“Hallelujah,” was the message from BFI Filmmaking Fund director Mia Bays as she took to the stage at Glasgow Film Festival on March 7, to celebrate the next generation of UK talent.
“[Representation] has transformed over the past few years,” said Bays, who pointed towards the post-Times Up and MeToo movements and the impact of BFI’s diversity and inclusion targets as part of what has helped drive the opportunity for new voices to break through.
“One of my favourite terms is ‘opportunity hoarding’. There are lots of people who just sat on those opportunities, who have kept them. All of those conversations have led to this.
“[Representation] has transformed over the past few years,” said Bays, who pointed towards the post-Times Up and MeToo movements and the impact of BFI’s diversity and inclusion targets as part of what has helped drive the opportunity for new voices to break through.
“One of my favourite terms is ‘opportunity hoarding’. There are lots of people who just sat on those opportunities, who have kept them. All of those conversations have led to this.
- 3/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Climate change has become the Go To dystopia for stories these days, each with an apocalyptic feel, showing little hope for humanity. Paramount released the film adaptation of Megan Hunter’s novel The End We Start From, the latest such installment, in December. Now available for streaming rental, the film, starring Jodie Comer, explores the aftermath of such a climate incident.
Water rushes from the skies, flooding ensures, and soon towns and cut off and cities can’t cope. England is submerged (the rest of the world’s fate is left up in the air) and the Woman (Comer), finds herself giving birth without any of the usual medical support. When we first see her, she’s in a bathtub as the rains fall outside so there’s no escape. The graphic birth shows the stakes she and her partner R (Joel Fry) face in not only their survival but of the infant.
Water rushes from the skies, flooding ensures, and soon towns and cut off and cities can’t cope. England is submerged (the rest of the world’s fate is left up in the air) and the Woman (Comer), finds herself giving birth without any of the usual medical support. When we first see her, she’s in a bathtub as the rains fall outside so there’s no escape. The graphic birth shows the stakes she and her partner R (Joel Fry) face in not only their survival but of the infant.
- 2/20/2024
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying to get a publisher to accept his latest book in a market that doesn’t exactly embrace his erudite style. His gig as a college professor lecturing to students that are too “goddamn delicate” to embrace thorny topics of race has him ostracized from colleagues. He’s estranged from family, all of whom are juggling their own issues––health problems, divorce, the financial strain that comes with both. When Monk concocts an elaborate joke to get more fame and acceptance, it’s taken shocking seriously, setting off a series of misadventures exploring how white America is more willing to accept the most reductive, pandering stories of Black...
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying to get a publisher to accept his latest book in a market that doesn’t exactly embrace his erudite style. His gig as a college professor lecturing to students that are too “goddamn delicate” to embrace thorny topics of race has him ostracized from colleagues. He’s estranged from family, all of whom are juggling their own issues––health problems, divorce, the financial strain that comes with both. When Monk concocts an elaborate joke to get more fame and acceptance, it’s taken shocking seriously, setting off a series of misadventures exploring how white America is more willing to accept the most reductive, pandering stories of Black...
- 2/9/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #379: ‘The End We Start From’ director Mahalia Belo...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #379: ‘The End We Start From’ director Mahalia Belo...
- 2/7/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: J.A. Bayona's "Society of the Snow" is an existential triumph, Jodie Comer delivers an unforgettable performance in "The End We Start From," and "Fallen Leaves" tells a timely love story amid war.)
The new year brings us the first installment of "Under the Radar" in 2024 and, with January having drawn to a close, it's worth looking back and taking stock of how no matter how much things change, the more things stay the same. You know how all our bright and optimistic New Year's resolutions are already aging like milk, despite our best intentions? Well, that's kind of like how Hollywood tends to approach the month of January -- except maybe without the "best intentions" part.
The new year brings us the first installment of "Under the Radar" in 2024 and, with January having drawn to a close, it's worth looking back and taking stock of how no matter how much things change, the more things stay the same. You know how all our bright and optimistic New Year's resolutions are already aging like milk, despite our best intentions? Well, that's kind of like how Hollywood tends to approach the month of January -- except maybe without the "best intentions" part.
- 2/5/2024
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Jan 26-28)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Mean Girls (Paramount) £1.5m £5.5m 2 2. Wonka (Warner Bros) £1m £59.8m 8 3. All Of Us Strangers (Disney) £1m £1.2m 1 4. Anyone But You (Sony) £817,810 £8.4m 5 5. Poor Things (Disney) £690,000 £5.1m 3
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Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers scored an excellent £1m opening at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend as Mean Girls held top spot.
Paramount’s Mean Girls added £1.5m – a 40% drop that was soft enough for a second weekend atop the charts. The musical comedy is now up to £5.5m, and will overtake the £5.7m total of...
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Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers scored an excellent £1m opening at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend as Mean Girls held top spot.
Paramount’s Mean Girls added £1.5m – a 40% drop that was soft enough for a second weekend atop the charts. The musical comedy is now up to £5.5m, and will overtake the £5.7m total of...
- 1/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Jan 19-21) Total gross to date Week 1. Mean Girls (Paramount) £2.5m £3.2m 1 2. Wonka (Warner Bros) £1.7m £58.4m 7 3. Poor Things (Disney) £1.1m £3.7m 2 4. Anyone But You (Sony) £1.1m £7m 4 5. One Life (Warner Bros) £857,500 £7.5m 3
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Paramount’s musical comedy Mean Girls has grossed £2.5m on its opening session, ending the six-week run of Wonka atop the UK-Ireland box office.
Playing in 647 sites, Mean Girls took a £3,864 location average. This is up on the £1.4m opening of the original Mean Girls from 2004, at a £3,829 average.
Directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.,...
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Paramount’s musical comedy Mean Girls has grossed £2.5m on its opening session, ending the six-week run of Wonka atop the UK-Ireland box office.
Playing in 647 sites, Mean Girls took a £3,864 location average. This is up on the £1.4m opening of the original Mean Girls from 2004, at a £3,829 average.
Directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.,...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Neon is opening Origin on 130 screens and plans to expand the Ava DuVernay film, which premiered in Venice and had a excellent qualifying run in December.
