Element Pictures is coming off the back of yet another buzzy awards season with its absurdist comedy Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, notching 11 Oscar nominations and coming home with four wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. But just when it feels like the company’s trajectory can’t get higher, the Irish-Anglo production, distribution and exhibition banner is hitting the Croisette this year with no less than three films in the Cannes official selection. Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, which reunites him with his long-term writing partner Efthimis Fillipou and Poor Things stars Stone and Willem Dafoe, will compete for the Palme d’Or, while French actor Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says and I Am Not a Witch director Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore feature On Becoming A Guinea Fowl are both screening in the Un Certain Regard section.
It’s especially significant to Element co-founders and...
It’s especially significant to Element co-founders and...
- 5/9/2024
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
The lasting confrontation of the book lovers and the cinephiles doesn’t seem to come to a conclusion. However, some series based on the novels and on the games are known for objectively better elaboration of the source’s events and character development.
Here are 7 TV titles which surpass the material they were adapted from.
The Boys (2019 – …)
The live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s superhero comic book series appears to be more relevant and worth a try as it adds a razor-sharp social commentary to the initial plot, also improving the development of the main characters.
Dexter (2006-2013)
Based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, this crime series is more recognized by its creative screenwriting decisions, including the more intricate description of the serial killer’s personal life and ways of performing the crimes.
Normal People (2020)
This psychological drama, based on Sally Rooney’s best-seller,...
Here are 7 TV titles which surpass the material they were adapted from.
The Boys (2019 – …)
The live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s superhero comic book series appears to be more relevant and worth a try as it adds a razor-sharp social commentary to the initial plot, also improving the development of the main characters.
Dexter (2006-2013)
Based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, this crime series is more recognized by its creative screenwriting decisions, including the more intricate description of the serial killer’s personal life and ways of performing the crimes.
Normal People (2020)
This psychological drama, based on Sally Rooney’s best-seller,...
- 4/21/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
Empress Of’s For Your Consideration is a celebration of Lorely Rodriguez’s voice as both an artist and vocalist. Where a similar artist might use synth pads as musical accompaniment, Rodriguez inserts the hum of her own voice. On the title track of her fourth studio album, the Honduran-American singer rearranges her breathing into a shuffling rhythm, while “Femenine” samples her vocals to serve various functions, including as percussion.
For Your Consideration can’t be classified as hyperpop per se, but the album’s sonic manipulations and their queer implications owe something to the subgenre. “Femenine”—the title of which subverts the Spanish language’s binary gender system, ending with an ambiguous “e” instead of a masculine “o” or feminine “a”—is about a woman’s desire to dominate a man. The song’s angular melody is pitched down, often mid-syllable, to emulate a masculine voice before Rodriguez responds in her natural tone.
For Your Consideration can’t be classified as hyperpop per se, but the album’s sonic manipulations and their queer implications owe something to the subgenre. “Femenine”—the title of which subverts the Spanish language’s binary gender system, ending with an ambiguous “e” instead of a masculine “o” or feminine “a”—is about a woman’s desire to dominate a man. The song’s angular melody is pitched down, often mid-syllable, to emulate a masculine voice before Rodriguez responds in her natural tone.
- 3/18/2024
- by Steve Erickson
- Slant Magazine
Paul Mescal says 'Gladiator 2' was the first major movie that "piqued my interest".The 28-year-old actor - who shot to fame portraying heartthrob Connell in the hit TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' - was cast as Lucius in Sir Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2000 historical drama, and he admitted there was no way he was going to turn down the film.He told AnOther magazine: “The script for Gladiator lands in your lap, and you simply can’t turn it down. Getting to work on a big-scale film like this, especially under the direction of Ridley Scott, is a straightforward decision. Until now, I hadn’t really encountered any major movies that piqued my interest."The 'All of Us Strangers' star has repeatedly said he is feeling the pressure of ensuring the movie is a box office hit.He explained: “The decision feels incredibly appropriate.
- 2/27/2024
- by Lizzie Baker
- Bang Showbiz
Sydney Sweeney is the woman of the moment. As is, the actress is never completely off the radar of the tabloids because of her performance as Cassie Howard in the popular HBO series- Euphoria. She has been recently making headlines for her performances in the rom-com- Anyone but You and the superhero film Madame Web, which is set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.
While Madame Web has not done particularly well with the audience or critics, Anyone but You has done much better in both of these aspects. Fans found Sydney Sweeney’s chemistry with Glen Powell extremely captivating. This brings fans to the question of which actor is next for Sweeney to start an on-screen romance with. While there is no confirmed answer to this question, Sweeney has someone in her mind that she would like to star alongside in a rom-com.
Sydney Sweeney plays Julia Carpenter in Madame Web...
While Madame Web has not done particularly well with the audience or critics, Anyone but You has done much better in both of these aspects. Fans found Sydney Sweeney’s chemistry with Glen Powell extremely captivating. This brings fans to the question of which actor is next for Sweeney to start an on-screen romance with. While there is no confirmed answer to this question, Sweeney has someone in her mind that she would like to star alongside in a rom-com.
Sydney Sweeney plays Julia Carpenter in Madame Web...
- 2/15/2024
- by Ankita Shaw
- FandomWire
Netflix has finally delivered a sincere love story in the form of One Day, and the fans are loving it. Based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls and the 2011 film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the Netflix series revolves around the peculiar relationship of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew. The series follows both of the characters as they meet each other on the same day every year. Starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod in the lead roles, One Day is quickly becoming the best Valentines’ watch for the fans. So, if you loved One Day, here are some similar shows you could watch next.
Normal People (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Hulu
If we just talk about the tone, then you won’t find a more similar series to One Day than Normal People. Based on a 2018 novel of the same name by Sally Rooney, the Irish romantic...
Normal People (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Hulu
If we just talk about the tone, then you won’t find a more similar series to One Day than Normal People. Based on a 2018 novel of the same name by Sally Rooney, the Irish romantic...
- 2/11/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
“We’re so f–ked. How are we gonna do that?” Veteran TV director Jeremy Podeswa said was the first reaction he and a colleague shared after seeing an early cut of Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire pilot for HBO.
“It was huge, very expensive, and took a long time to make. It took 33 days to shoot and 35 million dollars, which is a lot now, but then, it was even more.”
Podeswa recounted the story during a career masterclass at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival, telling the packed audience that he had been summoned to Scorsese’s personal screening room to view the episode because he’d been hired to direct a follow-up episode for the network.
“To give you a comparison, 33 days and 35 million dollars, and then I was coming to do an episode in 10 days with 10 million dollars, which also sounds like a lot of money, but it’s not 35 million,...
“It was huge, very expensive, and took a long time to make. It took 33 days to shoot and 35 million dollars, which is a lot now, but then, it was even more.”
Podeswa recounted the story during a career masterclass at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival, telling the packed audience that he had been summoned to Scorsese’s personal screening room to view the episode because he’d been hired to direct a follow-up episode for the network.
“To give you a comparison, 33 days and 35 million dollars, and then I was coming to do an episode in 10 days with 10 million dollars, which also sounds like a lot of money, but it’s not 35 million,...
