U.S. and U.K.-based global sales outfit Palisades Park Pictures has revealed a star-studded slate for Hong Kong’s film rights market FilMart.
John Travolta, Katherine Heigl and Christopher Walken lead romantic comedy “That’s Amore!,” which is in pre-production. Written and directed by “Green Book” writer Nick Vallelonga, the film follows two emotionally damaged people who attempt to date one another, and when their families get involved, comedy ensues.
The producers are Vallelonga (Vallelonga Prods.), Cassian Elwes (Elevated Films), Brenda Emmett and Vince Emmett (American Troubadours), David Polemeni; Tamara Birkemoe and Mark Damon, for Palisades Park Pictures, serve as executive producers.
Director Phillip Noyce has completed action-thriller “Fast Charlie,” starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin and James Caan, and adapted from Victor Gischler’s novel “Gun Monkeys” by Richard Wenk (“The Equalizer”).
Brosnan plays Charlie Swift, a hitman who has been working for his aging mob boss, Stan (Caan), for two decades.
John Travolta, Katherine Heigl and Christopher Walken lead romantic comedy “That’s Amore!,” which is in pre-production. Written and directed by “Green Book” writer Nick Vallelonga, the film follows two emotionally damaged people who attempt to date one another, and when their families get involved, comedy ensues.
The producers are Vallelonga (Vallelonga Prods.), Cassian Elwes (Elevated Films), Brenda Emmett and Vince Emmett (American Troubadours), David Polemeni; Tamara Birkemoe and Mark Damon, for Palisades Park Pictures, serve as executive producers.
Director Phillip Noyce has completed action-thriller “Fast Charlie,” starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin and James Caan, and adapted from Victor Gischler’s novel “Gun Monkeys” by Richard Wenk (“The Equalizer”).
Brosnan plays Charlie Swift, a hitman who has been working for his aging mob boss, Stan (Caan), for two decades.
- 3/11/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Anthony Hopkins returns in a trailer for the film based on an extraordinary true story. Bleecker Street has released the new preview for One Life. The film showcases Hopkins as a man who happened upon a tragically developing encounter with refugee Jewish children who are in the path of Nazi occupation in Prague. Amazingly Hopkins’ younger version of the character had taken it upon himself to embark on a mission to save the children from the growing threat.
The official synopsis from Bleecker Street reads,
“Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue...
The official synopsis from Bleecker Street reads,
“Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue...
- 1/25/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Charlotte Kirk starrer to screen at market next week; international talks ongoing.
On the eve of AFM Palisades Park Pictures has announced key territory sales on Neil Marshall’s crime thriller Duchess, with Saban Films acquiring the US and Vertigo Films taking UK rights.
Palisades Park Pictures CEO Tamara Birkemoe has concluded a raft of deals on the Charlotte Kirk starrer.
Amazon has taken Benelux rights, Videomite has acquired the film for Turkey, Selim Ramia for the Middle East, Cinemundo for Portugal, Premiere 9 Entertainment for India, Myndform for Iceland, Daro Film Distribution for Central Eastern Europe, M-Net for South Africa,...
On the eve of AFM Palisades Park Pictures has announced key territory sales on Neil Marshall’s crime thriller Duchess, with Saban Films acquiring the US and Vertigo Films taking UK rights.
Palisades Park Pictures CEO Tamara Birkemoe has concluded a raft of deals on the Charlotte Kirk starrer.
Amazon has taken Benelux rights, Videomite has acquired the film for Turkey, Selim Ramia for the Middle East, Cinemundo for Portugal, Premiere 9 Entertainment for India, Myndform for Iceland, Daro Film Distribution for Central Eastern Europe, M-Net for South Africa,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Charlotte Kirk starrer to screen at market next week; international talks ongoing.
On the eve of AFM Palisades Park Pictures has announced key territory sales on Neil Marshall’s crime thriller Duchess, with Saban Films acquiring the US and Vertigo taking UK rights.
Palisades Park Pictures CEO Tamara Birkemoe has concluded a raft of deals on the Charlotte Kirk starrer.
Amazon has taken Benelux rights, Videomite has acquired the film for Turkey, Selim Ramia for the Middle East, Cinemundo for Portugal, Premiere 9 Entertainment for India, Myndform for Iceland, Daro Film Distribution for Central Eastern Europe, M-Net for South Africa, and Top Film Distribution for Ukraine.
On the eve of AFM Palisades Park Pictures has announced key territory sales on Neil Marshall’s crime thriller Duchess, with Saban Films acquiring the US and Vertigo taking UK rights.
Palisades Park Pictures CEO Tamara Birkemoe has concluded a raft of deals on the Charlotte Kirk starrer.
Amazon has taken Benelux rights, Videomite has acquired the film for Turkey, Selim Ramia for the Middle East, Cinemundo for Portugal, Premiere 9 Entertainment for India, Myndform for Iceland, Daro Film Distribution for Central Eastern Europe, M-Net for South Africa, and Top Film Distribution for Ukraine.
- 10/26/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences will present Viola Davis with the Muhammad Ali Voice of Humanity Honor at the Voice Arts Awards 10th Anniversary Gala. The honor recognizes Davis’ talent, passion for social justice and willingness to tackle social problems through her commitment to the truth.
“This honor was created in furtherance of The Champ’s legacy of embodying resilience and courage in the face of social injustice and adversity. Viola Davis shares those traits,” said Joan Baker, founder and vice President of Sovas, in a statement.
The Voice Arts Awards is an annual celebration for nominees and winners in the world of voice acting and associated craft professionals.
“Her journey from humble beginnings to achieving the highly vaunted Egot status, showcases her unwavering pursuit of excellence,” Baker continued. “And for Sovas, it is especially heartwarming that Viola is also an exceptional voice actor in animation, TV commercials and,...
“This honor was created in furtherance of The Champ’s legacy of embodying resilience and courage in the face of social injustice and adversity. Viola Davis shares those traits,” said Joan Baker, founder and vice President of Sovas, in a statement.
The Voice Arts Awards is an annual celebration for nominees and winners in the world of voice acting and associated craft professionals.
“Her journey from humble beginnings to achieving the highly vaunted Egot status, showcases her unwavering pursuit of excellence,” Baker continued. “And for Sovas, it is especially heartwarming that Viola is also an exceptional voice actor in animation, TV commercials and,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Caroline Brew, Jaden Thompson and Valerie Wu
- Variety Film + TV
At least one high-profile TIFF title won’t be going to Netflix. “One Life,” the well-received and well-reviewed Anthony Hopkins vehicle has been acquired by Bleecker Street. The biopic, starring the two-time Oscar winner as the elder version Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, will get a domestic theatrical release in 2024. This would seemingly place it out of the current award-season race.
The James Hawes-directed film also stars Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter. Penned by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, the Saw-Saw Films and BBC Films production is based on Barbara Winton’s book “If It’s Not Impossible… The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.”
