Crimson Peak may be the quintessential Guillermo del Toro film, as it compresses his fetishistic attention to detail into a single looming set where creaking floorboards, scores of dying moths, and the frequent intrusions of mutilated ghosts are just pieces in the giant dollhouse where the director merrily plays. The combination of gothic ghost story and harlequin romance doesn’t break new ground for either genre, but the intensity of Brandt Gordon’s art direction and Kate Hawley’s costume design reinforce the innate connection that period romance and horror share in how these genres so purely express their most profound ideas through ornate style.
Amusingly, the focus of the film’s first act—the gamesmanship of high society’s courtship rituals playing out in well-lit parlors—is no less tense than the story’s eventual retreat into the dark confines of Allerdale Hall. The most dominant sound effects in...
Amusingly, the focus of the film’s first act—the gamesmanship of high society’s courtship rituals playing out in well-lit parlors—is no less tense than the story’s eventual retreat into the dark confines of Allerdale Hall. The most dominant sound effects in...
- 5/13/2024
- by Jake Cole
- Slant Magazine
Faraway Downs is a history drama miniseries created by Baz Luhrmann. The Hulu miniseries revolves around an English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and also to sell a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called ‘Faraway Downs.’ But when her husband dies a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney tries to take the ranch illegally, to protect her property she joins hands with a cattle drover. Faraway Downs stars Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brandon Walters, and Bryan Brown in the lead roles. So, if you loved the Hulu series here are some similar shows you could watch next.
The Son Credit – AMC
Synopsis: The sweeping family saga The Son follows Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) as he builds a Texas oil dynasty.
Frontier (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: The series is an action-packed adventure drama following the chaotic and violent struggle...
The Son Credit – AMC
Synopsis: The sweeping family saga The Son follows Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) as he builds a Texas oil dynasty.
Frontier (Netflix) Credit – Netflix
Synopsis: The series is an action-packed adventure drama following the chaotic and violent struggle...
- 11/27/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
The Buccaneers is a period drama series created by Katherine Jakeways. The Apple TV+ series is based on an unfinished novel of the same name by Edith Warton, the series revolves around a group of young American women in 1870s London as both American and British cultures clash because of the wildly different approach to their traditions. The Buccaneers stars Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Matthew Broome, Josh Dylan, Barney Fishwick, and Aubri Ibrag. So, if you loved the Apple TV+ series here are some similar shows you could watch next.
The Buccaneers (BritBox & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final book. In London for the season, four beautiful Americans charm the impoverished English aristocracy with their vivacity and wealth. But it all turns to ashes.
Gentleman Jack (Max & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – HBO
Synopsis: Set in the changing world of 1832 England...
The Buccaneers (BritBox & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final book. In London for the season, four beautiful Americans charm the impoverished English aristocracy with their vivacity and wealth. But it all turns to ashes.
Gentleman Jack (Max & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – HBO
Synopsis: Set in the changing world of 1832 England...
- 11/13/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Exclusive: Veteran British director Susanna White has revealed she’s working on a feature film based on her teenage life set against changes in the fashion world, as she gears up for today’s launch of Apple TV+ period drama The Buccaneers.
White is developing an untitled script for the BFI, the first time she has written a feature script herself, and the plot is based on her personal coming of age story. “It’s the story of me at 13, set in the world of fashion in early 1970s,” she told Deadline in an interview. “It’s very fun, sexy and hopefully moving.”
We hear the film will follow 13-year-old Gingernut as she grows up with the fur trade’s decline playing out in the background. The plot will see her trying to make sense of her parents’ dysfunctional relationship and include themes of family, growing up, betrayal, love and loss.
White is developing an untitled script for the BFI, the first time she has written a feature script herself, and the plot is based on her personal coming of age story. “It’s the story of me at 13, set in the world of fashion in early 1970s,” she told Deadline in an interview. “It’s very fun, sexy and hopefully moving.”
We hear the film will follow 13-year-old Gingernut as she grows up with the fur trade’s decline playing out in the background. The plot will see her trying to make sense of her parents’ dysfunctional relationship and include themes of family, growing up, betrayal, love and loss.
- 11/8/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Aton Soumache and Joann Sfar’s French studio Magical Society has launched a UK arm helmed by Saving Mr Banks producer Paul Trijbits, whose drama indie FilmWave has shuttered after a decade.
Magical Society UK has landed a debut commission – the BBC’s AA Dhand adaptation Virdee, which was announced at last month’s Edinburgh TV Festival and will be produced by crime sub-label Magical North. Trijbits is running Magical Society UK with JJ Lousberg, a former Focus and Universal exec.
Magical Society UK is operating as a Jv with Paris-based Magical Society and will forge kids, animation and drama projects both TV and film. The French operation was opened in 2020 by comic book artist and filmmaker Sfar, and French animation producer Soumache, who was behind Netflix’s current most-watched animation feature, Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, and is the honorary chairman...
Magical Society UK has landed a debut commission – the BBC’s AA Dhand adaptation Virdee, which was announced at last month’s Edinburgh TV Festival and will be produced by crime sub-label Magical North. Trijbits is running Magical Society UK with JJ Lousberg, a former Focus and Universal exec.
Magical Society UK is operating as a Jv with Paris-based Magical Society and will forge kids, animation and drama projects both TV and film. The French operation was opened in 2020 by comic book artist and filmmaker Sfar, and French animation producer Soumache, who was behind Netflix’s current most-watched animation feature, Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, and is the honorary chairman...
- 9/6/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“Emily,” Frances O’Connor’s take on the inner life of one of literature’s moodiest, broodiest romantics, embraces life on the moors as a clear alternative to the bulk of 19th-century English society. Now available on VOD and starring Emma Mackey as Emily Brontë — the gangly outcast who poured her ache for what cannot be into “Wuthering Heights” — her place in the world and within her own family is subtly but craftily conveyed by her dresses.
Oscar-nominated costume designer Michael O’Connor is no stranger to the 19th century, having done everything from “The Duchess” to the 2011 “Jane Eyre.” Within the era’s fashion, he finds ways in which to make Emily stick out, her unease in her own skin peeking through what she wears.
For the model of how to get along as an intellectual woman with limited vocational options (and of firstborn sibling syndrome in overdrive), the film offers...
Oscar-nominated costume designer Michael O’Connor is no stranger to the 19th century, having done everything from “The Duchess” to the 2011 “Jane Eyre.” Within the era’s fashion, he finds ways in which to make Emily stick out, her unease in her own skin peeking through what she wears.
For the model of how to get along as an intellectual woman with limited vocational options (and of firstborn sibling syndrome in overdrive), the film offers...
- 4/17/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
April on Prime Video is stacked with returning favorites, the launch of one of Amazon’s biggest shows ever and a bevy of great movies to watch. The fifth and final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” launches on April 14, while Amazon will premiere the globe-trotting action-thriller series “Citadel” – starring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Richard Madden – on April 28. The show hails from “Avengers: Endgame” filmmaker Joe and Anthony Russo.
Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”
You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.