- 11/4/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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
Irish heartthrob and "Normal People" star Paul Mescal has been one to watch in recent years. Heralded as an up-and-coming talent with a breakthrough Hulu series under his belt, he was always going places. And 2023 seems to be the year he's reached the top of the mountain after being announced as a surprise nominee for best actor at the 2023 Oscars for his moving turn as single dad Calum in Charlotte Wells's father-daughter drama "Aftersun." Although he lost out to Brendan Fraser, the accolade has cemented his position as an A-list star.
Mescal's acting career started mostly on stage, starring in the likes of "The Great Gatsby," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the world premiere of "Asking For It." However, it was his 2020 television debut in "Normal People" that catapulted him into the public eye overnight. Playing Connell in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel caught the attention...
Mescal's acting career started mostly on stage, starring in the likes of "The Great Gatsby," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the world premiere of "Asking For It." However, it was his 2020 television debut in "Normal People" that catapulted him into the public eye overnight. Playing Connell in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel caught the attention...
- 10/6/2023
- by Rehana Nurmahi
- Popsugar.com
Image Source: Getty / Amy Sussman
Paul Mescal is setting a firm boundary between his personal and professional life. In the three years since he first found international fame as Connell in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's "Normal People," Mescal has become an internet heartthrob. According to Mescal, the breakout role, which earned him an Emmy nomination, also gave fans a parasocial entitlement when it comes to his personal relationships.
"It's nobody else's business and should never be commented on because it's indecent."
Though a certain level of visibility is expected when it comes to being in the public eye, Mescal said some fans have pushed too far. "If I'm going to make TV shows like 'Normal People,' there's going to be an appetite from the world," he said in Harper's Bazaar's 2023 Icons Issue. "80 percent of that is palatable. And then 20 percent of it is devastating."
In...
Paul Mescal is setting a firm boundary between his personal and professional life. In the three years since he first found international fame as Connell in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's "Normal People," Mescal has become an internet heartthrob. According to Mescal, the breakout role, which earned him an Emmy nomination, also gave fans a parasocial entitlement when it comes to his personal relationships.
"It's nobody else's business and should never be commented on because it's indecent."
Though a certain level of visibility is expected when it comes to being in the public eye, Mescal said some fans have pushed too far. "If I'm going to make TV shows like 'Normal People,' there's going to be an appetite from the world," he said in Harper's Bazaar's 2023 Icons Issue. "80 percent of that is palatable. And then 20 percent of it is devastating."
In...
- 8/17/2023
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
This is part of a series of frank accounts of the strike from Hollywood writers at different levels in their careers.
Confession: I am not currently on the picket line. I am on vacation in the Maldives, sitting on the deck of my above-water villa, watching a school of parrotfish zipping around the pylons below me and contemplating ordering another drink though it’s before noon.
Okay, this is a lie. I am actually in my hometown in the middle of the emotionally and physical exhausting task of emptying my childhood home of decades worth of stuff, watching moths zipping around the now-bare walls and contemplating taking another defeat-nap though it’s before noon. Mine is a family that kept everything and thus, in going through literally every item in the house, I am being confronted with things I haven’t seen in over thirty years. And a picture has...
Confession: I am not currently on the picket line. I am on vacation in the Maldives, sitting on the deck of my above-water villa, watching a school of parrotfish zipping around the pylons below me and contemplating ordering another drink though it’s before noon.
Okay, this is a lie. I am actually in my hometown in the middle of the emotionally and physical exhausting task of emptying my childhood home of decades worth of stuff, watching moths zipping around the now-bare walls and contemplating taking another defeat-nap though it’s before noon. Mine is a family that kept everything and thus, in going through literally every item in the house, I am being confronted with things I haven’t seen in over thirty years. And a picture has...
- 6/30/2023
- by Anonymous
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Alison Oliver (Saltburn), Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country), Marc Maron (To Leslie) and Odessa Young (The Staircase) have closed deals to join The Order, the crime thriller to be directed for Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios by Justin Kurzel, which is heading into production on Wednesday.
No specifics as to roles of the new cast members have been disclosed, but they join an ensemble that Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan will lead, as previously announced.
Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, which chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group, the film is set in 1983 amongst the series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists that frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene,...
No specifics as to roles of the new cast members have been disclosed, but they join an ensemble that Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan will lead, as previously announced.
Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, which chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group, the film is set in 1983 amongst the series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists that frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene,...
- 5/8/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda et al go on a bookish holiday after keeping their reading club going through lockdown, but jokes are thin on the ground
Bill Holderman’s 2018 silver-years comedy Book Club had the amusing idea of showing us four prosperous female friends – Vivian (Jane Fonda), Diane (Diane Keaton), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen), given to drinking balloon glasses of wine and laughing life-affirmingly in picture-perfect kitchens – who are radicalised by reading Fifty Shades of Grey and inspired to overhaul their personal relationships. Now for the sequel: it is a few years later, the heroines have gone through the Covid lockdown and kept their book club going on Zoom, flirting with Sally Rooney’s Normal People, but heart-sinkingly sticking with lite fare such as Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
Yet books are irrelevant to their new adventure: a bachelorette holiday together in Italy before Vivian marries her...
Bill Holderman’s 2018 silver-years comedy Book Club had the amusing idea of showing us four prosperous female friends – Vivian (Jane Fonda), Diane (Diane Keaton), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen), given to drinking balloon glasses of wine and laughing life-affirmingly in picture-perfect kitchens – who are radicalised by reading Fifty Shades of Grey and inspired to overhaul their personal relationships. Now for the sequel: it is a few years later, the heroines have gone through the Covid lockdown and kept their book club going on Zoom, flirting with Sally Rooney’s Normal People, but heart-sinkingly sticking with lite fare such as Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
Yet books are irrelevant to their new adventure: a bachelorette holiday together in Italy before Vivian marries her...
- 5/8/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar-winning auteur behind “A Fantastic Woman,” will direct Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in “Voyagers,” the story of the romantic relationship between astronomer and “Contact” author Carl Sagan and documentary producer and director Ann Druyan.
The feature is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, who guided “Contact” to the big screen, and Druyan herself. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the upcoming Cannes Market
“Voyagers” unfolds in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes. A team led by Sagan sets out to create a message to accompany them, known as the Golden Record, which included music and images, for possible alien civilizations. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission blossoms into a love story between Sagan and Druyan. FilmNation Entertianment paired Druyan, who married Sagan in 1981, with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg. They then wrote the original...
The feature is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, who guided “Contact” to the big screen, and Druyan herself. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the upcoming Cannes Market
“Voyagers” unfolds in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes. A team led by Sagan sets out to create a message to accompany them, known as the Golden Record, which included music and images, for possible alien civilizations. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission blossoms into a love story between Sagan and Druyan. FilmNation Entertianment paired Druyan, who married Sagan in 1981, with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg. They then wrote the original...
- 5/5/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Here is another hot package set to hit the Cannes Market this month: Sebastian Lelio has set Voyagers as his next film at FilmNation Entertainment, with Andrew Garfield attached to play astronomer Carl Sagan and Daisy Edgar-Jones attached to play Cosmos filmmaker Ann Druyan.