Neon took global rights on Origin before its Venice premiere where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and DuVernay became the first Black American woman to have a selection there. Deadline reported the film tested well with audiences, landing a 91 total positive in the top two boxes, with an 81 definite recommend, the highest for both Neon and DuVernay. With the theatrical release, the distributor is looking to pull in the arthouse and “smarthouse” (mainstream crossover) audiences and Black audiences with targeted bookings including theaters in regional markets like Atlanta, Chicago and Baltimore. It’s a hard film to comp but it is everywhere that recent films The Color Purple and American Fiction have done well.
Origin is based on New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Neon took global rights on Origin before its Venice premiere where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and DuVernay became the first Black American woman to have a selection there. Deadline reported the film tested well with audiences, landing a 91 total positive in the top two boxes, with an 81 definite recommend, the highest for both Neon and DuVernay. With the theatrical release, the distributor is looking to pull in the arthouse and “smarthouse” (mainstream crossover) audiences and Black audiences with targeted bookings including theaters in regional markets like Atlanta, Chicago and Baltimore. It’s a hard film to comp but it is everywhere that recent films The Color Purple and American Fiction have done well.
Origin is based on New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning...
- 1/19/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount musical Mean Girls launches in 647 cinemas at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, as it aims to end the six-week run of Wonka atop the chart.
From first-time feature directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., Mean Girls is based on the Broadway musical of the same name; which in turn was based on Mark Waters’ 2004 comedy; itself based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes.
Both films were written by Tina Fey, who reprises her role as maths teacher Ms. Norbury in the new title. Angourie Rice leads the film as teenager Cady Heron, who transfers...
From first-time feature directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., Mean Girls is based on the Broadway musical of the same name; which in turn was based on Mark Waters’ 2004 comedy; itself based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes.
Both films were written by Tina Fey, who reprises her role as maths teacher Ms. Norbury in the new title. Angourie Rice leads the film as teenager Cady Heron, who transfers...
- 1/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Comer plays a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her
Here is a post-apocalyptic drama of survival, a fiercely acted and unnerving real-time demonstration of law and order breaking down. It is all the more disturbing, credible and immediate in that, unlike other examples of genre, the narrative isn’t heading for an abyss of unknowable chaos. Rather, it envisions society’s grim normalisation of disaster and loss, an evolutionary leap downwards but one in which a kind of rebirth is not ruled out.
In contrast to the American post-apocalypse of John Hillcoat’s The Road, or the European apocalypse of Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf, this film is a very British world-ending – because the populace are unarmed, or mostly. First-time director Mahalia Belo and screenwriter Alice Birch (who has adapted the novel by Megan Hunter) may have taken...
Here is a post-apocalyptic drama of survival, a fiercely acted and unnerving real-time demonstration of law and order breaking down. It is all the more disturbing, credible and immediate in that, unlike other examples of genre, the narrative isn’t heading for an abyss of unknowable chaos. Rather, it envisions society’s grim normalisation of disaster and loss, an evolutionary leap downwards but one in which a kind of rebirth is not ruled out.
In contrast to the American post-apocalypse of John Hillcoat’s The Road, or the European apocalypse of Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf, this film is a very British world-ending – because the populace are unarmed, or mostly. First-time director Mahalia Belo and screenwriter Alice Birch (who has adapted the novel by Megan Hunter) may have taken...
- 1/17/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Warner Bros.’ “Wonka” continued its reign over the U.K. and Ireland box office with £2.2 million ($2.8 million), according to numbers from Comscore.
After six weekends at the box office, the Timothée Chalamet starrer has a sweet total of £56.1 million.
Disney’s Golden Globe-winning “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and featuring Emma Stone in a Golden Globe-winning performance, debuted with £1.8 million. In its third weekend, in third place, Sony’s “Anyone But You” collected £1,246,921 for a total of £5.3 million. Just below, with £1,246,292, in its second weekend, was Warner Bros.’ “One Life,” for a total of £5.8 million.
Rounding off the top five was Sky Cinema/Studiocanal release “The Beekeeper” with £956,380. The other debut in the top 10 was Warner Bros.’ “The Boys In The Boat” that bowed in 10th place with £270,297.
Among the new releases, opening mid-week on Jan. 17 is the keenly anticipated “Mean Girls,” starring Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp,...
After six weekends at the box office, the Timothée Chalamet starrer has a sweet total of £56.1 million.
Disney’s Golden Globe-winning “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and featuring Emma Stone in a Golden Globe-winning performance, debuted with £1.8 million. In its third weekend, in third place, Sony’s “Anyone But You” collected £1,246,921 for a total of £5.3 million. Just below, with £1,246,292, in its second weekend, was Warner Bros.’ “One Life,” for a total of £5.8 million.
Rounding off the top five was Sky Cinema/Studiocanal release “The Beekeeper” with £956,380. The other debut in the top 10 was Warner Bros.’ “The Boys In The Boat” that bowed in 10th place with £270,297.
Among the new releases, opening mid-week on Jan. 17 is the keenly anticipated “Mean Girls,” starring Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Jodie Comer was determined to give a "truthful" depiction of motherhood in 'The End We Start From'.The 30-year-old star plays the lead character in Mahalia Belo's survival thriller about a mother and her newborn baby fleeing flooded London after an ecological crisis and explained how it was essential that the challenges of being a new parent were portrayed accurately.Speaking to Digital Spy, Jodie – who does not have any children – said: "I think the biggest challenge, or what I really wanted to get right, was speaking to motherhood, making sure that it felt truthful. Especially when you read a script and within the first scene, it's a labour scene, and it's not quick, it's extensive."We wanted to be thorough with the depiction... I'm not a mother, so there are many instincts and knowledge that I didn't have, so it was about making sure that I kind of dealt with that.
- 1/16/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
In The End We Start From, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer plays a first-time mother attempting to find her way home with her newborn while an environmental crisis submerges London in floodwaters.
Produced by Benedict Cumberbatch through his SunnyMarch production company. the actor also plays a small role in this beautiful adaptation of Alice Birch’s best selling novel of the same name.
In the interview, Comer and Belo talk about the feminists themes broached by the film. We also chatted to Belo about the triumphant Gala premiere of her film during London Film Festival this last October.
The post The End We Start From Interview: Jodie Comer & director Mahalia Belo talk about the female camaraderie on set appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Produced by Benedict Cumberbatch through his SunnyMarch production company. the actor also plays a small role in this beautiful adaptation of Alice Birch’s best selling novel of the same name.
