Delia Owens: Last News

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Since Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine got an infusion of capital in 2021, north of $900 million, the actor-producer-entrepreneur’s output has gone into overdrive.

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ACTRESS Daisy Edgar-Jones enjoys normal life on a stroll with her former co-star. She appeared relaxed out with Fionn O’Shea. The pair found fame in BBC drama Normal People.

In an encouraging sign for specialized product, Sony/3000 Pictures/Hello Sunshine’s Where the Crawdads Sing has crossed the $100M benchmark globally. Getting there on Tuesday, the feature adaptation of the Delia Owens novel sits at $78.8M domestic and $21.5M from the international box office.

Marta Balaga One of the breakout stars of the pandemic, Daisy Edgar-Jones, was finally out and about at Locarno Film Festival, where she picked up the Leopard Club Award and introduced her latest film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” based on a novel by Delia Owens.“The whole idea of being a ‘breakout star’ is a strange thing to comprehend anyway. The strangeness of that, happening in tandem with the strangeness of the pandemic, meant that those things will be forever mixed up together for me,” she tells Variety, recalling “Normal People’s” triumphant unveiling during the lockdown.“In reality, nothing in my life was changing.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Book lovers are in for a treat this year, with a jam-packed slate of upcoming movies and TV series based on best-selling books.Transport yourself to the underground silos of Hugh Hawley’s “Wool,” whose adaptation for Apple will star Tim Robbins and Recceca Ferguson; immerse yourself in the dense pages of Joyce Carol Oates’ “Blonde,” in eager anticipation of Anna De Armas’ transformation into the iconic Marilyn Monroe, and ready yourself for the truly wild, time traveling series from Brian K.

Normal People made Daisy Edgar-Jones one of the most recognisable faces in the UK.The BBC programme topped the broadcaster’s iPlayer streaming service in 2020 giving her and Paul Mescal their breakout roles.The saucy Irish romantic saga put Edgar-Jones, 24, on the map, and it was not long before America came knocking.She has now made her Hollywood debut in Where The Crawdads Sing.But has her recent acting success, which also includes appearances in ITV's Cold Feet, helped to line her pockets? Attempts at working out the Londoner's wealth suggest she has done well for herself, even before landing her Stateside break.Edgar-Jones is said to be worth more than £800,000, according to the website Stars Unfolded.However, that estimate was produced before the release of Where The Crawdads Sing.If the film, based on the Delia Owens international bestseller, proves a hit with audiences, then she could be in for a bank account-boosting windfall.Reviews of the film have not been kind, though.The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said the Bafta-nominated Normal People star deserved a better big-screen debut “than this southern gothic schmaltzer and its outrageously evasive cheat ending”.Despite her incredible on-screen chemistry with Normal People co-star Paul Mescal, the pair did not date.The duo regularly hang out though, with Daisy only two months ago posting a picture on Instagram of her smiling with her "best mate".Edgar-Jones was previously in a relationship with Ackley Bridge actor Tom Varey and admitted her ex watched the sex scenes between her and Paul through gritted teeth.Daisy and Tom were said to have fallen for each other on the set of 2018’s Pond Life.But they split in February 2021, with The Sun reporting that Edgar-Jones had

Reese Witherspoon has had a lengthy and storied career in acting, and in recent years she has become an absolute double threat thanks to her media company Hello Sunshine.MORE: Jennifer Garner is a 'proud friend' as she shows support for Reese WitherspoonShe is known across Hollywood and beyond for being an avid reader, and subsequently turning plenty of the books she reads into either television shows or hit movies.Though many of them, including Little Fires Everywhere, Wild, and Big Little Lies, have been massively popular, her latest adaptation has sparked quite the controversy.WATCH: Reese hilariously fails to keep up during home work-outMORE: Reese Witherspoon celebrates Legally Blonde's 21st anniversary with sensational throwbacksReese most recently produced a film titled Where the Crawdads Sing starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, based on a 2018 novel by Delia Owens. The story follows Kya, a young girl who raised herself in rural North Carolina and unexpectedly becomes the suspect of a murder.As it turns out, the plot happens to hit somewhat close to home for the author, who has come under fire after multiple outlets highlighted her own suspicious association with a 1996 murder case, prompting fans to question Reese's collaboration with her.It was first reported by Jeffrey Goldberg in a 2010 New Yorker article that both Delia and her husband have been wanted for questioning concerning the killing of an alleged poacher in the 1990s.