The film features Flynn as a young Winton, a London broker who eventually convinces members of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue children in Prague as the Nazis close the borders in late 1938. Fifty years later,...
The James Hawes-directed film also stars Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter. Penned by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, the Saw-Saw Films and BBC Films production is based on Barbara Winton’s book “If It’s Not Impossible… The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.”
The film features Flynn as a young Winton, a London broker who eventually convinces members of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue children in Prague as the Nazis close the borders in late 1938. Fifty years later,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to TIFF standout One Life, the James Hawes-directed drama that stars Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, with Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter. Scripted by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, the film is a production of See-Saw Films, which developed it alongside BBC Film. Bleecker Street is planning a 2024 theatrical release.
Based on the Barbara Winton book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton, One Life tells the true story of Nicholas “Nicky” Winton (Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue as many children as possible before the Nazis close the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Hopkins) is haunted by the...
Based on the Barbara Winton book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton, One Life tells the true story of Nicholas “Nicky” Winton (Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue as many children as possible before the Nazis close the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Hopkins) is haunted by the...
- 10/9/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ted Lasso star James Lance and Hermione Norris have joined Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs in the feature adaptation of Raynor Winn’s inspirational bestselling memoir The Salt Path.
The film marks the screen directing debut of Marianne Elliott, the Olivier- and Tony Award-winning director of stage hits War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Company and Death of a Salesman, as Deadline revealed in May.
The Salt Path follows married couple Raynor and Moth Winn, portrayed by Anderson and Isaacs, who, after being evicted from their farm, embark on a long and winding trek along the South West Coast path in UK’s picturesque Devon and Cornwall.
Lance has been cast as Grant, one of a handful of the disparate characters who cross paths with Raynor and Moth during their year long journey.
Norris has signed on as Polly,...
The film marks the screen directing debut of Marianne Elliott, the Olivier- and Tony Award-winning director of stage hits War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Company and Death of a Salesman, as Deadline revealed in May.
The Salt Path follows married couple Raynor and Moth Winn, portrayed by Anderson and Isaacs, who, after being evicted from their farm, embark on a long and winding trek along the South West Coast path in UK’s picturesque Devon and Cornwall.
Lance has been cast as Grant, one of a handful of the disparate characters who cross paths with Raynor and Moth during their year long journey.
Norris has signed on as Polly,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Gillian Anderson and multi-award-winning actor Jason Isaacs have joined the cast on ‘The Salt Path.’ An adaptation of Raynor Winn’s global bestselling memoir.
The movie is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a sense of acceptance. With depleted resources and only a tent and the bare essentials between them, every step along the path is a testament to their growing strength and determination. The story is a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. A portrayal of home and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.
Also in news – Ana De Armas, Jude Law & more join...
The movie is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a sense of acceptance. With depleted resources and only a tent and the bare essentials between them, every step along the path is a testament to their growing strength and determination. The story is a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. A portrayal of home and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.
Also in news – Ana De Armas, Jude Law & more join...
- 5/16/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Palisades Park Pictures (Ppp) will be representing global sales for action-thriller Duchess from director Neil Marshall (Hellboy).
Post production recently wrapped with Ppp screening for buyers at the Cannes market next week.
Duchess stars Charlotte Kirk (Vice) in the titular role as she navigates the world of diamond smuggling. Philip Winchester (Strike Back), Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon), and Stephanie Beacham (Dracula A.D. 1972) also star.
Duchess follows Kirk’s no-nonsense Scarlett Monaghan and her rise from a working-class petty criminal to becoming a ruthless organized crime leader in the seedy underbelly of the diamond smuggling circuit of Tenerife.
Marshall and Kirk co-penned the screenplay, with Emily Corcoran of Cork Films and Kristyna Sellnerova as producers.
Joe Simpson, Simon Williams, Jonathan Bross and Matthew E. Chausse of Ashland Hill Media Finance and Norman Merry and Peter Hampden of Lip Sync executive-produced along with Jon Dean,...
Post production recently wrapped with Ppp screening for buyers at the Cannes market next week.
Duchess stars Charlotte Kirk (Vice) in the titular role as she navigates the world of diamond smuggling. Philip Winchester (Strike Back), Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon), and Stephanie Beacham (Dracula A.D. 1972) also star.
Duchess follows Kirk’s no-nonsense Scarlett Monaghan and her rise from a working-class petty criminal to becoming a ruthless organized crime leader in the seedy underbelly of the diamond smuggling circuit of Tenerife.
Marshall and Kirk co-penned the screenplay, with Emily Corcoran of Cork Films and Kristyna Sellnerova as producers.
Joe Simpson, Simon Williams, Jonathan Bross and Matthew E. Chausse of Ashland Hill Media Finance and Norman Merry and Peter Hampden of Lip Sync executive-produced along with Jon Dean,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the road-trip comedy The Nan Movie, written by Catherine Tate (The Office) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), with plans for a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release this July.
The film will serve as the origin story of Joannie Taylor aka Nan—the foul-mouthed grandmother character first introduced by Tate on her multi-award-winning BBC series, The Catherine Tate Show. It follows Nan as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her long-suffering grandson Jamie (Mathew Horne) to make amends with her estranged and dying sister Nell (Katherine Parkinson). Through a series of flashbacks, we see the young sisters fall in love with the same handsome GI during World War 2 and how the consequences of this love triangle shaped Nan into the cantankerous old b*****d she is today. Militant vegan arsonists, Australian rugby teams, all-night raves and...
The film will serve as the origin story of Joannie Taylor aka Nan—the foul-mouthed grandmother character first introduced by Tate on her multi-award-winning BBC series, The Catherine Tate Show. It follows Nan as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her long-suffering grandson Jamie (Mathew Horne) to make amends with her estranged and dying sister Nell (Katherine Parkinson). Through a series of flashbacks, we see the young sisters fall in love with the same handsome GI during World War 2 and how the consequences of this love triangle shaped Nan into the cantankerous old b*****d she is today. Militant vegan arsonists, Australian rugby teams, all-night raves and...
- 6/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s film is produced by Mike Elliott and McShane.
Altitude has boarded international sales on Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s thriller American Star led by Ian McShane, with the film completing production on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura.
Screen can reveal a first-look image of the film, above; Altitude will introduce it to buyers during Cannes.
American Star follows an assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck; and when the target returns, everything has changed.
Altitude has boarded international sales on Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s thriller American Star led by Ian McShane, with the film completing production on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura.
Screen can reveal a first-look image of the film, above; Altitude will introduce it to buyers during Cannes.
American Star follows an assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck; and when the target returns, everything has changed.
- 5/5/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cast has been finalized on Borderland, the long-gestating thriller set on the paranoid streets of 1970s London.
Confirmed as starring are Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You) and Colin Morgan (Belfast), who lead an ensemble cast featuring Felicity Jones (Rogue One), Mark Strong (1917), Sophia Brown (The Witcher: Blood Origin) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers: Endgame).