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The 41 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (April 2023)
April 1
American Gigolo
At the Gate...
Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”
You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.
Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.
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The 41 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (April 2023)
April 1
American Gigolo
At the Gate...
- 4/1/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The Fund is aimed at co-productions between European and international partners.
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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Whether onstage or onscreen, Ruth Wilson has never shied from intimate and demanding scenes, and she’s got plenty in her new film, True Things.
Based on the book by Deborah Kay Davies, it casts Wilson as Kate, a benefits worker who can’t resist a torrid affair with an ex-con known only as “Blond,” played by Tom Burke. Wilson says the pair and filmmaker Harry Wootliff loved working with “the queen of intimacy coaching,” Ita O’Brien.
“She was brilliant,” recalls Wilson, who reportedly left The Affair over issues with the way nude scenes on Showtime series were handled, among other concerns. “I’m really hoping it results in more interesting sex scenes on our screens because there’s a dialogue now and there wasn’t one before. Having an intimacy coach now means the discussion can happen in a pragmatic, practical, rational way.
Whether onstage or onscreen, Ruth Wilson has never shied from intimate and demanding scenes, and she’s got plenty in her new film, True Things.
Based on the book by Deborah Kay Davies, it casts Wilson as Kate, a benefits worker who can’t resist a torrid affair with an ex-con known only as “Blond,” played by Tom Burke. Wilson says the pair and filmmaker Harry Wootliff loved working with “the queen of intimacy coaching,” Ita O’Brien.
“She was brilliant,” recalls Wilson, who reportedly left The Affair over issues with the way nude scenes on Showtime series were handled, among other concerns. “I’m really hoping it results in more interesting sex scenes on our screens because there’s a dialogue now and there wasn’t one before. Having an intimacy coach now means the discussion can happen in a pragmatic, practical, rational way.
- 9/5/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Apple may have found its version of The Gilded Age and Bridgerton.
The tech giant and streamer has gone straight to series on an eight-episode drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel, The Buccaneers. The series stars Kristine Froseth (The Assistant), Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aubri Ibrag (Dive Club), Imogen Waterhouse (The Outpost) and Mia Threapleton (Shadows). Production is already under way in Scotland.
The series, from writer and creator Katherine Jakeways (Tracey Ullman’s Show), revolves around a group of fun-loving young American girls who exploded into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that — and saying ‘I do’ is just the beginning.
BAFTA nominee Beth Willis (Doctor Who...
Apple may have found its version of The Gilded Age and Bridgerton.
The tech giant and streamer has gone straight to series on an eight-episode drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel, The Buccaneers. The series stars Kristine Froseth (The Assistant), Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why), Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell), Aubri Ibrag (Dive Club), Imogen Waterhouse (The Outpost) and Mia Threapleton (Shadows). Production is already under way in Scotland.
The series, from writer and creator Katherine Jakeways (Tracey Ullman’s Show), revolves around a group of fun-loving young American girls who exploded into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that — and saying ‘I do’ is just the beginning.
BAFTA nominee Beth Willis (Doctor Who...
- 6/23/2022
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Peter Webber (Girl With A Pearl Earring) is set to direct The Pianist, Valkyrie and Indiana Jones 5 star Thomas Kretschmann in WWII movie The Prominents.
Set in the chaotic final days of World War II, the story follows a group of Nazi Germany’s most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe, out of Allied reach, to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender. On their journey, they endure aerial attacks, collapsing bridges, partisan raids, and the escalating threat of liquidation by their Nazi captors.
Kretschmann will star as Bogislaw von Bonin, a German prisoner battling his own demons: complicity in the war’s atrocities and the drug abuse he uses to cope with it.
Hippolyte Girardot (The French Dispatch) and Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique) will play French prime minister Leon Blum and his wife Janot, respectively. Valentina Cervi (Jane Eyre) is playing...
Set in the chaotic final days of World War II, the story follows a group of Nazi Germany’s most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe, out of Allied reach, to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender. On their journey, they endure aerial attacks, collapsing bridges, partisan raids, and the escalating threat of liquidation by their Nazi captors.
Kretschmann will star as Bogislaw von Bonin, a German prisoner battling his own demons: complicity in the war’s atrocities and the drug abuse he uses to cope with it.
Hippolyte Girardot (The French Dispatch) and Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique) will play French prime minister Leon Blum and his wife Janot, respectively. Valentina Cervi (Jane Eyre) is playing...
- 4/29/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
No two ways about it: April’s a great month for the Criterion Channel, which (among other things; more in a second) adds two recent favorites. We’re thrilled at the SVOD premiere of Hamaguchi’s entrancing Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, our #3 of 2021, and Bruno Dumont’s lacerating France, featuring Léa Seydoux’s finest performance yet.
Ethan Hawke’s Adventures in Moviegoing runs the gamut from Eagle Pennell’s Last Night at the Alamo to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, while a 14-film John Ford retro (mostly) skips westerns altogether. And no notes on the Delphine Seyrig retro—multiple by Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Duras, a smattering of Buñuel, and Seyrig’s own film Be Pretty and Shut Up! That of all things might be the crown jewl.
See the full list of April titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
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3 Bad Men, John Ford, 1926
Aar paar, Guru Dutt,...
Ethan Hawke’s Adventures in Moviegoing runs the gamut from Eagle Pennell’s Last Night at the Alamo to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, while a 14-film John Ford retro (mostly) skips westerns altogether. And no notes on the Delphine Seyrig retro—multiple by Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Duras, a smattering of Buñuel, and Seyrig’s own film Be Pretty and Shut Up! That of all things might be the crown jewl.
See the full list of April titles below and more on the Criterion Channel.
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3 Bad Men, John Ford, 1926
Aar paar, Guru Dutt,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Deal marks fourth collaboration between distributor and Mia Hansen-Løve.
IFC Films is reuniting with Mia Hansen-Love for a fourth time and has acquired North American rights to Cannes Competition entry Bergman Island starring Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, and Vicky Krieps.
Hansen-Love wrote the drama about an American filmmaker couple, Chris and Tony, who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer, hoping to find inspiration amid the wild landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated works.
As days spent separately pass by, Chris develops a fascination for the island and souvenirs of her first love resurface. As...
IFC Films is reuniting with Mia Hansen-Love for a fourth time and has acquired North American rights to Cannes Competition entry Bergman Island starring Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, and Vicky Krieps.
Hansen-Love wrote the drama about an American filmmaker couple, Chris and Tony, who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer, hoping to find inspiration amid the wild landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated works.
As days spent separately pass by, Chris develops a fascination for the island and souvenirs of her first love resurface. As...
- 6/4/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Today sees the launch of The Literary Tarot campaign on Kickstarter, pairing some of the world's best authors and artists for a great cause: the Brink Literacy Project!
This project tasked authors with pairing a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana and we are exclusively revealing horror authors that are taking part in this project, along with the novel and card they have chosen:
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Victor Lavalle (The Changeling) pairs The Tower with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"
Bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) pairs Three of Quills (Swords) with W. W. Jacobs’s seminal, supernatural short story Monkey's Paw
Isaac Marion (the author of the bestselling Warm Bodies series) pairs The Hermit with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Bestselling Mexican Gothic novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pairs The Lovers with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Brink Literacy...
