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22 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »

The Weinstein Co. has inked a deal for Stephen Frears’ Philomena paying $6.5 million for the U.S., Canada and Spain. The film stars Judi Dench as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who searches for her son that she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager, and is based on BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book, "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee." Photos: Star-Studded Jury Lands in Cannes British comedian Steve Coogan stars opposite Dench in the film which he co-wrote with Jeff Pope and stars as a journalist who helps Lee search for her son. The

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- Stuart Kemp

16 May 2013 5:28 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

The Weinstein Co. has acquired Stephen Frears' "Philomena" for $6 million, TWC co-chair Harvey Weinstein told TheWrap. Based on a real story, the film stars Judi Dench (left) as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who searches for her son that she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager. The film is based on BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book, "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee." British comedian Steve Coogan also stars in the film, which he co-wrote with Jeff Pope. He plays a journalist who helps Lee search for her »

- Lucas Shaw & Sharon Waxman

16 May 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »

The relationship between Harvey Weinstein and British filmmaker Stephen Frears is one that has proved very fruitful with Miramax releasing Frears' Dirty Pretty Things and the Oscar-winning The Queen , starring Helen Mirren, but more significantly, Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents , starring Dame Judi Dench, was one of the very early releases for the fledgling The Weinstein Company back in 2005 when the Weinsteins broke off with Disney. The Weinstein Company is keeping that relationship alive as it's being reported out of Cannes that they've picked up the distribution rights for Frears' latest, Philomena , which reunites him with Dench, for a reported $6 million. Based on the real story from BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book "The Lost Child of Philomena »

20 January 2013 12:32 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

If only more writers were like the poet Sharon Olds and realised that discretion is better than endless revelation

The poems in Stag's Leap, the collection that has just won Sharon Olds the Ts Eliot prize, were written years ago, but not published until much later. The delay, Olds has explained, was to protect her family. The poems document the end of her 32-year marriage, when her husband left for another woman, and Olds promised her children not to write about it for "at least 10 years". In the end, it was 15; the collection came out last autumn.

Although the children must be middle aged now and the husband has not, some readers may conclude, done very much to merit such delicacy about his feelings, Olds remains protective. Last week, for instance, she was reluctant to elaborate on her ex's reaction to eventual publication. "It seems to me bad enough to »

- Catherine Bennett

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