The project is now shooting in Glasgow. Sky has boarded the pic and will release on Sky Cinema in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2022; theatrical releases will take place outside of those markets, including in the U.S., the film team said.
Borderland is written by Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett and the Guard Brothers, Tom and Charles, who are helming.
Previously iterations of the movie were set to star the likes of John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Jamie Dornan and Sam Claflin.
The project is an Upper Street, Stylopic, A Piecrust and Highland Midgie Production,...
Confirmed as starring are Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You) and Colin Morgan (Belfast), who lead an ensemble cast featuring Felicity Jones (Rogue One), Mark Strong (1917), Sophia Brown (The Witcher: Blood Origin) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers: Endgame).
The project is now shooting in Glasgow. Sky has boarded the pic and will release on Sky Cinema in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2022; theatrical releases will take place outside of those markets, including in the U.S., the film team said.
Borderland is written by Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett and the Guard Brothers, Tom and Charles, who are helming.
Previously iterations of the movie were set to star the likes of John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Jamie Dornan and Sam Claflin.
The project is an Upper Street, Stylopic, A Piecrust and Highland Midgie Production,...
- 4/12/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Distributor sets June day-and-date release.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights from UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures to Livia De Paolis’s Peter Pan-inspired fantasy The Lost Girls heading into the online EFM.
Myriad Pictures will represent international rights on the film at the market. Vertical plans a day-and-date US release on June 17. Photon Films will release the film in Canada and Altitude is releasing in the UK.
Paolis wrote and directed the film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. De Paolis stars alongside Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith and Iain Glen.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights from UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures to Livia De Paolis’s Peter Pan-inspired fantasy The Lost Girls heading into the online EFM.
Myriad Pictures will represent international rights on the film at the market. Vertical plans a day-and-date US release on June 17. Photon Films will release the film in Canada and Altitude is releasing in the UK.
Paolis wrote and directed the film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. De Paolis stars alongside Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith and Iain Glen.
- 1/27/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has snapped up North American rights to Terence Davies’ well-received TIFF and London Film Festival drama Benediction.
Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) stars as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon, alongside Peter Capaldi, Geraldine James, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Calam Lynch, Anton Lesser, Jeremy Irvine, Ben Daniels, Lia Williams, Jude Akuwudike, Suzanne Bertish and Simon Russell Beale.
Following its world premiere at TIFF and its berth at San Sebastian where it won the Jury Prize, the film is debuting in the UK tonight at the London Film Festival.
Roadside, which struck the deal with UK sales firm Bankside, plans to release the film theatrically in spring 2022.
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Davies, the biopic explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Sassoon. The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became...
Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) stars as WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon, alongside Peter Capaldi, Geraldine James, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Calam Lynch, Anton Lesser, Jeremy Irvine, Ben Daniels, Lia Williams, Jude Akuwudike, Suzanne Bertish and Simon Russell Beale.
Following its world premiere at TIFF and its berth at San Sebastian where it won the Jury Prize, the film is debuting in the UK tonight at the London Film Festival.
Roadside, which struck the deal with UK sales firm Bankside, plans to release the film theatrically in spring 2022.
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Davies, the biopic explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Sassoon. The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became...
- 10/15/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi star in Siegfried Sassoon biopic.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction from UK sales outfit Bankside Films, ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Vertigo has also secured rights for Australia and New Zealand, where Rialto Distribution will handle the feature as part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies. A wide theatrical release is being planned for early 2022.
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden plays First World War poet and soldier Sassoon in the period drama, which...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction from UK sales outfit Bankside Films, ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Vertigo has also secured rights for Australia and New Zealand, where Rialto Distribution will handle the feature as part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies. A wide theatrical release is being planned for early 2022.
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden plays First World War poet and soldier Sassoon in the period drama, which...
- 9/6/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi star in Siegfried Sassoon biopic.
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction from UK sales outfit Bankside Films, ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Vertigo has also secured rights for Australia and New Zealand, where Rialto Distribution will handle the feature as part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies. A wide theatrical release is being planned for early 2022.
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden plays First World War poet and soldier Sassoon in the period drama, which...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction from UK sales outfit Bankside Films, ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Vertigo has also secured rights for Australia and New Zealand, where Rialto Distribution will handle the feature as part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies. A wide theatrical release is being planned for early 2022.
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden plays First World War poet and soldier Sassoon in the period drama, which...
- 9/6/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
UK indie ‘Kindling’ Gears Up
Exclusive: George Somner (Sex Education), Conrad Khan (County Lines) and Wilson Mbomio (The Witcher) are leading the cast of Kindling, an indie feature now shooting in the UK. Connor O’Hara wrote and is directing the pic. Producers are Lowkey Films’ Jamie Gamache and Lipsync Productions’ Mark Foligno. Executive Producers include Andrew & Terry Loveday (Haymarket Films), Norman Merry and Peter Hampden (Lipsync Productions) and Rachel Warren and Carl Shepherd (Hyprr Films). Pic is based on director O’Hara’s own experience of losing two friends within two days of each other at the age of 21. Also starring are Mia McKenna Bruce (Persuasion), Rory J Saper (Find Me in Paris), Kaine Zajaz (Our Girl), with Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Tara Fitzgerald (Game of Thrones). “To have spent the last six years finessing and growing with this script, it feels incredible to have a cast...
Exclusive: George Somner (Sex Education), Conrad Khan (County Lines) and Wilson Mbomio (The Witcher) are leading the cast of Kindling, an indie feature now shooting in the UK. Connor O’Hara wrote and is directing the pic. Producers are Lowkey Films’ Jamie Gamache and Lipsync Productions’ Mark Foligno. Executive Producers include Andrew & Terry Loveday (Haymarket Films), Norman Merry and Peter Hampden (Lipsync Productions) and Rachel Warren and Carl Shepherd (Hyprr Films). Pic is based on director O’Hara’s own experience of losing two friends within two days of each other at the age of 21. Also starring are Mia McKenna Bruce (Persuasion), Rory J Saper (Find Me in Paris), Kaine Zajaz (Our Girl), with Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Tara Fitzgerald (Game of Thrones). “To have spent the last six years finessing and growing with this script, it feels incredible to have a cast...
- 8/6/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: German sales firm Beta Cinema has revealed multiple deals for BIFA-nominated psychological-thriller Kindred.
The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland, Signature Entertainment for Australia/New Zealand and South Africa, Imagine Film for Benelux, Russian World Vision for Cis and Empire Networks for the Middle East. Beta will continue sales at the upcoming virtual EFM.
In Kindred, plagued by mysterious hallucinations, a pregnant woman suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has bad intentions for her unborn child.
Directed by Joe Marcantonio, the film was previously released by IFC Midnight in the U.S. Actor Lowden and producer Dominic Norris (Modern Life Is Rubbish) produce through their recently-launched Scotland-based production banner Reiver Pictures.
