Paul King back to pen, helm “Paddington” family comedy sequelOctober 28, 2015 - 20:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Paul King is back to write and direct the sequel to 2014's Paddington, Digital Spy reports citing Deadline. The Mighty Boosh director, who took charge of last year's hugely successful film, will work on the story for the follow-up with Horrible Histories' Simon Farnaby. King will again team with producer David Heyman and StudioCanal on the movie. Paddington earned more than $260 million at the global box office, making it the highest grossing family film released by a non-U.S. studio. It starred Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Sally Hawkins, with voice work from Ben Whishaw, Michael Gambon and Imelda Staunton. Speaking to Digital Spy at February's BAFTAs ceremony, King hinted that a follow-up will likely draw from one of author Michael Bond's novels. "We'd love to do another one, there's lots of Paddington books and source material," he said. "He's a great character to write for and direct so I'd love to do more. I really hope we can make it happen." Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |