Here’s a premise to snap awake the most jaded filmgoer: illegal immigrants trade their organs (as in kidneys) for money and a passport. This gruesome trade underpins the plot of “Dirty Pretty Things,” ...

Christopher Hampton marks his third collaboration with Frears, adapting Jonathan Coe's book about the Hollywood Golden Era legend. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Two-time Oscar winner Christoph ...

IFC Films is acquiring North American rights to “The Lost King,” the next film from director Stephen Frears that stars Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan, ahead of the movie’s world premiere at the ...

If Queen Elizabeth II's life seems vivid to us through movies and television, that's largely due to filmmaker Stephen Frears, who directed 2006's Oscar-winning The Queen, starring Helen Mirren.

Count on the English director's varied artistic palette to inform his choices as jury president. By Scott Tobias, The Associated Press Stephen Frears has brought two films to the Festival de Cannes ...

British filmmaker Stephen Frears is to be awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at this year’s 74th Venice Film Festival. The award celebrates a filmmaker who is considered to have ...

The little-known story of Queen Victoria and her beloved Indian servant Abdul Karim was once so little-known that Shrabani Basu, author of the 2010 non-fiction biography Victoria & Abdul, spent three ...

After the success of their Oscar-nominated collaboration on the 2013 drama “Philomena,” starring Judi Dench, director Stephen Frears and star-screenwriter Steve Coogan were eager to team up once again ...

Stephen Frears, director of the upcoming film “Lay the Favorite,” told The Playlist that one of his next projects may be a remake of his own film, the 1984 underworld thriller “The Hit,” with ...

Director Stephen Frears talks about his movie, Cheri, a romantic drama based on a book by Collette, set in 1920s Paris. In the movie, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a woman who is persuaded to look after a ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...