Also among cast are Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit) and Edward Holcroft...
The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland, Signature Entertainment for Australia/New Zealand and South Africa, Imagine Film for Benelux, Russian World Vision for Cis and Empire Networks for the Middle East. Beta will continue sales at the upcoming virtual EFM.
In Kindred, plagued by mysterious hallucinations, a pregnant woman suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has bad intentions for her unborn child.
Directed by Joe Marcantonio, the film was previously released by IFC Midnight in the U.S. Actor Lowden and producer Dominic Norris (Modern Life Is Rubbish) produce through their recently-launched Scotland-based production banner Reiver Pictures.
Also among cast are Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit) and Edward Holcroft...
- 2/19/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment have acquired North American rights to action-thriller Sas: Red Notice from Parabolic Pictures’ Laurence Malkin and former special-forces operator Andy McNab.
The film is based on McNab’s bestselling novel and stars Sam Heughan (Outlander), Ruby Rose (Batwoman), Andy Serkis (Black Panther), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Noel Clarke (Bulletproof) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton).
The film follows Tom Buckingham, a suspended special forces operator, who is taking Dr. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, heavily armed mercenaries, led by Grace Lewis, seize control of it and hold everyone hostage. Grace threatens to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its fair share of secrets to keep. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Buckingham is the only...
The film is based on McNab’s bestselling novel and stars Sam Heughan (Outlander), Ruby Rose (Batwoman), Andy Serkis (Black Panther), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Noel Clarke (Bulletproof) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton).
The film follows Tom Buckingham, a suspended special forces operator, who is taking Dr. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, heavily armed mercenaries, led by Grace Lewis, seize control of it and hold everyone hostage. Grace threatens to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its fair share of secrets to keep. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Buckingham is the only...
- 2/17/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut “Falling” that premiered at Sundance back in January has finally landed U.S. distribution and will be released by Perceval Pictures and Quiver Distribution in February 2021. It will qualify for 2020 awards consideration.
Mortensen also stars in “Falling” based on his own script, and the film will be released in theaters, on digital and on-demand beginning February 5. You can also check out a new trailer for the film above.
“Falling” stars Laura Linney, Lance Henriksen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason and Hannah Gross and is the story of a man caring for his father suffering from dementia, relocating the conservative, traditional man to be with his family in the more liberal California. Here’s the full synopsis:
“Falling” follows John (Mortensen) who lives with his partner, Eric (Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago.
Mortensen also stars in “Falling” based on his own script, and the film will be released in theaters, on digital and on-demand beginning February 5. You can also check out a new trailer for the film above.
“Falling” stars Laura Linney, Lance Henriksen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason and Hannah Gross and is the story of a man caring for his father suffering from dementia, relocating the conservative, traditional man to be with his family in the more liberal California. Here’s the full synopsis:
“Falling” follows John (Mortensen) who lives with his partner, Eric (Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago.
- 12/8/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Terence Davies’ (A Quiet Passion) Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction has wrapped in the UK, with joining cast including Geraldine James (Downton Abbey), Kate Phillips (Downton Abbey), Gemma Jones (Ammonite), Anton Lesser (Game Of Thrones), Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Ben Daniels (The Crown), Lia Williams (The Crown), Jude Akuwudike (Gangs Of London), Suzanne Bertish (Atlantic Crossing), Simon Russell Beale (The Death Of Stalin) and newcomer Callum Lynch.
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden leads cast as WWI poet and soldier Sassoon. As we previously revealed, Peter Capaldi will play Sassoon in his later years.
The film, which had to go on a lengthy hiatus caused by the pandemic, has wrapped on locations in the West Midlands. Bankside has world sales rights and will be showing a promo to buyers at the upcoming AFM.
Sassoon was decorated for bravery on the Western Front and is remembered for his...
Dunkirk and Fighting With My Family star Jack Lowden leads cast as WWI poet and soldier Sassoon. As we previously revealed, Peter Capaldi will play Sassoon in his later years.
The film, which had to go on a lengthy hiatus caused by the pandemic, has wrapped on locations in the West Midlands. Bankside has world sales rights and will be showing a promo to buyers at the upcoming AFM.
Sassoon was decorated for bravery on the Western Front and is remembered for his...
- 11/2/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
MGM has bought the Johnny Depp drama “Minamata” and has set an awards-season release of Feb. 5, 2021, through its revived American International Pictures label.
MGM also acquired all rights to “Minamata” in Canada, Germany and Switzerland. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Set in 1971, Depp portrays photojournalist Eugene Smith, who’s become a recluse and disconnected from the world he once shot. After receiving one final assignment from Life Magazine editor Robert Hayes (played by Bill Nighy), he must travel to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, which has been ravaged by mercury poisoning. Assisted by an impassioned Japanese translator and encouraged by local villagers, his powerful images expose decades of gross negligence by the country’s Chisso Corporation.
“Minamata” also stars Jun Kunimura, Ryo Kase, Tadanobu Asano and Akiko Iwase. Andrew Levitas directed the film from a screenplay by Levitas, David K. Kessler, Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman.
MGM also acquired all rights to “Minamata” in Canada, Germany and Switzerland. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Set in 1971, Depp portrays photojournalist Eugene Smith, who’s become a recluse and disconnected from the world he once shot. After receiving one final assignment from Life Magazine editor Robert Hayes (played by Bill Nighy), he must travel to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, which has been ravaged by mercury poisoning. Assisted by an impassioned Japanese translator and encouraged by local villagers, his powerful images expose decades of gross negligence by the country’s Chisso Corporation.
“Minamata” also stars Jun Kunimura, Ryo Kase, Tadanobu Asano and Akiko Iwase. Andrew Levitas directed the film from a screenplay by Levitas, David K. Kessler, Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman.
- 10/30/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
MGM has acquired “Minamata” starring Johnny Depp that will be released by MGM’s American International Pictures (Aip) label on Feb. 5, 2021, according to an individual with knowledge of the project. Additionally, MGM also acquired all rights to “Minamata” in Canada, Germany and Switzerland
The film received its World Premiere as a Berlinale Special Gala as part of the Berlin International Film Festival 2020. Depp received some of the best reviews of his career for portraying photojournalist Eugene Smith.
Per the film’s description, inspired by a true story, Depp plays W. Eugene Smith, a war photographer from World War II, who in 1971, goes up against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse, disconnected from society and his career. But an old friend and a commission from “Life Magazine” editor Ralph Graves...
The film received its World Premiere as a Berlinale Special Gala as part of the Berlin International Film Festival 2020. Depp received some of the best reviews of his career for portraying photojournalist Eugene Smith.
Per the film’s description, inspired by a true story, Depp plays W. Eugene Smith, a war photographer from World War II, who in 1971, goes up against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse, disconnected from society and his career. But an old friend and a commission from “Life Magazine” editor Ralph Graves...