The feature is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, and Druyan. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the Cannes Market.
The film is set in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes and a team led by Sagan set out to create a message to accompany them — The Golden Record. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission becomes an epic, unexpected love story between Sagan and his collaborator Druyan. FilmNation Entertianment paired Druyan with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg, who wrote the original screenplay based on interviews with Druyan and many others who worked on the Golden Record project.
The feature is produced by Ben Browning for FilmNation Entertainment, Lynda Obst, and Druyan. FilmNation Entertainment is set to launch global sales at the Cannes Market.
The film is set in 1977 as NASA prepared to launch humanity’s first interstellar probes and a team led by Sagan set out to create a message to accompany them — The Golden Record. But what starts out as a race-against-the-clock mission becomes an epic, unexpected love story between Sagan and his collaborator Druyan. FilmNation Entertianment paired Druyan with screenwriters Lelio and Jessica Goldberg, who wrote the original screenplay based on interviews with Druyan and many others who worked on the Golden Record project.
- 5/5/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, and Rachel Weisz, dominated Canneseries on Saturday, as the audience gathered at the Lumière Auditorium in Cannes broke into spontaneous applause after the first scene of her new show “Dead Ringers.”
Premiering in main competition, the six-episode limited Prime Video series – created by Alice Birch – played with the viewers’ emotions all throughout its first two episodes, eliciting frequent laughs and delivering more expletives than Logan Roy monologues, but also causing a few walk-outs, seemingly provoked by its detailed depictions of childbirth and medical procedures.
“Dead Ringers” sees Rachel Weisz play twin sisters Beverly and Elliot.
A brand new take on the novel “Twins” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, later adapted by David Cronenberg in 1988 and starring Jeremy Irons, “Dead Ringers” sees Weisz as ambitious New York obstetricians – and twin sisters – Beverly and Elliot.
Introduced while verbally destroying an especially clumsy suitor they viciously nickname as...
Premiering in main competition, the six-episode limited Prime Video series – created by Alice Birch – played with the viewers’ emotions all throughout its first two episodes, eliciting frequent laughs and delivering more expletives than Logan Roy monologues, but also causing a few walk-outs, seemingly provoked by its detailed depictions of childbirth and medical procedures.
“Dead Ringers” sees Rachel Weisz play twin sisters Beverly and Elliot.
A brand new take on the novel “Twins” by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, later adapted by David Cronenberg in 1988 and starring Jeremy Irons, “Dead Ringers” sees Weisz as ambitious New York obstetricians – and twin sisters – Beverly and Elliot.
Introduced while verbally destroying an especially clumsy suitor they viciously nickname as...
- 4/16/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
What’s better than Rachel Weisz? Two Rachel Weiszes. The Oscar-winning actor is playing twins in Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming “Dead Ringers” series, and the streamer now has double the footage with the release of the full official trailer for the show.
The series is based on David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological thriller film, which starred Jeremy Irons as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, identical twin brothers who run a successful Obgyn clinic. Weisz plays gender-flipped versions of Beverly and Elliot, but the twin’s disturbingly close relationship — down to sharing lovers and drugs — remains intact. The trailer, set to Soft Cell’s 1981 synth cover of “Tainted Love,” teases a very different storyline compared to the original film, focusing on the twin’s experiments to change the very way women can give birth — pushing against basic medical ethics in the process.
“You want me to grow you a baby out of nothing?...
The series is based on David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological thriller film, which starred Jeremy Irons as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, identical twin brothers who run a successful Obgyn clinic. Weisz plays gender-flipped versions of Beverly and Elliot, but the twin’s disturbingly close relationship — down to sharing lovers and drugs — remains intact. The trailer, set to Soft Cell’s 1981 synth cover of “Tainted Love,” teases a very different storyline compared to the original film, focusing on the twin’s experiments to change the very way women can give birth — pushing against basic medical ethics in the process.
“You want me to grow you a baby out of nothing?...
- 3/29/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Ciarán Hinds has admitted that he had reservations about appearing in Game of Thrones due to the amount of sex scenes.
The Irish actor starred in HBO’s fantasy epic as Mance Rayder, a former member of the Knight’s Watch later known as the “King Beyond the Wall”.
In a new interview with The Independent, Hinds opened up about his time on the show, in which he appeared across three seasons from 2013 to 2015.
Hinds said that, despite the series being a huge hit, he was in two minds about taking on the role due to its excessive explicit content.
“I was rather put off by the amount of sexuality that was going on in it because it was taking away from the actual political storytelling,” he told The Independent.
“But that’s business, I guess, from their perspective.”
Game of Thrones was notorious for its countless sex scenes, with...
The Irish actor starred in HBO’s fantasy epic as Mance Rayder, a former member of the Knight’s Watch later known as the “King Beyond the Wall”.
In a new interview with The Independent, Hinds opened up about his time on the show, in which he appeared across three seasons from 2013 to 2015.
Hinds said that, despite the series being a huge hit, he was in two minds about taking on the role due to its excessive explicit content.
“I was rather put off by the amount of sexuality that was going on in it because it was taking away from the actual political storytelling,” he told The Independent.
“But that’s business, I guess, from their perspective.”
Game of Thrones was notorious for its countless sex scenes, with...
- 3/18/2023
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - TV
Following her critically acclaimed work in Normal People and Where The Crawdads Sing, Daisy Edgar-Jones has found her first studio tentpole as she is set to star in Twisters, a new chapter to the 1996 box-office hit for Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Lee Isaac Chung is on board to direct from a script by Mark L. Smith. The film will be co-financed by Warner Bros.
Starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, Twister was a massive hit in 1996, scoring more than $494 million at the worldwide box office, thanks in no small part to the film’s ground-breaking special effects. The original film was helmed by Speed director Jan De Bont and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by author Michael Crichton.
Executive Vice President of Production Sara Scott and Creative Executive Jacqueline Garell will oversee for Universal Pictures, and Ashley Jay Sandberg will oversee for Kennedy/Marshall.
Edgar-Jones starred...
Starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, Twister was a massive hit in 1996, scoring more than $494 million at the worldwide box office, thanks in no small part to the film’s ground-breaking special effects. The original film was helmed by Speed director Jan De Bont and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by author Michael Crichton.
Executive Vice President of Production Sara Scott and Creative Executive Jacqueline Garell will oversee for Universal Pictures, and Ashley Jay Sandberg will oversee for Kennedy/Marshall.
Edgar-Jones starred...
- 3/17/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Mescal has become both an Internet boyfriend and an Oscar nominee within just four years of making his cinematic debut.
The Irish actor first appeared in one episode of the 2019 TV series “Bump” before landing the star-making limited series “Normal People” based on Sally Rooney’s novel. Mescal played high school jock turned brooding university student Connell, who at once wooed and waited on classmate Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones). While memes of Mescal-as-Connell’s chain necklace went viral at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (and Mescal landed an Emmy nomination), the actor made cameos in Rolling Stones and Phoebe Bridgers’ music videos before an explosive 2022 with three features, one landing him an Academy Award nomination.