This project tasked authors with pairing a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana and we are exclusively revealing horror authors that are taking part in this project, along with the novel and card they have chosen:
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Victor Lavalle (The Changeling) pairs The Tower with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"
Bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) pairs Three of Quills (Swords) with W. W. Jacobs’s seminal, supernatural short story Monkey's Paw
Isaac Marion (the author of the bestselling Warm Bodies series) pairs The Hermit with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Bestselling Mexican Gothic novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pairs The Lovers with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Brink Literacy...
- 6/1/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Emily Brontë is the latest author to pique the interest of Arenamedia, with production starting on Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut, Emily, in the UK.
Having recently adapted the work of Jane Harper for The Dry, with plans to do the same for Tim Winton’s Blueback, Robert Connolly’s company will turn its attention to the life of the Wuthering Heights author.
O’Connor, most recently seen on screen in Sky UK/Foxtel’s The End, also penned the script for the film, which tells Brontë’s origin story.
Emma Mackey (Sex Education) leads a cast that includes Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Invisible Man), Alexandra Dowling (The Musketeers), Amelia Gething (The Spanish Princess), as well as Gemma Jones (Rocketman), and Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty).
Robert Connolly and Robert Patterson will produce for Arenamedia, alongside David Barron (Harry Potter franchise) and Piers Tempest (Military Wives).
Backers include Ingenious Media,...
Having recently adapted the work of Jane Harper for The Dry, with plans to do the same for Tim Winton’s Blueback, Robert Connolly’s company will turn its attention to the life of the Wuthering Heights author.
O’Connor, most recently seen on screen in Sky UK/Foxtel’s The End, also penned the script for the film, which tells Brontë’s origin story.
Emma Mackey (Sex Education) leads a cast that includes Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Invisible Man), Alexandra Dowling (The Musketeers), Amelia Gething (The Spanish Princess), as well as Gemma Jones (Rocketman), and Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty).
Robert Connolly and Robert Patterson will produce for Arenamedia, alongside David Barron (Harry Potter franchise) and Piers Tempest (Military Wives).
Backers include Ingenious Media,...
- 5/4/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
In preparation for Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, costume designer Alexandra Byrne spent her time researching her favorite time period for clothing. “The reason I like this period is that it’s the beginning of fashion plates being published for women,” Byrne says. “The combination of the fashion plate and looking at the original garments lets you understand them as clothes rather than costumes.” Based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name, and starring Anya Taylor-Joy in the eponymous role, Emma follows Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who spends her time meddling in the romantic lives of those around her. Here, Byrne digs into her fresh, personality-focused approach to a well-loved period story.
Deadline: How did you get involved with Emma?
Alexandra Byrne: I met Autumn [de Wilde] when I was in L.A., I think at the tail end of publicity for Mary Queen of Scots. We had...
Deadline: How did you get involved with Emma?
Alexandra Byrne: I met Autumn [de Wilde] when I was in L.A., I think at the tail end of publicity for Mary Queen of Scots. We had...
- 4/18/2021
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
Loop Hero was once derailed as unplayable, but turned out to be an unexpected indie sensation.
“Being trapped in a repetitive loop might not sound like escapism right now. But for many among its half-a-million strong player base, the indie sensation Loop Hero is an all-consuming obsession. On paper, it’s a mash-up of genres that brings to mind chucking half a decade’s worth of gaming buzzwords into a blender, but the resulting concoction is fiendishly addictive and refreshingly unique.”
Read more at Inverse.
Elementary and Charlie’s Angels actress Lucy Liu has reportedly joined the cast of Shazam! Fury of the Gods as the DC villain Kalypso.
“The best version of John Watson and star of the Charlie’s Angels movies, Lucy Liu, has joined the DC Comics adaptation Shazam! Fury of the Gods as the villain Kalypso, the sister of Helen Mirren’s villainous character Hespera.”
Read more at The Mary Sue.
“Being trapped in a repetitive loop might not sound like escapism right now. But for many among its half-a-million strong player base, the indie sensation Loop Hero is an all-consuming obsession. On paper, it’s a mash-up of genres that brings to mind chucking half a decade’s worth of gaming buzzwords into a blender, but the resulting concoction is fiendishly addictive and refreshingly unique.”
Read more at Inverse.
Elementary and Charlie’s Angels actress Lucy Liu has reportedly joined the cast of Shazam! Fury of the Gods as the DC villain Kalypso.
“The best version of John Watson and star of the Charlie’s Angels movies, Lucy Liu, has joined the DC Comics adaptation Shazam! Fury of the Gods as the villain Kalypso, the sister of Helen Mirren’s villainous character Hespera.”
Read more at The Mary Sue.
- 4/13/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
Bittu, the live-action short film directed by Karishma Dev Dube, stays with you long after it fades to black and the credits roll. But I am getting ahead of myself…before I go on to praise this stunning and heartbreaking film, let’s set the scene.
Based on a true story, Bittu, set in a forgotten Himalayan community, follows streetwise eight-year-old Bittu and her sweet polar-opposite best friend Chand. On the day the film occurs they have a big fight at school. What happens next brings them to an end they never imagined. According to the director/writer, “At its heart, the film is about a fierce sense of loyalty and friendship held by a young girl who is punished for her individuality and somehow saved by it.”
Check out the trailer
In just over 16 minutes, Karishma Dev Dube has crafted a story that feels completely honest, substantial and perfectly told.
Based on a true story, Bittu, set in a forgotten Himalayan community, follows streetwise eight-year-old Bittu and her sweet polar-opposite best friend Chand. On the day the film occurs they have a big fight at school. What happens next brings them to an end they never imagined. According to the director/writer, “At its heart, the film is about a fierce sense of loyalty and friendship held by a young girl who is punished for her individuality and somehow saved by it.”
Check out the trailer
In just over 16 minutes, Karishma Dev Dube has crafted a story that feels completely honest, substantial and perfectly told.
- 2/11/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Here is the full official trailer for The Heiress, Chris Bell’s supernatural chiller, available to download and rent in the UK from Monday 15th March 2021 on all major digital platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office, Sony and Google.
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress is also being released on Tuesday March 16th 2021 in...
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress is also being released on Tuesday March 16th 2021 in...
- 1/26/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Movie Partnership, in association with Old Way Film & Television, will be releasing the powerful and haunting supernatural thriller The Heiress, both in the UK and across the world, excluding US and Canada.
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress will be available to download from all major platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office,...
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress will be available to download from all major platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Although it's not cited in the credits, the spirit - and much of the plot - of Jane Eyre wafts in along with the sound of voodoo drums in Jacques Tourneur's atmospheric horror, which marries Bronte's work to an article from Inez Wallace. The title might, to a modern ear, suggest schlock or B movie silliness but Tourneur's film, which saw him reteam with producer Val Lewton a year after the equally moody Cat People, is a melancholic and gothic-inflected tale that is haunting in the best sense of word.