- 10/30/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: MGM has acquired the Johnny Depp-starrer Minamata, through its American International Pictures label. The Andrew Levitas-directed drama has been set for a February 5 release, dropping into the extended awards season as a theatrical and day and date PVOD release. The film made its world premiere during the Berlin International Film Festival last February. In addition to U.S. rights, MGM acquired Canada, Germany and Switzerland.
While the recent focus on Depp has come for all the wrong reasons in a libel case he pressed against the Rupert Murdoch British tabloid The Sun for calling him a “wife beater” (a court ruling is expected Monday), this is a chance for the focus to swing back to his chameleonic screen work.
In a drama inspired by a true story, Depp plays Eugene Smith, a famed photojournalist who has disconnected from the world but takes a final assignment from his...
While the recent focus on Depp has come for all the wrong reasons in a libel case he pressed against the Rupert Murdoch British tabloid The Sun for calling him a “wife beater” (a court ruling is expected Monday), this is a chance for the focus to swing back to his chameleonic screen work.
In a drama inspired by a true story, Depp plays Eugene Smith, a famed photojournalist who has disconnected from the world but takes a final assignment from his...
- 10/30/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Livia De Paolis directs female take on Peter Pan story.
Myriad Pictures has completed principal photography in the UK on TIFF sales title The Lost Girls starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Iain Glen.
Livia De Paolis is directing the female take on the Peter Pan story and adapted the screenplay from Laurie Fox’s novel.
Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith round out the ensemble cast on the adventure about four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adventures with Peter Pan (Partridge) in Neverland.
Like her grandmother (Redgrave...
Myriad Pictures has completed principal photography in the UK on TIFF sales title The Lost Girls starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Iain Glen.
Livia De Paolis is directing the female take on the Peter Pan story and adapted the screenplay from Laurie Fox’s novel.
Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith round out the ensemble cast on the adventure about four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adventures with Peter Pan (Partridge) in Neverland.
Like her grandmother (Redgrave...
- 9/8/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
IFC has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Kindred, with plans to release the film this November:
From the Press Release: IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to Kindred, directed by Joe Marcantonio and produced by Dominic Norris & Jack Lowden of Reiver Pictures. Kindred explores themes of control and a young woman’s struggle with the slow breakdown of her own sense of reality in this twisted psychological drama, with a screenplay by Marcantonio and Jason McColgan. The film stars a breakout performance by Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), and Edward Holcroft. John Keville & Morgan Bushe of Fastnet Films serve as Executive Producers alongside Norman Merry & Peter Hampden of Lipsync Productions, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films, Serotonin Films and Gareth Wiley. IFC Midnight will release the film on November 6th, 2020. When her...
From the Press Release: IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to Kindred, directed by Joe Marcantonio and produced by Dominic Norris & Jack Lowden of Reiver Pictures. Kindred explores themes of control and a young woman’s struggle with the slow breakdown of her own sense of reality in this twisted psychological drama, with a screenplay by Marcantonio and Jason McColgan. The film stars a breakout performance by Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), and Edward Holcroft. John Keville & Morgan Bushe of Fastnet Films serve as Executive Producers alongside Norman Merry & Peter Hampden of Lipsync Productions, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films, Serotonin Films and Gareth Wiley. IFC Midnight will release the film on November 6th, 2020. When her...
- 7/31/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: IFC Midnight we have learned has acquired North American rights to the Joe Marcantonio psychological drama Kindred which they’re planning to open on Nov. 6.
Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her...
Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her...
- 7/29/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Beta Cinema handles international sales
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Joe Marcantonio’s psychological drama Kindred and has set a November 6 release.
Beta Cinema handles international sales on the story of a pregnant women who is taken into care by the overbearing family of her recently deceased boyfriend.
Unsure whether the family mean harm or if she is succumbing to strange visions, she plots her escape.
Tamara Lawrance stars with Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw, and Edward Holcroft.
Marcantonio and Jason McColgan co-wrote the screenplay. Dominic Norris and Lowden of Reiver Pictures produced.
John Keville and Morgan Bushe...
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Joe Marcantonio’s psychological drama Kindred and has set a November 6 release.
Beta Cinema handles international sales on the story of a pregnant women who is taken into care by the overbearing family of her recently deceased boyfriend.
Unsure whether the family mean harm or if she is succumbing to strange visions, she plots her escape.
Tamara Lawrance stars with Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw, and Edward Holcroft.
Marcantonio and Jason McColgan co-wrote the screenplay. Dominic Norris and Lowden of Reiver Pictures produced.
John Keville and Morgan Bushe...
- 7/29/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Commercial director returns to post-production house after four years at UK studio.
Andrew Boswell has stepped down as commercial director of the UK’s Twickenham Studios and returned to post-production house LipSync Post.
Boswell spent four years at Twickenham, heading up the London studio’s sales team and leading the company’s move into film and high-end TV drama financing. The studios were acquired earlier this year in a £50m deal.
His appointment as commercial director of LipSync marks a return to the company, having previously spent four years at the London-based post house before joining Twickenham Studios.
Boswell will...
Andrew Boswell has stepped down as commercial director of the UK’s Twickenham Studios and returned to post-production house LipSync Post.
Boswell spent four years at Twickenham, heading up the London studio’s sales team and leading the company’s move into film and high-end TV drama financing. The studios were acquired earlier this year in a £50m deal.
His appointment as commercial director of LipSync marks a return to the company, having previously spent four years at the London-based post house before joining Twickenham Studios.
Boswell will...
- 6/10/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Archive, the sci-fi pic starring Theo James that was to have its world premiere at SXSW before the festival was shuttered due to the coronavirus lockdown. Gavin Rothery wrote and directed the film, which Vertical said Wednesday it is aiming for a July 10 day-and-date release in theaters.
The film is set in 2038, where George Almore (James) is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife. Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) co-stars, with the cast including Rhona Mitra and Toby Jones.
London-based production and sales outfit Independent produced the film, with Philip Herd and Cora Palfrey producers along with James. Executive producers are Luc Roeg, Sarah Lebutsch, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Norman Merry,...
The film is set in 2038, where George Almore (James) is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife. Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) co-stars, with the cast including Rhona Mitra and Toby Jones.
London-based production and sales outfit Independent produced the film, with Philip Herd and Cora Palfrey producers along with James. Executive producers are Luc Roeg, Sarah Lebutsch, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Norman Merry,...
- 4/30/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Siegfried Sassoon biopic to begin shooting next month.
Bankside Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic Benediction, which will see Jack Lowden star as First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon.
The London-based sales agent will be introducing the project to buyers for the first time at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin this week.
Shooting is set to begin in March in the West Midlands on the film, which will explore the turbulent life of Sassoon – a war poet who survived the horrors of the Western Front and was decorated for his bravery but who...
Bankside Films has taken worldwide sales rights to Terence Davies’ upcoming biopic Benediction, which will see Jack Lowden star as First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon.