The Marvel sequel Thor: Love & Thunder dropped a hefty 68% in its second weekend of release but still held the top spot at the box office.Taika Waititi's Love and Thunder led all films with an estimated $46 million, bringing its two-week global total to $498 million.Meanwhile the bestseller adaptation Where the Crawdads Sing debuted with a better-than-expected $17 million. Still on top:The Marvel sequel Thor: Love & Thunder dropped a hefty 68% in its second weekend of release but still held the top spot at the box office; Pictured Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth The sizable decline is more than most Marvel films but in line with recent releases from the Walt Disney Co.

Delia Owens, Sony’s “Where the Crawdads Sing” follows a young girl named Kya who learns to survive on her own in a swampy North Carolina marsh after she’s abandoned by her family. Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) goes on to publish several illustrated books about the local environment.During the four-month shoot in the marshlands near New Orleans, the cast and crew experienced a series of obstacles ranging from alligator encounters to weather-induced shutdowns.

A film of Where The Crawdads Sing, the best-selling murder mystery novel by Delia Owens, is out this summer.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen cinematographer Polly Morgan and director Olivia Newman were brought on to adapt Delia Owens’ bestselling novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” the story spoke to them on a natural level.The Sony Pictures film of the same name, in theaters July 15, tells the tale of Kya (Daisy Edgar- Jones), a young woman raising herself in the marshes of North Carolina in the 1950s. Her journey — and her relationship to nature in particular — resonated with Morgan (“A Quiet Place Part II,” “6 Balloons”).

controversial author Delia Owens’ popular novel, when the dialogue isn’t sanitizing abuse and rape, it’s waxing poetic about sea creatures, grass and owls. Long stretches of floral language is OK in a book. Onscreen, however, it’s pretentious.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Mychael Danna’s score for 3000 Pictures’ dramatic thriller Where the Crawdads Sing, which is slated for release by Decca Records tomorrow, as the film hits theaters in the U.S.

Taylor Swift had a sweet surprise for her fans on Thursday. Swift, 32, released her new song, "Carolina," which is based on the Delia Owens novel "Where the Crawdads Sing." The award wining novel has been turned into a film, which releases on July 15. "Carolina" will be featured in the movie and this release marks Swift’s first single since her 2020 album "Evermore." Taylor Swift based her new song "Carolina" on the Delia Owens novel, "Where the Crawdads Sing." (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy ) "About a year and half ago I wrote a song about an incredible story, the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in," Swift shared on Instagram.

New music from Taylor Swift has arrived.

Taylor Swift has announced the release of a brand new song called ‘Carolina’, which is produced by The National‘s Aaron Dessner.The track, which is set to arrive at midnight ET tonight (5am BST), is the theme song for new film Where The Crawdads Sing, directed by Olivia Newman and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.A snippet of ‘Carolina’ was first previewed back in March in the trailer for the new mystery thriller. Swift’s vocals sound eerie as she sings: “They never saw me/ You didn’t see me here/ No, they never did see me here/ There are places I will never, ever go/ Things that only Carolina will ever know.”According to Witherspoon, the song was written while Swift was working on her 2020 album ‘Folklore’, after reading the 2018 Delia Owens novel of the same name on which the film is based upon.“She read this book and loved it so much, and then she heard we were making a movie [during the period] she was making her ‘Folklore’ album and then she wrote a song with that whole ‘Folklore’ team, which was so haunting and magical and beautiful,” Witherspoon said during a recent roundtable (via Variety).Newman explained that Swift submitted the song out of the blue after writing a “gorgeous letter” to the crew.

Taylor Swift's new song Carolina will be released tomorrow morning UK time, it's been announced.

Among studios, Sony was first up with its presentation here at CineEurope in Barcelona which kicked off on Monday. “As an industry, we are anything but done,” declared Sony Pictures International Releasing’s President Steven O’Dell at the top of the show. The studio is coming off of its most ambitious six-month slate ever, which it began rolling out in the fall and wrapped up with the $1.9B worldwide smash Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the January hit Uncharted.

Reese Witherspoon is stepping out to promote the new movie she’s producing!