Young Canadian nurse Betsy Connell (Francis Dee) is heading to Saint Sebastian in the Caribbean to care for Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), the wife of plantation owner Paul (Tom Conway) who, though she is able to move about, appears to have no independent thought. The doctors and the islanders, needless to say, are at odds views as to what exactly might be ailing her.
Young Canadian nurse Betsy Connell (Francis Dee) is heading to Saint Sebastian in the Caribbean to care for Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), the wife of plantation owner Paul (Tom Conway) who, though she is able to move about, appears to have no independent thought. The doctors and the islanders, needless to say, are at odds views as to what exactly might be ailing her.
- 12/25/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to Alistair Owen, author of The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft, about his picks for 5 Great Screen Adaptations – dipping into 5 case studies from the book:
Drive – Hossein Amini – how to write a great opening Atonement – Christopher Hampton – fidelity to the novel Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach – importance of point of view / use of voiceover (compare and contrast with Andrew Davies’ TV version) Great Expectations – Sarah Phelps – how small changes can make a big difference (compare and contract with David Nicholls’ film version) Wild – Nick Hornby – the challenges of nonfiction
Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book – but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays?...
Drive – Hossein Amini – how to write a great opening Atonement – Christopher Hampton – fidelity to the novel Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach – importance of point of view / use of voiceover (compare and contrast with Andrew Davies’ TV version) Great Expectations – Sarah Phelps – how small changes can make a big difference (compare and contract with David Nicholls’ film version) Wild – Nick Hornby – the challenges of nonfiction
Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book – but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays?...
- 11/9/2020
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Out this week from The Film Detective comes The Sin of Nora Moran, a 1933 pre-Code, Poverty Row film directed by Phil Goldstone. The Sin of Nora Moran is one of those "fallen women" stories that Old Hollywood was once known so well for, featuring an unmarried lady, who, by no fault of her own, attempts to be self-sufficient and obtain gainful employment. She finds a job after much difficulty, as well as romance, but at an extreme cost. Starring Zita Johann as Nora Moran, the film at first opens on an upset woman, Edith Crawford who's found love letters...
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- 7/30/2020
- Screen Anarchy
HBO Max is out with its list of everything coming and going from the new streaming service, and the list includes the 2019 film “Harriet” starring Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman.
The HBO Originals coming next month include season four of “Room 104,” HBO Europe’s “Foodie Love,” and documentaries like “Stockton on My Mind” and “Showbiz Kids.” Other films joining include “Motherless Brooklyn,” “Midway,” and “Last Christmas.”
Leaving at the end of the month are “Aquamarine,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Long Shot,” “Crimson Peak,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “X-Men.”
Also Read: iHeartMedia, WarnerMedia to Co-Produce Companion Podcasts for HBO Max Shows
Here is the full list of everything new and leaving in July:
July 1
Absolute Power, 1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
The Amazing Panda Adventure, 1995
American Graffiti, 1973 (HBO)
American History X, 1998
Angels in the Outfield, 1951
Angus, 1995
August Rush, 2007
The Bachelor, 1999
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, 1998
Batman and Harley Quinn , 2017
Batman vs.
The HBO Originals coming next month include season four of “Room 104,” HBO Europe’s “Foodie Love,” and documentaries like “Stockton on My Mind” and “Showbiz Kids.” Other films joining include “Motherless Brooklyn,” “Midway,” and “Last Christmas.”
Leaving at the end of the month are “Aquamarine,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Long Shot,” “Crimson Peak,” “The Sun Is Also a Star” and “X-Men.”
Also Read: iHeartMedia, WarnerMedia to Co-Produce Companion Podcasts for HBO Max Shows
Here is the full list of everything new and leaving in July:
July 1
Absolute Power, 1997
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
The Amazing Panda Adventure, 1995
American Graffiti, 1973 (HBO)
American History X, 1998
Angels in the Outfield, 1951
Angus, 1995
August Rush, 2007
The Bachelor, 1999
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, 1998
Batman and Harley Quinn , 2017
Batman vs.
- 6/23/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
“Mock if you will,” Christian Evangelist Florence Scanwell (Dorothy Atkinson) chided the bordello workers in Hulu‘s progressive period series Harlots. “There is honor in righteous poverty.” The creative team will be finding new places of employment. Harlots has been cancelled at the streaming service, according to THR, nine months after its third season came to a close.
Based on true stories of real women, Harlots was neither clichéd nor glamorous. It depicted sex work as legitimate. The sex wasn’t gratuitous, it was perfunctory, and there is no judgment of it. The series was written, directed and produced entirely by women. Co-creators Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre) and Alison Newman were Executive Producers alongside Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Alison Carpenter. Season 3 was written by Buffini, Jane English, Vivienne Harvey and Jessica Ruston, and directed by Robin Sheppard, Chloe Thomas and Debs Paterson, with Pat Tookey-Dickson producing.
Harlots was set in 1763 London.
Based on true stories of real women, Harlots was neither clichéd nor glamorous. It depicted sex work as legitimate. The sex wasn’t gratuitous, it was perfunctory, and there is no judgment of it. The series was written, directed and produced entirely by women. Co-creators Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre) and Alison Newman were Executive Producers alongside Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Alison Carpenter. Season 3 was written by Buffini, Jane English, Vivienne Harvey and Jessica Ruston, and directed by Robin Sheppard, Chloe Thomas and Debs Paterson, with Pat Tookey-Dickson producing.
Harlots was set in 1763 London.
- 6/10/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Hulu’s Harlots will no longer be taking appointments, while Doris Quinn’s mission of Reprisal has come to an end.
TVLine has confirmed that Harlots has been cancelled at the streaming service, nine months after its third season came to a close. Set against the backdrop of 18th-century Georgian London, Harlots offered “a new take” on the city’s most valuable commercial activity — sex — based on the stories of real women and written by Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre). The cast included Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown Findlay.
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TVLine has confirmed that Harlots has been cancelled at the streaming service, nine months after its third season came to a close. Set against the backdrop of 18th-century Georgian London, Harlots offered “a new take” on the city’s most valuable commercial activity — sex — based on the stories of real women and written by Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre). The cast included Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown Findlay.
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- 6/10/2020
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
James Corden’s performance in ‘One Man Two Guvnors’ launches free series during pandemic.
The UK’s National Theatre has delivered more than 960,000 views worldwide for the first in its series of productions streamed online.
’National Theatre At Home’ launched last night (April 2) with a 2011 performance of One Man Two Guvnors, featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from James Corden.
Originally screened in cinemas globally as part of National Theatre Live, it was streamed for free via the National Theatre’s YouTube channel from 7pm (BST), during which time it drew more than 200,000 views. It will remain free to watch on...
The UK’s National Theatre has delivered more than 960,000 views worldwide for the first in its series of productions streamed online.
’National Theatre At Home’ launched last night (April 2) with a 2011 performance of One Man Two Guvnors, featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from James Corden.