The London-based sales agent will be introducing the project to buyers for the first time at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin this week.
Shooting is set to begin in March in the West Midlands on the film, which will explore the turbulent life of Sassoon – a war poet who survived the horrors of the Western Front and was decorated for his bravery but who...
- 2/21/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Tom Hughes stars as Graves alongside Dianna Agron and Laura Haddock.
UK outfit Metro International is handling sales at the Efm on The Laureate, which finished shooting last week.
Set in the mid-1920s, the period drama directed by William Nunez is the story of the complex love triangle between wartime poet Robert Graves, his wife Nancy and the young poet, Laura Riding, who became both Graves’ muse and his lover.
Tom Hughes plays Graves while Dianna Agron is cast as Laura and Laura Haddock as Nancy. Metro has all rights excluding North America, which is handled by CAA.
The...
UK outfit Metro International is handling sales at the Efm on The Laureate, which finished shooting last week.
Set in the mid-1920s, the period drama directed by William Nunez is the story of the complex love triangle between wartime poet Robert Graves, his wife Nancy and the young poet, Laura Riding, who became both Graves’ muse and his lover.
Tom Hughes plays Graves while Dianna Agron is cast as Laura and Laura Haddock as Nancy. Metro has all rights excluding North America, which is handled by CAA.
The...
- 2/20/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan co-stars in the project, directed by Gillies MacKinnon.
Screen can reveal the first image from new Gillies MacKinnon drama, The Last Bus, starring Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) and Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan.
The film tells the story of widower Tom (Spall) who, on the recent passing of his wife Mary (Logan), uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O’Groats in Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. His encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon, though Tom is...
Screen can reveal the first image from new Gillies MacKinnon drama, The Last Bus, starring Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) and Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan.
The film tells the story of widower Tom (Spall) who, on the recent passing of his wife Mary (Logan), uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O’Groats in Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. His encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon, though Tom is...
- 11/7/2019
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The film, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, is produced by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter at Hurricane Films
Thierry Wase-Bailey’s Celsius Entertainment has closed multiple pre-sales on its new Gillies MacKinnon drama, The Last Bus, starring Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) and Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan
The film, produced by by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter at Hurricane Films, has gone to Australia/Nz (Roadshow), Spain (DEA Planeta), UK and Ireland (Parkland Entertainment), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (L.D.H), Greece/Cyprus (Odeon), Airlines (Jaguar), Canada (MK2 Mile End) and Gravel Road (South Africa).
The Last Bus, which starts shooting this week,...
Thierry Wase-Bailey’s Celsius Entertainment has closed multiple pre-sales on its new Gillies MacKinnon drama, The Last Bus, starring Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) and Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan
The film, produced by by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter at Hurricane Films, has gone to Australia/Nz (Roadshow), Spain (DEA Planeta), UK and Ireland (Parkland Entertainment), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (L.D.H), Greece/Cyprus (Odeon), Airlines (Jaguar), Canada (MK2 Mile End) and Gravel Road (South Africa).
The Last Bus, which starts shooting this week,...
- 10/8/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Roadside Attractions has teamed with Screen Media for the North American distribution rights to Hope Gap, a family drama starring Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, and Josh O’Connor. Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson directed the film, which will be released in theaters sometime next year.
Hope Gap details the life of a woman, shocked to learn her husband is leaving her for another after 29 years of marriage, and the ensuing emotional fallout the dissolution has on their only grown son, until she ultimately regains her footing, and discovers a new, powerful voice.
The pic, which is based on Nicholson’s Tony Award-nominated play, The Retreat From Moscow, was produced by David M Thompson of Origin Pictures and Sarada McDermott.
Roadside and Screen Media acquired the rights from CAA Media Finance and Protagonist, who has already sold to film in key international territories like Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud...
Hope Gap details the life of a woman, shocked to learn her husband is leaving her for another after 29 years of marriage, and the ensuing emotional fallout the dissolution has on their only grown son, until she ultimately regains her footing, and discovers a new, powerful voice.
The pic, which is based on Nicholson’s Tony Award-nominated play, The Retreat From Moscow, was produced by David M Thompson of Origin Pictures and Sarada McDermott.
Roadside and Screen Media acquired the rights from CAA Media Finance and Protagonist, who has already sold to film in key international territories like Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud...
- 5/9/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Roadside Attractions and Screen Media have acquired North American rights to “Hope Gap,” a family drama from Oscar nominee William Nicholson starring Annette Bening, Roadside co-founders Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff and Screen Media’s Seth Needle jointly announced Thursday.
Roadside and Screen Media acquired the rights from Protagonist and CAA Media Finance. The distributors will release “Hope Gap” in 2020, and levelFILM will distribute in Canada.
Bening stars in “Hope Gap” alongside Bill Nighy and Josh O’Connor in an adaptation of Nicholson’s play “The Retreat From Moscow.” “Hope Gap” is the story of a woman who learns her husband is leaving her for another woman after 29 years of marriage. It charts the emotional fallout experienced by their grown son and how the woman regains her footing and discovers a new voice.
Also Read: 'All My Sons' Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the...
Roadside and Screen Media acquired the rights from Protagonist and CAA Media Finance. The distributors will release “Hope Gap” in 2020, and levelFILM will distribute in Canada.
Bening stars in “Hope Gap” alongside Bill Nighy and Josh O’Connor in an adaptation of Nicholson’s play “The Retreat From Moscow.” “Hope Gap” is the story of a woman who learns her husband is leaving her for another woman after 29 years of marriage. It charts the emotional fallout experienced by their grown son and how the woman regains her footing and discovers a new voice.
Also Read: 'All My Sons' Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the...
- 5/9/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Protagonist licenses to Curzon in UK, Tobis in Germany/Austria, among others.
Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights with Screen Media to William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap starring Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, and BAFTA winner Josh O’Connor.
Roadside and Screen Media acquired rights from Protagonist and CAA Media Finance, and the distributors are planning a theatrical release in 2020. The film will be distributed by levelFILM in Canada.
Based on Nicholson’s Tony Award-nominated play The Retreat From Moscow, Hope Gap charts the life of a woman who is shocked to learn her husband is leaving her...
Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights with Screen Media to William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap starring Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, and BAFTA winner Josh O’Connor.
Roadside and Screen Media acquired rights from Protagonist and CAA Media Finance, and the distributors are planning a theatrical release in 2020. The film will be distributed by levelFILM in Canada.
Based on Nicholson’s Tony Award-nominated play The Retreat From Moscow, Hope Gap charts the life of a woman who is shocked to learn her husband is leaving her...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The sleepy Japanese town of Minamata was the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters when it was poisoned by mercury in the 1970s. It was also the setting for a groundbreaking international treaty designed to control use of the deadly metal.
U.K. sales agent HanWay Films will use its platform at FilMart to unveil updates on “Minamata,” its drama-thriller about the celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith. His images from the toxic town gave the eco-disaster a heartbreaking human dimension, and put reckless big business on front pages around the world.