“A lot of eyes were on [‘Normal People’] in a concentrated period of time,” Mescal told IndieWire’s Anne Thompson in 2020. “As a result, the fan response on social media, which was vast and immediate,...
The Irish actor first appeared in one episode of the 2019 TV series “Bump” before landing the star-making limited series “Normal People” based on Sally Rooney’s novel. Mescal played high school jock turned brooding university student Connell, who at once wooed and waited on classmate Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones). While memes of Mescal-as-Connell’s chain necklace went viral at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (and Mescal landed an Emmy nomination), the actor made cameos in Rolling Stones and Phoebe Bridgers’ music videos before an explosive 2022 with three features, one landing him an Academy Award nomination.
“A lot of eyes were on [‘Normal People’] in a concentrated period of time,” Mescal told IndieWire’s Anne Thompson in 2020. “As a result, the fan response on social media, which was vast and immediate,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Apple’s comedy series Bad Sisters and Martin McDonagh’s latest feature, The Banshees of Inisherin, lead this year’s Irish Film And TV Academy Award nominations (IFTAs). Scroll down for the complete list.
Bad Sisters leads across film and TV with 12 nominations, including Best Drama, Lead Actress (Sharon Horgan), Director (Dearbhla Walsh), and four nods in Supporting Actress for Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Eve Hewson, and Sarah Greene.
The Banshees of Inisherin clocked 11 nominations, including Best Film as well as Best Director and Screenplay for Martin McDonagh. Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Brendan Gleeson, and Kerry Condon also pop up in the acting categories.
Irish filmmaker Frank Berry’s latest pic Aisha trails Bad Sisters and Banshees with ten nominations. The film follows a young Nigerian woman, played by Letitia Wright, who struggles to navigate the asylum system in Ireland.
Paul Mescal also picked up two nominations: The first in...
Bad Sisters leads across film and TV with 12 nominations, including Best Drama, Lead Actress (Sharon Horgan), Director (Dearbhla Walsh), and four nods in Supporting Actress for Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Eve Hewson, and Sarah Greene.
The Banshees of Inisherin clocked 11 nominations, including Best Film as well as Best Director and Screenplay for Martin McDonagh. Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Brendan Gleeson, and Kerry Condon also pop up in the acting categories.
Irish filmmaker Frank Berry’s latest pic Aisha trails Bad Sisters and Banshees with ten nominations. The film follows a young Nigerian woman, played by Letitia Wright, who struggles to navigate the asylum system in Ireland.
Paul Mescal also picked up two nominations: The first in...
- 3/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The third weekend of February brings some fascinating exhibitions, some left-field film releases... and a cocaine-fuelled bear. Yep, you read that right.
But that’s not all that features in this week’s Arts Agenda, The Independent’s guide to the best cultural activities each and every weekend. Our team of critics and editors have selected a range of options from across the different spheres of culture: art, books, film, music, stage and TV.
Among the highlights are David Hockney’s new immersive experience at Lightroom (we’ve also got an exclusive interview with the man himself). TV editor Ellie Harrison talks about the return of ITV’s Unforgotten – sadly sans Nicola Walker – while film editor Adam White has found the perfect Netflix film to fill the Jennifer Coolidge-shaped hole in all our lives after The White Lotus. Arts editor Jessie Thompson, meanwhile, enthuses about Coco Mellors’ bingeable novel Cleopatra and Frankenstein,...
But that’s not all that features in this week’s Arts Agenda, The Independent’s guide to the best cultural activities each and every weekend. Our team of critics and editors have selected a range of options from across the different spheres of culture: art, books, film, music, stage and TV.
Among the highlights are David Hockney’s new immersive experience at Lightroom (we’ve also got an exclusive interview with the man himself). TV editor Ellie Harrison talks about the return of ITV’s Unforgotten – sadly sans Nicola Walker – while film editor Adam White has found the perfect Netflix film to fill the Jennifer Coolidge-shaped hole in all our lives after The White Lotus. Arts editor Jessie Thompson, meanwhile, enthuses about Coco Mellors’ bingeable novel Cleopatra and Frankenstein,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Culture Staff,Mark Hudson,Ellie Harrison,Roisin O'Connor,Adam White and Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - TV
Actor Paul Mescal has blasted a “creepy” fan for groping his bottom when he agreed to take a picture with her and said he confronted her over her actions. The ‘Aftersun’ actor has found most encounters with his admirers to be “really nice” but there have also been occasions where he’s been left feeling uncomfortable, such as a recent experience when a woman asked for his photo outside the Almeida Theatre in London, where the 27-year-old star has been starring in a production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He recalled to Es magazine: “As we posed for it, she put her hand on my a**.
“I thought it was an accident, so I like (moved away) but the hand followed. I remember tensing up and feeling just, like, fury.
“I turned to her and said, ‘What’re you doing? Take your hand off my a...
He recalled to Es magazine: “As we posed for it, she put her hand on my a**.
“I thought it was an accident, so I like (moved away) but the hand followed. I remember tensing up and feeling just, like, fury.
“I turned to her and said, ‘What’re you doing? Take your hand off my a...
- 2/24/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Shawn Mendes made a decision last year to cancel his “Wonder” tour to focus on his mental health. The “Señorita” singer is now reflecting on what was going through his mind at the time.
“The process was very difficult. A lot of doing therapy, a lot of trying to understand how I was feeling and what was making me feel that way,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “And then doing the work to help myself and heal. And also leaning on people in my life to help a little bit.”
Mendes continued, “It’s been a lot of work, but I think the last year and a half has been the most eye-opening and growing and beautiful and just healing process of my life. I’m also really grateful for all the people that were so accepting and loving and kind and understanding. And it just really made me...
“The process was very difficult. A lot of doing therapy, a lot of trying to understand how I was feeling and what was making me feel that way,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “And then doing the work to help myself and heal. And also leaning on people in my life to help a little bit.”
Mendes continued, “It’s been a lot of work, but I think the last year and a half has been the most eye-opening and growing and beautiful and just healing process of my life. I’m also really grateful for all the people that were so accepting and loving and kind and understanding. And it just really made me...
- 2/21/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Dinklage plays a composer who writes an opera about his affair with tugboat captain Marisa Tomei, in a comedy from Rebecca Miller that has something of Normal People
Author and film-maker Rebecca Miller isn’t known for humour exactly, but she brings a sprightly sort of sweetness and preposterous innocence to this quirky-naive romantic comedy that she has written and directed, something with wit and fun but also ultimately an almost childlike seriousness - like a Woody Allen movie or a screwball but played at two-thirds of the speed and with fewer cynical wisecracks.
The excellent cast brings a prosecco sparkle. Peter Dinklage is Steven Lauddem, a celebrated opera composer, difficult, demanding and now creatively blocked, married to fashionable New York therapist Patricia (Anne Hathaway), a gorgeous fashion plate with a love of neatness and an obsession with nuns. Steven is stepfather to her teen son Julian (Evan Ellison) who...