Originally screened in cinemas globally as part of National Theatre Live, it was streamed for free via the National Theatre’s YouTube channel from 7pm (BST), during which time it drew more than 200,000 views. It will remain free to watch on...
- 4/3/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
If Brazil’s film industry faces unprecedented threats under far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, let’s hope this kind of adventurous filmmaking–which ruminates on the country’s unaddressed injustices that shaped the country of today–isn’t in the populist administration’s sights. All the Dead Ones is an accomplished film by directing duo Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra, rich in the nation’s poetry and music, daring in highlighting women’s voices while commenting on Brazil’s history of inequality of wealth, class, and race.
The film hinges on the white, middle-class Soares family in São Paulo at the turn of the twentieth century, a decade after Brazil banned slavery and when the nascent republic was lurching from coup to dictatorship. Before abolition, the Soares were wealthy coffee-plantation owners, but their diminished place in social strata has meant the women of the family shelter in relative obscurity in Brazil’s largest city.
The film hinges on the white, middle-class Soares family in São Paulo at the turn of the twentieth century, a decade after Brazil banned slavery and when the nascent republic was lurching from coup to dictatorship. Before abolition, the Soares were wealthy coffee-plantation owners, but their diminished place in social strata has meant the women of the family shelter in relative obscurity in Brazil’s largest city.
- 2/24/2020
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
by Cláudio Alves
The Best Costume Design category at the Oscars tends to be a place where one can find idiosyncratic choices. While it's true the Academy has a taste for the extravagant and period-looking, the Costume Branch is usually unafraid of celebrating films otherwise ignored. That's how we get such wonderful nods like those for Bright Star's Regency fashions, I Am Love's early aughts glamour, Jane Eyre 's Victorian severity, and Mirror Mirror's fairytale lunacy.
This year, for the first time in the category's history, all five nominees are Best Picture contenders. The arguable quality of the designs aside, this is a sad state of affairs that makes the usually cool Best Costume Design category look tediously similar to all the others. In an attempt to right the Academy's wrongs and offer a more varied look at 2019's achievements in film Costume Design, here's an alternative set of nominees,...
The Best Costume Design category at the Oscars tends to be a place where one can find idiosyncratic choices. While it's true the Academy has a taste for the extravagant and period-looking, the Costume Branch is usually unafraid of celebrating films otherwise ignored. That's how we get such wonderful nods like those for Bright Star's Regency fashions, I Am Love's early aughts glamour, Jane Eyre 's Victorian severity, and Mirror Mirror's fairytale lunacy.
This year, for the first time in the category's history, all five nominees are Best Picture contenders. The arguable quality of the designs aside, this is a sad state of affairs that makes the usually cool Best Costume Design category look tediously similar to all the others. In an attempt to right the Academy's wrongs and offer a more varied look at 2019's achievements in film Costume Design, here's an alternative set of nominees,...
- 1/21/2020
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Jane Eyre begins with a description of the titular character’s physical discomfort: “the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating . . . dreadful to me was the coming in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes…” This opening passage grounds Jane’s sense of inner life in the viscerally felt and uncomfortable border between her body and external reality. It is not incidental that Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire begins in almost identical fashion; we see Marianne (Noémie Merlant) on a small rowboat, holding herself awkwardly against the uneven tides, when the waves’ severity throws a box containing her painting canvases overboard. Without hesitation she jumps in to rescue them, followed by a close up of Marianne back on the boat, huddled, wet, shivering: as with Jane Eyre, a portrait of pain and perseverance. Period pieces often revel in their own periodicity,...
- 12/3/2019
- MUBI
Titan Comics has announced Adler, a five-issue miniseries starting in February 2020 starring the only woman to ever best Sherlock Holmes, teaming her up with “famous Victorian heroines from science, history, and literature… such as Jane Eyre, Lady Havisham, Marie Curie, Carmilla, and Ayesha” to defeat Moriarty.
Comics Worth Reading has a preview and a recap of who’s who:
Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, appeared in one 1891 story, “A Scandal in Bohemia”. She’s been a favorite ever since, particularly with people who want to pair Holmes up romantically in a traditional fashion.
Lady Havisham is from Great Expectations, the crazy spinster in her wedding dress in a ruined mansion. Carmilla is a vampire who appeared 26 years before Dracula. Ayesha is the She written by H. Rider Haggard.
If you need me to explain Jane Eyre or Marie Curie to you, you are clearly not the audience for this story.
Comics Worth Reading has a preview and a recap of who’s who:
Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, appeared in one 1891 story, “A Scandal in Bohemia”. She’s been a favorite ever since, particularly with people who want to pair Holmes up romantically in a traditional fashion.
Lady Havisham is from Great Expectations, the crazy spinster in her wedding dress in a ruined mansion. Carmilla is a vampire who appeared 26 years before Dracula. Ayesha is the She written by H. Rider Haggard.
If you need me to explain Jane Eyre or Marie Curie to you, you are clearly not the audience for this story.
- 12/2/2019
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
On Monday, November 25, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA (Pgf-USA) celebrated the 2019 Princess Grace Awards Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.
Gloria Swansong Arrives at the 2019 Princess Grace Awards Gala
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Held in the presence of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Awards Gala was an evening of elegance and entertainment emceed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning performer and 2016 Princess Grace Statue Award Recipient, Leslie Odom, Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. Arrives at the 2019 Princess Grace Awards Gala
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The Gala honored three-time Tony-recipient and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters and film director, Chinonye Chukwu, winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Award for her film Clemency, and this year’s Princess Grace Award winners in theater, dance and film. The evening was also a special celebration of the 90th birthday of Hollywood’s...
Gloria Swansong Arrives at the 2019 Princess Grace Awards Gala
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
Held in the presence of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Awards Gala was an evening of elegance and entertainment emceed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning performer and 2016 Princess Grace Statue Award Recipient, Leslie Odom, Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. Arrives at the 2019 Princess Grace Awards Gala
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
The Gala honored three-time Tony-recipient and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters and film director, Chinonye Chukwu, winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Award for her film Clemency, and this year’s Princess Grace Award winners in theater, dance and film. The evening was also a special celebration of the 90th birthday of Hollywood’s...
- 11/29/2019
- Look to the Stars
The Australian star of Alice in Wonderland on her new film, a feminist take on Punch and Judy, and why her costumes need pockets
Australian actor Mia Wasikowska trained as a ballet dancer in her teens before switching careers. In 2010 she was the highest-grossing film star in the world after playing the lead in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and starring alongside Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right. She has since starred in Jane Eyre opposite Michael Fassbender and as the writer Robyn Davidson in Tracks. Now she plays Judy in Judy and Punch, Mirrah Foulkes’s unruly, subversive, feminist take on the traditional puppet show.
How was it working on Judy and Punch?
It was a rough shoot. Low budget Australian film-making is full on. We had babies, dogs, horses, puppets – so many uncontrollable elements – but got through it. Melbourne weather is notoriously...
