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Mahershala Ali may have found his next award-worthy role. The Oscar-winning actor of Moonlight and Green Book is eyeing a role in Solitary, a prison drama based on Albert Woodfox‘s harrowing memoir detailing the record four decades he spent in solitary confinement. Read about Ali potentially taking on the role of Woodfox in the Solitary movie cast below. Deadline broke […]

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After an epic 10 years, 73 episodes, and 70 hours, 50 minutes of viewing time, the HBO production Game of Thrones finally drew to its much anticipated close, drawing in record-breaking audiences for Sky Atlantic.

The final cumulative viewing figures for the finale episode ‘The Iron Throne’ was 5.789m, making it the biggest series finale of any Sky programme ever. This is up +12% on the Series 7 finale, which ended on 5.17m.

Episode 2, which aired on Easter Monday, ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’, drew in the highest audience for the series, at 6.31m. This figure is made up of those who watched the 2am simulcast, the 9pm transmission and any repeats, those who recorded the episode and watched it back and also those who chose to catch up on demand on Sky Atlantic and Now TV. If you include those who watched the episode on their mobile phones and tablets through the Sky Go app,...

Mahershala Ali is set to star in and serve as executive producer in the adaptation of Albert Woodfox memoir ‘Solitary’.

Based on the 2019 book, it tells the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement – in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana – all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit.

Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, Woodfox was finally given a fifty-year sentence for the murder of a white guard during a robbery in 1972 – a crime that he never committed. Without a shred of actual evidence against him, the...

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Tomorrow night at the Genesis Cinema in Mile End sees the UK gala screening of a new lowish-budget British film called Solitary, directed by Sasha Krane, the nephew of Method acting guru, Lee Strasberg. Shot in Southsea and Portsmouth (with some scenes filmed inside Kingston Prison), it's a dark psycho-drama about a young woman trying to reconnect with her estranged family and exposing some painful secrets in the process. The cast includes Anita Dobson from EastEnders as well as boxer Joe Calzaghe in a small role as a prison guard. Also appearing is Sarina Taylor. Her husband, Roger Taylor, drummer and vocalist of rock band Queen, has executive produced the movie and written its soundtrack.