Watch out for . . .

THANDIE NEWTON, who plays a ‘Kate Adie kind of war correspondent’ in director Xavier Dolan’s new film The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan. The title character, a famous (fictitious) actor, now deceased, is played by Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington. The picture was shot last year but its release has been stalled for legal reasons. Ms Newton, pictured below, is married to director Ol Parker, who’s enjoying the biggest hit of his career with the irresistible Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Their daughter, Nico, has a major role in Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo. TOM CRuISE, who has been lauded for the astonishing athletic stunts he pulls off in the grade-A popcorn thriller Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which also stars Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby (super lethal as the White Widow), Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg. However, athletic as he is, Cruise is 56, and all the chatter about a possible MI7 is causing concern because he isn’t available for two or three years — and will he want to be leaping off rooftops at 60? In the meantime, see an IMAX version of the current Mission: Impossible if you can. It looks terrific on a giant screen. BARTLETT SHER, the director whose Lincoln Center production of The King And I is enjoying a run at the London Palladium. He has been visiting a couple of West End theatres to find a home for My Fair Lady, another of his shows which is the present incumbent of the Lincoln Center Theater, starring Lauren Ambrose and British stars Harry Hadden-Paton and Diana Rigg. The My Fair Lady design team have ‘measured up’ a couple of London theatres, even though the show won’t travel here until late 2019 at the very earliest. I’m told there has been much talk about putting My Fair Lady into the Dominion (which is controlled by the Nederlander organisation . . . who happen to own certain rights to My Fair Lady). But it’s all still way up in the air.