’.

“NEW SINGLE ALERT OFF NEW ALBUM ‘From Tha Streets 2 Tha Suites’,” he wrote on Instagram. “‘Roaches In My Ashtray’ new single + video dropping this Friday, April 2.”

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Elliot Page has spoken out about a wave of new bills that target the transgender community in the US.

The actor, who came out as transgender in December, took to social media yesterday (April 16) to urge his followers to contact politicians and voice their opposition to the legislation.

It comes after politicians in Alabama and North Dakota recently approved bans on transgender women and girls from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity.

There have also been a series of Republican-led states who have introduced bills that have been described as anti-trans by critics. These include laws designed to ban gender-confirming surgery for transgender youths.

“As I watch the movement of these bills attacking trans youth across the US, especially this week in Florida, Alabama, Texas and North Dakota, I am thinking of my trans siblings and the collective pain that our community must endure to battle again and again for our right to exist,” Page said on Instagram. “These bills are upsetting, cruel and exhausting.”

He continued: “Call your representatives. Tell them to oppose legislation that discriminates against us. Tell them our access to health care is an inalienable human right. Tell them to let trans kids play sports. Tell them that #TransPeopleBelong – we always have, and we always will.”

Last month, Page gave his first interview since announcing he is transgender.

The actor, who stars in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and uses he/they pronouns, spoke about his ongoing fight for trans equality and his privilege as a white, wealthy and famous person.

“My privilege has allowed me to have resources to get through and to be where I am today,” Page said, “and of course I want to use that privilege and platform to help in the ways I can.”

The actor spoke about the visibility gap for trans men, saying “there were no examples” when he was growing up.

Regarding his duty as a role model, Page said: “They can see that and say, ‘You know what, that’s who I am too,’” and explained that a lack of role models lets “people make monsters of us”.

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A list of every film and TV show leaving Netflix this month has just been collated – check it out below.

• READ MORE: New on Netflix UK: February 2021’s must-watch film and TV

The streaming giant notoriously keeps dates under wraps, but the Independent has put together a selection of the titles to watch before the end of April when they’ll be removed from the platform.

Titles to look out for include Richard Curtis’ romcom About Time, available until tomorrow (April 17), and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which will be removed from the platform on April 22.

Space Jam, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Mr. Bean’s Holiday will all be taken down by the end of the month as well.

Check out the full list of titles being removed from Netflix this April:

April 17
The 15:17 to Paris
About Time
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Father Figures
Footprints in the Sand
Game Night
La Femme
Rampage
Ready Player One
Wonder Wheel

April 18
30 Days of Luxury
Because We’re Heading Out
Catfish
Jeopardy!
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
My Dog is My Guide
Roh’s Beauty
The Walls of the Moon
Warda

April 19
Abdo Mota
Siberia

April 20
Club Friday To Be Continued – Friend & Enemy
Club Friday To Be Continued – The Promise
Space Jam

April 21
An Affair to Die For
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

April 22
American Gangster
American Reunion
Apollo 13
The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Definitely Maybe
Doomsday
The Five-Year Engagement
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Honey 2
Lucy
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Notting Hill
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Purge: Anarchy
Savages
This Is 40

Wild Child

April 23
Fireflies

April 24
A Mission in an Old Movie
Amar’s Hands
An Hour and a Half
The Consul’s Son
Love Station
The Martian
Omar and Salma 3
P
The Possession of Hannah Grace

April 25
The Last Whistle
Summer in February
Wildling

April 28
CRD
The Unthinkable

April 29
Club Friday The Series Six
The Frozen Ground
Kiss: The Series
U-Prince Series
Ugly Duckling – four seasons

April 30
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A.M.I.
Adult Life Skills
Al Pitcher – Fy Fan Sweden!
Alias JJ, la celebridad del mal
Assassination Nation

Audrey Rose
Blade: Trinity
The Carter Effect
Dark Shadows
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Disturbia
Dominion Creek
Dot 2 Dot
Fire with Fire
Gurgaon
Hombanna
Innocence
Jewel’s Catch One
Jupiter Ascending
Killer Cove
Kingdom – three seasons
Letters to Juliet
Life, Animated
Love Ni Bhavai
Nibunan
Palm Trees in the Snow

The Perfect Storm
RED
Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection
The Rugrats Movie
Rum All Night
Simon
Surviving Escobar – Alias JJ
Two Graves
Waiting
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
White Boy Rick
Wild Orchid 2

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Vince Staples is reportedly planning to release a new Netflix show in the near future along with two new albums.

That’s according to a new interview with GQ, which states that Staples will release two albums, one of which will be self-titled and is expected this summer.

Another album, called ‘Ramona Park Broke My Heart’, is still being worked on by Staples according to the interview. No further details about the release date of this was given.

The interviewer for GQ also revealed that Staples is working on a new Netflix show too, although details on this project were scarce.

Whilst Staples didn’t speak directly about either album in the interview, he did hint that he worked with SAINt JHN some time ago, which could suggest a collaboration between the pair is forthcoming.

“Two years ago…he said to me, ‘[your music is] good, but no one cares.’ I was like, ‘Explain that.’ ‘Everyone’s busy,’ [he] said.

“‘They don’t have time to try to figure out what you’re trying to tell them. You’re just supposed to make them feel better and make them feel good. Put them in a specific space.’ And that’s just something that I’ve been thinking about a lot,” Staples added.

