{"id":585056,"date":"2026-02-12T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585056\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:52:15","slug":"the-testaments-peaky-blinders-movie-to-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585056\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Testaments’ & ‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie To Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale sequel The Testaments<\/a> will be given its world premiere at this year\u2019s Series Mania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tShowrunner Bruce Miller\u00a0(The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, Eureka\u2026) and members of his creative team including produce Warren Littlefield will\u00a0attend the premiere, reinforcing Series Mania\u2019s role as a \u201cstrategic launch platform for premium international content,\u201d the fest said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted from the 2019 Margaret Atwood novel, which came 34 years after The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, The Testaments is a huge launch for Hulu and Disney+ internationally this year. Launching two weeks after Series Mania and created by Miller, it is set in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, finding a new generation of young women grappling with the bleak future that awaits them. Cast includes Ann Dowd, who returns from The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, Chase Infiniti and Lucy Halliday.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn more buzzy out-of-competition screenings, Peaky Blinders<\/a> movie The Immortal Man will be shown in the same week it launches on Netflix. Series Mania kicks off March 20, the day of the Peaky launch.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeries Mania has also revealed international competition lineup, with 2026 \u201csignaling a shift toward sharper editorial positioning and high-impact storytelling,\u201d it said, noting that TV drama is a \u201ccontracting market\u201d with fewer series, shorter formats and reduced episode counts.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn competition will be AMC\u2019s The Audacity from Jonathan Glatzer, which stars Billy Magnussen as a self-appointed \u201cinventor of the future\u201d tech CEO who becomes engulfed in scandal. <\/p>\n

\n\tBritish series include A24 and Molly Manning Walker\u2019s Major Players about women\u2019s soccer for Channel 4, along with the BBC\u2019s prison memoir adaptation Waiting for the Out, while there is also Dustfall, the Australian \u201ctropic noir\u201d murder mystery that has been picked up by the BBC and is sold by Federation.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther competition shows include Disney+ Latin America\u2019s Dear Killer Nannies, HBO Max France\u2019s Paolo, Movistar\u2019s The Anatomy of a Moment, HBO Max Poland\u2019s Love is Enough and Nordic co-pro My Brother.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jury for the international competition will be unveiled shortly. The international panorama competition includes a trio of BBC shows, Babies, Small Prophets and Prisoner 951.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeries Mania runs March 20 to 27. The industry section will feature the likes of Russell T. Davies and Nicola Shindler<\/a>, Disney+ EMEA content chief Angela Jain and Fremantle\u2019s Jennifer Mullin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Handmaid\u2019s Tale sequel The Testaments will be given its world premiere at this year\u2019s Series Mania. Showrunner…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":585057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,32755,253450,217913,173,148320,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-585056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-peaky-blinders","tag-series-mania","tag-the-testaments","tag-tv","tag-tv-markets","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116058701579681933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}