In the interview, Comer and Belo talk about the feminists themes broached by the film. We also chatted to Belo about the triumphant Gala premiere of her film during London Film Festival this last October.
The post The End We Start From Interview: Jodie Comer & director Mahalia Belo talk about the female camaraderie on set appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 1/15/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Actress Jodie Comer spent hours in freezing water and mired in studies on pregnancy for her latest tough role. The actress portrays a terrified new mum called only “Mother” in the upcoming apocalyptic climate change drama ‘The End We Start From’, who is desperately trying to keep her baby Zeb safe when she is forced to flee her London home amid disastrous flooding.
Its director Mahalia Belo said Comer, who doesn’t have any children, was happy to embrace the gruelling shoot, which involved braving sub-zero waters near Lochgilphead, in Argyll and Bute, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The filmmaker was quoted by the Sunday Mirror as saying: “It was freezing. We spoke to Jodie and she wanted to do it.”
“She’s a believer in truth and felt this is what the character would do. It was so beautiful and she just went for it,” the director additionally gushed over the actress.
Its director Mahalia Belo said Comer, who doesn’t have any children, was happy to embrace the gruelling shoot, which involved braving sub-zero waters near Lochgilphead, in Argyll and Bute, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The filmmaker was quoted by the Sunday Mirror as saying: “It was freezing. We spoke to Jodie and she wanted to do it.”
“She’s a believer in truth and felt this is what the character would do. It was so beautiful and she just went for it,” the director additionally gushed over the actress.
- 1/15/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
She’s played everything from a Russian assassin in Killing Eve to a care assistant in Help – and memorably sung Mariah Carey. Ask her anything
When it comes British cinema, 2024 couldn’t have got off to much more of a flying start than with the release of The End We Start From. It’s been adapted from the Megan Hunter novel by Alice Birch (who has written for Succession and Normal People). It’s directed by British director Mahalia Belo (who won a Bafta for her TV movie Ellen), and stars Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterson and Jodie Comer. Waterson and Comer were nominated for best lead and best supporting performances at last month’s British independent film awards.
In the film, a mother – played by Comer – and her baby abandon London after the capital suffers an epic flood. If you’re in any way a fan of Comer,...
When it comes British cinema, 2024 couldn’t have got off to much more of a flying start than with the release of The End We Start From. It’s been adapted from the Megan Hunter novel by Alice Birch (who has written for Succession and Normal People). It’s directed by British director Mahalia Belo (who won a Bafta for her TV movie Ellen), and stars Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterson and Jodie Comer. Waterson and Comer were nominated for best lead and best supporting performances at last month’s British independent film awards.
In the film, a mother – played by Comer – and her baby abandon London after the capital suffers an epic flood. If you’re in any way a fan of Comer,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Jodie Comer is no stranger to rave reviews, but The End We Start From is the first time she’s received them for the unfamiliar role of a mother. The Emmy winner has briefly played mothers in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Last Duel, but Comer considers Mahalia Belo’s survival drama to be her first proper exploration of motherhood and all its nuances. Based on Megan Hunter’s book and Alice Birch’s adapted screenplay, Comer plays a character simply credited as “Woman,” and at the start of the film, her water breaks around the same time that London is hit by a devastating environmental crisis, resulting in mass flooding.
With a new baby in tow, Comer’s character and Joel Fry’s husband/father character retreat to the countryside like the rest of the city, but food shortages and civil unrest soon cause their young family to separate,...
With a new baby in tow, Comer’s character and Joel Fry’s husband/father character retreat to the countryside like the rest of the city, but food shortages and civil unrest soon cause their young family to separate,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Are disaster movies about climate change getting more realistic, or is the real world simply starting to resemble a disaster movie about climate change? To judge by Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From,” a despairing and all-too-conceivable thriller in which an unnamed woman (Jodie Comer) struggles to protect her newborn baby after a massive flood makes the whole of England go a little “Children of Men,” the answer to that question is regrettably “both.” Ah, how I long for the days when a Hollywood blockbuster about Jake Gyllenhaal trying to survive a now-routine New York weather system was marketed as a piece of escapism.
There are no giant waves in this small-scale British film about an entire society coming apart at the seams — no shots of the London Eye being knocked into the Thames, nor scenes in which panicked scientists look over data so ominous they can only...
There are no giant waves in this small-scale British film about an entire society coming apart at the seams — no shots of the London Eye being knocked into the Thames, nor scenes in which panicked scientists look over data so ominous they can only...
- 12/8/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Signature Entertainment has launched the trailer for Mahalia Belo’s debut feature ‘The End We Start From’, which recently secured 9 BIFA nominations.
When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.
Penned by award-winning British writer Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth, Normal People, The Wonder) and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, The Last Duel, Prima Facie), the film also features supporting turns from Joel Fry (Cruella, Yesterday), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts, Inherent Vice), BAFTA nominee Mark Strong (1917, Kingsman), BAFTA award-winning Gina McKee (My Policeman, Line Of Duty), Nina Sosanya (Screw, His Dark Materials) and two-time Academy award nominee and BAFTA award-winning Benedict Cumberbatch.
When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.
Penned by award-winning British writer Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth, Normal People, The Wonder) and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, The Last Duel, Prima Facie), the film also features supporting turns from Joel Fry (Cruella, Yesterday), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts, Inherent Vice), BAFTA nominee Mark Strong (1917, Kingsman), BAFTA award-winning Gina McKee (My Policeman, Line Of Duty), Nina Sosanya (Screw, His Dark Materials) and two-time Academy award nominee and BAFTA award-winning Benedict Cumberbatch.
- 11/29/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Earlier this year, we heard that the apocalyptic thriller The End We Start From, an adaptation of author Megan Hunter’s 2017 debut novel (you can pick up a copy of Hunter’s novel at This Link), had secured North American distribution through Paramount’s Republic Pictures label. A release date for the film still hasn’t been announced, but today a full trailer has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above.
The End We Start From stars Jodie Comer of Killing Eve and Free Guy, Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Mark Strong (1917), Joel Fry (Yesterday), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Nina Sosanya (His Dark Materials), and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant).
The film was directed by Mahalia Belo (The Long Song), who was working from a screenplay by Alice Birch, a writer and story editor on the HBO series Succession. Birch also served...