Author and film-maker Rebecca Miller isn’t known for humour exactly, but she brings a sprightly sort of sweetness and preposterous innocence to this quirky-naive romantic comedy that she has written and directed, something with wit and fun but also ultimately an almost childlike seriousness - like a Woody Allen movie or a screwball but played at two-thirds of the speed and with fewer cynical wisecracks.
The excellent cast brings a prosecco sparkle. Peter Dinklage is Steven Lauddem, a celebrated opera composer, difficult, demanding and now creatively blocked, married to fashionable New York therapist Patricia (Anne Hathaway), a gorgeous fashion plate with a love of neatness and an obsession with nuns. Steven is stepfather to her teen son Julian (Evan Ellison) who...
- 2/16/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Less than a year after David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” made a splash at Cannes, one of the body-horror master’s most famous films is getting the streaming TV treatment. “Dead Ringers,” a six-episode remake of the Canadian filmmaker’s 1988 feature, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 21, it was announced Tuesday. (TVLine first shared the news.)
Rachel Weisz stars in the series as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, two identical twin sisters who both work as gynecologists and operate a successful Obgyn clinic. In the original ’80s film, Beverly and Elliot were male twins portrayed by Jeremy Irons. Like the film, the series will explore Beverly and Elliot’s messy, co-dependent relationship, and how the tension it causes eventually pushes both to madness. Weisz is joined in the cast by Britne Oldford, Michael Chernus, Poppy Liu, and Jennifer Ehle.
The series was created and written Alice Birch,...
Rachel Weisz stars in the series as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, two identical twin sisters who both work as gynecologists and operate a successful Obgyn clinic. In the original ’80s film, Beverly and Elliot were male twins portrayed by Jeremy Irons. Like the film, the series will explore Beverly and Elliot’s messy, co-dependent relationship, and how the tension it causes eventually pushes both to madness. Weisz is joined in the cast by Britne Oldford, Michael Chernus, Poppy Liu, and Jennifer Ehle.
The series was created and written Alice Birch,...
- 2/14/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
The BBC has published its latest complaints report, revealing that a total of 605 objections were made to the broadcaster’s mislabelling of Paul Mescal as “British”.
While reporting on the Irish actor’s Oscar nomination for Aftersun last week, BBC News showed text on the screen that said: “2023 Oscar nominations: British actors Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are nominated for leading role.”
The corporation apologised for the mistake shortly afterwards, in a statement that read: “In text running across the screen we reported that Paul Mescal was one of two British actors who had been nominated for an Oscar for a leading role.
“The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologise for the mistake.”
Mescal, who was born in Maynooth, County Kildare, has previously had to correct the British press for getting his nationality wrong.
After making headlines when starring in the television adaptation of Sally Rooney...
While reporting on the Irish actor’s Oscar nomination for Aftersun last week, BBC News showed text on the screen that said: “2023 Oscar nominations: British actors Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are nominated for leading role.”
The corporation apologised for the mistake shortly afterwards, in a statement that read: “In text running across the screen we reported that Paul Mescal was one of two British actors who had been nominated for an Oscar for a leading role.
“The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologise for the mistake.”
Mescal, who was born in Maynooth, County Kildare, has previously had to correct the British press for getting his nationality wrong.
After making headlines when starring in the television adaptation of Sally Rooney...
- 2/3/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
It’s Brexit 2.0 as the BBC received hundreds of complaints from Paul Mescal fans for incorrectly labeling the Oscar nominee as a “British actor.”
“2023 Oscar nominations: British actors Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are nominated for leading role,” a BBC on-air report stated. Nighy is nominated for “Living,” while Mescal is recognized for “Aftersun” at the Academy Awards. However, Mescal is an Irish actor.
Per Deadline, the BBC received 605 complaints over the mistake. The U.K. broadcaster issued a statement reading, “The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologize for the mistake.”
Mescal previously tweeted “I’m Irish” in 2020 and taught “Late Night Show” host Stephen Colbert how to pull off the accent. Mescal marked his breakout role in the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” set in Ireland and earned an Emmy nomination for his turn as Connell. The star plays a Scottish father in Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun.
“2023 Oscar nominations: British actors Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are nominated for leading role,” a BBC on-air report stated. Nighy is nominated for “Living,” while Mescal is recognized for “Aftersun” at the Academy Awards. However, Mescal is an Irish actor.
Per Deadline, the BBC received 605 complaints over the mistake. The U.K. broadcaster issued a statement reading, “The text should have said that Paul Mescal is Irish. We apologize for the mistake.”
Mescal previously tweeted “I’m Irish” in 2020 and taught “Late Night Show” host Stephen Colbert how to pull off the accent. Mescal marked his breakout role in the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” set in Ireland and earned an Emmy nomination for his turn as Connell. The star plays a Scottish father in Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun.
- 2/2/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Months into the release of “Aftersun,” Paul Mescal is still pleasantly surprised when someone approaches him about it.
“It’s one of those things [where] it’s so small and so intimate that you’re like, ‘God, I hope that resonates,’” the actor recalled in an interview with TheWrap. “And the last couple of months have just been a testament to the fact that it has.”
So have Tuesday’s Oscar nominations, where the 26-year-old earned a nod for Best Actor. Written and directed by Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun” chronicles a summer vacation taken by Calum (Mescal), a young father deeply at odds with himself, and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio). Told from Sophie’s perspective at different ages, the film lives at the crossroads between memory and hindsight.
While Calum wears fatherhood like a protective armor, Mescal slips into the role like a second skin. Playing a parent may have...
“It’s one of those things [where] it’s so small and so intimate that you’re like, ‘God, I hope that resonates,’” the actor recalled in an interview with TheWrap. “And the last couple of months have just been a testament to the fact that it has.”
So have Tuesday’s Oscar nominations, where the 26-year-old earned a nod for Best Actor. Written and directed by Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun” chronicles a summer vacation taken by Calum (Mescal), a young father deeply at odds with himself, and his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio). Told from Sophie’s perspective at different ages, the film lives at the crossroads between memory and hindsight.
While Calum wears fatherhood like a protective armor, Mescal slips into the role like a second skin. Playing a parent may have...
- 1/25/2023
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Paul Mescal is in shock after receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
On Tuesday (23 January), the latest round of Academy Award nominations were announced in Hollywood.
While expectations for Mescal’s Aftersun nomination had gained traction in recent weeks, it was still uncertain whether he would be named – however, the doubters were proved wrong.
Mescal was nominated alongside fellow first-time nominees Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Bill Nighy (Living).
The actor’s nomination is especially impressive considering Aftersun was his first lead film role after his breakout appearance in the Sally Rooney adaptation Normal People, which was released in 2020.
Reacting to the news, Mescal said in a statement: “This is truly a special moment for everyone involved in Aftersun. To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I’m so utterly grateful. I want to dedicate...
On Tuesday (23 January), the latest round of Academy Award nominations were announced in Hollywood.
While expectations for Mescal’s Aftersun nomination had gained traction in recent weeks, it was still uncertain whether he would be named – however, the doubters were proved wrong.