Johnny Depp stars as Smith, a colorful character who was a celebrated WWII photographer and later became close to jazz great Thelonious Monk. Smith ventured to Minamata near the end of his life, accompanied by his Japanese wife Aileen Mioko Smith.
“At that point, Gene [Smith] was about to give up. He wasn’t sure it was worth it,...
U.K. sales agent HanWay Films will use its platform at FilMart to unveil updates on “Minamata,” its drama-thriller about the celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith. His images from the toxic town gave the eco-disaster a heartbreaking human dimension, and put reckless big business on front pages around the world.
Johnny Depp stars as Smith, a colorful character who was a celebrated WWII photographer and later became close to jazz great Thelonious Monk. Smith ventured to Minamata near the end of his life, accompanied by his Japanese wife Aileen Mioko Smith.
“At that point, Gene [Smith] was about to give up. He wasn’t sure it was worth it,...
- 3/19/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Principal Photography has begun on Minamata, directed by filmmaker, writer, and acclaimed artist Andrew Levitas and starring three-time Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner Johnny Depp as celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith.
Bill Nighy has joined the cast of Minamata which will co-star Minami (Vision), acclaimed actor Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Kase, and Jun Kunimura. The famed Yôko Narahashi is the casting director on the film which is currently underway in locations in Japan, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Developed by Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil, Depp will also produce along with Infinitum Nihil’s Sam Sarkar, Levitas under his Metalwork Pictures banner and Academy Award® nominee Gabrielle Tana. Jason Forman, Stephen Deuters, Peter Watson, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Gabrielle Stewart, Stephen Spence, Peter Touche, Norman Merry and Peter Hampden will executive produce. Heads of department include César Award nominated cinematographer Benoit Delhomme, production designer Tom Foden and...
Bill Nighy has joined the cast of Minamata which will co-star Minami (Vision), acclaimed actor Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Kase, and Jun Kunimura. The famed Yôko Narahashi is the casting director on the film which is currently underway in locations in Japan, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Developed by Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil, Depp will also produce along with Infinitum Nihil’s Sam Sarkar, Levitas under his Metalwork Pictures banner and Academy Award® nominee Gabrielle Tana. Jason Forman, Stephen Deuters, Peter Watson, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Gabrielle Stewart, Stephen Spence, Peter Touche, Norman Merry and Peter Hampden will executive produce. Heads of department include César Award nominated cinematographer Benoit Delhomme, production designer Tom Foden and...
- 1/31/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Principal photography has begun on Andrew Levitas-directed feature Minamata starring Johnny Depp as celebrated U.S. photographer W. Eugene Smith. The production has released a first look at Depp.
Bill Nighy (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) has joined cast alongside Minami (Vision), Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame), Tadanobu Asano (Silence), Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo Jima), and Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2). Yôko Narahashi is casting director on the film which is currently underway in locations in Japan, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Based on the book by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith and adapted by David K. Kessler (A Hard Day’s Day), the true-story thriller pits Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people in Minamata, Japan in 1971.
Developed by Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil, Depp is producing with Infinitum Nihil’s Sam Sarkar, Levitas under his Metalwork Pictures banner and...
Bill Nighy (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) has joined cast alongside Minami (Vision), Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame), Tadanobu Asano (Silence), Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo Jima), and Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2). Yôko Narahashi is casting director on the film which is currently underway in locations in Japan, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Based on the book by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith and adapted by David K. Kessler (A Hard Day’s Day), the true-story thriller pits Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people in Minamata, Japan in 1971.
Developed by Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil, Depp is producing with Infinitum Nihil’s Sam Sarkar, Levitas under his Metalwork Pictures banner and...
- 1/31/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Gareth Ellis-Unwin among producers on Pennsylvania-set drama.
Shout! Studios has acquired North American Rights from Bankside Films to the thriller A Dark Place by Malice In Wonderland director Simon Fellows.
Shout! Studios plans to release the film across numerous entertainment platforms in 2019. Spectre and Sherlock actor Andrew Scott stars with Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough in the story of a garbage truck driver in Pennsylvania who takes it upon himself to find out why a young boy has been found dead in his small town.
Newcomer Brendan Higgins wrote the screenplay and Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Leon Clarance, Mark Williams, and Tai Duncan produced the Bedlam Film,...
Shout! Studios has acquired North American Rights from Bankside Films to the thriller A Dark Place by Malice In Wonderland director Simon Fellows.
Shout! Studios plans to release the film across numerous entertainment platforms in 2019. Spectre and Sherlock actor Andrew Scott stars with Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough in the story of a garbage truck driver in Pennsylvania who takes it upon himself to find out why a young boy has been found dead in his small town.
Newcomer Brendan Higgins wrote the screenplay and Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Leon Clarance, Mark Williams, and Tai Duncan produced the Bedlam Film,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Mark A. Silba
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: William Nicholson’s (Gladiator) drama Hope Gap, starring Annette Bening (American Beauty), Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country), has sold into key markets for UK sales firm Protagonist Pictures.
Deals have closed in Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud 9), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Scandinavia and Iceland (Sf Studios), China (Dd Dream), Japan (Kino Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Poland (M2), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Middle East (Front Row), Israel (Forum Films), Hungary (Cinetel) and Airlines/Ships (Eim). CAA co-reps North America.
Hope Gap, currently in final post-production, is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The acclaimed writer was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and further writing credits include Les Miserables, Breathe and Everest.
Hope Gap charts the unraveling of a marriage after 29 years and the impact on a family unit.
Deals have closed in Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud 9), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Scandinavia and Iceland (Sf Studios), China (Dd Dream), Japan (Kino Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Poland (M2), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Middle East (Front Row), Israel (Forum Films), Hungary (Cinetel) and Airlines/Ships (Eim). CAA co-reps North America.
Hope Gap, currently in final post-production, is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The acclaimed writer was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and further writing credits include Les Miserables, Breathe and Everest.
Hope Gap charts the unraveling of a marriage after 29 years and the impact on a family unit.
- 11/15/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has picked up Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, the story of a real-life Malawian boy named William Kamkwamba who built a windmill that helped save his village from famine.
The streamer acquired global rights to the film excluding Japan, China and U.K. free TV rights, and plans to launch the film worldwide next year — including in select theaters in the U.S. and U.K.
Ejiofor, the Oscar-nominated star of 12 Years a Slave, also co-stars and wrote the script, adapted from the best-selling book of the same name by Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
The film follows 13-year-old William Kamkwamba (newcomer Maxwell Simba) who is thrown out of the school he loves when his family can no longer afford the fees. Sneaking back into the school library, he...
The streamer acquired global rights to the film excluding Japan, China and U.K. free TV rights, and plans to launch the film worldwide next year — including in select theaters in the U.S. and U.K.