The End We Start From stars Jodie Comer of Killing Eve and Free Guy, Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Mark Strong (1917), Joel Fry (Yesterday), Gina McKee (My Policeman), Nina Sosanya (His Dark Materials), and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant).
The film was directed by Mahalia Belo (The Long Song), who was working from a screenplay by Alice Birch, a writer and story editor on the HBO series Succession. Birch also served...
- 11/29/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Here’s one to file under ‘environmental nightmare scenarios’. :a[The End We Start From]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/jodie-comer-flees-flooding-london-the-end-we-start-from-exclusive-images/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'}, a new apocalyptic drama film starring Jodie Comer, sees London hit by a terrifying flood, covering the capital in a deluge of dirty water. Which would be tough enough to navigate, let alone with a baby to keep safe. But that’s where Comer’s character finds herself, facing her new waterworld with newborn in tow – a simple set-up for a survival drama hitting on elemental human experiences, and elemental weather events. Check out the trailer here:
As well as the thrill of seeing Comer in a leading role – after her considerable rise in recent years – this one looks suitably stressful. But it looks to be beautiful too, an end-of-days scenario meeting the dawn of new life. And there’s a stellar supporting cast glimpsed here,...
As well as the thrill of seeing Comer in a leading role – after her considerable rise in recent years – this one looks suitably stressful. But it looks to be beautiful too, an end-of-days scenario meeting the dawn of new life. And there’s a stellar supporting cast glimpsed here,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
"I don't understand what this rejection of the world means." Republic Pictures & Paramount have revealed an official trailer for an indie survival thriller called The End We Start From, from filmmaker Mahalia Belo. This premiered at the Toronto & London Film Festivals this fall, with a wide release in the US set for January. A "futuristic fable about a brand-new mother navigating a flooded world" starring Jodie Comer. Adapted from Megan Hunter's prophetic 2017 novel, Mahalia Belo and screenwriter Alice Birch model their film on the author's spare, elliptical prose, keeping the disaster just off-screen and letting their actors wear the pressure and tension of the story on their faces as their world gets a little smaller and a lot scarier. Also starring Joel Fry, Katherine Waterston, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya, Mark Strong, and Benedict Cumberbatch. This seems like a movie that literally addresses the question of – should I still have...
- 11/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As the year comes to a close, studios are getting into the mix, still releasing some last-minute titles into the fray (see Michel Franco’s “Memory” with Jessica Chastain). Another late entry in the 2023 films sweepstakes is “The End From Where We Start,” a new ecological disaster drama starring Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”) and the directorial debut from director Mahalia Belo, a BAFTA TV Award winner for the 2017 TV film, “Ellen” and a 2019 BAFTA TV Award nominee for 2019’s mini-series “The Long Song.”
Read More: ‘The End We Start From’ Review: Jodie Comer Stars In A Refreshingly Grounded Disaster Drama [TIFF]
“The End From Where We Start” is based on the best-selling novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for screen by “Succession” writer Alice Birch.
Continue reading ‘The End From Where We Start’ Trailer: Jodie Comer’s New Disaster Drama Opens December 8 in Limited Release at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘The End We Start From’ Review: Jodie Comer Stars In A Refreshingly Grounded Disaster Drama [TIFF]
“The End From Where We Start” is based on the best-selling novel by Megan Hunter and adapted for screen by “Succession” writer Alice Birch.
Continue reading ‘The End From Where We Start’ Trailer: Jodie Comer’s New Disaster Drama Opens December 8 in Limited Release at The Playlist.
- 11/29/2023
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
While one of her 2023 features won’t be coming out until 2024 as Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders got delayed while a new distributor came on board, another Jodie Comer feature is arriving before the end of the year. Mahalia Belo’s debut film The End We Start From, which premiered at TIFF, will get an awards-qualifying run in NY and LA on December 8 ahead of a January 19 release. Also starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Katherine Waterston, the first trailer has now arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.”
Christopher Schobert said in his TIFF review, “The End We Start From, the debut feature from acclaimed television director Mahalia Belo,...
Here’s the synopsis: “When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.”
Christopher Schobert said in his TIFF review, “The End We Start From, the debut feature from acclaimed television director Mahalia Belo,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Raine Allen-Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane leads this year’s British Independent Film Award nominations with 16 nods, including Best Director and Best British Independent Film.
Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set feature also has nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Debut Screenwriter for writing duo Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, as well as a nod for Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo for Breakthrough Producer. The film’s leads Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson scored a Best Joint Lead Performance nomination. Oparah is also nominated in Breakthrough Performance.
Rye Lane is trailed by Scrapper and All Of Us Strangers, which both clocked 14 nominations. Scrapper received four nominations for debut feature filmmaker Charlotte Regan, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. All Of Us Strangers clocked Best Director. In the performance categories, Andrew Scott picked up a Best Lead Performance nomination, and Jamie Bell, Claire Foy, and Paul Mescal grabbed a Best Supporting Performance nod each. Seven...
Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set feature also has nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Debut Screenwriter for writing duo Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, as well as a nod for Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo for Breakthrough Producer. The film’s leads Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson scored a Best Joint Lead Performance nomination. Oparah is also nominated in Breakthrough Performance.
Rye Lane is trailed by Scrapper and All Of Us Strangers, which both clocked 14 nominations. Scrapper received four nominations for debut feature filmmaker Charlotte Regan, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. All Of Us Strangers clocked Best Director. In the performance categories, Andrew Scott picked up a Best Lead Performance nomination, and Jamie Bell, Claire Foy, and Paul Mescal grabbed a Best Supporting Performance nod each. Seven...
- 11/2/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Feature debutant Raine Allen-Miller’s “Rye Lane” led the nominations at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) with 16 nods.
“Scrapper” by debutant Charlotte Regan and veteran Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” scored 14 nominations each while Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex” had 13, Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “Femme” 11 and Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From” nine. The nominations were revealed by actors Susan Wokoma (“Enola Holmes”) and Morfydd Clark (“Saint Maud”) at an announcement event at One Hundred Shoreditch, London.
From 2022, the awards went permanently gender neutral for acting categories with the traditional best and supporting actress and actor awards being replaced by best lead performance, best supporting performance, best joint lead performance — for performances that are the joint focus of the film — and best ensemble.
