Nanny McPhee is the nanny you hire when all other nannies fail -- at least, that's the idea of "Nanny McPhee," a movie inspired by Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" books. If only the film, starring ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit London’s West ...

The Nanny McPhee movies may be principally for kids, but make no mistake about it: They are, quite literally, a parent's dream. Overwhelmed single parents with unruly kids are rescued by a magical ...

Thompson wrote and starred in the two Nanny McPhee films, 2005's Nanny McPhee, and 2010's Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, based on Christianna Brand's book series Nurse Matilda. The films grossed two ...

Based upon the Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand. In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears ...

She may be in the midst of promoting the eagerly anticipated Matilda musical movie, but Emma Thompson already has other plates spinning. Based on the much-loved film franchise Thompson starred in, ...

Just when you thought the whole British nanny thing had crested, that naughty stools and one-hour family makeovers were on their way to the cultural dustbin, in walks a quiet, grim, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal will star opposite Emma Thompson in a sequel to Nanny McPhee, according to Production Weekly. Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang, which takes place 100 years after the events of the first ...

Emma Thompson’s first screenwriting effort since the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility is another literary adaptation, allegedly of Christianna Brand’s Nurse Matilda books. But honestly: a Victorian ...

Emma Thompson dons prosthetic makeup to play the title character, a cross between Mary Poppins and Quasimodo who arrives at the home of a widowed and impoverished undertaker (Colin Firth) to reform ...