BBC Films Movie Updates

Cate Blanchett is in talks to star in The Dig, a drama about one of Britain’s most famous archaeological finds - the Sutton Hoo burial grounds.

BBC Films and Shine Pictures have acquired the rights to psychological thriller The Farm, the latest novel from Tom Rob Smith.

BBC Films, the U.K. public broadcaster's stand-alone filmmaking unit, has optioned the rights to Deborah McKinlay’s novel That Part Was True.

William Monahan is in advanced talks to write a big screen adaptation of new John le Carre spy novel A Delicate Truth.

Simon Curtis, who most recently directed My Week With Marilyn, is in talks to helm The Buccaneers, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s high-society novel being produced by BBC Films and Ruby Films.

Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin of U.K. production company Blueprint Pictures are looking to build on their expanded profile with three features planned to shoot to 2013.

Stephen Frears is set to direct Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena, a feature film based on the true story of an Irish woman seeking the illegitimate son she was forced to put up for adoption in the U.S.

Thomas Vinterberg is setting his sights on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Far From The Madding Crowd.

BBC Films, the pubcaster’s stand-alone filmmaking arm, is backing You Really Got Me, which is being produced by Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Co.

Writer-directors Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin are developing a feature comedy with similar techniques and themes to hit BBC series.

Yates, who directed the last four Potter films, told Daily Variety that he is about to start work on developing a "Doctor Who" movie with Jane Tranter, head of L.A.-based BBC Worldwide Prods.

IM Global is co-financing, with BBC Films (who developed the film), dramatic thriller BLOOD.

The Helen Mirren-starring Middle East drama Deadlocked from Brit indie producer Andy Harries and Canadian partner Rob Heydon is on.

BBC Films is banking on the old mantra that sex sells. The moviemaking film arm of the U.K. broadcaster is developing a comedy drama named Sex Education with U.K. independent production banner Ruby Films.

BBC Films has announced new productions to its slate this year including Cillian Murphy starrer Broken, helmed by Rufus Norris.

BBC Earth now has four features in various stage of development and production.