The winners will be announced at the BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
BIFA Nominations 2023
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“Scrapper” by debutant Charlotte Regan and veteran Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” scored 14 nominations each while Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex” had 13, Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “Femme” 11 and Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From” nine. The nominations were revealed by actors Susan Wokoma (“Enola Holmes”) and Morfydd Clark (“Saint Maud”) at an announcement event at One Hundred Shoreditch, London.
From 2022, the awards went permanently gender neutral for acting categories with the traditional best and supporting actress and actor awards being replaced by best lead performance, best supporting performance, best joint lead performance — for performances that are the joint focus of the film — and best ensemble.
The winners will be announced at the BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
BIFA Nominations 2023
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- 11/2/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) nominations were unveiled Thursday morninh by star hosts Susan Wokoma and Morfydd Clark at One Hundred Shoreditch, London.
“Casting a spotlight on the incredible talent working in the British film industry, this year’s list once again includes exceptional debuts from the U.K.’s brightest new talent alongside previous BIFA nominees, such as Tilda Swinton, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Amir El-Masr,” the organization said.
Leading the nominations with 16 is Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller’s London-set romantic comedy following a pair of semi-reluctant lovers on an impromptu tour of Peckham. Among others, it scores nominations for Allen-Miller for best director and best debut director, best screenplay debut screenwriter for writing duo Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, as well as a best joint lead performance nom for stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson. Oparah is also nominated in the breakthrough performance category. Rye Lane...
“Casting a spotlight on the incredible talent working in the British film industry, this year’s list once again includes exceptional debuts from the U.K.’s brightest new talent alongside previous BIFA nominees, such as Tilda Swinton, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Amir El-Masr,” the organization said.
Leading the nominations with 16 is Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller’s London-set romantic comedy following a pair of semi-reluctant lovers on an impromptu tour of Peckham. Among others, it scores nominations for Allen-Miller for best director and best debut director, best screenplay debut screenwriter for writing duo Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, as well as a best joint lead performance nom for stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson. Oparah is also nominated in the breakthrough performance category. Rye Lane...
- 11/2/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Films set in London dominate the nominations.
Raine Allen-Miller’s London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers.
Rye Lane has scored 16 nominations, including best British independent film, director and debut director for Allen-Miller; plus best screenplay and debut screenwriter for Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia. Vivian Oparah is nominated for breakthrough performance, as well as for best joint lead performance alongside David Jonsson.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Scrapper, another London-set first film, received 14 nominations,...
Raine Allen-Miller’s London-set romantic comedy Rye Lane leads the nominations for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), followed closely by Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers.
Rye Lane has scored 16 nominations, including best British independent film, director and debut director for Allen-Miller; plus best screenplay and debut screenwriter for Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia. Vivian Oparah is nominated for breakthrough performance, as well as for best joint lead performance alongside David Jonsson.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Scrapper, another London-set first film, received 14 nominations,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Normal People screenwriter talks about growing up in a commune, heartbreaking plays, and the rumours that she’s collaborating with Taylor Swift
Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, in 1986, Alice Birch is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter for film and TV. Her screenwriting debut was for the 2016 film Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh; she then worked on HBO’s Succession, co-wrote the 2020 TV adaptation of Normal People with Sally Rooney and co-created the 2023 Amazon series Dead Ringers with its star, Rachel Weisz. Her adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, about a matriarch oppressing her daughters, opens at the National Theatre next month, and her new film, The End We Start From, directed by Mahalia Belo, is released in January. She lives in Hackney, London, with her partner, theatre director Sam Pritchard, and their two children.
When did you first come across Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba?...
Born in Malvern, Worcestershire, in 1986, Alice Birch is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter for film and TV. Her screenwriting debut was for the 2016 film Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh; she then worked on HBO’s Succession, co-wrote the 2020 TV adaptation of Normal People with Sally Rooney and co-created the 2023 Amazon series Dead Ringers with its star, Rachel Weisz. Her adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, about a matriarch oppressing her daughters, opens at the National Theatre next month, and her new film, The End We Start From, directed by Mahalia Belo, is released in January. She lives in Hackney, London, with her partner, theatre director Sam Pritchard, and their two children.
When did you first come across Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba?...
- 10/22/2023
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Kitchen” co-director and co-writer Daniel Kaluuya and “Polite Society” writer-director Nida Manzoor are among the emerging talents recognized at the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) New Talent categories.
Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction and 15 documentary features have been longlisted in the four debut filmmaking categories. Nineteen first-time fiction feature directors, 17 first-time feature documentary directors, 17 first-time writers and 24 breakthrough producers have been recognized by BIFA voters this year.
BIFA Springboard, an annual program supporting second-time feature filmmakers will launch in early 2024. BIFA will reveal the Netflix-sponsored 2023 breakthrough performance longlist, which highlights British acting talent in their first significant role in a British feature film, on Oct. 24. The final five nominations in each category will be unveiled on Nov. 2. Winners will be revealed at the 26th BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
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Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction and 15 documentary features have been longlisted in the four debut filmmaking categories. Nineteen first-time fiction feature directors, 17 first-time feature documentary directors, 17 first-time writers and 24 breakthrough producers have been recognized by BIFA voters this year.
BIFA Springboard, an annual program supporting second-time feature filmmakers will launch in early 2024. BIFA will reveal the Netflix-sponsored 2023 breakthrough performance longlist, which highlights British acting talent in their first significant role in a British feature film, on Oct. 24. The final five nominations in each category will be unveiled on Nov. 2. Winners will be revealed at the 26th BIFA ceremony on Dec. 3.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) Sponsored By...
- 10/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Arriving just as Britain’s dire housing crisis is set to be a key campaign issue in next year’s long-awaited general election, “The Kitchen” offers a solemnly affecting look at what might happen if it’s left to fester. Zooming through a dystopian London in what seems the too-near future, this sharply accomplished feature directing debut from Kibwe Tavares and actor Daniel Kaluuya surprisingly eschews high-concept genre plotting to go with its elaborate sci-fi scene-setting, instead narrowing to an intimate, humane study of Black male bonding in a time of systemic social oppression. If the lean screenplay (by Kaluuya alongside “Calm With Horses” writer Joe Murtagh) somewhat runs out of gas by the finale, the film’s persuasive world-building and fiery political ire keep it compelling. Netflix will release “The Kitchen” — a fitting, resonant closer to this year’s London Film Festival — in early 2024.
Call it the exasperated payoff from 13 years of Conservative austerity,...