Mescal was nominated alongside fellow first-time nominees Austin Butler (Elvis), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Bill Nighy (Living).
The actor’s nomination is especially impressive considering Aftersun was his first lead film role after his breakout appearance in the Sally Rooney adaptation Normal People, which was released in 2020.
Reacting to the news, Mescal said in a statement: “This is truly a special moment for everyone involved in Aftersun. To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I’m so utterly grateful. I want to dedicate...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Paul Mescal enters the north London cafe having trudged a short distance through the snow from his gym. Heads turn, but Mescal is oblivious. He shakes himself out of a hooded coat then nonchalantly removes a sweater to reveal a ribbed torso sheathed in a white T-shirt. More stares. The star of Aftersun, Scottish director Charlotte Wells’s tender visual poem about a father and daughter, takes a seat and rubs his tummy. In that moment it’s all too easy to compare him to Marlon Brando, with the tight-ish whitey shirt and all that.
As it happens, the Irish-born actor is playing one of Brando’s signature roles: the brutish but passionate Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Almeida Theatre, a five-minute walk away from where we’re breakfasting. The revival has been on Mescal’s slate for three years, delayed by Covid and scheduling issues.
As it happens, the Irish-born actor is playing one of Brando’s signature roles: the brutish but passionate Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Almeida Theatre, a five-minute walk away from where we’re breakfasting. The revival has been on Mescal’s slate for three years, delayed by Covid and scheduling issues.
- 1/11/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Linklater’s feature film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along” is merrily rolling again, with “Aftersun” and “Normal People” star Paul Mescal stepping into the lead role of Broadway composer Franklin Shepard, replacing original star Blake Jenner.
Mescal joins Ben Platt, who plays Franklin’s creative partner and lyricist Charley, and Beanie Feldstein, playing the duo’s good friend, theater critic Mary. The story tracks the trio’s disintegrating friendship as Franklin abandons Charley and Mary to become a successful Hollywood film producer — the twist is that the story is told in reverse chronological order, starting with Mary castigating Franklin as a sell-out and ending 20 years earlier with the characters as fresh-faced hopefuls.
Variety has confirmed that Mescal has already shot a segment for the film.
Linklater originally announced the project in 2019, with Platt, Feldstein and Jenner set for the lead roles...
Mescal joins Ben Platt, who plays Franklin’s creative partner and lyricist Charley, and Beanie Feldstein, playing the duo’s good friend, theater critic Mary. The story tracks the trio’s disintegrating friendship as Franklin abandons Charley and Mary to become a successful Hollywood film producer — the twist is that the story is told in reverse chronological order, starting with Mary castigating Franklin as a sell-out and ending 20 years earlier with the characters as fresh-faced hopefuls.
Variety has confirmed that Mescal has already shot a segment for the film.
Linklater originally announced the project in 2019, with Platt, Feldstein and Jenner set for the lead roles...
- 1/9/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
If police drama remains the bedrock of British TV commissions, with 2022 having welcomed crime series Karen Pirie, Marlow, Magpie Murders, The Responder, Sherwood and many more, broadcasters also gave us a glittering seam of new fantasy and horror. Last year saw a host of new British supernatural and sci-fi series, from Joe Barton’s sci-fi action-thriller The Lazarus Project and the criminally since-cancelled YA Netflix fantasy The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, BBC Three teen horror Red Rose, Sky dark comedy The Baby, as well as a new telling of John Wyndham’s spooky children classic The Midwich Cuckoos.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
- 1/3/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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After several lavish years, in which the bounty of big-name books became almost impossible to keep up with, publishing is finally catching up with itself. 2022 was arguably slower, and quieter, than its recent predecessors — there was no Sally Rooney to adorn tote bags all over Brooklyn, no Jonathan Franzen dominating the discourse. Instead of fighting over which blockbusters deserved their place at the very top, there was time and space for titles of all sorts to find a reading audience. Likely, no two “best of” lists will look alike this year, which means the glitch in the system may finally be repairing itself; the algorithm is weakening. Here, THR chooses its top 10 titles and a host of additional works we hope you’ll pick up.
1. Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel is so good at world-building that...
After several lavish years, in which the bounty of big-name books became almost impossible to keep up with, publishing is finally catching up with itself. 2022 was arguably slower, and quieter, than its recent predecessors — there was no Sally Rooney to adorn tote bags all over Brooklyn, no Jonathan Franzen dominating the discourse. Instead of fighting over which blockbusters deserved their place at the very top, there was time and space for titles of all sorts to find a reading audience. Likely, no two “best of” lists will look alike this year, which means the glitch in the system may finally be repairing itself; the algorithm is weakening. Here, THR chooses its top 10 titles and a host of additional works we hope you’ll pick up.
1. Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel is so good at world-building that...
- 12/24/2022
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Normal People‘s Daisy Edgar-Jones will star as Carole King in a forthcoming biopic about the musician.
Sony announced the news on Thursday, revealing the film will be based on the Beautiful broadway musical about King.
Beautiful details the early life of King in the Sixties and Seventies, during which time she composed some of the world’s most successful songs to date, including “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”
King has already given her stamp of approval on the casting.
“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger,” King told Variety.
“She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” she added.
Despite Kings endorsement, some fans have questioned why a Jewish actor was not cast in the role.
“Daisy Edgar-Jones being cast as Carole King,...
Sony announced the news on Thursday, revealing the film will be based on the Beautiful broadway musical about King.
Beautiful details the early life of King in the Sixties and Seventies, during which time she composed some of the world’s most successful songs to date, including “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman” and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”
King has already given her stamp of approval on the casting.
“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger,” King told Variety.
“She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” she added.
Despite Kings endorsement, some fans have questioned why a Jewish actor was not cast in the role.
“Daisy Edgar-Jones being cast as Carole King,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to play Carole King in Sony Pictures’ feature take of Tony Award-winning Broadway hit musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Deadline has confirmed.
The Kids Are All Right Oscar nominated filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko will direct and produce with Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and Paul Blake, who also produced the stage show. Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg are writing the latest draft of the screenplay based on Douglas McGrath’s book of the musical. The pic will follow King’s rise to fame and off-stage triumphs and tragedies. Beautiful was nominated for seven Tony awards, winning two.
“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger. She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” said Carole King.
Sherry Kondor, Christine Russell, Steven Shareshian, and Mike Bosner will executive produce.
Edgar-Jones most...
The Kids Are All Right Oscar nominated filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko will direct and produce with Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and Paul Blake, who also produced the stage show. Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg are writing the latest draft of the screenplay based on Douglas McGrath’s book of the musical. The pic will follow King’s rise to fame and off-stage triumphs and tragedies. Beautiful was nominated for seven Tony awards, winning two.
“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger. She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” said Carole King.
Sherry Kondor, Christine Russell, Steven Shareshian, and Mike Bosner will executive produce.
Edgar-Jones most...
- 12/15/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Normal People producer Element Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to Bellies, the highly anticipated debut from Nicola Dinan.
Rights to the queer love story were won following a “hotly contested auction,” according to Element owner Fremantle, with the book still a year away from publication.