Australian actor Mia Wasikowska trained as a ballet dancer in her teens before switching careers. In 2010 she was the highest-grossing film star in the world after playing the lead in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and starring alongside Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right. She has since starred in Jane Eyre opposite Michael Fassbender and as the writer Robyn Davidson in Tracks. Now she plays Judy in Judy and Punch, Mirrah Foulkes’s unruly, subversive, feminist take on the traditional puppet show.
How was it working on Judy and Punch?
It was a rough shoot. Low budget Australian film-making is full on. We had babies, dogs, horses, puppets – so many uncontrollable elements – but got through it. Melbourne weather is notoriously...
- 11/16/2019
- by Interview by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
ABC is developing a romantic comedy starring and written by “Vice Principals” and “Devs” actress Georgia King, from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to TheWrap.
The half-hour, single-camera comedy will follow Martha (King) and Charlie, two strangers who live one street apart and have no idea they’re soulmates. The show follows their journey to finding each other, which is complicated, funny and full of surprises.
King is also set to executive produce with Tami Sagher, who will supervise the writing, and Michaels and Andrew Singer of Broadway Video, which will produce with ABC Studios.
Also Read: ABC Orders More Episodes of 'American Housewife,' 'Bless This Mess'
King, a British actress, has appeared in television roles such as Rosamund Oliver in a “Jane Eyre” miniseries, Carmen in “Sugartown,” an episode of “Skins” and “Merlin,” “Off the Hook,” “Free Agents,” “Plus One,...
The half-hour, single-camera comedy will follow Martha (King) and Charlie, two strangers who live one street apart and have no idea they’re soulmates. The show follows their journey to finding each other, which is complicated, funny and full of surprises.
King is also set to executive produce with Tami Sagher, who will supervise the writing, and Michaels and Andrew Singer of Broadway Video, which will produce with ABC Studios.
Also Read: ABC Orders More Episodes of 'American Housewife,' 'Bless This Mess'
King, a British actress, has appeared in television roles such as Rosamund Oliver in a “Jane Eyre” miniseries, Carmen in “Sugartown,” an episode of “Skins” and “Merlin,” “Off the Hook,” “Free Agents,” “Plus One,...
- 11/8/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
The tide has turned in the Oscar race for Best Supporting Actress. According to the consensus of the Expert journalists we’ve polled, Margot Robbie has dropped out of the top five likeliest nominees for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” She has been replaced by … Margot Robbie in “Bombshell.”
As of October 21, Robbie’s “Bombshell” role as an up-and-coming Fox News personality who experiences sexual harassment places her fifth with 10/1 odds. She’s predicted for a nomination by 13 out of 28 Experts as of this writing . That pushes her “Once Upon a Time” role as real-life actress Sharon Tate down to sixth place with 15/1 odds and support from 9 out of 28 Experts, including one who thinks she’ll win for that performance (NPR’s Eric Deggans).
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“Bombshell” has only recently started screening for press and industry, so just how quick has Robbie’s ascent been?...
As of October 21, Robbie’s “Bombshell” role as an up-and-coming Fox News personality who experiences sexual harassment places her fifth with 10/1 odds. She’s predicted for a nomination by 13 out of 28 Experts as of this writing . That pushes her “Once Upon a Time” role as real-life actress Sharon Tate down to sixth place with 15/1 odds and support from 9 out of 28 Experts, including one who thinks she’ll win for that performance (NPR’s Eric Deggans).
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“Bombshell” has only recently started screening for press and industry, so just how quick has Robbie’s ascent been?...
- 10/25/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Monumental Pictures co-founder was delivering the keynote address at Film London’s Production Finance Market.
UK producer Alison Owen has spoken out about “inequality” in rates of pay offered to male and female film executives.
Owen, joint managing director of Monumental Pictures with Debra Hayward, made her remarks after delivering the keynote address at Film London’s Production Finance Market.
“It has always struck me that people I would have thought were the same level as me in my pay scale, you find the guys are being paid considerably more,” Owen said. She wouldn’t be drawn on specific examples,...
UK producer Alison Owen has spoken out about “inequality” in rates of pay offered to male and female film executives.
Owen, joint managing director of Monumental Pictures with Debra Hayward, made her remarks after delivering the keynote address at Film London’s Production Finance Market.
“It has always struck me that people I would have thought were the same level as me in my pay scale, you find the guys are being paid considerably more,” Owen said. She wouldn’t be drawn on specific examples,...
- 10/7/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
The event will also host a masterclass for delegates.
Production Finance Market, the UK financing event run by Film London, has selected four projects under its inaugural ‘Ones To Watch’ initiative, and named Monumental Pictures producer Alison Owen as its keynote speaker.
The ‘Ones To Watch’ scheme was unveiled earlier this year during Cannes Film Festival and will spotlight projects currently in development, co-selected by Film London and the BFI London Film Festival.
The four selected projects are The Panopticon to be directed by Jim Loach, produced by Lindsay McGee and Alysia Maciejowska and executive produced by Camilla Bray; The...
Production Finance Market, the UK financing event run by Film London, has selected four projects under its inaugural ‘Ones To Watch’ initiative, and named Monumental Pictures producer Alison Owen as its keynote speaker.
The ‘Ones To Watch’ scheme was unveiled earlier this year during Cannes Film Festival and will spotlight projects currently in development, co-selected by Film London and the BFI London Film Festival.
The four selected projects are The Panopticon to be directed by Jim Loach, produced by Lindsay McGee and Alysia Maciejowska and executive produced by Camilla Bray; The...
- 10/2/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Cherries aren’t the first fruit that come to mind when watching “No. 7 Cherry Lane.” In an entirely welcome way, veteran Hong Kong auteur Yonfan’s first film in a decade (as well as his first foray into feature animation) can better be described as a bowl of bright, aromatic and very, very ripe bananas. As entrancingly singular as it is steeped in pastiche, this frequently dream-distracted vision of young love against the turmoil of the 1967 Hong Kong riots practically defies critics not to resort to that hoarily overused term “valentine to cinema”: If a film containing no fewer than three lengthy cartoon reenactments of Simone Signoret classics doesn’t merit it, what does? Many will be left bewildered by the sheer, deranged obsessiveness of Yonfan’s nostalgia head-trip — indeed, there were whistles and walkouts at its first Venice press screening — but accustomed Yon-fans and patient adventurers will fall madly for its madness.
- 9/2/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Kayti Burt Aug 26, 2019
Get a sneak peek at The Tenth Girl, a gothic psychological horror debut teeming with originality.
Out on September 24th, The Tenth Girl is the perfect read for the fall season and beyond. The story follows Mavi, an Argentine teen who flees 1970s Buenos Aires and the military regime that took her mother for a remote girls boarding school located on a remote cliff in Patagonia, at the very southern tip of South America where she has been hired to teach English to the school's elite pupils.
Spooky context? Vaccaro School is haunted, supposedly cursed by the indigenous people whose land the European colonizers stole and built the school on. When Mavi realizes one of her students, the tenth girl, is missing, and students and staff begin to behave like they are possessed, Mavi must solve the mystery of what's happening at Vaccaro before it is too late.