Call it the exasperated payoff from 13 years of Conservative austerity,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
It begins as a spatter of heavy rainfall — nothing out of the ordinary for acclimatized Brits, for whom an actual storm can even be cozily welcome after days of noncommittal drear and drizzle. But then it doesn’t stop, deep-set wet turns to invasive flooding, and what seemed a mere bout of inclement weather has swept you — and countless others like you — out of house and home. Megan Hunter’s speculative novel “The End We Start From” was a neat metaphor for the larger threat in seemingly minor signifiers of climate crisis; briskly adapted by screenwriter Alice Birch, Mahalia Belo’s fine film version matches its pragmatic, coolly urgent vision of a world coming apart slowly, gradually, and then all at once.
Tight in budget and focus, this isn’t disaster cinema of the lurid Hollywood school, revelling in the grand spectacle of destruction. For much of the film’s running time,...
Tight in budget and focus, this isn’t disaster cinema of the lurid Hollywood school, revelling in the grand spectacle of destruction. For much of the film’s running time,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a good time to be a Jodie Comer fan. While the beloved Liverpudlian has been away from our screens for a little while – in the meantime hovering up awards for her astonishing performance in one-woman stage play Prima Facie – she’s back in a big way. As well as appearing in Jeff Nichols’ upcoming biker drama :a[The Bikeriders, Comer]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/austin-butler-jodie-comer-tom-hardy-the-bikeriders-trailer/' target='blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} is front and centre in survival drama _The End We Start From – playing a mother forced to flee London with her young baby in tow once an ecological crisis unfolds in the capital. As well as starring in the lead role, Comer is a producer on this one, adapted from Alice Birch’s acclaimed novel, and directed by Mahalia Belo (behind the BBC’s The Long Song miniseries). Set to unfold a character-focused story...
- 10/11/2023
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
The world premiere of the Sam Esmail-directed Netflix feature “Leave the World Behind” starring Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali along with four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke will open the 37th AFI Fest on October 25, while the world premiere of the Amazon Studios documentary “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story” while play as a centerpiece film at the festival on October 27. Additionally, “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic from Netflix that’s directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and co-starring Carey Mulligan, will close the fest on October 29. All will be screened at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
AFI Fest runs October 25-29 and will include a curated selection of red carpet premieres, special screenings, world cinema, documentaries and shorts.
Here is the full lineup:
“Leave the World Behind” – In this apocalyptic thriller, Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids,...
AFI Fest runs October 25-29 and will include a curated selection of red carpet premieres, special screenings, world cinema, documentaries and shorts.
Here is the full lineup:
“Leave the World Behind” – In this apocalyptic thriller, Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
The American Film Institute on Thursday revealed the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 25-29. It joins the previously announced fest opener, Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind, and closer in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story is the Centerpiece film.
Additional highlights include the world premieres of Albert Brooks: Defending My Life directed by Rob Reiner and Freud’s Last Session directed by Matthew Brown. Other fest-season films in the lineup include All of Us Strangers directed by Andrew Haigh, Toronto winner American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson, The Bikeriders directed by Jeff Nichols, The End We Start From directed by Mahalia Belo, Fingernails directed by Christos Nikou, Memory directed by Michel Franco, Quiz Lady directed by Jessica Yu, and Society of the Snow directed by J.A. Bayona which will screen in the Special Screenings...
Additional highlights include the world premieres of Albert Brooks: Defending My Life directed by Rob Reiner and Freud’s Last Session directed by Matthew Brown. Other fest-season films in the lineup include All of Us Strangers directed by Andrew Haigh, Toronto winner American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson, The Bikeriders directed by Jeff Nichols, The End We Start From directed by Mahalia Belo, Fingernails directed by Christos Nikou, Memory directed by Michel Franco, Quiz Lady directed by Jessica Yu, and Society of the Snow directed by J.A. Bayona which will screen in the Special Screenings...
- 9/28/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Next month’s AFI Fest is coming into focus.
The Los Angeles event — headquartered at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and set to take place from Oct. 25-29 — has revealed its full lineup including critical favorites that have emerged from the festival circuit so far and a world premiere from director Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.
The festival favorites to screen at AFI Fest include Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy; Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown; Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon; Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From starring Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Fry and Katherine Waterston; Christos Nikou’s Fingernails starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy...
The Los Angeles event — headquartered at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and set to take place from Oct. 25-29 — has revealed its full lineup including critical favorites that have emerged from the festival circuit so far and a world premiere from director Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.
The festival favorites to screen at AFI Fest include Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy; Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown; Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon; Mahalia Belo’s The End We Start From starring Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Fry and Katherine Waterston; Christos Nikou’s Fingernails starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy...
- 9/28/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2023 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its industry program, featuring a wide array of conversations and panel discussions with leading figures from across the international film and TV worlds.
Among those taking part in Lff Spotlight conversations are Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative office Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the Frozen films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Helen Gregory of See-Saw Films, behind films such as The Power of the Dog and TV shows including Heartstopper and Slow Horses, and Carole Barton, head of French sales company Charades.
Elsewhere, both AMPAS boss Bill Kramer and BAFTA head Jane Millichip will speak in conversation with BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Among the panel discussions, participants will include writers, directors and creative talent such as Giancarlo Nasi, Emily Morgan, Mahalia Belo, Shaheen Baig, Leah Clarke, Naqqash Khalid, Nabhaan Rizwan, Mary Burke and Tasha Back.
The Hollywood Reporter is sponsoring a panel entitled “Fade In.
Among those taking part in Lff Spotlight conversations are Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative office Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the Frozen films, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Helen Gregory of See-Saw Films, behind films such as The Power of the Dog and TV shows including Heartstopper and Slow Horses, and Carole Barton, head of French sales company Charades.
Elsewhere, both AMPAS boss Bill Kramer and BAFTA head Jane Millichip will speak in conversation with BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Among the panel discussions, participants will include writers, directors and creative talent such as Giancarlo Nasi, Emily Morgan, Mahalia Belo, Shaheen Baig, Leah Clarke, Naqqash Khalid, Nabhaan Rizwan, Mary Burke and Tasha Back.
The Hollywood Reporter is sponsoring a panel entitled “Fade In.