Ejiofor, the Oscar-nominated star of 12 Years a Slave, also co-stars and wrote the script, adapted from the best-selling book of the same name by Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
The film follows 13-year-old William Kamkwamba (newcomer Maxwell Simba) who is thrown out of the school he loves when his family can no longer afford the fees. Sneaking back into the school library, he...
- 11/14/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Netflix has picked up global rights (excluding Japan, China and UK free TV rights) to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s (12 Year’s A Slave) directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind.
Ejiofor scripted the British film, which is based on the book of the same name by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Maxwell Simba stars with Ejiofor in the Malawi-shot story about a boy who can’t afford to go to school but dreams of building a windmill to save his village from famine.
Potboiler’s Andrea Calderwood and Gail Egan produce; executive producers including Joe Oppenheimer, Rose Garnett, Natascha Wharton, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Peter Hampden and Norman Merry.
The film will launch in 2019 on Netflix and in select cinemas in the U.S. and UK. Backing came from BFI and BBC Films with Head Gear, Metrol Technology and LipSync, in partnership with Participant Media. Cornerstone was the international sales agent.
Ejiofor scripted the British film, which is based on the book of the same name by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Maxwell Simba stars with Ejiofor in the Malawi-shot story about a boy who can’t afford to go to school but dreams of building a windmill to save his village from famine.
Potboiler’s Andrea Calderwood and Gail Egan produce; executive producers including Joe Oppenheimer, Rose Garnett, Natascha Wharton, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Peter Hampden and Norman Merry.
The film will launch in 2019 on Netflix and in select cinemas in the U.S. and UK. Backing came from BFI and BBC Films with Head Gear, Metrol Technology and LipSync, in partnership with Participant Media. Cornerstone was the international sales agent.
- 11/14/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent handles international sales.
IFC Films has picked up Us rights to the Patricia Clarkson detective noir Out Of Blue following its recent world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
Carol Morley wrote and directed the Martin Amis adaptation about a New Orleans homicide detective who investigates the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert in a case that shakes her view of the universe and herself.
Rounding out the key cast are Mamie Gummer, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, and Toby Jones. Independent handles international sales. IFC FIlms plans a 2019 theatrical release.
Luc Roeg, Cairo Cannon, and Maggie Monteith produced.
IFC Films has picked up Us rights to the Patricia Clarkson detective noir Out Of Blue following its recent world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
Carol Morley wrote and directed the Martin Amis adaptation about a New Orleans homicide detective who investigates the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert in a case that shakes her view of the universe and herself.
Rounding out the key cast are Mamie Gummer, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, and Toby Jones. Independent handles international sales. IFC FIlms plans a 2019 theatrical release.
Luc Roeg, Cairo Cannon, and Maggie Monteith produced.
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: IFC Films has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Out Of Blue. The Carol Morley written and directed crime drama had its premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and will be released in theaters sometime next year. Patricia Clarkson (The Green Mile), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), James Caan (Misery), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Mamie Gummer (End Of Tour) star.
Based on the novel by Martin Amis, the story follows a New Orleans homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Clarkson) as she investigates the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert Jennifer Rockwell (Gummer). Mike is rarely affected by what she sees – but something about this scene affects her, flooding her senses and completely overwhelming her. As she gets deeper into the case, her quest for the truth completely shakes her view of the universe, and ultimately herself.
Luc Roeg, Cairo Cannon, and Maggie Monteith produced the pic.
Based on the novel by Martin Amis, the story follows a New Orleans homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Clarkson) as she investigates the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert Jennifer Rockwell (Gummer). Mike is rarely affected by what she sees – but something about this scene affects her, flooding her senses and completely overwhelming her. As she gets deeper into the case, her quest for the truth completely shakes her view of the universe, and ultimately herself.
Luc Roeg, Cairo Cannon, and Maggie Monteith produced the pic.
- 10/18/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“There’s much we can’t see, detect or comprehend, yet we spend our lives trying to get to the heart of this dark energy.” That’s the chilling threat at the start of the first clip (above) for Carol Morley’s Patricia Clarkson-fronted neo-noir detective drama Out of Blue.
The film, which is based on Martin Amis’ novel, plays in the Platform section of Tiff and premieres on Friday September 7 at 9:30pm in the Winter Garden Theater.
Clarkson plays Mike Hoolihan in the neo-noir metaphysical mystery. She’s a homicide detective called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell. But once on the case, she’s affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Toby Jones, Aaron Tveit, Mamie Gummer, Jonathan Majors and Devyn A Tyler also star in the crime drama from the helmer of The Falling.
The film, which is based on Martin Amis’ novel, plays in the Platform section of Tiff and premieres on Friday September 7 at 9:30pm in the Winter Garden Theater.
Clarkson plays Mike Hoolihan in the neo-noir metaphysical mystery. She’s a homicide detective called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell. But once on the case, she’s affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Toby Jones, Aaron Tveit, Mamie Gummer, Jonathan Majors and Devyn A Tyler also star in the crime drama from the helmer of The Falling.
- 9/6/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Project wrapped UK shoot earlier this month.
Screen can reveal the first look at Josh O’Connor, Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap for Origin Pictures.
Principal photography wrapped on the project earlier this month after shooting for five weeks in the eponymous Hope Gap in Seaford, Sussex as well as in Leeds and Doncaster.
Hope Gap is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight with Sophie Marceau. He was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and his further writing credits include Breathe and Everest.
O’Connor, whose...
Screen can reveal the first look at Josh O’Connor, Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap for Origin Pictures.
Principal photography wrapped on the project earlier this month after shooting for five weeks in the eponymous Hope Gap in Seaford, Sussex as well as in Leeds and Doncaster.
Hope Gap is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight with Sophie Marceau. He was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and his further writing credits include Breathe and Everest.
O’Connor, whose...
- 8/17/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to the newlywed drama On Chesil Beach, starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle.
The Brooklyn Oscar nominee and the Dunkirk actor, respectively, play a newlywed couple who remained virgins until their wedding night. Their honeymoon retreat along the English seaside in 1962 becomes a challenge as they find themselves ill-equipped to consummate their marriage.
Former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke directed the adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel from the author's script. Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley produced, with Joe Oppenheimer, Thorsten Schumacher, Zygi Kamasa, Beth Pattinson, Chiara Gelardin, Norman Merry, Peter Hampden and Ian McEwan serving as executive producers.
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The Brooklyn Oscar nominee and the Dunkirk actor, respectively, play a newlywed couple who remained virgins until their wedding night. Their honeymoon retreat along the English seaside in 1962 becomes a challenge as they find themselves ill-equipped to consummate their marriage.
Former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke directed the adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel from the author's script. Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley produced, with Joe Oppenheimer, Thorsten Schumacher, Zygi Kamasa, Beth Pattinson, Chiara Gelardin, Norman Merry, Peter Hampden and Ian McEwan serving as executive producers.
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- 9/7/2017
- by Ashley Lee,Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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