Element will develop Bellies into an 8 x 30-minute series, taking a similar approach to its BBC/Hulu Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Dinan’s debut is a coming-of-age novel about two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Element’s Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, who will executive produce alongside Dinan.
Rights to the queer love story were won following a “hotly contested auction,” according to Element owner Fremantle, with the book still a year away from publication.
Element will develop Bellies into an 8 x 30-minute series, taking a similar approach to its BBC/Hulu Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Dinan’s debut is a coming-of-age novel about two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Element’s Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, who will executive produce alongside Dinan.
- 12/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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Element Pictures, the Irish banner behind the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning hit adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, has landed another buzzy coming-of-age novel from a fast-rising young author.
Following what has been described as a hotly-contested auction, the production company — in which Fremantle took a majority stake earlier in the year — has acquired the film and TV rights to Nicola Dinan’s debut novel Bellies ahead of its publication in the U.S. and U.K. next summer. Element, which also produced the adaptations of Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Nancy Harris’ The Dry, is working with Dinan to turn the novel into an eight-part series.
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, Bellies follows two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
Element Pictures, the Irish banner behind the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning hit adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, has landed another buzzy coming-of-age novel from a fast-rising young author.
Following what has been described as a hotly-contested auction, the production company — in which Fremantle took a majority stake earlier in the year — has acquired the film and TV rights to Nicola Dinan’s debut novel Bellies ahead of its publication in the U.S. and U.K. next summer. Element, which also produced the adaptations of Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Nancy Harris’ The Dry, is working with Dinan to turn the novel into an eight-part series.
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, Bellies follows two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
- 12/13/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything We Know So Far About Emma Stone's Next Movie With The Favourite Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Acclaimed filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, known for his work in Greek cinema and the Academy Award-winning period dark comedy "The Favourite," is getting ready for his next big project. The filmmaker, who has multiple credits under his belt, including the Academy Award-nominated "The Lobster," award-winning "Dogtooth" and "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" is reuniting with production company Element Pictures, with some of Hollywood's biggest names roped in to star.
While the film's plot is being kept under wraps, we do know the movie, titled "And," has a captivating star cast, including actress Emma Stone, who has collaborated with Lanthimos before. Here's everything we know about "And":
What We Know About The Cast And Crew Of And
Lanthimos will reunite former co-stars Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn for the first time since his 2019 period drama "The Favourite," which earned the actress an Academy Award nomination. Stone recently wrapped filming on...
While the film's plot is being kept under wraps, we do know the movie, titled "And," has a captivating star cast, including actress Emma Stone, who has collaborated with Lanthimos before. Here's everything we know about "And":
What We Know About The Cast And Crew Of And
Lanthimos will reunite former co-stars Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn for the first time since his 2019 period drama "The Favourite," which earned the actress an Academy Award nomination. Stone recently wrapped filming on...
- 11/15/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Paul Mescal has opened up about an interaction with a fan after Normal People came out that left him “f***ing angry”.
The actor starred alongside Daisy Edgar Jones in the BBC Three adaptation of Sally Rooney’s popular novel in 2020, with the show being praised for its realistic depiction of sex on screen.
In an interview with GQ Hype on Monday (7 November), Mescal recalled an exchange that happened shortly after the show was released, when he was out in County Waterford with friends.
His group ran into a hen party, when one woman told him: “I didn’t think the show was any good but I saw your willy and I have a photo!”
“I remember that was the first time that I was really angry,” Mescal said. “I was like, ‘That’s f***ing rude!’ It’s embarrassing for you, it’s embarrassing for me, it’s embarrassing...
The actor starred alongside Daisy Edgar Jones in the BBC Three adaptation of Sally Rooney’s popular novel in 2020, with the show being praised for its realistic depiction of sex on screen.
In an interview with GQ Hype on Monday (7 November), Mescal recalled an exchange that happened shortly after the show was released, when he was out in County Waterford with friends.
His group ran into a hen party, when one woman told him: “I didn’t think the show was any good but I saw your willy and I have a photo!”
“I remember that was the first time that I was really angry,” Mescal said. “I was like, ‘That’s f***ing rude!’ It’s embarrassing for you, it’s embarrassing for me, it’s embarrassing...
- 11/8/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - TV
Paul Mescal has opened up about feeling “uncomfortable” following the success of Normal People.
The 26-year-old actor rose to fame after the show, adapted from author Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name, which was released two years ago.
Speaking about the aftermath of the show’s success, Mescal recalled being followed around London by paparazzi. The actor also said he was asked by journalists in interviews whether the show helped him “get laid”.
Talking about being objectified is “really tricky,” said Mescal in an interview with The New York Times.
The Emmy-nominated actor acknowledged that the experience is more well-known and can be much worse for women in the industry.
Mescal added that now, after spending a few years as an actor, he feels “like the ground is tenuously below my feet”.
Mescal starred as Connell, alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones who played Marianne, in Normal People, which follows...
The 26-year-old actor rose to fame after the show, adapted from author Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name, which was released two years ago.
Speaking about the aftermath of the show’s success, Mescal recalled being followed around London by paparazzi. The actor also said he was asked by journalists in interviews whether the show helped him “get laid”.
Talking about being objectified is “really tricky,” said Mescal in an interview with The New York Times.
The Emmy-nominated actor acknowledged that the experience is more well-known and can be much worse for women in the industry.
Mescal added that now, after spending a few years as an actor, he feels “like the ground is tenuously below my feet”.
Mescal starred as Connell, alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones who played Marianne, in Normal People, which follows...
- 10/25/2022
- by Furvah Shah
- The Independent - TV
“Saltburn,” the second feature film from writer-director Emerald Fennell, has added Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe to its cast.
The trio joins previously announced stars Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, with the official description calling it “a story of obsession.”
“Saltburn” is Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman,” for which she won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. She will write and produce the film alongside Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The MRC and Amazon Studios film will debut in theaters courtesy of Amazon and MGM before it streams on Prime Video.
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“From the second we read ‘Saltburn,’ we were completely hooked,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios and Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.
The trio joins previously announced stars Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, with the official description calling it “a story of obsession.”
“Saltburn” is Fennell’s follow-up to “Promising Young Woman,” for which she won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. She will write and produce the film alongside Margot Robbie, Josey McNamara and Tom Ackerley of LuckyChap Entertainment. The MRC and Amazon Studios film will debut in theaters courtesy of Amazon and MGM before it streams on Prime Video.
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‘Promising Young Woman’ Filmmaker Emerald Fennell to Direct Next Film at MRC
“From the second we read ‘Saltburn,’ we were completely hooked,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios and Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios.
- 8/25/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Daisy Edgar-Jones picked up Locarno’s Leopard Club acting award Friday evening — the latest honour of her short career. Despite her early success, however, Edgar-Jones says she’s keen to reshape her career and shake her perception in the industry.
“I play a lot of gentle and quiet nice people, but I’d like to play characters that are very different from me. I’d like to transform and pick characters that aren’t my obvious casting,” she told Deadline, adding that she’d like to try her hand as a villain.