“I’m just learning how to have a balance of everything within the same space and just not necessarily put a lot of pressure on what we create.”

Recently, Staples reflected on working with the late SOPHIE on his album ‘Big Fish Theory’.

The rapper paid tribute to the artist and producer after SOPHIE’s death was confirmed back in January.

“Can’t even be sad cause cuh would look at me like I was crazy lol,” Staples wrote in the first of four tweets paying tribute to SOPHIE. “Sophie was different you ain’t never seen somebody in the studio smoking a cigarette in a leather bubble jacket just making beats not saying one word,” he continued.

Staples also recalled how SOPHIE “walked in the studio unannounced wearing Mickey Mouse ears on the way home from Disneyland with @JIMMYEDGAR like ‘he has something for you’ played ‘745’ took a water bottle and left”.

“Ima miss the homie.”

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Critics have been sharing their responses to Pete Davidson’s casting as Joey Ramone, with split opinions so far.

Yesterday (April 15), it was announced that Davidson would play the late Ramones frontman in upcoming Netflix biopic I Slept With Joey Ramone. The film was announced to mark 20 years since Ramone died, after a seven-year battle with lymphoma.

The film will be directed by Jason Orley, who worked with Davidson on Big Time Adolescence and Pete Davidson: Alive from New York and will be based on Ramone’s brother Mickey Leigh’s memoir of the same name.

I Slept With Joey Ramone will be produced by Netflix in partnership with STX, and has the support of the Estate of Joey Ramone.

In response to the casting, a number of critics have shared their opinion on Twitter. Critic Evan Rytlewski wrote: “This is good casting. Pete Davidson is a meh comedian and a boring public figure but sometimes a surprisingly decent actor in roles that don’t ask him to do much. Playing Joey Ramone is pretty low on the challenge scale. Also Pete Davidson is tall.”

However, some are less than keen on Davidson playing Ramone, with Variety’s Manori Ravindran calling the casting “bullshit” and saying Joey “deserves better than this, damn it!”

A number of commenters on social media called for Adam Driver to play Ramone instead of Davidson. “HOW are you gonna cast Pete Davidson as Joey Ramone when Adam Driver is right there,” one wrote.

Adam Fogelson, chairman of STXfilms Motion Picture Group, said of the new film in a statement: “When you share a bed with someone – and not just a bed, but a childhood, a family, and a lifetime – you know that person better than anybody else.

“Mickey Leigh not only collaborated with his big brother’s band – he has irreplaceable memories of and insights into Joey Ramone, having supported him when no one else would and witnessed him overcome adversity in the most dramatic way.”

Last month, a host of bands including Creeper, We Are Scientists and The Futureheads came together for a livestreamed gig in tribute to the late Ramones frontman Joey Ramone, celebrating what would’ve been his 70th birthday.

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The Queen’s Gambit actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is set to play late Beatles manager Brian Epstein in a new film.

• READ MORE: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ review 

As first reported in The Daily Mail, the actor, who played chess prodigy and later journalist Townes in Netflix smash The Queen’s Gambit, will play Epstein in the biopic Midas Man, which is to be directed by Jonas Akerlund.

Akerlund is a Swedish director best known for working with Madonna on the Grammy award-winning ‘Ray Of Light’ music video as well as with other artists including Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Rammstein and The Prodigy.

The unauthorised biography of Epstein, who was the Beatles manager from 1962 until his death in 1967, is set to start filming later this year at Twickenham Studios and on location in London, Liverpool and America.

According to Deadline, the film will “chart Epstein’s…role in the cultural revolution and creative explosion of the 1960s and his sizeable yet often unheralded influence on pop music.”

As well as managing The Beatles, Epstein also worked with a number of artists including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black and Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas. Epstein died of an accidental drug overdose in 1967; he was 32-years-old.

Speaking about the upcoming film and Fortune-Lloyd’s casting, director Akerlund said: “It is a tall order to fill Brian’s shoes, and Jacob is the perfect performer. He is charismatic and dark at the same time, balancing that emotional range where you’re not sure if you’re in love with him or terribly empathetic with the inner turmoil of his character. No one could bring Brian to life better.”

Fortune-Lloyd added: “It’s a huge privilege to play Brian Epstein, a man who made such an important and lasting cultural impact, but who struggled to find a secure place in a world he helped to shape.

“He was a fascinating person with great talent, ambition, and courage, and I’m so honoured to be given the opportunity to represent him. Jonas is the perfect person to bring this story to life, his work is visually stunning, visceral, and bold. I can’t wait to start working together.”

The film’s producer, Trevor Beattie, told The Guardian last year: “Epstein’s one of the most extraordinary men of the 20th century. His story hasn’t been told properly. He’s often taken for granted by the wider world, but he was ahead of his time from his vision of music and popular culture through to gender identity.

“He was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal. He lived a secret life. He made some risky decisions in handling the business of his stars…Compared with what Brian had to live in his life, [they were] not a risk.”

Meanwhile, this week has seen the release of Paul McCartney’s ‘McCartney III: Imagined‘ – containing reworked songs from his recent album, with tracks by Beck, St. Vincent, Josh Homme, Anderson .Paak and more.

In a four-star review of the album, NME concluded:” ‘McCartney III: Imagined’ is another fine entry into the self-titled collection. The sheer star-power and respect from contemporaries and newbies is another flex that proves the endeavour, which started over 51 years ago, was a worthy one.”

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