- 9/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'The End We Start From' director Mahalia Belo has lauded Jodie Comer's "courageous" acting.The director has helmed the new survival film – which features the 'Killing Eve' star as a mother who flees flooded London with her baby after an environmental disaster – and was impressed by the clever methods Jodie used to bring her character to life and the way she placed her trust in those behind the camera.Belo told Collider at the Toronto International Film Festival: "The way she deals with every scene and the babies, she's just brilliant. She carried this character completely and so beautifully."She was a partner in this whole process, from beginning to end, and journeyed with me through the whole thing."Belo was particularly impressed by Comer's acting in scenes that required improvisation as she filmed with the baby.The director explained: "So, if the baby was...
- 9/18/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
In a vague near-future world that resembles our own, London faces a devastating flood. At the same time, a young woman (Jodie Comer) is giving birth to her first child. The birth is intercut with the flood, juxtaposing the miracle of life with the death of an old world. Unable to return to her home, she and her partner (Joel Fry) flee the city with their newborn to be with his parents (Mark Strong, Nina Sosanya). Things aren’t much better for the young couple in the countryside. Food is scarce and the populace is erupting with violence fueled by the fear of starvation. And yet, for a moment, the family seems to thrive on love alone, bonded by the joy of having a new baby.
But as the young woman struggles to nourish and care for her child, her partner buckles under the stress and pressure of being a...
But as the young woman struggles to nourish and care for her child, her partner buckles under the stress and pressure of being a...
- 9/15/2023
- by Jourdain Searles
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a misconception that the British are a stoic people who just might get quite cross in the event of a zombie apocalypse. But the truth is rather different, as was shown in 2005, when six people were hospitalized and a man stabbed when an Ikea store in North London put 500 leather sofas on sale for less than 60 bucks each and a riot ensued.
In that sense, Mahalia Belo’s intriguing debut The End We Start From is very much a British disaster movie, speculating just how quickly the country’s perceived veneer of respectability would evaporate in a crisis. But, more than that, it’s a dreamlike study of what it means to give birth, how life-changing the experience is and the strain it puts on relationships. It would make a great double bill with Children of Men.
When we first meet the Woman (Jodie Comer), she is heavily pregnant and running a bath.
In that sense, Mahalia Belo’s intriguing debut The End We Start From is very much a British disaster movie, speculating just how quickly the country’s perceived veneer of respectability would evaporate in a crisis. But, more than that, it’s a dreamlike study of what it means to give birth, how life-changing the experience is and the strain it puts on relationships. It would make a great double bill with Children of Men.
When we first meet the Woman (Jodie Comer), she is heavily pregnant and running a bath.
- 9/15/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
As we begin to see, it feels almost weekly, 'natural' (i.e. created by human activity) disasters happening around the world - floods, fires, you name it - you would be hard-pressed not think about what you would do with you were caught in such a disaster. What would you pack? Where would you go? To whom could you turn for help? At what point could you leave a loved on behind? In her feature debut, director Mahalia Belo, with a script by playwright and screenwriter Alice Birch based on the novel by Megan Hunter, follows this woman's story as she must constantly be aware of the physical, while the space and seemingly endless time around her also force to contemplate the...
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- 9/14/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Toronto – There always seems to be this assumption in Hollywood that when the end of the world comes, it will be quick. A nuclear holocaust will destroy the environment in hours, or a massive space object will send civilization back into the dark ages in an instant. But chances are it will begin and end slower than you might think. And that’s one of the most refreshing aspects of Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From,” which debuted at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend.
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- 9/14/2023
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The End We Start From, the debut feature from acclaimed television director Mahalia Belo, offers all the standard elements of a drama centered on a near-apocalyptic event. Early in the film, unrelenting rain pounds London, the power goes out, and water eventually trickles under the door of an unnamed pregnant woman played by Jodie Comer. She is alone in the house, tending to herself while her husband is out-of-town. Soon that trickle blasts the front door off its hinges, and before we know it she is in labor at the hospital. These scenes in the outside world are appropriately chaotic––and feel like sequences audiences have seen many, many times before.
Such feeling of overfamiliarity creeps up with regularity during The End We Start From. There are some moments that call to mind The Road, others that have a 28 Days Later feel (minus zombies), and a few that are...
Such feeling of overfamiliarity creeps up with regularity during The End We Start From. There are some moments that call to mind The Road, others that have a 28 Days Later feel (minus zombies), and a few that are...
- 9/12/2023
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
We've already been impressed with Jodie Comer in a variety of roles from Killing Eve to Help and Free Guy. Now she's taking the lead in new survival thriller The End We Start From, which has a teaser trailer online.
Directed by Mahalia Belo and written by Alice Birch, the film was snapped up by Signature Entertainment for the UK back in May.
Set amid an environmental crisis that sees London submerged by flood waters, the feminist survival story focuses on a young family torn apart in the chaos. Comer plays a mother who with her new-born child tries to find a way home, navigating the most challenging and apocalyptic start to motherhood.
The cast for this one includes Katherine Waterston, Joel Fry, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch (who is also an executive producer).
Signature will have the film in UK cinemas in January.
Directed by Mahalia Belo and written by Alice Birch, the film was snapped up by Signature Entertainment for the UK back in May.
Set amid an environmental crisis that sees London submerged by flood waters, the feminist survival story focuses on a young family torn apart in the chaos. Comer plays a mother who with her new-born child tries to find a way home, navigating the most challenging and apocalyptic start to motherhood.
The cast for this one includes Katherine Waterston, Joel Fry, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch (who is also an executive producer).
Signature will have the film in UK cinemas in January.
- 9/11/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
"The End We Start From" is a new Brit-produced survival feature, directed by Mahalia Belo, starring Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston, Mark Strong, Joel Fry, Gina McKee and Nina Sosanya, with a release Tba:
"...adapting the novel by Megan Hunter, the story is set during an 'ecological crisis' as a new mother and her baby abandon their home in flooded London, UK and flee northwards..."
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"...adapting the novel by Megan Hunter, the story is set during an 'ecological crisis' as a new mother and her baby abandon their home in flooded London, UK and flee northwards..."