Get a sneak peek at The Tenth Girl, a gothic psychological horror debut teeming with originality.
Out on September 24th, The Tenth Girl is the perfect read for the fall season and beyond. The story follows Mavi, an Argentine teen who flees 1970s Buenos Aires and the military regime that took her mother for a remote girls boarding school located on a remote cliff in Patagonia, at the very southern tip of South America where she has been hired to teach English to the school's elite pupils.
Spooky context? Vaccaro School is haunted, supposedly cursed by the indigenous people whose land the European colonizers stole and built the school on. When Mavi realizes one of her students, the tenth girl, is missing, and students and staff begin to behave like they are possessed, Mavi must solve the mystery of what's happening at Vaccaro before it is too late.
- 8/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Life comes at you fast, but life came at Gabby Cartwright even faster.
Tempting Fate is another one of Lifetime's Book to Screen gems -- the first of a trio based on Jane Green's bestselling novel of the same name. Our leading lady was Alyssa Milano, and Grey's Anatomy's Kim Raver executive produced.
Are you ready for this? It was pretty damn good!
The promos teased a salacious affair between Gabby and Matt, and I get it, sex sells and all that fun stuff, but what made this movie so darn heartening was the theme of family.
Related: Adriana Trigiani's Very Valentine Review: What Happens in Italy Doesn't Stay in Italy!
I don't know about you guys, but I'm a sucker for a family theme, and this movie had it in spades. Also, what was refreshing about this story was the affair between Gabby and Matt was not glorified,...
Tempting Fate is another one of Lifetime's Book to Screen gems -- the first of a trio based on Jane Green's bestselling novel of the same name. Our leading lady was Alyssa Milano, and Grey's Anatomy's Kim Raver executive produced.
Are you ready for this? It was pretty damn good!
The promos teased a salacious affair between Gabby and Matt, and I get it, sex sells and all that fun stuff, but what made this movie so darn heartening was the theme of family.
Related: Adriana Trigiani's Very Valentine Review: What Happens in Italy Doesn't Stay in Italy!
I don't know about you guys, but I'm a sucker for a family theme, and this movie had it in spades. Also, what was refreshing about this story was the affair between Gabby and Matt was not glorified,...
- 6/16/2019
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
Devout Catholic was senator in Silvio Berlusconi’s right wing Forza Italia party.
Franco Zeffirelli, the director of extravagant film, theatre, television and opera whose feature credits included Romeo And Juliet, has died in Rome following a long illness. He was 96.
Zeffirelli was born in Florence in 1923. He trained as an architect, and became a set designer and opera director after the Second World War when he established himself as a creator of lavish visuals who would go on to direct renowned adaptations of operas such as La Boheme and Aida.
Critics took note of his film work when he...
Franco Zeffirelli, the director of extravagant film, theatre, television and opera whose feature credits included Romeo And Juliet, has died in Rome following a long illness. He was 96.
Zeffirelli was born in Florence in 1923. He trained as an architect, and became a set designer and opera director after the Second World War when he established himself as a creator of lavish visuals who would go on to direct renowned adaptations of operas such as La Boheme and Aida.
Critics took note of his film work when he...
- 6/15/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director best known for his bold cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s work, has died at the age of 96.
The filmmaker died Saturday at his home in Rome, Italy, his son Luciano told the Associated Press. “He had suffered for a while, but he left in a peaceful way,” Luciano said of his father.
An acclaimed set designer and stage director who shifted to cinema after working under legendary Italian filmmakers like Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, Zeffirelli made his big screen debut in 1967’s The Taming of the Shrew,...
The filmmaker died Saturday at his home in Rome, Italy, his son Luciano told the Associated Press. “He had suffered for a while, but he left in a peaceful way,” Luciano said of his father.
An acclaimed set designer and stage director who shifted to cinema after working under legendary Italian filmmakers like Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, Zeffirelli made his big screen debut in 1967’s The Taming of the Shrew,...
- 6/15/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his 1968 big-screen version of “Romeo and Juliet,” died on Saturday at age 96.
Zeffirelli’s son Luciano told the Associated Press that his father died at home in Rome.
He earned two Oscar nominations, the first for directing the lush adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” starring a then-unknown Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, which grossed more than $52 million in the U.S. on a $1.5 million budget, according to the AP. He earned a second nomination for art and set decoration on his filmed version of the opera “La Traviata” starring Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos)
Zeffirelli was also widely acclaimed as a director of theater and opera in his native Italy and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on PBS’ “Great Performances” productions of the operas “Pagliacci” in 1985 and “Cavalleria Rusticana...
Zeffirelli’s son Luciano told the Associated Press that his father died at home in Rome.
He earned two Oscar nominations, the first for directing the lush adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” starring a then-unknown Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, which grossed more than $52 million in the U.S. on a $1.5 million budget, according to the AP. He earned a second nomination for art and set decoration on his filmed version of the opera “La Traviata” starring Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas.
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos)
Zeffirelli was also widely acclaimed as a director of theater and opera in his native Italy and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on PBS’ “Great Performances” productions of the operas “Pagliacci” in 1985 and “Cavalleria Rusticana...
- 6/15/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Since her breakthrough role as the title character in the 2006 limited series version of “Jane Eyre,” Ruth Wilson has won a Golden Globe (for “The Affair” in 2015), earned three BAFTA nominations, and picked up Tony nominations for both of her appearances on Broadway — “Constellations” in 2015, “King Lear” this year. But she still hasn’t been nominated for an Emmy. Will that change thanks to her performance in the limited series “Mrs. Wilson,” which, as the title suggests, hits unusually close to home for the actress.
Wilson plays the title role in the series: her own grandmother Alison Wilson, whose life unravels after her husband dies and secrets are unearthed about his work as an MI6 officer. The three-part drama aired last November in the UK and then premiered this past March on PBS Masterpiece. It has already earned her a pair of BAFTA nominations for Best Lead Actress and Best Miniseries.
Wilson plays the title role in the series: her own grandmother Alison Wilson, whose life unravels after her husband dies and secrets are unearthed about his work as an MI6 officer. The three-part drama aired last November in the UK and then premiered this past March on PBS Masterpiece. It has already earned her a pair of BAFTA nominations for Best Lead Actress and Best Miniseries.
- 6/11/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Could David Arnold return as composer to the James Bond series?
It was the obvious question to pose while he was talking about Amazon’s new “Good Omens” miniseries, for which he has composed the elaborate score.
“It’s a no-news situation,” Arnold told Variety about 007. “I’ve heard nothing. But my pencil is always sharpened for him if James comes around again. But if he doesn’t, I’ll be as excited to watch the new film as anyone else. I still love him, and I love all of the team over there.”
Arnold composed the scores for five consecutive Bond films: three with Pierce Brosnan and two starring Daniel Craig.
With singer Chris Cornell, he co-wrote “You Know My Name,” the theme song for “Casino Royale,” and earned a Grammy nomination for it; he also received a BAFTA nomination for that score.
