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Absolutely Fabulous – The Movie, With Saunders, Lumley, Sawalha, Horrocks And Whitfield

It first aired in 1992, 23 years ago. Jennifer Saunders is almost as old now as June Whitfield was then. But it's finally getting its shot at the big screen. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is taking advantage of a run of successful Britcom-to-big screen transitions, including Kevin & Perry Go Large and The Inbetweeners.

And, in that grand tradition that goes back to Are You Being Served? The Movie, they are taking the concept on holiday. In this case, the south of France.

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the iconic Edina and Patsy along with the rest of the original cast that includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Mother. The award-winning team behind the camera includes Mandie Fletcher ("Blackadder," "Absolutely Fabulous") directing from a script by Jennifer Saunders, producers Jon Plowman ("Absolutely Fabulous," "The Vicar of Dibley") and Damian Jones (THE IRON LADY, BELLE, DAD'S ARMY) with Steve Milne, Christian Eisenbeiss, Christine Langan, Nichola Martin, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Maureen Vincent serving as executive producers. The film will be released in 2016.

"I am thrilled and excited to finally start filming.  We are all on the Sanatogen and hoping for the best," said Saunders.

"We're so happy to join Jennifer, Joanna and the Absolutely Fabulous team on their latest and greatest adventures!" says Claudia Lewis, Fox Searchlight Pictures President of Production.

"Ab Fab on the big screen is a treat we've been hotly anticipating at BBC Films and we're very proud to join Jennifer and her terrific team for this delicious reunion," says Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films.

Appropriate for their big screen debut, Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hotspots.  Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forevermore!

In true Ab Fab style, the cast will be joined by a host of A-list stars from the acting, music and fashion worlds.

DanTram Nguyen, Vice President of Production and Katie Goodson-Thomas, Director of Production will oversee the project for Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Fox Searchlight Pictures is a specialty film company that both finances and acquires motion pictures. It has its own marketing and distribution operations, and its films are distributed internationally by Twentieth Century Fox. Fox Searchlight Pictures is a unit of 21st Century Fox.

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