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EXCLUSIVE: Steven Paul’s Atlas Comics is developing a live-action version of Devilina for Paramount Pictures. Black List writer Rebecca Webb is penning the script. Paul is producing, alongside Scott Karol, President of SP Media Group, and Jason Goodman – grandson of Marvel founder Martin Goodman – are executive producing. Conor O’Farrell, director of development at SP Media Group, is working on the project.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There’s a moment in “Stan Lee,” David Gelb’s lively and illuminating documentary about the visionary of Marvel Comics, that’s momentous enough to give you a tingle. The year is 1961, and Lee, approaching 40, is burnt out on comics. It’s a form he has never taken all that seriously, even though he’s been working at it since 1939, when he started, at 17, as a gofer for Timely Comics. (Within two years he’d become the company’s editor, art director, and chief writer.) The comics he creates get so little respect that he tries to hide his profession when asked about it at cocktail parties. In 1961, though, Lee receives a directive from Martin Goodman, the publisher of the company that’s about to be renamed Marvel. He is ordered to devise a team of superheroes that can compete with DC’s Justice League (who have become the fulcrum of the so-called Silver Age of Comics). Lee, weary of superheroes, is ready to quit the business. But his wife, the English-born beauty Joan Lee, suggests that he create the kind of characters he has always been talking about — a more realistic brand of comic-book figure, one that ordinary people could relate to.

In a final poignant interview before his death last month, Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter told how the role in the Channel 4 comedy had been the highlight of his career.

Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter has been posthumously nominated for a 2021 BAFTA TV award.Ritter passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side earlier this month (April 5 after suffering from a brain tumour.The star, who also appeared in Harry Potter, Chernobyl and more, has been nominated for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the awards for his role as patriarch Martin Goodman in Friday Night Dinner.Others in the category include This Country‘s Charlie Cooper, Brassic star Joseph Gilgun and Ncuti Gatwa for his role in Sex Education.Elsewhere, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You and Netflix‘s royal hit The Crown have all picked up multiple nominations.The 2021 BAFTA TV Awards will be

Paul Ritter showed how dedicated he was to his craft when he followed a strict regime to get him ready for filming Friday Night Dinner.

Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter has died at the age of 54. The star died of a brain tumour and passed away on Monday at home alongside his wife and two sons, his agent has told the Guardian.

Tributes are pouring in for actor Paul Ritter who has died at the age of 54.

Paul Ritter has died last night at the age of 54.