Arnold has scored more 007 films than any composer since John Barry,...
It was the obvious question to pose while he was talking about Amazon’s new “Good Omens” miniseries, for which he has composed the elaborate score.
“It’s a no-news situation,” Arnold told Variety about 007. “I’ve heard nothing. But my pencil is always sharpened for him if James comes around again. But if he doesn’t, I’ll be as excited to watch the new film as anyone else. I still love him, and I love all of the team over there.”
Arnold composed the scores for five consecutive Bond films: three with Pierce Brosnan and two starring Daniel Craig.
With singer Chris Cornell, he co-wrote “You Know My Name,” the theme song for “Casino Royale,” and earned a Grammy nomination for it; he also received a BAFTA nomination for that score.
Arnold has scored more 007 films than any composer since John Barry,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Anne Oldham admits she wasn’t “aware” of Neil Gamon and Terry Pratchett‘s best-selling fantasy novel “Good Omens” before signing on to design the makeup and hairstyles for the TV adaptation. In fact, this limited series about an angel (Michael Sheen) and a demon (David Tennant) trying to prevent Armageddon was “very different from anything I’d done before, so I was really flattered that they’d offered it to me.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Oldham above.
See ‘Good Omens’ trailer finds Michael Sheen and David Tennant ‘Under Pressure’ to stop end times [Watch]
Oldham is best known for her work on period programs such as “Downton Abbey” and adaptations of “Emma” (2006) and “Jane Eyre” (2009), all three of which brought her Emmy wins. For this project, “I wanted to look at slightly odd and out-of-the box designs,” she says. “I just wanted it to be quirky and slightly unusual.
See ‘Good Omens’ trailer finds Michael Sheen and David Tennant ‘Under Pressure’ to stop end times [Watch]
Oldham is best known for her work on period programs such as “Downton Abbey” and adaptations of “Emma” (2006) and “Jane Eyre” (2009), all three of which brought her Emmy wins. For this project, “I wanted to look at slightly odd and out-of-the box designs,” she says. “I just wanted it to be quirky and slightly unusual.
- 5/14/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Documentary Master of Dark Shadows lovingly tells how Dan Curtis's cult hit changed TV horror.
Culture
Dark Shadows was an original. The first of its kind, there was nothing on TV like it when it first aired, and nothing on TV like it for a long time after the final stake pierced its ABC network heart. This is because the man at its center, Dan Curtis, was a madman, in the best possible way. Called the “King of TV Horror,” he also made Trilogy of Terror, Burnt Offerings, television adaptations of Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well as the series Kolchack: The Night Stalker. Curtis defined TV horror for a generation.
Narrated by Ian McShane (Deadwood), the new documentary Master of Dark Shadows is more a tribute to the man who went on to make his mark with the ultra-expensive but super-successful Winds of War than the series itself.
Culture
Dark Shadows was an original. The first of its kind, there was nothing on TV like it when it first aired, and nothing on TV like it for a long time after the final stake pierced its ABC network heart. This is because the man at its center, Dan Curtis, was a madman, in the best possible way. Called the “King of TV Horror,” he also made Trilogy of Terror, Burnt Offerings, television adaptations of Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well as the series Kolchack: The Night Stalker. Curtis defined TV horror for a generation.
Narrated by Ian McShane (Deadwood), the new documentary Master of Dark Shadows is more a tribute to the man who went on to make his mark with the ultra-expensive but super-successful Winds of War than the series itself.
- 4/17/2019
- Den of Geek
“The Last of the Mohicans” is being adapted yet again, this time for television by Cary Fukunaga. Currently at work on “Bond 25,” the “True Detective” and “Maniac” helmer is teaming with Nicole Kassell (who’s also directing the “Watchmen” pilot for HBO) to bring James Fenimore Cooper’s novel to Paramount Television. Fukunaga will co-write with Nicholas Osborne, with Kassel directing. Deadline first broke the news.
“The clash of civilizations during the Seven Years War, which frames the story of Last of the Mohicans, has been a long-time passion of mine,” Fukunaga said in a statement. “It was a world war before the term even existed. The opportunity to recreate the story’s strong-willed and free-thinking characters, with talents including Nick Osborne and Nicole Kassell, is incredibly exciting to me. Together with Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, we have the chance to revive the forgotten ancestors that define American identity today.
“The clash of civilizations during the Seven Years War, which frames the story of Last of the Mohicans, has been a long-time passion of mine,” Fukunaga said in a statement. “It was a world war before the term even existed. The opportunity to recreate the story’s strong-willed and free-thinking characters, with talents including Nick Osborne and Nicole Kassell, is incredibly exciting to me. Together with Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, we have the chance to revive the forgotten ancestors that define American identity today.
- 4/11/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Line 200, Ontario Creates, Nohfc, and Telefilm financing.
Hereditary star Alex Wolff and Imogen Poots will star in Joey Klein’s (The Other Half) upcoming crime drama Castle In The Ground, which is currently shooting in Sudbury, Canada.
William Woods will produce via his Toronto-based Woods Entertainment alongside Michael Solomon under Band With Pictures. Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors developed the project with Woods and Solomon and serves as executive producer alongside Tom Spriggs, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, George Stranahan, John Hansen, Mark Gingras, and John Laing.
Line 200 makes it financing debut on Castle In The Ground alongside Ontario Creates,...
Hereditary star Alex Wolff and Imogen Poots will star in Joey Klein’s (The Other Half) upcoming crime drama Castle In The Ground, which is currently shooting in Sudbury, Canada.
William Woods will produce via his Toronto-based Woods Entertainment alongside Michael Solomon under Band With Pictures. Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors developed the project with Woods and Solomon and serves as executive producer alongside Tom Spriggs, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, George Stranahan, John Hansen, Mark Gingras, and John Laing.
Line 200 makes it financing debut on Castle In The Ground alongside Ontario Creates,...
- 3/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Alex Wolff and Imogen Poots have been tapped to lead writer/director Joey Klein’s crime drama Castle in the Ground, which is being produced by William Woods via his Woods Entertainment banner and Michael Solomon of Band With Pictures.
Production is currently underway in Sudbury, Canada. The plot follows a teenager Henry who, after the untimely death of his mother, befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor Ana, who embroils Henry in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors, who developed the project with Woods and Solomon, will serve as executive producer alongside Tom Spriggs, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, George Stranahan, John Hansen, Mark Gingras, and John Laing. The pic marks the first project for from financing company Line 200, who financed the film along with Ontario Creates, Nohfc, and Telefilm.
Wolff, recently wrote,...
Production is currently underway in Sudbury, Canada. The plot follows a teenager Henry who, after the untimely death of his mother, befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor Ana, who embroils Henry in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors, who developed the project with Woods and Solomon, will serve as executive producer alongside Tom Spriggs, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, George Stranahan, John Hansen, Mark Gingras, and John Laing. The pic marks the first project for from financing company Line 200, who financed the film along with Ontario Creates, Nohfc, and Telefilm.
Wolff, recently wrote,...
- 3/11/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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