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- 9/11/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Where am I...? Where am I...?" Anton has revealed a first look teaser trailer for a film titled The End We Start From, made by filmmaker Mahalia Belo. Described as a "futuristic fable about a brand-new mother navigating a flooded world" starring Jodie Comer. Adapted from Megan Hunter's prophetic 2017 novel, Mahalia Belo and screenwriter Alice Birch model their film on the author's spare, elliptical prose, keeping the disaster just off-screen and letting their actors wear the pressure and tension of the story on their faces as their world gets a little smaller and a lot scarier. It's premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and London Film Festival this fall. TIFF says: "Comer, in a role unlike any she's played before, balances a new mother's physical & psychic exhaustion with an unyielding life force that makes her the ideal audience surrogate." Also starring Joel Fry, Katherine Waterston, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Signature Entertainment is dipping its toe into the apocalypse with today’s The End We Start From teaser trailer, featuring Jodie Comer engaged in a battle to survive a world overrun by rushing water and the erosion of humanity. Mahalia Belo directs the film from a script by Alice Birch, inspired by Megan Hunter’s novel.
Here’s a synopsis courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival:
A new mother (Jodie Comer), her partner (Joel Fry), and their infant are driven out of London into the English countryside by cataclysmic flooding in this adaptation of Megan Hunter’s prophetic bestseller.
England, tomorrow: Forced out of London by cataclysmic flooding, a new mother (Jodie Comer), her partner (Joel Fry), and their infant make their way to his parents’ home in the countryside, only to find the situation growing increasingly desperate there, as well.
Adapting Megan Hunter’s prophetic 2017 novel, director Mahalia...
Here’s a synopsis courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival:
A new mother (Jodie Comer), her partner (Joel Fry), and their infant are driven out of London into the English countryside by cataclysmic flooding in this adaptation of Megan Hunter’s prophetic bestseller.
England, tomorrow: Forced out of London by cataclysmic flooding, a new mother (Jodie Comer), her partner (Joel Fry), and their infant make their way to his parents’ home in the countryside, only to find the situation growing increasingly desperate there, as well.
Adapting Megan Hunter’s prophetic 2017 novel, director Mahalia...
- 9/11/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Here’s your first teaser trailer for anticipated Toronto Film Festival world premiere The End We Start From, starring Emmy and BAFTA winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as a woman trying to get home with her baby amid an environmental disaster.
We can also reveal a U.S. release date for the movie of December 8th, 2023. Number of screens is currently under discussion with expectation that it will fall somewhere between wide and limited.
As we previously revealed, Paramount’s Republic Pictures acquired North American rights to the dystopian drama during Cannes. Below you can also see a first poster for the movie.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos. The film debuts at TIFF tomorrow [Sunday 10th].
Mahalia Belo...
We can also reveal a U.S. release date for the movie of December 8th, 2023. Number of screens is currently under discussion with expectation that it will fall somewhere between wide and limited.
As we previously revealed, Paramount’s Republic Pictures acquired North American rights to the dystopian drama during Cannes. Below you can also see a first poster for the movie.
Comer stars as a woman who, along with her newborn child, must try to find her way home amid an environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees their young family torn apart in the chaos. The film debuts at TIFF tomorrow [Sunday 10th].
Mahalia Belo...
- 9/9/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The London Film Festival on Thursday completed its lineup, unveiling its full slate of headline galas and special presentations after previously setting its competition program.
Among the movies getting new headline galas are the world premiere of Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The special presentations include the likes of The Boy and the Heron from anime legend Hayao Miyazaki, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, and Priscilla from Sofia Coppola.
Among the filmmakers returning to Lff are also such big names as Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sally El Hosaini, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Michel Gondry, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Aki Kaurismäki, Hirokazu Koreeda, Amat Escalante, Ladj Ly, Alex Gibney, and Frederick Wiseman.
The fest, which runs Oct. 4-15, said it will present a “compelling and diverse” program of films, shorts, series, and immersive works from 92 countries, featuring 79 languages, across its 12 days. “This includes 99 works made by...
Among the movies getting new headline galas are the world premiere of Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The special presentations include the likes of The Boy and the Heron from anime legend Hayao Miyazaki, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, and Priscilla from Sofia Coppola.
Among the filmmakers returning to Lff are also such big names as Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sally El Hosaini, Jonathan Glazer, Steve McQueen, Michel Gondry, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Aki Kaurismäki, Hirokazu Koreeda, Amat Escalante, Ladj Ly, Alex Gibney, and Frederick Wiseman.
The fest, which runs Oct. 4-15, said it will present a “compelling and diverse” program of films, shorts, series, and immersive works from 92 countries, featuring 79 languages, across its 12 days. “This includes 99 works made by...
- 8/31/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gala screenings include ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’, ‘The Holdovers’ and ‘Nyad’.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, David Fincher’s The Killer and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla are among the titles screening at the 67th BFI London Film Festival.
The selection comprises 171 features, up from last year’s 164, and includes 14 world premieres, six international and 22 European.
This year’s festival marks the first edition under new director Kristy Matheson who officially took over the role from Tricia Tuttle in April. Matheson has kept the size and structure largely unchanged with thematic strands all still in place.
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Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, David Fincher’s The Killer and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla are among the titles screening at the 67th BFI London Film Festival.
The selection comprises 171 features, up from last year’s 164, and includes 14 world premieres, six international and 22 European.
This year’s festival marks the first edition under new director Kristy Matheson who officially took over the role from Tricia Tuttle in April. Matheson has kept the size and structure largely unchanged with thematic strands all still in place.
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- 8/31/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The 67th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its full lineup, which includes galas and special presentations of films by contemporary masters.
As previously announced, Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” will open the festival and Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s “The Kitchen” will close it. James Hawes’ “One Life” is the American Express gala and Sam Fell’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” the Mayor of London gala.
In addition, the festival’s headline galas include Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Andrew Haigh’s “All of us Strangers,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Jeymes Samuel’s “The Book Of Clarence,” Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,”
Todd Haynes’ “May December,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”
Special presentations include Miyazaki Hayao’s “The Boy And The Heron,” Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb,” Mahalia Belo...
As previously announced, Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” will open the festival and Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s “The Kitchen” will close it. James Hawes’ “One Life” is the American Express gala and Sam Fell’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” the Mayor of London gala.
In addition, the festival’s headline galas include Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Andrew Haigh’s “All of us Strangers,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” Jeymes Samuel’s “The Book Of Clarence,” Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,”
Todd Haynes’ “May December,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”
Special presentations include Miyazaki Hayao’s “The Boy And The Heron,” Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb,” Mahalia Belo...
- 8/31/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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