Edgar-Jones — who accepted the award at the festival’s Piazza Square — is best known for her performance as Marianne in Normal People, Hulu’s popular series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed, bestselling novel. Most recently, she starred in Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing, which is also showing at Locarno.
Directed by Olivia Newman, Where the...
“I play a lot of gentle and quiet nice people, but I’d like to play characters that are very different from me. I’d like to transform and pick characters that aren’t my obvious casting,” she told Deadline, adding that she’d like to try her hand as a villain.
Edgar-Jones — who accepted the award at the festival’s Piazza Square — is best known for her performance as Marianne in Normal People, Hulu’s popular series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed, bestselling novel. Most recently, she starred in Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing, which is also showing at Locarno.
Directed by Olivia Newman, Where the...
- 8/6/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Cutting your traditional cable package seems like a no-brainer at first. But then the Super Bowl happens. Then, the Grammys. And pretty soon, you want to watch the Oscars, baseball season, and all the buzzy TV series and movies without a cable service on hand.
The good news? You don’t need to break out the antenna. Streaming services like Hulu have caught on, and it’s now easier than ever to watch live TV and stream episodes of your favorite shows all in the same place thanks to the...
The good news? You don’t need to break out the antenna. Streaming services like Hulu have caught on, and it’s now easier than ever to watch live TV and stream episodes of your favorite shows all in the same place thanks to the...
- 8/3/2022
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
Normal People star deserved a better Hollywood debut than this southern gothic schmaltzer and its outrageously evasive cheat ending
Daisy Edgar-Jones was a lockdown smash for her excellent performance in the BBC’s Sally Rooney adaptation Normal People, and she deserved better for her Hollywood debut than this uncompromisingly terrible southern gothic schmaltzer based on the humungous US bestseller by Delia Owens. It’s a relentless surge of solemnly ridiculous nonsense in the style of romdram maestro Nicholas Sparks (creator of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle) culminating in a courtroom trial with Edgar-Jones’s free-spirited heroine in the dock as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Murder Suspect. Defending her is David Strathairn as the white-suited decent liberal lawyer and it is at this stage that this film plays like an all-white reboot of To Kill a Mockingbird with Edgar-Jones somehow getting to play Scout and Tom Robinson at the same time.
Daisy Edgar-Jones was a lockdown smash for her excellent performance in the BBC’s Sally Rooney adaptation Normal People, and she deserved better for her Hollywood debut than this uncompromisingly terrible southern gothic schmaltzer based on the humungous US bestseller by Delia Owens. It’s a relentless surge of solemnly ridiculous nonsense in the style of romdram maestro Nicholas Sparks (creator of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle) culminating in a courtroom trial with Edgar-Jones’s free-spirited heroine in the dock as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Murder Suspect. Defending her is David Strathairn as the white-suited decent liberal lawyer and it is at this stage that this film plays like an all-white reboot of To Kill a Mockingbird with Edgar-Jones somehow getting to play Scout and Tom Robinson at the same time.
- 7/21/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In the era of the Streaming Wars, the number of TV shows available to us is limitless. It can be hard to navigate through the masses of content and determine what shows to devote our time to. Luckily, the book-to-show pipeline has never been more reliable. We’ve rounded up ten of the best books that were turned into movies that you can add to your reading list – and then your streaming queue.
From dramas like Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Elena Ferrante’s My Beautiful Friend, to modern...
From dramas like Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Elena Ferrante’s My Beautiful Friend, to modern...
- 7/18/2022
- by Natalli Amato
- Rollingstone.com
Daisy Edgar-Jones has been on the rise ever since her big breakout role in "Normal People." Since bringing Marianne of Sally Rooney's beloved novel to life on the BBC Three limited series, the 24-year-old English actor has showcased her acting prowess with highly acclaimed follow-up projects, including FX's "Under the Banner of Heaven" and the 2022 Sundance sensation "Fresh." Now the actor is set to play Kya, the misunderstood Marsh Girl, in her feature film debut in "Where the Crawdads Sing," the movie adaptation of Delia Owens's 2018 book of the same name.
As the actor continues to catapult to global prominence with her wide range of roles, interest in her real life is also piquing, with many fans eager to learn more about the actor's low-key love life. So far, Edgar-Jones has managed to keep her romantic life behind the curtains, for the most part, revealing only rare...
As the actor continues to catapult to global prominence with her wide range of roles, interest in her real life is also piquing, with many fans eager to learn more about the actor's low-key love life. So far, Edgar-Jones has managed to keep her romantic life behind the curtains, for the most part, revealing only rare...
- 7/12/2022
- by Pallavi Bhadu
- Popsugar.com
People love Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing.” A lot of people, as the 2018 novel has currently sold over 12 million copies (putting it in the upper echelon of all-time bestsellers) and spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Reese Witherspoon championed it as part of her Hello Sunshine book club one month after its release. Two months later, she jumped on board to produce a film version. Hell, Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift!) liked the book so much that she wrote a song about the North Carolina-set period piece just for fun.
Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones remembers her mother, a prodigious reader, singing the praise of the novel while the family was on holiday in 2020, just months after the book had been optioned for the big screen. “She didn’t tell me that there was a part that actually I was maybe suitable for, which was very funny,...
Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones remembers her mother, a prodigious reader, singing the praise of the novel while the family was on holiday in 2020, just months after the book had been optioned for the big screen. “She didn’t tell me that there was a part that actually I was maybe suitable for, which was very funny,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Andrew Haigh, acclaimed filmmaker behind queer festival darling “Weekend” and A24’s “Lean on Pete,” has assembled four U.K. heavyweights for his next feature film.
“Fleabag” breakout star Andrew Scott, “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal, “The Crown” O.G. Elizabeth II Claire Foy, and “Rocketman” actor Jamie Bell are all on deck for “Strangers” — which Haigh has adapted and will direct. Searchlight Pictures, Film4 and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on the project, loosely based on an award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
“Strangers” follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the...
“Fleabag” breakout star Andrew Scott, “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal, “The Crown” O.G. Elizabeth II Claire Foy, and “Rocketman” actor Jamie Bell are all on deck for “Strangers” — which Haigh has adapted and will direct. Searchlight Pictures, Film4 and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on the project, loosely based on an award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
“Strangers” follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the...
- 6/30/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Phoebe Bridgers was joined by a group of string players for an emotionally evocative performance of her recent song, “Sidelines.” The singer and her band donned skeleton-clad football uniforms, which stood in contrast to the moody, introspective tune, for an appearance on The Tonight Show.
Bridgers wrote and recorded “Sidelines” for Hulu’s recent Sally Rooney adaptation Conversations With Friends, out now. Co-written by Bridgers, her drummer Marshall Vore, and Ruby Rain Henley, the song houses muted percussion and classic Bridgers lines, specifically “I’m not afraid of getting older...
Bridgers wrote and recorded “Sidelines” for Hulu’s recent Sally Rooney adaptation Conversations With Friends, out now. Co-written by Bridgers, her drummer Marshall Vore, and Ruby Rain Henley, the song houses muted percussion and classic Bridgers lines, specifically “I’m not afraid of getting older...
- 6/16/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
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